A "kamuro" is a young girl who takes care of and runs various errands for a courtesan, and at the same time studies the art for herself. The way kamuro would refer to their respective courtesans as "big sister" gave rise to the word "oiran", the most elite courtesans in Edo-era Japan. This story takes place in a brothel called Shinkiro in notorious Yoshiwara red-light district, starring an oiran known to many as the "Courtesan from Hell", a super popular sadist specialist named Hashidate. Her personal kamuro, Namiji, narrates the story, and paints a picture of Hashidate that most would never expect. A variety of customers, including townsfolk, samurai, and high-rollers, are in full force as Namiji recounts these fantastic tales!
This is the story of a man known only as Gen, who used to be an assassin. Nobody knows his past, his real name or his age, only that he is now working at Tsubakiya, a secluded onsen inn. He had put down his weapons and intended to lead a quiet, peaceful life, but it seems his past is not willing to let him go so easily. The onsen inn gets guests from all walks of life, and anything can happen. Some guests come to end their life. Some guests just want to get away from everyday life and go crazy. There are TV shows and incognito celebrities. Every guest staying at Tsubakiya has their own story, just waiting to unfold.
The action novel written by the popular comedian, Impulse's Toshiyuki Itakura has been made into a comic! In the near future a new law in Japan is enacted, the "Shoot to kill" law. So called Triggers are selected, one in each prefecture. They are allowed to eradicate evil as they see fit. This edition has the Tokyo, Chiba and the Shizuoka trigger!
100 million yen, This girl?!Kasane Hibino, a 15 year old girl managing a ramshackle driving range, winds up meeting golf superstar Jambo Otokozaki. Will she be successful in achieving her goals? The definitive comic about golf, and about never giving up on your dreams!
Ryota Yamane sets out to steal a girl's panties and creeps into her room only to find her dead body. Why doesn't he go to the police? Because he is holding another girl captive in his room. The next day, police come to question him suspecting him of murder! Will this p*rvert be able to reveal the real murderer's true colors?!
The Suzunari high school detective club which consists of three good looking high school students; Suzaku Tachibana, Kohei Hiba, Sotaro Tsubaki, and a cat call Boo-chan. Boo-chan holds the power to decide the girls who get to join the club. Since there hasn't been any girls Boo-chan approved so far, the club has been a boy-only club since the first day. Until the day Suzaku used his intuition to scout Aoi Kaido, who he thought would be a cute girl. This was approved by Boo-chan, but she turned out to be a girl who's weird and doesn't smile… This is High school tale about the detective club of 4 students and one cat solving incidents on campus.
Yosuke Sakura, a novelist who can't seem to find an audience under his own name, makes a living from the shadows as a ghostwriter. Then out of the blue, he receives a request to ghostwrite the memoirs of the vanished pop idol Haruka Masaki. Sakura gets cold feet when he hears that Masaki requested him personally, wondering what she would want with someone like him. But while he's thrown for a loop by her uninhibited personality, the distance between them gradually shrinks. However, once the interviews start, the reason Masaki gives for her disappearance paints a portrait of the entertainment business that is darkness itself...?!
Inside this too-cute rabbit is a painfully stubborn man?! Tatsuto Uzaki (age 46), harshly strict with both himself and others, lives with his daughter Honoka as a family of two. Uzaki holds only contempt for the helpless and weak-willed animals known as housepets, while Honoka has always wanted a pet of her own, and one day this conflict of opinion explodes into a huge fight. Hoping to make up, Uzaki visits a pet shop, but the moment he picks up a rabbit to bring home, he gets struck by lightning...!!
Ibara Nayuki is a figure skater who performs around the globe, but audiences grow fed up with his passionless performances, and his coach doesn't know what to do with him. Just then, who should appear before him but Vasily, a ballet dancer once hailed as a child prodigy. "Not knowing why you're there in the rink is as good as not knowing who you really are!"
One year ago, high schooler Hana Odamaki (age 17) and auto factory worker Shogo Kine (age 38) suddenly switched places in body and mind. Now, after a year in each other's shoes, the two run into each other again. The man who found himself as a young maiden has brushed up his vessel's femininity and become an amateur model, while the girl in the body of a middle-aged man was treated as an amnesia case and lost any steady employment. They may have been reunited with "themselves", but what should they do when they can scarcely recognize the person they once were...?
Komachi Sakanoue, 20 years old. Ten days into a new part-time job and can't follow directions. But, come on, I'm so curious... I just have to know more about that man in the special seat by the window, where the sunlight hits... - The cafe where I work has a long-time regular, a comic book artist who writes a certain popular comic series, and right now I'm pretty obsessed with him. Even the boss getting angry doesn't discourage me from sneaking stealthy peeks as he works. Sure enough, the world flowing from his pen is brimming with love again today. I adore his work, and I adore him, too. I want those listless eyes to be fixed on me. I want to know what he's thinking, and what the world looks like through his eyes. Sir, please, tell me what I have to do to become someone special to you...
Living together with a handsome man...no, wait, ghost...?! Yui Yamada's in her second year of high school when her nagging parents are sent overseas to Brazil for work. She was about to rejoice over finally getting to live alone in her very own apartment (yay!!) when she found out there was a ghost already living there...?! But wait, this ghost isn't scary at all... Though he sure is obnoxious! Whether she likes it or not, this ghost whose awful personality puts his handsome face to shame is going to be her roommate from here on out...!
I've been preparing for a competition that could open doors for me as an aspiring artist, but one day, in one fell swoop, I lost my art model and my girlfriend. I was still reeling from it when a young girl suddenly showed up beside me and said she would be my new model. However, now she says I need to offer up my body in exchange for her help...?! I had lost everything, and she knew nothing of the world; this is the story of our warped and fleeting, yet innocent, love.
After pulling overtime alone together with Sato, her towering overgrown puppy of a junior colleague, Riko suddenly finds herself wrapped in his arms as his hot tongue runs over her skin, until her cocky stepbrother Yuta catches them in the act. After that day, Yuta starts watching her with a not-so-brotherly look in his eyes...? She'd always been married to the job with no time for love, yet now these two younger men are wreaking havoc on both her heart and her body with their fawning pursuit of her love...
Sera's older brother owns an antique shop. When he brought home a "clockwork doll," it was Sera's kiss that woke the doll, Satsuki, from his long slumber. Satsuki and his constant smiles leave Sera perplexed but ever more charmed. But, when Satsuki does cry, screws fall out along with his tears, and Sera learns that when the last screw falls Satsuki will become a real doll, never to awaken again...
"Why not press the reset button on your life?" Due to her hideous appearance, Moeko had been hated by both her peers and her family ever since she was a small child. Even as an adult nothing changed, so Moeko resolved to change herself instead. While saving for plastic surgery, she wound up lending money to Ijima, a colleague who had treated her kindly. However, after falling into a physical relationship with him, Moeko learns that Ijima was only using her for her money, and she kills him. She is carted off to prison for her crimes... Then one day, a chance to start over in life arrives: full-body plastic surgery through the "Reset Program." She is offered the choice to cast off her current appearance and live as another, completely different person!!
Suzu Igarashi, age 25, draws young women's erotic romance comics for a living. The man she loves is her favorite video game character, the princely white-knight type Sir Toma. Her romantic history is a blank page...which leaves her unable to draw erotic interludes with men, and so the outlook for her next work being signed is dismal. Just as she is sinking into despair, Suzu meets a young man collapsed on the street who is the spitting image of Sir Toma! The man of her dreams, right before her eyes... Without a second thought, Suzu offers him a job modeling for her comics. He asks for a place to stay and insists she not "go prying into" his past; those two conditions set, "Toma" accepts her offer... Then, following the script of her comic, he takes her first kiss and then... A comic artist on the brink and the mysterious boy with a striking resemblance to her video game fave will share more than a roof in this non-stop heart-pounding romance!!
While aiming to become an illustrator, Koharu works in an editing department. In her free time, she dedicates herself to a video game starring her digital prince, Nobunaga. Koharu used to be a total normie until she was betrayed by her beloved boyfriend, but since then she's been afraid of romance and retreated into gaming... One day, her sister brings home Takumi, who's in a pickle due to losing his luggage upon arriving from the US, and he happens to look just like Nobunaga...?! Though Koharu is resistant at first, he ends up staying with them while he searches for his luggage. And on top of that, now Koharu has an illustration gig to handle, too?! Koharu gives it her all, but the job falls through anyway, leaving her depressed. Seeing this, Takumi offers some encouragement, which lightens Koharu's heart. But, when his luggage is found a few days later, it seems Takumi is leaving Japan to return home...?!
"You are fit to be an agent of God...an Emissary..." As mysterious and bosomy beauty Ranzaki whispered these words, he was enveloped in a strange light. Since that moment, police officer Tomoki Mishima has been able to see and manipulate "Divine Energy" - power drawn from God's domain. The serial killer Mishima is chasing, Scissorhands, has also been using tainted Divine Energy to commit his crimes. He flies through the air between buildings, wielding giant scissors to shred apart women's bodies. Due to his superhuman strength and speed, the police have struggled to apprehend this Scissorhands. "I don't want to lose any more people I care about...!" Following his strong sense of justice, Mishima resolves to use Divine Energy in his hunt for Scissorhands, but will he succeed...? This grand action suspense story will take you past the bounds of human understanding!!
Her father's pharmaceutical company keeping her family in comfort, her post-graduation employment already settled... Kana was enjoying a peaceful fourth year at university. However, after swindling her father into a shady loan with Kana herself as collateral, a gangster named Hiragi Yoji comes to collect the debt. Yoji is up for the role of second-in-command of his yakuza syndicate; in order to present Kana as a gift to the syndicate boss, he plans to make a woman out of her... Abandoned by her parents, carted off by the yakuza...and subject to the relentless Yoji. In these dire circumstances, Kana makes a dire resolution...!!
"Now I'm really looking forward to the wedding night." As the priest tells him to kiss the bride, he sweeps Akari into an intense embrace and slips her the tongue...! Akari was set up in a political marriage with Mitsuhide, a man born with a silver spoon in his mouth as the heir of a large corporation. He fawns over her with a gentlemanly air and aggravating flirtations, yet for some reason their marriage is still completely unconsummated. Fed up, Akari grits her teeth and tries enticing him herself, and then Mitsuhide's demeanor abruptly changes. "Now that I have your consent, I'll help myself to every last inch of you." He gently massages virginal Akari's breasts and persistently drinks in the sweet nectar between her legs. These passionate onslaughts from peerless company president Mitsuhide unfold night after night, and every time he gets Akari absolutely dripping wet. Can her body withstand this kind of lifestyle?! Just where will these two and their married life end up...?!
"You're so wet… I'll go nice and deep inside you." "Ah… we can't... go any further." Hinako had always dreamed of living on her own. But right after she finally got her wish, for a reason unbeknownst to her, the apartment manager, Harumi, had fallen in love with her at first sight. Although bewildered at first, one "fateful event" sparked a change in their relationship, pushing them to cross a line... With his throbbing member, his touch unlocked a waterfall of pleasure. Making love to her most intimate parts over and over, seducing her until she was under his spell... But lurking underneath it all… "You adorable fool." Harumi suddenly reveals a different side!? Could it be that he's been harboring a "dark secret"?
Georgia "Georgie" Bennet has come to the Great Barrier Reef to revitalize her family's resort after her aunt's death. With her dear uncle not in the best of health, Georgie has to shoulder the responsibility of modernizing the place while keeping her aunt's "home away from home" spirit alive for travelers. Link Robards might be her greatest ally in revitalizing it, but does he hold sinister intentions about owning it...or owning her?
"If one of you marries him, I'll give you all a million dollars." That's what our grandmother offered us to try to get a wife for Todd Aston III. But my sisters Julie and Willow have already met wonderful men. I, Marina, being the only sister left, had to agree to at least one date with him.... but what kind of awful man can only meet a woman via a paid blind date?
Roxanna's twin sister is an excellent horticulturist; however, as soon as she accepted this large project, she fell gravely ill. SoRoxanna agrees to take on the project to save her sister's career. With a strong determination, she takes off for Italy, where she must finish restoring an old rose garden. But Gino, the client and head of the Di Bartoli family, believes that Roxanna's sister seduced his brother. Can Roxanna weather his interrogation without giving herself away?
Gail has been ordered to act as a corporate spy. She doesn't want to do it, but if she doesn't, her company will be bought out and her coworkers will be sacked. It's all up to her. What is worse, her target is her high school love, Zane Lorenson! It was a one-sided love, and she ended up being cruelly hurt. She doesn't want to see him again, but now she has no choice but to work beside him as his secretary…
Sara is 26 years old, but still a virgin, and in order to remedy that, her coworker has made a romance manual. Sara, interested in changing her late-bloomer ways, decides to use the manual to find a partner for her company's 30th anniversary party. Her target: the biggest playboy in the company, Jim. But Sara has accidentally set her love trap for the scariest and most imposing man in the company-Matt!
Beth is named employee of the year at the high-end department store in London where she works. As a reward, the store, owned by the Khalifa group, flies her to the desert kingdom of Q'Adar to meet King Khalifa, who owns the Khalifa group. While she's on a Q'Adar beach, a stark naked man emerges from the ocean before her eyes, and she cannot take her eyes off of his incredible body. Even though she tries to move, she's glued to the spot! She apologizes for intruding, but that's when she learns the man she was spying on is none other than King Khalifa himself!
Six years ago, Judith, an aristocrat from an old, noble house, tearfully left her first love, Dan. In order to stop her stepmother from spreading rumors that Dan was an orphan from the slums and to protect his honor, she had no choice but to abandon him. Now she's twenty-five and has chosen to marry a man other than Dan. Getting married is her only chance to escape the terrible years-long ab*se from her stepmother. But with the ceremony close at hand, Dan suddenly appears-she cannot believe her eyes! This is a spin-off story starring Dan, who was a side character in The Love Child.
Judith is being tricked! And Dan has lost his patience. Six years ago, Judith was ripped away from her lover because of their different social statuses and now she's going to marry a man who is only after her money. That man, Truscott, suddenly gained recognition as a reverend in London about two years ago, but his life before then is wrapped in mystery. Dan needs to find proof of Truscott's frightening hidden side by investigating him, but...danger lurks. This is a spin-off story starring Dan, who was a side character in The Love Child.
Aspiring doctor Emily returns to her hometown to spend time with her ailing grandmother, Beabea, her only family in the world. Beabea's worsening illness means their time together is dwindling... With sadness in her heart, Emily takes her sorrows to the shore, where she spots a beautiful man, Zayed, drenched in the evening's sunlight. She's shocked to learn that he is a member of an elite foreign family, and none other than her new boss at the hospital! She finds herself drawn to him, despite his complicated past and the demons that plague his heart...
Abby, a stylist for Finess fashion magazine, has the opportunity to visit the Whitsunday Islands on a photoshoot that, if successful, could launch her career into the big leagues of high fashion. She can't wait to get started, until she finds that the photographer for the project is none other than her best friend from high school, Judd, who's been traveling the world as a wildlife photographer. A painful memory from their shared past makes her almost too anxious to work. Why did he have to show up now, just when she's finally started to get over what happened between them...?
"He's the only one who will see the real me." Having left the garish modeling world behind her, Lynne moves to the quiet town of Gettysburg. Tired of being praised solely for her looks, she's changed her name and clothes in order to finally live in peace. But on the day she moves into her new apartment, Lynne gets into a dispute with her neighbor Brendan after he trips over some boxes she left in the hallway. Little does Lynne know, Brendan is blind. Light no longer reaches his beautiful eyes. Brendan promptly forgives Lynne for her embarrassing blunder, and before long the seeds of love are sown in the unlikely pair.
Danielle hastily makes for the resort town of Galanio after an accident in the Alps leaves her father in a coma. There, she meets the charismatic Italian doctor Carlo Rossi. She is exhausted from staying vigilantly by her father's bedside, and Carlo's kind words and gentle compassion soothe Danielle's forlorn heart, arousing warm feelings of affection for him. However, Danielle realizes there is no room in Carlo's heart for her, as it still belongs to his late wife, Karina, even now. But when Danielle injures herself after saving Carlo's only daughter, he invites her to stay with them at their lakeside mansion, thus beginning their peculiar temporary cohabitation.
Six months after getting married impetuously, Chad disappears. Brokenhearted, Angel leaves London and returns to her native Ireland, but soon after, Chad's older brother, who opposed their marriage from the start, pays her a visit. He tells her some shocking news: Chad and the woman he ran off with have died in a car accident. Then he says, "My little brother had a child. A newborn baby boy. I've brought him here. Will you come with me and help take care of him?"
Freelancer camerawoman Tally is wandering the world taking pictures of children to publish in her book. She's photographing in a small village near the desert when she's carried off by a group of horsemen and confined in one of their tents. They seem to suspect her of being a spy. Without letting her explain everything, they take her precious camera, and the group's leader haughtily declares to her, "You will never go home. You will marry me and live here."
After her fiance breaks up with her over the phone as she's waiting for him at the airport, Charlotte is at a complete loss. Upon seeing her cry without regard for the crowd, a man named Daniel approaches her. He's an American attorney come to Australia on vacation. But don't be fooled by the kind words, Charlotte-he wants you as his vacation sex buddy! Do you really want to get involved with another sleazeball? Wait, why are you two getting married tomorrow?
Leonie is visiting her father's office for lunch when she meets Vidal, the president of the company. Asked out to lunch by this billionaire industrialist of aristocratic Portuguese heritage, Leonie is over the moon. But later that night, he reveals his true desire: her body. Shocked, Leonie declines his marriage proposal the next day. Two years later, Leonie asks to speak with Vidal, who she swore never to see again. Her father has embezzled corporate money, and Leonie attempts to repent, but Vidal demands coldly, "I order you to marry me."
"I'm here to take you home, Isabella. You're grandpa wants to see you!" Jenny panics when one day a gorgeous Italian man named Dante suddenly shows up with demands. What should I do? I'm actually not Isabella, I'm Jenny! Isabella, her best friend, died from a car accident. Knowing full well it was illegal, but in order to get work, Jenny decided to use Isabella's identity. After finding out the truth, Dante ruthlessly states, "If you don't want to go to jail, then come to Italy with me as Isabella!" With this, Dante forces Jenny to return home with him...
"Don't fall in love with Marcus. He'll never love you." Taking the warning from her predecessor to heart, Kit has remained professional and efficient as Marcus's personal assistant, staying focused on work and wearing no-nonsense suits. She has no plans to become another of his one-night lovers, and besides, she has a secret she can never reveal to him. But then Marcus has her accompany him on a business trip over the weekend. Now, she is bewildered. Will she be able to hide her feelings toward Marcus when he's getting personal with her?