Sota Kitaoka, 20 years old, working at Ginza's fmaous "Tomikyu" under a strict but passionare boss, struggling and aiming to be a chef. One day he will make food that reaches peoples hearts...
His only brother disappeared without a trace ten years ago. With no other family to turn to, Tsuzuki ended up spending his days with his less than respectable group of friends. But now his older brother, Hajime, has finally returned. What does this sudden turn of events mean for Tsuzuki?! The incredible debut story collection from one of Canna Comics' most up-and-coming talented new writers!
Lone wolf Soji met cheerful and sociable Mika on the school rooftop when they were 16. At first glance, the two seem like polar opposites, but they soon discover that they are in fact birds of a feather, both coming from an unhappy family, carrying all kinds of burdens deep in their hearts. They feel drawn to each other like moths to a flame, trying to compensate what they have lacked in life through a person they can finally feel at ease with. From teens to adults, their relationship and feelings slowly grow into something else...
At last, the genius mathematician, Dr. Eli, has been found! ...but he has horns?! The journalist Hidemi would do anything to get an interview with the reclusive doctor. However, Dr. Eli seems intent on protecting his secrets...
Kokubunji, a Uni student with a rugged face, endures harsh training everyday in order to protect his friend, Ishibashi, who has sn angelic smile and a supple body. - During class, club activities, and on holidays, he must carefully observe Ishibashi, so that he does not face danger! For his beloved Ishibashi, Kokubunji must struggle on a daily basis! He is tested to act logically, constantly! He is in defensive war for his best friend, with the Uni's top student (with a dirty mind).
Beauty school students Noburu and Daichi are always together, from their dorms to their group of friends. However, something makes Noburu start thinking of Daichi as more than a friend. Unable to be honest about his feelings, Noburu ends up being mean to Daichi, who unable to understand where he is coming from, feels at a loss. From this stretched relationship, their feelings start to drift apart... "Sorry for thinking I might like you..."Etsuko's new novel focuses on that instant where the friendship between two straight guys turns into a romance.
In this land, there exists a bird called a Zhen. Thanks to the bird's appetite for toxic foods, poison amassed inside the bird's body changes its color, creating beautiful, vibrant wings. The strength of the poison is the pride of the Zhen. However, unaware of the danger, people became attracted to the beauty of these wings and owning the exquisite birds became a status symbol. Cai Hong, who is reputed to be the most beautiful Zhen, and General Fei, whose elder brother was killed by Cai Hong's poison, find themselves intermingled in a love-hate, animalistic Yaoi fantasy!
Saya plans to become a chef so that she can someday take over her family's restaurant. Then, one fateful day, she gets into an accident...... When she opens her eyes again, it's as a pretty young girl with blond hair and blue eyes - she's been reborn as "Princess Viola"! As if that wasn't enough to cope with, this Viola has it hard. Her stepmother is out for her life, and she's been chosen to go to the empire as a political hostage. In the empire, Viola begins searching out the best way to increase her chances of survival, and that's when Crown Prince Richard approaches her. Seeing promise in her discerning palate, he asks Viola to do some cooking for him. Where will this lead...?! One young girl will set out into a new life and a new world in this fantasy cooking adventure!
"I can't wait any longer." My hands are tied with his necktie, leaving no escape from his passionate kisses... Am I left with no choice but to sign the marriage agreement!?
"You're wet. Did you just get excited?" His beloved warmth, tracing tongue, and intense caress... My ex-boyfriend makes me cum again and again with his hands...!
At 35 years old, Mariko Kimoto is a single woman working hard as a freelance writer. After a long dry spell, she hits it off one night with the head chef of a little restaurant and spends a passionate night with him. Naturally, she felt she had no energy to put into a potential romance with a man she just met in passing. She had every intention of making it a one-night stand, but fate seems to bring them together again when he winds up being the interview subject of her next assignment. So much for 35 years old being too late for love...!
"Go ahead, cum all you want." His big, hard cock loves me passionately... I didn't know my nice, kind chief was such a freak in bed!! Mahiro Okazaki is an overworked office employee. Her only comfort is Chief Tadokoro, her mild-mannered, dependable middle-aged manager. She thought her feelings for him were just a crush, but the more she gets to know him, the deeper those feelings become... "I like you," she confesses on the spur of the moment! He suddenly sounds different- "I'm a lot less nice than you could possibly imagine." He's 18 years older than me, but he goes at it unbelievably hard... I just came, but I'm gonna cum again...!
At 27 years old, insurance broker Mio Sahara is the perfect age for marriage. Traumatized after a sexual encounter with a man, she's developed an intense phobia of being seen in a sexual light. One day, when she's put on a team of elite brokers, she meets a new boss who teaches her what it means to feel untameable passion. Emboldened by this encounter, Mio resolves to face her true sexual self that she had locked away in her heart, but it won't be easy...
Chinatsu, a career woman with a hidden past, meets Daiki, the popular former captain of her company's rugby team. Since she's the complete package, Daiki falls for her, but for some reason, she turns down every man who asks her out...
My friend decided to run off and leave me with her debt. I'd been working three jobs and living at an internet cafe... I was so exhausted, I almost collapsed... but this super hot chef saved me just before I did!
Nachi never expected her teenage sweetheart Haru to come walking back into her life, much less moving next door and working at the same office! She swore she'd never love again, but being with him makes old feelings resurface...
Chisato and Riku have been neighbors since they were kids. Even in college, they still live in adjacent rooms. When Chisato says she'd like to have a boyfriend, Riku begs her to be with him. Can he become more than the boy next-door to her?
Saki's feet are killing her after a long day at work. She stumbles across a reflexology studio on her way home one day and decides to stop in. After a little hesitation, she agrees to let a male staff member rub her bare feet...
"Let me smell your scent!" I thought I didn't like... no, I thought I hated this guy... But, when he puts his face so close to my body that we're a hair's breadth away from touching and begins to sniff me all over, I feel myself responding... What's wrong with me!? My fantasies are getting to the point where I'm about to lose control! This is a bittersweet, heart-throbbing romantic comedy based on a fetish and starts off with an extended 47-page chapter!
Akane's married her company's hottie based off of their compatibility. She feels like she's going to fall for him, but now that they're living and spending all of their time together, she just can't find the chance to tell him how she feels...
Onodera is a smart, popular guy, who would never give me the time of day in the real world. But in my dreams, we get along really well! Is my dream going to end as just that, a dream...?
No matter what anyone says, I love Mr. Aoki!!! Even now that I'm a college student, I've been pursuing my high school teacher so much my friends are exasperated with me. No matter what I do, Mr. Aoki never reciprocates my feelings, so I finally say, "I'm not a child anymore. You can have me if you like..."
There's a shrine famous for granting wishes for people to fall in love with one another. Also, there's a mysterious legend about how you have to "pray in a special way" there...
Iori is having one of the worst days of her life and comes upon a famous (and affordable!) restaurant at the beach. Is that roast duck, or is love in the air? The heavenly meal soothes her soul... until she knocks over a priceless vase!
Upon graduating from an all-boys high school, Tobishima Ichita (18) enrolls in the manga course at an art school. Ichita's genre of choice is Boy's Love (BL) and he has always wanted to connect with girls who love BL just as much as he does. As such, Ichita heads to his first day of class with a dream in his heart! When he arrives, though, his nerves get the best of him -- he can't seem to have a normal conversation with a girl. What's more, his class is nothing but girls...! What will become of Ichita?!
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!
You'll be overcome with laughter at this silent but all-out duel between man and woman! A romantic comedy that keeps you endlessly grinning! Kureha (27) has just one criteria to choose a man: "Is he rich, or not?" Taisuke (29) picks out women by their bodies alone. This pair of scoundrels, faithful only to their own desires, meet at a mixer - an encounter as unfortunate as it is destined. Each scheming to snatch up the other, they act the part of a selfless, humble lady and gentleman while gradually drawing closer, and then...
This town is unsettling, and yet somehow comforting.... When "Cee" awoke, humans had vanished from the world, leaving only the remains of their civilization behind. Desperate to evade the mysterious "Cone Heads," Cee encounters a one-eyed Golem, "Bulb." Golems are humanoid automatons, made to serve their human masters, but what befell their erstwhile creators? This is the story of a bond between girl and golem that could change the world!
In your daily life, there are many kinds of "neighbors." - A stubborn, unyielding young man who sits in the neighboring desk at work. A happy-go-lucky older guy always telling dirty jokes from the neighboring hospital bed. A tiny car with a terrible driver who parks way over to one side, just inside the line of the neighboring parking spot. It's not only the people living next door. In your daily life, there are many kinds of "neighbors." Falling in love, making memories, finding peace of mind... Five tales of the vibrant moments born when two people happen to become neighbors.
Mizuno Sawa, high school first-year, is a quiet and reserved girl living under the social radar. Her school is also home to the band "Blue-Burst", made up of four boys from the pop music club and hugely popular among the students. Of course, Sawa and the band members pass their time at school without ever crossing paths - except, Kouichi from the band is secretly her twin brother! Kouichi is an amateur model on top of singing in the band, and basically the school's superstar; but despite his superstar smile on the surface, his true face is a sneering demon. When he double books a modeling gig with make-up lessons at school, the idea strikes him to make Sawa take his place at the lessons. Poor Sawa has a complex about defying her brother, so in the end she puts on his boys' uniform and heads to school. From that day her plain, quiet high school life changes completely! It's a melody of love and thrills in this coming-of-age story!
Hanazawa Moe grew up tall and tomboyish, and was even mocked for "crossdressing" the one time she wore more feminine clothes, which left her with some emotional baggage and a penchant for playing the man. Now Moe is the most popular waiter at a crossdressing cafe, where she dresses up as a guy to welcome lady customers. Thinking it was a dream job that let her use her unique talents, she buried herself in her work, until... Before she knew it, she'd reached "that age" - all her friends are getting married, having kids, and steadily moving forward in life. Suddenly, a voice inside her starts asking, "Do I want to carry on this way forever...?" -- Match-making apps, blind date parties and more... The chronicle of a girl well below the curve on romantic know-how going all out to find a husband!
I hear my younger brother has begun searching for a certain woman: his fated one, with whom he shared a night of passion at the masquerade ball. The tiny moles on her inner thigh are his only clue... But, I'm sorry, Alto. It was I, your elder sister!This is a sweet (?) love story brought to you by a contrarian heroine who can't be honest about her feelings. Don't let the title fool you! This love is pure, through and through!