You may be eating alone, but you're not really alone. Today's lunch, homemade just for you, feels like a warm hug. - Geeky Haru normally shrugs off the pitying looks of strangers that don't understand her priorities in life, but one day a fluke comment leaves her down in the dumps. That same day, she meets androgynous young Ao. The two of them really hit it off and, on the spur of the moment, decide to become roommates. Except, one of the house rules is a homemade lunchbox exchange...?! Make sure to get a taste of this gentle, heartwarming story of passing messages through edible correspondence!
"I never really wanted good friends. I always thought I'd rather have things I'd be okay with leaving behind." Tsukiko is the new girl in school. One day, she catches a glimpse of her classmate, Utsumi, swimming in the school's pool. She becomes fixated. Tsukiko knew they were classmates, but beyond that, the two girls had no reason to cross paths. However, one rainy day turns all of that around. An emotional story about the everyday lives of the enigmatic new girl and the girl with no filter who happens to love swimming!
Goddess has made Ein reincarnate as a nobleman--a big chance. However, the skill he got from her "Toxin Decomposition EX" is a lame one. One day Ein learns that he has a very rare talent which makes him able to absorb magic power by eating magic stones. Also he is told that he has other identity as a prince of the largest kingdom. With his loving, beautiful mother and clever fiancee at his side, Ein's quest to become the King begins--!
Nekoya is an ordinary western-style restaurant in Japan. But it has a secret...every Saturday, special customers from another world visit this place!
Dragons, swordsman, explorers, ogres, princesses, knights...they all have their favorite dish to order. No one knows why these secret doors to this restaurant appear in certain places in "Another World" once in a week, but every one of them are looking forward to the day.
"I don't want to fall in love again!" Due to unfortunate circumstances, 31-year-old single mother Yuki has to live with her daughter's younger handsome kindergarten teacher?
A handsome face and clear eyes... So close, you could even feel his breathing... But once that beautiful man parts his lips, you hear, "Move, you piece of trash."
Kokoro Kurogane is a beautiful and hard-working perfectionist known for her icy personality. Always arriving at the exact same time every morning and completely dedicating herself to her work, she is admired... no, rather feared, in the office. One day, a handsome heartthrob, called Tohno Takaomi, transfers to the office after working abroad in America. He is intrigued by Kokoro, who is secretly known as the "strict" and "impossible to read" "Ms. Ironheart" by her colleagues. He tries to get close to her, despite the barriers she's put in place, but this unexpected attention is throwing her perfect system out of whack!
Hiiro Yamabuki is your normal high school girl who loves eating. The only thing that separates her from other people, is her reoccurring dream of a Western world. One day in the middle of class, she accidentally brushes hands with the transfer student who sits next to her, Sei Konno. The moment they touch...! They are transferred to the world that she always sees in her dreams! And that guy is here too?! She finds herself wearing a gorgeous dress, people are calling her princess, and the transfer student is being called the Prince. Wait... she has to marry him right now? And spend the night together? What is going on?! They're classmates that barely know each other and they've suddenly been transferred to this strange world! Thus their newlywed life starts in this world that they know nothing about!
Lana, princess of the kingdom of Mitronia, is bright and energetic with excellent swordsmanship and academic ability. A stark contrast to her older brother Adrian, the self-centered and pompous crown prince. However, he is the one scheduled to take over the throne from their father as King of Mitronia next summer. Fearing for the future of her country, Lana vows to replace her brother as queen...! Unfortunately, this is impossible under the current law, which states that "only males in the direct line can succeed to the throne". The current king, troubled by her unprecedented proposal, tells Lana that in order for her to gain his approval, she must "solve the problems of three noble families" throughout their kingdom. Lana immediately sets out for the lands in question, accompanied by four friends, including her childhood friend, the knight Kaiser... The tomboy princess' exhilarating journey starts here!
In the new Virtual Reality MMORPG, a new Clan War has begun. The prize: 100 million yen! Since everyone's aiming to be the best, Hayato has been kicked out of his clan. He's chosen crafting skills over combat skills, so will he be stuck without a team? He thought so, until he tried to put an NPC in his clan. Who would have thought, with the right items, it's possible! Cooking, Medicine, Armor, all sorts of crafting is exactly what he needs to make a team of the best NPC's! The result: a maid who loves to eat, a mercenary that loves his sister, a butler with a mysterious past, and many others with their own stories! "You need me on your team! You can die or you can cook for me, the choice is yours!" "Stop that! That's the low HP sound!" Is this team going to be okay? Now begins an RPG fantasy story of the craziest team out there!
Tsubaki Imai is the kind of quiet girl you'd never see in the center of attention. She doesn't really know how to talk to the cool kids at school like the loud boys and the bubbly girls,so she isn't exactly thrilled when she's assigned the seat next to Mamoru's,a big,unfriendly,and kind of scary guy who everyone at school seems to know. But,then,they both become class presidents,and as they start talking... This is a story about an ordinary girl who falls gradually in love...
Hanabusa Masuda has the brain and beauty but might not have the best behavior. Everyone acknowledges him as the perfect guy although Masuda secretly looked down upon them. One day he got an offer to tutor a 'shut-in' high school student, Yuzuru Suzuki for 5,000 yen per hour. To make his student opens his door, Hanabusa has to communicate through the fighting game Yuzuru plays! A completely fresh love story!
"Do I really have to work here from now on...?" Maya Blanche was born the daughter of nobility, but the family's wealth is in ruins due to her father's loan. The only place she could find immediate work as a noblewoman was the most fearsome house in all the land, the San-Chevalier House. There are rumors of servants of the house going missing... as pain and fear comes over Maya, she suddenly feels a strong head pain and all her memories come flooding back to her. "In my previous life... I was a high school student!" Maya was reincarnated into the world of one of her favorite fantasy novels after an accident on her way home from her maid cafe job! She now remembers the head of the house, Etel San-Chevalier, is actually an assassin...! Now begins the story of an isekai love fantasy of excitement and wonder, avoding the death flags at all costs!
Ellie is a girl who unconsciously retained some memories from her past life as an office worker in a cosmetics company. She is suddenly appointed to be the maid to the crown princess of the kingdom, Lady Arianne. However, upon their first meeting, Ellie is completely shocked with Arianne's appearance! Hives on her skin, a veil covering her pale face, this princess has kept herself locked up in the manor! It seems this all started when her father remarried, and trouble began to brew between her new mother and sister. Ellie decides to help by taking advantage of her memories of cosmetics, working to improve the mood and livelihood of the crown princess... but what will come from these efforts?!
Yoji Akutagawa is an exceptional doctor. However, due to his lack of people skills, he's been relegated to handling surgeries only. At home, his nephew Kento recently told him he wants to move out and attend a boarding school once he graduates junior high. Then, at a meeting with Kento's tutor Mr. Yagi, Kento continues to complain about how fed up he is living with a barely-present uncle who always acts apathetic towards everything outside of his work. While Yoji is still reeling from shock, Mr. Yagi begins to take a deeper interest in Yoji and Kento's issues.
Kasuga enters high school with one goal in mind -- to get himself a girlfriend! His plans do get pushed back due to a minor car accident, but no worries...! The day he returns to school, he catches sight of Morikawa, a first-year, and it's love at first sight. Learning that she prefers the calm and stoic type, he takes drastic measures and forces a "cool guy" act. To his surprise, things seem to work in his favor. That is, until...
- "I'll teach you what a man is, so be my woman." Becoming a yakuza's woman... And raising a child together!? Starting an exciting life of child-rearing to protect my family!
At a mother gathering, I was recommended a special "water." I thought I'd try it out once as it was said to be good for health... but to think it'd be the start of a slow descent into Hell...
One day, Maria is reincarnated as a character in her favorite dating-sim game. As fate would have it, her favorite character and heroine, Lily, appears right before her as well?! Without so much as casting a glance toward her supposed object of desire, the Prince, Maria is overwhelmed by being so near her favorite character, Lilly. But, it turns out Maria's actually reincarnated into the character that bullies Lily in the game...?! Just when Maria thought things would end up with her being hated by her favorite character, she comes to a realization. "Perhaps I can play the role of the villain but still protect Lily from being bullied...?" Resolving to protect Lily's smile at all costs, Maria goes forth with her plan to! But, turns out Prince Al, who is attempting to be with Lily, is onto Maria's tactics?! Let the story of this three-way fantasy entanglement start now!
If I could live again, I'd like to be a cat...independent and not bound by the obsessive desire for human affection. And so, the dog's wish was granted. But before long, misfortune strikes and he stumbles into a river. When hope is all but lost, Miki rushes to his rescue. Moved by her kindness, he decides to dedicate his life to bringing her joy... only to find out that she's a dog person. Refusing to give up, he then vows to become Miki's new dependable "canine"!
-A collection of peculiar yet heartwarming short stories depicting the bond between "cat" and human.
Noelle runs a bakery and cafe, Le Blanc after she lost her father half an year ago. However the lord of manor is giving pressure to her to sell the place. All the customers are afraid of the lord and no one comes to eat at her place. Then one day, a man comes to eat at the cafe. He is dressed in an old-fashioned armor and yells "I missed you so much, Ange!" "Sir, Ange is the name of my ancestor." He was the "fallen knight" Lancelot from three hundred years ago! And he had sweet teeth.
Fiola, seventeen years old, likes to stay at her room writing novels. And she has a secret identity...she is Riethe Rasteau, author of the best-selling novel "Clash of Angels". When she attends a party at the Palace, she accidentally finds out that the cool and handsome prince is one of the biggest fans of her works. She becomes friends with him, hiding that she is Rasteau. Then one day, Fiola's family gets in a big trouble...she must find the culprit of the serial murder case by herself. Now she needs to use her identity as Rasteau and ask help from the prince! A love comedy with suspense.
Misaki is a young woman who scores everything with points and loves to one-up others. Upon reuniting with a woman that she used to look down on as a child, the foundations of her vain, 120-point life begin to crack...
It's the 1900s, during the Taisho Era, and Ranko Hanamiya is 24 and working as a server at the posh cafe, Cassiopeia. Her parents tell her they're ashamed of having an unwed daughter, but Ranko herself couldn't care less about it. Then, one day, a ravishing college student she's never met before gives her a present while she's working. Her coworkers are ecstatic, but the rational Ranko doesn't know what to make of it. At home, she's met with another surprise. Apparently, someone from the Chonabashi family wants to marry Ranko! It seems as though their grandfathers made a pact to have their grandchildren marry each other one day. Ranko declines, as she enjoys working and isn't interested in marriage, but her parents won't have it. She rather unwillingly goes to the Chonabashi residence to please her parents and protect their egos. When she gets there, who does she see but Yoichiro, the unfriendly young man who gave her that present at the cafe!
Meet Nao and Ai, a couple that has been dating since their university days. The legalization of same-sex marriage spurs them into taking the next step and formalizing their union, along with adopting Hiro, a newborn baby boy.
See how these two polar opposites handle sleepless nights, sending Hiro off to his first day of preschool, and managing relationships with other parents. They may even find that being a parent to Hiro teaches them more about themselves than they could have ever imagined...
Chako Hananoki thought she'd found happiness in a handsome fiance, but when she realized a marriage to him would mean a total erasure of herself, she broke it off and moved back into her childhood home in the country- only to find a strange man and young woman living there? She finds a way to coexist with them, but when her stalker fiance follows her home, she declares to him (and accidentally to the whole village as well) that this new man in her life is her husband?! A dramatic fake-marriage, found-family story for the ages, by the illustrator of the Ossan's Love manga adaptation!
Kikuka is a server at Hananoya, a high-class restaurant frequented by well-to-do politicians and entrepreneurs. She's also the daughter of the establishment's current owner and his late mistress. Her mother was kind and gentle, but suffered from illness, and eventually passed on to the next world. Since then, Kikuka has been working hard at Hananoya while enduring constant mistreatment from her mother- and sister-in-law. She never argues back, keeping her promise to her mother: always smile and never resent those around her. But when her sister-in-law grows tired of putting up with her, she's abandoned in the mountains one night. However, before despair takes ahold of her, Kikuka stumbles upon the rumored pavilion, Hell's Gateway. There, she meets Homura, a man with glistening, vermillion hair and otherworldly beauty... And for reasons she cannot understand, he treats her with a warm kindness that she's never known...
Romeo and Juliet is a classic romantic tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is a tale of two young lovers from Verona, Italy who defy the wishes of their feuding families, get married then, and tragically end their own lives in the name of love. It is their deaths that ultimately help the rival families of the Capulets and the Montagues find reconciliation. Manga Classics brings an incredible new experience with this adaptation of Shakespeare's most popular and frequently performed plays: Romeo and Juliet.
Hashimoto is your average office worker-young, and prone to being pushed around by his demon boss, Shirase. His only escape is his favorite online game, and the friends he's made within. But when he plans an offline meetup for his party, he gets the surprise of his life...!
I, Lesedi, have been reincarnated in the comic book world of "Diamond Hope". I'm the villainess of this world, and I was dumped by my fiance... Before I get kicked out of my mansion, I used my knowledge from my previous life to save money, and plan to enjoy this world to the fullest! Or so I thought. My father threatened to put me in a convent if I don't get married!! I tried my hardest to find a partner, but no one wants a lady who's been tossed to the side by her fiance... But one day, I heard a voice at a garden party. "Help me!!" A-a-a tanuki?!
A colored illustration collection featuring a close-knit group of five girls from Ao High! This volume is full of teens in swim suits. Enjoy a thrilling vibe similiar to peeping at the swim team as you watch them brush their hair back with their hand and emerge from the pool. The volume is packed with beautiful illustrations of radiant and pure-hearted girls. The character introduction pages might reveal their relationships! Enjoy these ultimate situational illustrations to the fullest♪
There has always been 16 heroes. Among them is the Darkness Hero, Shion, the strongest hero in history. Shion has only one thing he believes in--his party members. However, those girls he believed in cruelly betrayed him. Is there a way for Shion to overcome his deep pain and keep on living?
Ever since she was a child, Eliane has been the saint and protector of the Kingdom of Belkheim, warding off monsters and ensuring bountiful harvests with her prayers. But when a pretender saint beguiles the foolish prince-to whom she is engaged-into believing she is nothing but a fraud, he calls off the marriage and banishes her from the kingdom. Homeless and penniless but free to chart her own course for the first time in her life, Eliane decides to make for the neighboring kingdom, where she hopes to blend in as a commoner and lead a quiet life...but a chance encounter on the road will totally upend her modest plans.
Filia was a young commoner living alone in the countryside, as her rare appearance kept others away from her. One day, she is found by the royal family, and the king declares, "You are the legendary saint reborn!" From that day forward, she dedicated herself to the kingdom, being in the service of the royal family. However, after just one year, the castle is suddenly attacked by Artel, a demon who is known as the Demon King of Ruin. As a bargain to save the kingdom, Filia is handed over as an offering to Artel. Initially, Artel was a terrifying being, but it seems that he has a surprisingly kind side... However, amidst this warming moment, Artel says, "If you're that desperate to get away from me... I'll have to teach you a lesson." "You are mine, and mine alone, little saint."
"You take my fiance, my money, and now you take me with you when you fall off the building... this is just the absolute worst!!" That's what I was thinking when all of a sudden I blinked, and found myself in a new life...! Liselotte is a young girl who was told she must be sacrificed for her kingdom as she is one of the few rare powerful magic wielders that are born only once every thousand years. She has been living out her days, sad and accepting of her fate, when suddenly the memories of her past life as a pharmacist named Toka Mikanagi come back to her. Before she has a chance to think too much about it, she realizes that the woman she knew as Queen Kirara is identical to the person responsible for her death in her past life...! Now she has to make use of her knowledge as a pharmacist to find a way out of an untimely death!
Hairdresser Harutaka is a super-fan of Reiichi Himemiya, the guitarist of the legendary rock band The Lazy Rats. He's been devoted to the band for years, going to their concerts and amassing a gigantic merch collection. But when Reiichi walks into the salon Harutaka works at one day, the line between fan and celebrity begins to blur...
Don't miss this BL love story between a dedicated fan and a glamorous rock star!
Richelle is your average lady of nobility: charming and madly in love with her busy fiancee. However, on her way to the palace to give him some treats she baked to help him get through the day she spots him kissing another lady that he was initially working with! After being ridiculed for making baked goods, the engagement was called off. However, a handsome margrave named Lucien comes across her snacks, and after tasting them cannot help but express how refreshing they were. Now begins a fresh romance between the charmed margrave, and totally unaware sweets connoisseur!
Princess Loutier of the Kingdom of Florella, Lou, was called the "Flower Princess" for she had a magical power to make flowers bloom through her song. It was a power that royals of Florella possess, but hers was especially powerful. That is why she was always told not to use her power... it was too powerful that once she harmed someone when she was little. Lou didn't know about love, but she felt happy when Prince Raynaud of the allied kingdom asked her to marry him. However, on the day of the wedding, the Olgan Empire invaded Florella...Lou was captured by Prince Julius, a mysterious masked prince. Lou marries Prince Julius. She wants to hate him...but there is something soft in his heart that she can't ignore. Is this first love?