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Childish Rui Sasaki is 25 years old, single, and a virgin. All she wants is to fall in love like everyone else and have sex with a nice boyfriend! While lamenting over this during drinks with her childhood friend, Naoko, she met Ritsu, a modest and handsome man. He was kind enough to listen to her complaints and take care of her drunken self. Suddenly, an intoxicated Rui falls on top of Ritsu and kisses him...?! For two beginners in love, each with their own issues, is it possible for love to start with sex? A pure story of two people in a complicated love affair is set to begin.

"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...

Japan is grappling with a low birth rate in the future, prompting the government to roll out the "Yukari Law"—a matchmaking system that pairs 16-year-old children based on genetic compatibility. Dubbed "The Red Threads of Science", the policy is widely embraced by society and comes with stiff consequences for non-compliance. Sadly, time is running out for Yukari Nejima as he approaches his 16th birthday. He decides to declare his affections for Misaki Takasaki, a beautiful and popular classmate he's held a torch for over the past five years. Miraculously, his feelings are reciprocated. However, before he can wrap his heart around this newfound love, he's hit with a government notice informing him he's to be wedded to his assigned partner, the blunt Ririna "Snooty" Sanada. Yukari's world is thrown into disarray as he battles to reconcile his emotions with his predetermined fate filled with love and deception.

32-year-old Futaba Kiryu is a manga artist that writes for a weekly shounen magazine. Her latest ongoing manga is a romantic comedy, "Bocchi no Ore kara Riaju no Omaera ni Ittoku" (A Loner Like Me's Got a Lot to Say about You Normies out There) or "Bottoku" for short. It is a best-seller and has an anime adaption on the works. But the truth is, she's completely clueless about romance. The days go on as she continues on working on her manga with her manga assistants, but soon, one of her assistants, Hiro Asakura (she dubs him as "Assassin" because of his cold and intimidating demeanor), and the anime scriptwriter for the "Bottoku" anime, Kitamura Kyosuke (social media dubs him "The Tactician" for his notoriously clever execution in the anime he's worked in) grow an interest in her and eventually make a move on her. How will Futaba fare in this love triangle when her knowledge of romance is next to nothing?

The strange adventures of two English friends who get themselves caught up in odd occurances. Rudy, the owner of a furniture store, comes to his friend Em, an eccentric freelance detective, with help for a situation he's roped himself into. Em makes things difficult, but the mystery is solved through his genius. Rudy can't shake his prices off though, and ends up relying on him for future shenanigans.

Your true identity remains a mystery. Alice found herself in a derelict school with amnesia, only recalling her name. Among other girls devoid of purpose and forbidden from connecting with the outside world, she discovers clues to her past and their extraordinary abilities. Should she turn a blind eye or brave the painful truth? Follow Alice's journey towards a brighter future.

Ryu Uesugi and Torako Takeda are high school girls with memories of warlords. They have memories of Kenshin Uesugi and Shingen Takeda, who were sworn enemies in the Sengoku era - or perhaps it is because they have memories of them that they are attracted to each other. This is a beautiful and hard-hitting yuri story, with old-fashioned expressions and behavior that aren't unusual for high school girls, but exquisitely refreshing. Their love is single-minded and beautiful. Full of anecdotes and small stories about the warlords!

A letter comes to the three Kohda sisters in Kamakura, bringing the news of their father's death. A father they hadn't seen since he divorced and left home 15 years ago. Despite feeling indifferent about their father, Yoshino, the middle of the three, and Chika, the youngest, go to Yamagata to attend his funeral on oldest sister Sachi's request. There, they meet Suzu, their young and reliable half sister. Umimachi Diary won the Excellence Prize for manga at the 2007 Japan Media Arts Festival Awards. It was also nominated for the 1st Manga Taisho, where it came in 3rd place, for the 12th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, where it came in 2nd place, and for the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Hinako gets cheated on by her boyfriend and the company she was working for goes bankrupt. While walking aimlessly through the city, she bumps into a yakuza by accident. Just when she thinks her life is over, she's shocked to discover that the yakuza is her first love and childhood friend, Tsukasa. Hinako enjoys their unexpected reunion, but after sharing her recent situation, Tsukasa suddenly asks her to enter into a contract to pose as his fiance! It being an offer she can't refuse, she accepts, under the condition that "touching is off?limits!" But, when she lets her guard down and lets him see her in a compromising position, he makes a move on her. Stimulating her sensitive spots, he licks her with the hot tip of his tongue. Being desired so intensely by such an openly instinctive man, even though it's a sham relationship, Hinako finds herself wanting to connect with him even more deeply...+

Tomoru Arihira works in a plant-based goods company. While he does his best every day by devoting himself to his work and the sweets he’s fond of, in reality, he’s in the middle of a divorce with his wife, a popular actress…?! Will they be separated or not? A story about two struggling people, wrapped in a diary of sweets.

Remi doesn't know what love feels like. In the summer two years after she gets her first full-time job, she bumps into Hodaka Arishima, a guy she was friends with benefits with back in school. Even though he was a playboy, he was also popular. For some reason, they had great chemistry. More than anything, he was a jerk who knew every inch of her body. After one particular incident, though, they stopped all contact with each other. Hodaka reassured her that she wasn't special to him, and since he smiled when he said it, Remi now thinks they can become friends again. That assumption changes when this older Hodaka declares that he won't wait for her any longer. He'll make her feel so good that she'll cry in pleasure? and this time, they'll finally share real love and real lovemaking.

My body melts under his burning kisses and gentle caresses… I had no idea my foreign boss was this good!! Moe is fascinated by her tall, handsome foreign-born boss... a man who knows what he wants and is not easily refused.