ROMANCE

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. From Okazu:Mermaid Line is a collection of stories that ran in Yuri Hime magazine. They are collected together as short mini-series, done in an episodic, almost soap-opera-y way.In "Megumi and Aoi " Megumi confesses to her friend Aoi that, despite her

He seems kind and reserved, but he is overflowing with passion… Only after the death of her parents does Lisette learn that she was adopted and has a different birth mother. She moves to Paris and works at a seedy saloon to make ends meet, and there she is approached by an elegant aristocrat. He says he will rescue her from this cesspool. She is sure he just wants to seduce her, but she can't get this nice, kind man out of her mind. However, she has no idea that he’s just using her to find her mother!

After leaving her isolating life in Tokyo, 34-year-old Nichiko returns to her remote island hometown for her estranged alcoholic father's final days. There she meets Chimaki, an eccentric young man who stirs up old memories and feelings Nichiko had all but decided she no longer deserved. But despite his puppy-like enthusiasm for life, Chimaki's almost obsessive need to rescue people and animals seems to be compensating for an unspeakable past.

"What is it, Mr. Amakusa? Don't tell me you're planning to make midnight visits to my bed?" Aki Kurumi, 29 years old, meets Shisui Amakusa at a singles' mixer, and what should he unexpectedly propose but a paper marriage...! And once she starts living with Shisui, who is a touch out of sync with her, it kicks off a string of miscommunications and minor catastrophes! Their life as newlyweds (on paper) gets off to a bumpy start, but it's somehow almost cozy... "I didn't realize I would be so happy... to be needed by someone." They each chose this paper marriage for their own convenience, but could they become a real husband and wife? What is "love"? What is "marriage"? This is a bumbling love story that depicts how men and women coexist.

Childhood friends Koutarou Fujiki, Kajiwara, and Fuyuko thought they would always be together. They spent their youth in a strange love triangle, the two boys fighting over who would date Fuyuko. But suddenly one day, that life ends. Kajiwara goes missing, and Koutarou takes his sweetheart’s hand in marriage. Now middle-aged, Koutarou is left to wonder—would his wife have chosen differently if Kajiwara was still around? On a visit to his hometown, the memories come rushing back...

The main character, Leon, was abandoned to the world of demons right after he was born because of his lack of magical power. However, his fate changes completely when the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King's Army pick him up. The Four Heavenly Kings were the strongest and most powerful figures in the world had trained him personally and took good care of him. As time passed, the boy became a magnificent soldier of the Demon King's army with the power to "rule" every kind of magic. Leon has been given a new mission to protect Alicia, who will enroll in a magic academy on the island called "Paradise Island."

Isabella is the princess of Niroli, an island kingdom in the Mediterranean Sea. She is currently undertaking the task of putting a worldclass resort on her beloved Niroli. If she can make that happen, Niroli will surely flourish. Isabella wants to start negotiations more than anything, but the person in charge of the project, Domenic, has no desire to listen to a spoiled princess with no redeeming quality but her beauty. When he sees that she has no intention of giving up, Domenic presents her with a proposition. He says, "I want you to spend at least a week on the island where I was born." This is the fourth installment in the royalty romance series "The Royal House of Niroli".

Gift Hisono is a gifted painter cursed with financial woes. On the brink of finishing his latest work, his trusty palette knife suddenly snaps! In a desperate attempt to afford a replacement, he steals paint from his close friend and fellow art club member, Taima. This act of theft witnessed by another club member, Kadomi, marks the beginning of his poisonous downfall...

Isaeng and Jeongto were inseparable childhood friends until Jeongto’s father died tragically at the hands of a bitter soul. These two friends reunite ten years later as adversaries: Isaeng guides souls to the afterlife, while Jeongto gives souls another chance to live. After all this time, can these two work out their issues? And what do the Kings of Hell have to do with all of this?

Alice Seno seems like a normal girl in high school. She's a bit shy, she's got a crush on a boy named Kyou, and she's got an older sister who is more popular than she is...pretty normal stuff, until Alice has an encounter with a mysterious and magical rabbit girl that changes the course of her life, and Alice is introduced to the sublime power of the Lotis Words.

Ikuko, an Arasa girl, has someone she is dating. But he is a so-called useless man who freeloads at Ikuko's house and doesn't get a regular job. Ikuko tries to break up with him because she doesn't have a bright future with him, but she always ends up bonding with him for some reason! Just then, a high-spec handsome guy appears, aiming for her Ikuko...! ? A loopy love between a useless man and an around 30-year-old girl! The charm of a useless man explodes!

This is brought to you by the same author of "My Wife Is From a Thousand Years Ago". "If you could go back in time, what would you do?" "I would go to the school entrance and wait for you every day to pursue you shamelessly until you're my girlfriend. What about you?" "Hmm... I will definitely carefully wait until I'm twenty-four to get to know you again, then gradually fall in love, then get married, and then ask you this question. I live cautiously because I'm afraid that the butterfly effect will make me lose you."

When life throws Linden Taylor another gut-wrenching punch, she decides to recover on a beach. She books herself a cruise and it’s full speed ahead to an adventure in paradise. Her assumptions are not far off, but what’s an adventure without a little kidnapping? To add insult to injury, her captor is none other than the roguishly handsome, albeit infuriating, Steven Dare. Now confined to this remote little island with a handsome devil, Linden’s moral compass spins with reckless abandon. How will she find her way to happiness now?

One day, Kyutaro Horikita, the tall, dark and handsome cleaning expert of Kurokado High, comes across a sleeping maiden named Fumi Nishioka at school… Unfortunately, their meeting is anything but a fairy-tale encounter! It turns out Kyutaro is a “Sweeper” who cleans away negative energy from people’s hearts—and Fumi is about to become his apprentice!

I want to support him as he faces his destiny...even if he doesn’t love me. Cassiopeia’s greedy stepmother and stepsisters have taken the hotel her father left her, and she is forced to work there like a servant. One day, Prince Rhys of Verina, who is rumored to be looking for a bride, arrives at the hotel. If her stepsisters are chosen as the bride and leaves with their mother, she can take back the hotel. Cassiopeia has faint hopes. However, Rhys told her that he had bought the hotel, and then he said something even more unbelievable. “I came here for you, Cassiopeia, as my wife.” Why...why did the prince choose me as his bride?

A 4-koma manga about an almost expressionless guy who tries his best to get closer to the person he loves, but always ends up being misunderstood because he looks kinda scary to her.

Chii and her husband are like any other happily married couple, except for one thing: Chii was assigned male at birth. Chii details her autobiographical account of growing up with gender dysphoria and ultimately deciding to transition in her early adult years. Shortly after Chii starts transitioning, she meets a man who is instantly enamored by her, and although he is surprised when Chii eventually tells him she used to live as a guy, he still wants to go out with her. As Chii continues to transition, her boyfriend supports her through the process, culminating in their marriage once her transition is complete.

“How much money could a woman’s face be worth?” She was once queen. But when her face becomes partially disfigured in an accident, an imperial decree demotes Dongfang Ningxing to concubine. Not only that, but her younger sister takes her place as the new queen, while Dongfang Ningxing gets married off to the cold and brutal Prince Xueqin. And this second marriage is not a happy one, ending only in her death. Lucky for Dongfang Ningxing, her spirit is unwilling to fade away... it’s not her time yet! She still has work to do! So, Dongfang Ningxing gets a second chance. And this time, Dongfang Ningxing is ready. She must hone amazing talents, be the most beautiful in all the land, and must outmatch even the heavens! Will she succeed??

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS BAD PUBLICITY…RIGHT? As a member of the obscure idol group Tea Party, Maha Lee dreams of becoming a superstar one day. But she had no idea she’d get her big break so soon…by embarrassing herself on a popular talk show! Even worse, the debacle lands her on the bad side of Ryoc Kwon, a member of the top male idol group SHAX. He now has her pegged as a talentless fake who imitates successful artists for attention…Does Maha have what it takes to convince him and the world that she’s the real deal?

“O devil of my Ducommun ancestors— please stop this marriage...!” The twin sister—Giovinetta Valdemar, or Lady Devil herself, branded as such after her husband’s heart was ripped out on their wedding night. The twin brother—Johannes Valdemar, the exalted hero and shining sun of House Valdemar. Torn from Johannes by their mother as children, Giovinetta can only glimpse her unrestricted brother through the single window in the room where she’s kept under lock and key. So when Giovinetta is next betrothed to a much older nobleman, the fear of yet another cage drives her to make a desperate plea for help to the devil of Ducommun—a wish that is answered by transforming Johannes into a devil himself! Will this creature be her salvation or lead them both down a treacherous and forbidden path?

What do I do? I came here to sort out my feelings, but now I’m in love! Caron, a spoiled young lady who is a lawyer, is having her wedding in one week. Her fiancé cheated on her, but she can’t call off her wedding just because of that. She uses her work as an excuse to visit Canada. Unexpectedly, her client, Ewan, attracts her attention, his deep blue eyes wanting to know the truth…

Seventeen-year-old Chiyuki Matsuoka was born with heart problems, and her doctors say she won’t live to see the next snow. Toya is an 18-year-old vampire who hates blood and refuses to make the traditional partnership with a human, whose life-giving blood would keep them both alive for a thousand years.

Traveling in-between the world of the living and the twilight world of the dead, Akamushi, the shaman, priest, demon-hunter, or specifically, the Red Spider Exorcist, is one that’ll never refuse a request for help from lost souls falling prey to evil spirits and demons of the underworld. With the strength and regeneration powers of a giant spider, and the ability to command his swarm of arachnids to his will, he combats the malevolent supernatural and is a force to be reckoned with. When career woman Megumi is suddenly pursued and attacked by the unholy demons of the afterlife, she seeks the help from the phlegmatic shaman to eradicate the infestation of unholy beasts seeking to take her soul and turn her into a vindictive minion. But as it seems, these demons are more than persistent—everywhere Megumi tries to hide, they follow. With Megumi’s cry for help, is this more than what Akamushi can handle—as he too collapses to the will of their malicious powers? But why are these creatures of twilight after her? What does she know, or doesn’t know, that’ll unravel the truths about her true self and everyone around her? And what of Akamushi—can he use his unique shamanic spider-like powers to cast out and purify himself from the demon scourge?

Being carried around everywhere and having handsome Megumi act like a slave may seem ideal, but Suzuka just wishes he would stop. Can anything be done about Megumi's captive state? Or is Megumi doomed to see Suzuka as his master...forever?

Makoto Amano wants to become an actor, but his stern father has decreed that the only way Makoto can pursue his dream is to spend the last two years of high school as a girl! He quickly makes friends with popular tomboy Ito Miura, another drama enthusiast at this new high school and the only student to find out his secret—but are they more than pals?

Meet Natsumi Harukawa, a young office lady. During work, she is asocial and constantly looks cranky. However, the truth is that Harukawa-san is simply very hungry, and spends her time after work eating delicious foods. Artist’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/oriharasachiko

Although Rita Cardinale married Grand Duke Giuseppe Catane to help her lover George become emperor, she is stabbed in the back by the love of her life and loses her entire family. As Rita uses her alchemy to try and stop the emperor's army from taking her fallen husband's land, she is sent back in time to right before she's married. Full of vengeance, Rita wants to stop George from becoming emperor. For her plan to work, she marries Giuseppe again, but why is he acting so different from before?

I'm from Taiwan, 17 years old, and I'm still a virgin. Toby, a freshman boy, leaves his hometown and travels to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he becomes roommates with three college students with very different personalities.

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Yuko and Mika have been going out for a year now, but Mika seems to be too absorbed in watching ants dig than to pay Yuko any attention. 

Mikoto Urabe is a new transfer student in Akira Tsubaki’s high school class. One day, Akira happens to find Mikoto passed out asleep on her desk after classes have ended. He wakes her and tells her it’s time to go home, and discovers that she has drooled on her desk. He spontaneously reaches out to touch and taste it … and then things start getting really strange. In this surprising and sweet twist on a high school romance story, boy meets girl and they learn about each other’s inner lives through their highly unusual bond, and Akira learns to respect Mikoto as she sets a careful pace in the development of their relationship.

On your arm are the first words your soulmate will ever say to you. Sometimes they're nice. Sometimes they're vague. Sometimes they're "Watch it, Jackass." And sometimes your soulmate is a wanted felon and also magic, which Seth discovers when he meets his soulmate, Errol, an alleged dark mage on the run. Oh well.

She’s been kidnapped…by the most seductive man! Lora goes to France on a business trip to sign a contract for her company president. Once there, she’s met by an elegant man named Luc. He claims that something urgent has happened and beckons her to follow him, then he proposes that she skip her business meeting and enjoy some vacation time with him instead. Her refusal brings out another side to Luc and she soon finds herself trapped by this seductive man…

A love that could change the world. And yet, their hearts are torn apart... That summer is a special sparkle in her life. An 18th birthday party. The first time she is allowed to wear a grown-up dress… And Beth meest him, Lyon Cantrell, that day. He is the only son of a prestigious family with the same name as the town they live in. They spend an entire summer being together and making love, but when Beth becomes pregnant, Lyon suddenly disappears. Although she is gutted by the cruel treatment, Beth gives birth to his child and raised him. --Nine years have passed since then. Lyon suddenlys returns and see Beth again, this time with anger and distrust...

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. A Spin off from the Main story

The story is about a girl who has the ability to see others’ emotion and handle them. She comes across a boy who seems to have no emotion at all and turns out he has the same ability as hers.

This is a collection of loosely interconnected stories where the main characters are all animals, especially the tiger who is the hero of the first book.

As the demigods of Sacred Fire, Swaha and her husband Agni lead peaceful lives ensuring the smooth operation of Heaven. That is, until an accidental explosion in the Underworld brings the Demon Queen Raka to Heaven. There, she confronts Agni’s twin, King Indra, and accuses him of sending spies to cause the tragedy. When King Indra refuses to help the survivors, Swaha’s anger drives her to help Queen Raka herself. However, King Indra’s spies are everywhere, and he doesn’t take kindly to a mere goddess lending aid to a perceived enemy of Heaven... In a story inspired by Hindu mythology, Swaha dares to take it upon herself to punish King Indra for his misdeeds. But is it worth it if she throws her life and the Heavens themselves into chaos?

"This sexy, charming woman is the same Rosa that fell in love with me when she was sixteen?" Prince Max has to hide his shock when he's reunited with his cousin, Princess Rosa, at the airport and sees how she's changed. In order to resolve the issue of an outbreak in the vineyards of the kingdom of Niroli, Max asks Rosa to leave her work in New Zealand and come back to their country right away. But Rosa is forbidden fruit! He must not let himself fall for her. Because marriage between family members is strictly forbidden in the royal family. The Royal House of Niroli 6 features a traditional royal romance!

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Meet Yoshida. He's cool, he's smart, and he's really, really good-looking. He's the company superstar, and has the eye of every available woman for miles around. But Yoshida only loves one woman—the manga-artist and walking-disaster Sena Shimakaze. Yoshida is the glue that holds her whole team together and helps them limp through each and every deadline...but despite his personal greatness and obvious management skills, his love is somehow totally one-sided. What's an overachiever like Yoshida to do?

Kim Jiyeon, a college student on leave living an ordinary life, suddenly finds herself possessed by a character in a romance novel her friend showed her: Flower of The Saintess. She becomes Iora, a girl who only appeared briefly in the half of the novel she managed to read. The romantic world of the obvious heroine and male lead is not hers. Still, she thought she could be happy, just like the protagonists in those stories. But everyone throws hate at her. They speak of disgust. They call her the villainess who torments the heroine - the fake saint, Iora. But the truth is different. Iora was the true saint all along. Blessed by the gods, she returns to the beginning. This time, she needs neither her family, nor those who hated her, nor the saint’s position, nor even the fiancé she once loved. She will walk a different path than before. "If the world sees me as a villainess, so be it. I will definitely survive and be happy this time!"

Office lady Haru frequents the arcade daily to distract from her discontent with her company. There she easily crushes a delinquent high school boy in a game and somehow, he becomes attached to her. From acquaintances who just met at the arcade to gaming buddy, and beyond that, their relationship is...!? A heart-pounding and heart-warming exchange between an office lady and a delinquent high school boy begins!

Despite his endless enthusiasm and flashy style, Koshiro just can't seem to get a girlfriend or even a date. To make things worse, the cute girls that ignore him all go flocking to aloof Kirihara who glides through life effortlessly and unaffected. In fact, the only thing that Kirihara seems to take enjoyment in is watching Koshiro's failures. Why do these opposites keep getting thrown together or is it more than just coincidence...

Faith, Fiorenzo's secretary, is to accompany Fiorenzo to a party as his date. Fiorenzo is a five-time world-title holder in cycling and also manages a bike company. Furthermore, he is a globe-trotting playboy. In contrast, she is very plain and doesn't think that they are a good match. She also doesn't really know much about high society, or want to draw any attention to herself. with little confidence, Faith allows Fiorenzo to take her to a beauty parlor and boutique. To give her the appearance of a date worthy of him, they dress her up gorgeously. He's so taken with her transformation that he kisses her!

Rosabelle had to leave her beloved family when she married and moved to London. When her husband dies, she's exhausted and in need of much R and R, but is only allowed a short visit to her dear family home. That's when her twin sister, Annabelle, proposes an incredible scheme. "It'll be all right. We're identical. Nobody will notice." And so the two women switch places! That way, Rosabelle's able to rest and recuperate at home…until she meets the young man next door, Phillip Winbolt. What will Rosabelle do now that she's fallen in love with this man…all while under the guise of her sister, Annabelle?

In a world where sorcery reigns supreme, bumbling witch-in-training Louise Francoise le Blanc is known by her classmates at the Tristain Academy of Magic as “Louise the Zero.” During an important coming-of-age ritual, when each student must summon a lifelong familiar, Louise proves herself inept when she mistakenly conjures a teenage boy from earth. Now, whether she likes it or not, Louise “the Zero” and Saito, the ever-whining earth boy from Japan, are bound by the laws of magic as master and servant forever!