ROMANCE

Collection of Nishida Higashi's debut oneshots

Daichi is a college student who is just drifting through life without any real hobbies or dreams of the future. He begins to look forward to his daily interactions with Nao Akashi, a regular customer at the convenience store where he works. Handsome, suave and stylish, Nao appears to Daichi as the "ultimate adult." But, when Nao drunkenly comes on to Daichi, it leaves his heart pounding. The next thing he knows, the pair are in a friends-with-benefits relationship for a month!! A naive, straight college student meets an older office worker with a naughty streak!!

Read manga I Reincarnated as the Villainess in a Mobile Novel, but I'll Use My Professional Skills to Avoid the Bad End! / / Keutai Shousetsu no Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei Shimashita ga, Shakai Hito Sukiru o Tsukatte Bad End o Kaihi Shimasu!"Could it be I've been reincarnated into the novel I wrote?!" I was sucked into my old flip phone and reincarnated as the villainess in a "mobile novel" I wrote in middle school right into the middle of a scene where the villainess is being expelled from the "Noble Society," an organization that rules the academy and is run by a bunch of handsome guys. This is a super clich novel with terrible writing and settings, and the villainess heads straight into a bad ending. I definitely don't want to be sent to some lonely, remote place and die alone! To prevent that, I have to stop my expulsion from the academy somehow! "If you want to expel me, then we should hold an expulsion (recall) election!" Will I be able to avoid my doom?!

Tina and Simon are a happily married couple. But... will they still be happy until they find out about each other's secrets?

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Rose Thomas is a strong and independent woman. At her best friend's wedding she actually meets a real-life prince. In a whirlwind of dissatisfaction and fear for the future, Rose finds herself in Marvan, the prince's country. Will the star-crossed lovers be able to change their destinies?

A girl and her boyfriend of one month plan to go on an overnight trip to a spring, and she expects that "it" will happen but... -- Manga Updates

4 works that were published over span of 10 years.

Aoto was technically supposed to be dead, but thanks to his younger sister Meika’s pleading to the water goddess, Mikuri, who granted her wish, he was brought back to life. Although in the process, the goddess of Hanamikawa Temple, Mikuri, lost her tremendous power and the ability to help people of the town. Feeling guilty that her one selfish wish prevents countless others from Mikuri’s magic, Meika takes it upon herself to be helpful to anyone in the city. Mikuri eventually gives up the role of goddess to Meika and gives what little magic power she has left to her. Now as one of the many guardians of her town, Meika tries granting people's wishes in their most desperate situations.

A story of a bright and straightforward high schooler and his pure, devoted childhood friend. Keita and Tomoya are childhood friends living in adjacent apartments. They always thought they'd remain friends forever, but one day Tomoya suddenly announces that he’s moving and reveals his long-held feelings.

The perfect student council president x the former delinquent current teacher. The only failing of the student council president is that he doesn't know what love is!?

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Due to love at first sight, an outstandingly beautiful female dancer became a young master’s page boy and sets forth to protect the young master's chastity! (Moon Bunny Cafe)

Yu Cheng, a man with a deep understanding of the psychology of men. The success of the card was accompanied by a rich N-generation dandy who had a bad brain and a bad temper, and played men in the palm of his hand. Friends turned their backs, brothers became enemies, companies went bankrupt, and when the game of revenge was about to end in his absolute victory, the sudden truth brought his whole world to pieces.

The long-awaited comeback! A new story of Amu and her guardian characters begins...! The cool and spicy Amu Hinamori has graduated from Seiyo Academy's elementary school and is finally a junior high school student! She thought she would have carefree days with her precious friends in junior high... until she is asked to take on a mission related to guardian characters and has to transfer to a new school...!

"Why do you stay with me, Tora?" Momotaro (aka Momo), the heir to a renowned Yakuza family, has always been close friends with Toraji (aka Tora), the son of the family's second lieutenant. With sex, fighting and endless fooling around, their highschool life seems perfect. However, as their graduation approaches, Momo begins to feel anxious about Tora's unquestioned intensions of giving up the rest of his life to the family... For love or devotion? A delinquent love between a super tough, long-hair beauty and his loyal, bespectacled right-hand man.

An unpredictable suspense story about a girl and boy who have a twisted love

"Let's start a strategy meeting for making friends."This is a story about her and me. It's the worst and the best second-life high school rom-com ever.Love, friendship, and the sparkling joys of youth. The high school life that I've looked forward to- still ended with me being alone. Then, just a day before the graduation ceremony"Don't die! Nanamura-kun!"Sora Hanamitsuji, she's a beautiful girl that even models can't compare to. My life ended after getting hit by a truck to protect her. That should've been the case."It must be because the gods got bored."However, with this accident, Hanamitsuji-san and I returned to the day of our high school's entrance ceremony. The second high school life is no longer as charming and youthful. I was going to spend it modestly and alone. But, she said that won't do."Well, I'll help you make friends."This is a story about my second high school life. It's the worst and best teenage rom-com ever.+

When a human girl meets a robot that does not have any emotions, what does it have to do with him in the past? How will love story be staged next?! Light, funny, sweet, warm budding affection every day. To find love despite a broken heart. What waits for them? How will it end?

Collection of 6 separate stories.1) Game Center Fishing - Saki likes older partners, but has never been successful, even after having four relationships. When she was trying her luck at the plushie catcher in the arcade, she met a cute high schooler. Will her relationship work out this time?2) Come Over Here - Umi loves to dress up as a highschooler, even though she is 19 years old, ever since a painful separation from her long-time boyfriend, who said that she looks plain without a school uniform. With the return of her childhood friend, she's touched by his effort to show that she is cute just the way she is now. Can she get over her own self doubt?3) Connection is Good - Komachi's friend recently met a boyfriend, whom the friend had met online, and was seriously disappointed when she met him. Komachi talks online with a woman who is a Makeup Consultant, which Komachi wants to become. But what happens when they meet and Yuki isn't a girl, but a boy?!4) Sweet - Tooru and Mika spend allot of time together, but when Tooru decides to get a job so he can buy a car, Mika becomes lonely.5) One Step - Sakura sees her boyfriend's you-know-what.. And compares it to a turtle, a reptile which she doesn't like very much. Follow their relationship as Sakura becomes comfortable with sex.6) Rainy Face - Kayama and Hidaka work together, talking about each other's lives together. When Hidaka meets with Kayama to buy an Omamori at the temple, Kayama is delighted to find that Hidaka is actually very warm himself, and isn't as cold as she thought he was.

I was betrayed by the one I trusted most. My entire life, everything I believed in, was a lie. I lived for my father. Endured every pain for the sake of his revenge. After years of bone-breaking training, I became the perfect assassin. I believed in him my whole life. I lived only for him. I even killed people for him. And yet... he wasn’t my real father. The man I killed was. Deceived by a devil and manipulated into killing my real father, I drank the poison he offered me, and died. Or so I thought. But when I opened my eyes, my body was small again. I had returned to my childhood. I didn’t know why or how, but this was clearly a second chance granted by the heavens. A chance to punish the man who deceived me, used me, and discarded me once I had outlived my usefulness. I made up my mind. He’ll pay for what he did to me, with his life.

Lily, a dark witch, was captured and brought into the castle during a witch hunt when she was young. Even now, as an adult, she is still being used for the king’s power. She endures each day, living under the simultaneous gaze of fear and contempt. Then, one day, she meets a new court jester. Unlike other jesters, this one constantly flatters, which she finds displeasing, but the jester shows kindness to her. Why does the jester show kindness to the witch? Will the witch be able to reclaim her freedom?

Yuji is an artist working out of a modest Tokyo apartment, when he suddenly receives a letter from his mother informing—not asking—him about an Italian girl coming to live with him while she attends university. Supposedly the two have a history, but forgotten memories lend little in the way of preparing either party for the inevitable awkwardness to come. Left with little say in the matter, Yuji’s bachelorhood comes to an end, and his life with Francesca begins.

Yoshida is a gloomy second year middle school student whose precious youth has been spent stuck in the corner of his class without being able to make any friends. Shigure is the girl who sits next to him in class and she is as gloomy as he is. One day, she struck up a conversation with Yoshida and declared, "I'm going to become a cheerful person!" Thus begins Yoshida and Shigure's battle to become cheerful people in their effort to spend a brighter youth.

Celia, who met her nephew Rindelle's request one day

From Fujoshi Bitches: Your heat won’t leave my body. Miyama, who always kept having one-night stands and won’t have a serious relationship with nobody, is having an unrequited love for his colleague, Imoto. Even though he has already made up his mind that he won’t sleep with Imoto because he loves him, for some reason, he ended up sleeping with him. Although he wants to pretend that all of that never happens and return to their normal relationship like before, Miyama can’t forget that night’s heat no matter what…

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. "Even after losing her memory, it’s still Jin Gyudo… What a cruel fate." As Jin Gyudo tries to start a new life, he ends up reuniting with his long-lost ex-lover Shin Danbi at the company where he just got hired. Unlike the flustered Gyudo, Danbi remains unbelievably calm. In truth, due to an accident, she has completely forgotten her past with Gyudo.

Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and awaits the day she gets a love confession that sends her heart aflutter with bubbles and hearts, and yet when a junior high classmate confesses his feelings to her…she feels nothing. Disappointed and confused, Yuu enters high school still unsure how to respond. That’s when Yuu sees the beautiful student council president Nanami turn down a suitor with such maturity that she’s inspired to ask her for help. But when the next person to confess to Yuu is Nanami herself, has her shoujo romance finally begun?

Ethan, a battle-weary cyborg soldier, retreats to a tranquil planet in search of peace. There, he meets Mikhail, a gentle botanist whose warm smile and delicate touch seem almost fragile. Ethan finds himself inexplicably drawn to Mikhail, experiencing a restless unease whenever they're together. He longs to touch, to cherish—feelings that are undeniably human. Bewildered by the feelings stirring within him, Ethan begins to question if he truly has a heart after all.

Read The Duke's Daughter's Flash Marriage with a Fugitive / The Duke's Daughter Married the Fugitive / Gongjue Xiaojie He Taofan Shanhunle / / The Ducal Young Lady Had a Flash Marriage With a FugitiveThe blind Duchess regained her sightonly to witness her fianc cheating on her that very day. Determined to take revenge on the scumbag and reclaim her family title, she made a bold move at the weddingswapping grooms and marrying the infamous, devilishly handsome fugitive instead! Thus begins the tale of a Duchess and a wanted man, where marriage comes first and love follows later.

A romance between a girl and an impossibly beautiful vampire. For centuries, he has lived in secret and under different names just to find a cure for what has turned him into a vampire — the plague. Until one day, she finds out about him being a vampire. What is she going to do? Will she still love him despite everything?

The only thing that keeps me going is the memory of his gentleness… Ever since her father committed suicide when she was fifteen, Verity has lived a miserable life in her aunt’s house as a maid. The only thing that keeps her going is the memory of Max, who offered her comfort at her father’s graveside five years ago. When a party is thrown at the house one day, an unusual guest introduces himself as Lord Maxwell Blakehurst. Could this actually be Max from back then? He’s willing to save her from her current situation… All she has to do is become his mistress!

The cute-looking Sha En has a little secret- He likes to wear skirt. However, he is accidentally discovered by Xia Zuo, a lonely and cool classmate！Shu En did not expect.

In our youth, we’ve had that moment where our hearts fluttered. If there is one person, who once shone so brightly in your life, who would be the first person you think of?

An Na mentions to her mother that she wants to go and find her dad, her mom soon decides to leave and go volunteer in South Africa. An Na's mom leaves their store to her half brother Aaron who she feels some resentment for. Now when she finally finds information on the wearabouts of her dad what will happen when the only clue is a kid who won't talk?

The romantic relationship between a naive yankee girl and a boy with seemingly no common sense.

Chi Su Mu's favourite hobby is feeding stray dogs and doing house chores. In a sudden incident of “Kleine-Levin syndrome”, he met the hot-tempered yet tsundere “fox”, Gu Xue. With his kind disposition, Sumu suddenly became an emergency member of “Whale Fall” and has to commit a vaccine robbery, thanks to Gu Xue. A complete noob in combat, he was somewhat molded into a versatile agent under Gu Xue’s training. After joining the organization, only then did Sumu know the shackles and mission of being a “sentinel and guide”. Sumu’s inclination and admiration towards Gu Xue when he first met him gradually turns into mutual feelings of attachment.

Countess Yumemi has a gift for magic, and together with her childhood friend Fred, she aims to become the first woman to join the Order of Knights through a friendly competition. However, just before she is about to achieve her dream, she is ordered into an unwanted marriage by the king, who has taken notice of her high magical power. As a noblewoman, the king's orders are absolute, and she is determined not to cause any trouble for her family, so she arrives shortly after the wedding. Her husband, who had a talent for witchcraft, neglected Yumemi, violently attacked her and sealed her will and magic power with a cursed ring. Stripped her of magical powers and feelings. Yumemi was used as an outcast and treated like trash in her marriage , until one day she was pushed down the stairs and was left on the brink of life and death. When Yumemi manages to wake up, she no longer remembers her marriage, but has escaped the curse ring's power...? From her diary, Yumemi learns that she was once treated harshly as an incompetent wife who couldn't even use magic. Unaware that she has regained her magic power and will, she begins to fight back against her husband, who treats her as ‘incompetent’, and the servants who mistreated her, with tricks of her own!

At 32, Yuna has been dumped by her boyfriend. With the breakup with her boyfriend, who gave her so many memories, still fresh her life seems bleak. Fed up, she decides to play around with men, Yuna meets Ren, a handsome younger man. Instead of being thrilled by Ren's cheerful and considerate nature, Yuna becomes increasingly self-deprecating. But when Ren hears about Yuna's heartbreak, he looks her straight in the eyes and says, "I'll make you forget that guy." Is this a chance for Yuna to finally play the bad girl?

A thirty-year-old Japanese male is teleported to Japan's warring-era. But instead of being reincarnated as a samurai or ninja, he is now a pony! Cute and spry, he is enjoying is carefree new life but all that changes when he runs into a human who is fighting off a bear attack! The pony dashes and rescues the man, and thus begins his new life...as a warhorse!

1-5) Grandma told Tsukamoto that if he didn't start to pay attention, he'd get into trouble. Now he seems to have joined a mysterious club at school that is headed by Higashi Jyuji, otherwise known as Rapunzel. Will Tsukamoto be the prince to bring this princess down from the castle? 6) I Will Be With You Forever- Seiji's four years of college are almost over, and it's time to head back home to take over the family business. How will his relationship with fellow student Kei end up? 7) Platinum- Mitsuteru has horrible luck with jobs. After being fired yet again, he meets a green-eyed fortune teller who seems to know a lot about him. Now he can't seem to stop running into him. Are they fated to be together?

Tsukiko had two childhood friends, the twin brothers Yuuto and Kaito. One day after entering high school she started dating Yuuto. However, not long after that Yuuto dies in a car accident. Soon Kaito offers to take the place of his lost brother, and Tsukiko agrees. This is the sad and painful love story of two people who have both lost a loved one.

"Teacher, please marry me." "You're only twenty years old." At first, his voice held a laugh of disbelief, but it soon turned drier. “For a first meeting in three years, today was… memorable. You think of me as trash who sleeps with his students? Don’t ever come to a place like this again. You could really end up with a truly trashy guy.” First school, last student. The girl who once asked him to see her not as a student but as a woman… had already become a woman.

Shane’s secret habit could end his friendship with Colin, but he just can't stop.

The serial slashings in Ikebukuro have come to an end, and Anri is steadily recovering from her injuries. But life is far from "back to normal" for Kida. Enraged at the random violence that has shattered the peace of his neighborhood, Kida and his middle school crew, the Yellow Scarves, reunite to address the rise of organized gangs in town-the Dollars, the followers of Saika, and now the Yellow Scarves. When all is said and done, who will hold the power on the streets of Ikebukuro?

Sara had been in love with her colleague Ian for the past ten years...until the day he introduced her to his new fiancee. Heartbroken, Sara ran away, back to her hometown, only to discover that her parents are no longer there. Instead she finds a rugged young man, covered in dirt, named Stuart. He's recently moved in down the street, and to Sara's surprise, he treats her like a princess, taking care of her in her time of distress. She falls instantly in love with this tall, muscular, kind stranger, but can he heal the years of loneliness and heartbreak she carries deep inside?

Miyamoto Haruaki has the ability to see ghosts and is a part-time teacher who recently moved into an apartment. The ghost that haunts his room is a high school girl who is only interested in sex...