"I want you." Imagine being told such a thing after a long and hot kiss from a beautiful elf. "I'm an introverted plain girl who's never had a boyfriend. There's nothing special about me, and the best I can do is just live a quiet life without bothering anyone else." That's what Sae Maizumi thought before she suddenly fell through the puddle she stepped on. After falling through what felt like a deep portal, she found herself in a world of elves. Where she arrived-the sacred spring of the elven forest. Sae, soaked in the water of the springs, is suddenly taken into the care of Elion, who is set to be the next leader of the forest elves. However, as a suspicious being who appeared out of nowhere, she's taken into c*ptivity! The moment Sae has a chance to break free, she makes a run for it. On her way out, she happens upon Elion's quarters to find him in an unexpected situation...?!!
I should have died in the accident, but when I woke up, I found myself inside my favorite novel...To make matters worse, I'm just a side character?! According to the story, the duke and duchess have disappeared, and all the servants are about to be fired...I've made up my mind. I'm going to live as I please! Or so I thought. Somehow, I've ended up as the guardian of two orphaned twins?! This wasn't supposed to be my role, but how could I abandon them? Just as I resolved to take the twins on their journey...
"Getting so into it in this situation. What a dirty girl." - I can feel you through my shirt, your skin brushing against all the most sensitive parts of my body, your fingers slipping inside me. You whisper for me to keep quiet so we don't get caught...but I just can't...! One night, Kaede accidentally locks herself out of her office, but then she runs into Shioya, the guy she's been crushing on, in the hallway outside it. He helps her out and even ends up offering to let her crash at his place for the night! Except that's when Shioya's roommate gets home, and the two of them panic and rush to hide in the closet. Their bodies are pressed so close together that Kaede's heart starts racing... Then Shioya's lips brush against Kaede's breast, and suddenly things are moving fast!
"Until now...he and I were just regular friends." Mai and Yuta are the best of gaming buddies, their time hanging out a breath of fresh air for them both, but everything changes when Yuta gets roped into meeting a potential wife. To put his parents at ease and give him an excuse to turn down the arranged marriage, Mai volunteers to be his (fake) girlfriend. This brings out a whole new side of Yuta, who throws out the idea of learning more about each other as a "couple"... and all of a sudden, things are getting really steamy...!!
Ever since she was separated from her mother at an early age, Eliza has been treated as an untouchable in the house of Adal Luna, the lord of the house. One day, however, she is summoned by the lord and told that she is his blood daughter and that she is to marry the third prince, Leo, who is rumored to be promiscuous and arrogant. Eliza is perplexed, but Sati, the lord's wife, tells Eliza an even crueler truth... Is this love a trick or the truth? Can Eliza, who has lost everything, find happiness?
On a moonless night... I hear your voice for the first time. Ume was abandoned by the family she married into because she was unable to bear children. She returns to the village where she was born but finds herself alone as her parents die from a spreading disease. As told in tales of sacrifice to the gods, the village also begins to experience a shortage in the crops of their farms that will only continue until someone is offered. Ume is not able to bear a child but as she does not have any children, she is able to lie her way into being offered to the gods. Waiting for her at a shrine deep in the mountains is a wolf god with silver hair and beautiful nails that shine in five different colors... what will come from this encounter between a despised god and an unhappy girl?!
"It's you that I want. Size has nothing to do with it." He whispers sweet words as his muscular body envelopes her, relentlessly attacking her small breasts that she's always been self-conscious about... Akari Hananoi is the manager of her company's judo team. One night after a drinking party with the team, she is taking care of one of the athletes, Iwashiro, who got too drunk. In his drunken slumber, he grabs her tight and won't let go, which leads to them spending the night together in each other's arms...! With a massive 40cm height difference, they're two pieces that can't fit together, right?! He'll show her mind and body how to slowly melt and loosen up in this exciting love story!
On the day they met, they got married and started living together?! While out drinking, Haruhi, a construction worker who's always surrounded by men, meets Nagato, a middle-aged man with salt-and-pepper hair. She drunkenly tells him to marry her, and just like that, they get married and start living together! A heart-pounding rom-com about a shotgun wedding between a middle-aged man and a blue-collar working girl!
"I can't believe the talented hands that make me such amazing food are really brushing across my lips..."
Office worker Miki is nearly 30, but her small stature makes her seem much younger, which scares off all but the creepiest of guys... With that on her plate on top of the stress of work, Miki keeps her spirits up with a weekly "treat": dinner and drinks at a local bar run by the handsome Chef Kayaba. Just a glimpse of his sinewy arms as he works has Miki daydreaming about what his hands would feel like running over her body, but she's content just to watch...until one day she gets a chance to drink alone with him after the bar closes and all of a sudden things are moving fast!! Yet, for some secret reason, he says he can't make love to her...
Eita Kuze is handsome and intelligent, just what you would expect from an alpha and a son of Kuze corp. But apparently, he hates omegas and even had surgery so that he can't detect their pheromones. His rudeness made me have the worst first impression of him, but for some reason, I'm hearing "He's cute. I want him" from that alpha?! He doesn't seem to notice, but it seems I can hear his inner thoughts. I'm an omega, but if he comes on to me like that, I just can't resist...!
"This is my punishment - someone as hideous as me falling for someone as good-looking as you..." Yumeko had a mountain of complexes about herself. Then, a terrible accident befalls her. Though somehow saved from the brink of death, Yumeko wakes up a completely different person. "Is this...me...?! I'm SUPER cute!!" Those around her can't hide their surprise and wonderment at this 180-degree change... But, Yumeko's new hyper-positive attitude starts to change her surroundings, too. Worries and complexes can affect anyone, and Yumeko will chop right through those of her various supporting characters!! In love, work, friendship... And an attempted murder case?! This frenzied romantic comedy will leave you bubbling with energy!
Sana's first boyfriend, Yamato, was not exactly the looker, but he was kind. And that's what Sana loved about him. So when he suddenly dumps her without warning, her heart is left completely shattered. Having lost faith in the world, Sana vows to leave her past self behind, and transforms... into a full-on delinquent!
3 years later, when Sana had all but forgotten how it feels to love, two guys unexpectedly appear in her life. Koichi, the student council president and school celebrity. And... Sana's ex, Yamato?! Sana barely recognizes her ex, who has undergone a complete transformation of his own, becoming a heartthrob teenage actor! With conflicted memories and emotions on the rise, where will our protagonist's innocent heart take her?
Misuzu Kanno, who was dumped by her boyfriend of five years is sexually frustrated, so looks for new encounters on dating apps. There she talks with a college gymnast, eight years her junior, and decides to meet. When she arrives at the rendezvous point, she finds that the boy she was talking with has brought a friend... Misuzu's disappointed at first, until a sweet proposal that the three of them hang out shakes things up!
After witnessing a tryst between her subordinate and an executive one late night at the office, Mihaya Hoshino suddenly finds herself betrayed by someone she trusted, and transferred to her company's branch in the boonies (also her hometown). Dejected and drunk after returning to her childhood home, she runs into Koda, the delinquent who confessed to her as a prank back in middle school. Years later, he now runs a farm that happens to be one of Mihaya's business partners. Acting as the new liaison, she must now work with the last guy on Earth she wants to see! It's an unexpected reunion between one clumsy-in-love former head class representative and a bad boy-turned-farmer!
Toma Sugawa is a cool-headed, unsociable businessman. For some reason, he's not in a relationship, and he spends his life watching the days go by. One thing that has become a part of his daily routine, is waking up one of the tenants in his grandfather's apartment complex. That tenant is Kaoru Aida. He has countless alarms go off, and still doesn't wake up until Toma comes in to wake him. On top of that, he asks Toma to wake him up the next morning, without a lick of remorse. With an attitude like that, of course Toma is on the verge of snapping. But one day, Toma goes to wake him up as usual, and Kaoru, still sleepy, pushes him down?! Enjoy this clumsy, blooming love story between an inconsiderate guy and a guy still stuck on his ex!
After her ex-boyfriend refuses to marry her because of her cooking skills, Waka decides to devote herself to cooking! Her efforts have paid off, and she now manages a restaurant of her own. Being next to a police station, cops often come by to eat, but one, Mr. Takeda, has caught her eye. His "satisfied" face when eating her cooking has her absolutely swooning! She can't help but imagine him eating more than just her food! How far can her cooking take her with this dreamy cop?
I became my teacher's pet. Literally. Tonight too, I was given a choker to wear by my owner. Akane is deeply inspired by Todo, a fashion designer, and it so happens that she, his biggest fan, would work under him. Though Akane works for Todo, an aloof perfectionist, she's never had a conversation with him, let alone does he know she exists. Happy enough just to work near him, one day Akane happens upon a crying Todo on the roof of their company. What's more, Akane comes across a choker that was dropped and left behind on the roof where Todo was standing. After thinking it over to no end, Akane decides to return the choker, entering Todo's room to place it somewhere safely. Too late! "From today on, you'll be my pet", are the words Todo speaks over his new plaything as he points to a certain "area" of her body...
Through music, the Hanamura clan manifested special powers that brought about prosperity to their clan; however, Akari, who didn't exhibit any powers was deemed a "Seed of Misfortune" and scorned by her family. From then on begins her days of bearing callous treatment from her parents and sister. But one day, she finds an invitation to a soiree hosted by one of the oldest and noblest clans in the country. It seems the head of that clan, Mikoto Sazarashi, is searching for a bride. Finding herself unable to resist going, Akari attends the soiree - only to be quickly discovered by her sister. Akari is immediately berated and belittled by her, but...a handsome, young man appears, takes Akari's hand, and declares, "I've finally found you, my beloved bride." Check out this great Cinderella story set in an Eastern setting and filled with romance, turmoil, and mystery!
Popular handsome man and weather forecaster Segasaki is actually a tyrant at home. Yoh, an ero-manga artist in a tight spot knows this very well. This is because the two of them are living together. More than that, it's because he cooks and cleans for Segasaki! To no surprise, in exchange for being provided food, he must "obey everything that Segasaki says". What comes from such a contract is?
When middle school teacher Rika's lack of self-care catches up to her, she quits her job to recover her health and ends up taking a part-time gig at the local Chinese restaurant: no overtime, no take-home work, and two delicious employee meals a day. The owner Momose and his lack of brain-to-mouth filter prove to be a handful, but his amazing cooking shoots Rika's quality of life straight through the roof! This exhausted overachiever is realizing that being a "proper adult" is harder than it seemed... and her journey of healing might just come with a side of romance!
"Your lips look... sweet. Do you mind if I have a taste?" Chika Ayano is an introvert and has had her eyes on the most popular guy in the office, Shoma Hazuki, for a while. One day, she's able to hear Hazuki talking with Kimura, her superior who has been bullying her... and it seems Hazuki has to ask her out now that he's lost a bet?! Ayano knows that Hazuki confessing his feelings to her is just because he lost a bet, but she's way too into him and agrees to date without any further thought. Now Hazuki's all over her and there's no stop to it! What will happen with this one month period they're set to date?!
Otoha is a young career woman with a great reputation at work. However, because of her success, she has earned herself an enemy who's out to get her.
Then there's her coworker, Naruse, the company heartthrob. All eyes are on him, but he often gets involved with Otoha, which always results in them arguing. When Otoha runs into her boyfriend on a date with another woman, Naruse jumps in and...
Mashiro's a nailist with zero experience in the dating department. Living together with Mashiro is Omi, a male cross-dresser who's as cute as he is angelic. The two together, with their love of fancy things, spent their days strictly as two platonic friends... Or so it seemed that way!! On the night Mashiro goes to a dating party, Omi appears, dressed as a boy, fervently kisses Mashiro and even laps at sensitive parts of her body with his tongue... The pleasure is so intense that Mashiro might lose her mind---!
A world where demons coexist with humans. While there have been no conflicts in the past between demons and humans, demons possess tremendous abilities, can use a variety of magic, and have the power to control humans as underlings. Demons are at the top of the biological hierarchy, so to speak. So now I, Toma, am the underling to the demon, Chiaki. Every night I have to feed him my bodily fluids to "replenish his magical powers". He licks me all over... Our lewd acts should have no meaning; our relationship is a master-servant one. But why does my heart ache so much...?
Yoshiwara, old Edo's paradise of pleasure, has been reborn in modern-day Tokyo.... In this playground of the powerful, where money rules all, women sell both their bodies and the idea of romance to their male clientele. Thrust into this world is the ingenue Asuka, who's been sold out by her foster parents to pay off their debts. While at first oblivious to the nature of Yoshiwara, she accidentally barges in on a "transaction" between a courtesan and her client. Confronted with her new reality of being bought and sold, she longs to make a break for it... but is there anyone around her she can trust...?!
So is this what it means to have roommates now?! Office worker Rinko, 24, lives alone and is secretly an otaku. One day, her apartment gets connected to the two neighboring rooms through a "hole" in the wall. In the room on the left is a fresh-faced yet mysterious guy who is overly-sweet to Rinko. The room on the right is occupied by a guy with violent tendences who is similarly mysterious... But wait! "I... I think I know him!" Rinko's only source of solitude, her apartment, has been turned upside down. Now, every day is full of heart-pounding surprises!
"Can you feel yourself twitching when I touch you down here?" Mukai and I are bitter rivals always battling to avoid earning the lowest grade in class. I thought I only saw him as a dimwitted pal of mine, but why did my heart start racing when he scored that goal at the alumni soccer game and when he saved me from that girly girl trying to one-up me? Ugh, why does he seem so hot today? After all that, I couldn't ride the last train to get home and he even offered to stay at a karaoke place all night with me... Wait a minute, why are we in this position? He just put it in and I think I'm already going to come...! He's a fool, but I love him! If you're looking for a lighthearted, overly erotic romance between two silly lovebirds, this is definitely one for you!
Have you ever cried while looking in the mirror...? "With this face, if I talked about fashion or went out to buy cosmetics, I'd be a total joke." Living with such thoughts, pitifully ugly office worker Tachibana Rin passed the days miserable and taunted by fate since she shares a first name with the most beautiful woman at her company, Kaizuka Rin. But that's just how it had to be. After all, for ugly girls, life's over before it begins... Then one day, Rin wins 11,910,000 yen in the lottery!! "Life's over for ugly girls, but for me this is just the beginning."
When an annoying guy at work mocks her lack of femininity, Shoko gets dead drunk and begs for help from Jun, a boy at the bar whose beauty could outshine any girl, until she's talked him into coaching her on how to power up her feminine side. But Jun gives her two conditions: she has to live with him, and he gets to touch her breasts... This beautiful younger man's super erotic touchy-feely coaching is steadily training my body!
"Primal instincts easily overtake rationality" Handsome, well-built, and brilliant: Himuro is the picture-perfect Alpha. After suffering at the hands of an obsessed Omega, he vowed to never let his secondary-gender instincts control him again and to stay away from Omegas forever. But it seems that destiny has other plans when a chance meeting one day turns his whole world upside down...
"Lady Amalthea, will you marry me?" Amalthea receives an unfathomable proposal from the cold prince who hates women! However, their marriage is only a contractual one. Even so, with how kindly the prince is treating her, Amalthea feels she might get the wrong idea... Amalthea has exceptional skill when it comes to territory management. Her talents brought about expectations in the kingdom, and she has been asked to wed the future count, Thomas. However, Thomas takes Amalthea's proposals, leaving her name out of them and claiming them as his own. Not only that, but Thomas also has a lover. When Amalthea points this out, he causes a scene and calls off the engagement. Just when Amalthea had enough and was ready to leave, Prince Kirfas, who happened to witness everything, suddenly proposes to Amalthea?!
Akari is good at her job, beautiful, and her sense of style is beyond compare... but she has a secret. She's almost 30 and she's still a virgin! One fateful day, a new department chief takes over -- the handsome Shinomiya. "You're my subordinate now, which means from today, you have to do what I say." Shinomiya is a condescending bully and he and Akari clash from day one. Akari finds herself drinking her worries away at his welcome party and before she knows what hit her she's completely smashed. She wakes up the next day to find -- Shinomiya emerging from her bathroom half naked?!?! Thus begins Akari's comedic office romance with her callous new boss!
"I want to put it in... But I want her to feel safe with me." This younger boyfriend has fallen completely totally in love, and his hot and slick body (and extremely naughty thoughts) will leave you feeling good from the inside out...! Chizuru has a certain special ability that has left her struggling with love, when one day she realizes her younger coworker, Samejima, is in love with her. Even though he's quiet and a bit awkward on the outside, his thoughts are overflowing with the truth. "I love her!" "She's cute." "So sexy." This flood of affection is enough to make anyone embarrassed! And how could she turn him down when she knows just how much he really wants...?!
"Just relax and enjoy yourself for me." He's usually so gentle, but now his sharp gaze is full of desire as he devours her with his eyes. Her body melts under his hands; the heat of his touch lingers on her lips, chest, and thighs and fills her mind like a fever. Her hips twitch of their own accord and despite her embarrassment a moan escapes her-... Overtime. Working from home late into the night. In the glitzy world of fashion magazines, publishing editor Fumi was run ragged in mind and body by her demanding work. Her only solace was visiting the local private pharmacy run by handsome and refreshing pharmacist Okada. Worrying over her on post-overtime mornings or at night after an exhausting workday, he kept her body in good repair. But that was just his kindness toward a regular customer - or so Fumi thought. While drunk after a mixer, she passes by the pharmacy; the usually kind Okada is acting oddly and suddenly drags Fumi into the pharmacy's waiting room...
"Ms. Kumakawa, you're my 'fave'." A dental hygienist, Satomi Kumakawa, is stressed from her poor work environment and has developed insomnia. What helps her sleep at night is listening to the story-reading streams by her fave, "Koki". She spends her days happily supporting him by sending Super Chats to him. One day, she is assigned to a patient named Koki Machida, who turns out to be her fave in the flesh. She swears to keep her Super Chats a secret and is determined to protect her fave's oral health as a professional...! But somehow, Satomi becomes his "fave"?!
"I shouldn't get involved with him..." - Despite her heart's warnings, she just can't pull herself away from his sweet seduction. Mizuki, a former marathon runner with a penchant for anything sugary, has now begun working at a hotel. She has zero experience in customer service, and is clumsy and socially challenged to boot. She's been slipping up repeatedly at work, which has only made things awkward with her coworkers. But when she runs into Kaji, the handsome hotel patissier/rumored womanizer, and accidentally vents her work frustration at him, he decides to appoint her as the test taster for his new creations?! Former runner/dessert-lover meets charming pastry chef in this heart-racingly sweet romance!
Though the man in front of me wore a kind smile, he pinned me down, asked if I wanted him to come onto me and whether or not I would be his love plaything. Up until then, I, Saku Fujisaki, was just an ordinary student, but because of my mother's debt, I was taken away by the yakuza. Either I do backbreaking work indefinitely, sell my organs, or.... Right... With no other choice, I ended up as the young yakuza leader's love plaything. But is there something more...?!
Saku and Azusa have been together. They were even born the same minute. Now that they're off to college, it's finally time for them to separate, and the ever-anxious Saku is feeling lonely while the calm and cool Azusa is as aloof as ever. One day, Saku suddenly hears Azusa in his head! What's more it almost sounds like Azusa is in the middle of pleasuring himself while looking at Saku's photo! Will this newfound power bring the two closer or will it drive them apart?
"This is my punishment - someone as hideous as me falling for someone as good-looking as you..." Yumeko had a mountain of complexes about herself. Then, a terrible accident befalls her. Though somehow saved from the brink of death, Yumeko wakes up a completely different person. "Is this...me...?! I'm SUPER cute!!" Those around her can't hide their surprise and wonderment at this 180-degree change... But Yumeko's new hyper-positive attitude starts to change her surroundings, too. Worries and complexes can affect anyone, and Yumeko will chop right through those of her various supporting characters!! In love, work, friendship... And an attempted murder case?! This frenzied romantic comedy will leave you bubbling with energy!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-5 of "Plus-sized Misadventures in Love!"
"Koharu, you've had a fiance since you were born..." This is what my grandfather confesses to me one day out of the blue. But how could I, a 25-year-old stranger to love, possibly have a fiance? And on top of that, instead of living by myself while my grandfather is in the hospital, I have to live with him instead...?! He's tall, handsome, wealthy, and a CEO... not to mention 12 years my senior! We've got nothing in common! But his kindness and his unexpected naivete touch my heart, and before I know it...?! Between our short-term cohabitation and an marriage pact made by our grandfathers, this is one romance we can't let anyone find out about...