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From Nakama & Dangerous Pleasure: Super-elite Akae, who used to work overseas, was demoted to a branch office in Japan because of office romance troubles. However, waiting for fed-up-with-love Akae is the much-rumored, devilish supervisor Nagamine, who can enslave anyone (in lust) -- ?

This is a 7-chapter collection. Chapter 1 and 2 are composed of the title story, which continues the main story in Star Na Koi. "University student Michiru's secret lover is Japan's first celebrity idol Rihito! His relationship with Rihito has always been sweet, but is this stable and happy life in danger of being destroyed soon?" -MFY Chapters 3 and 4: Endless Summer and Lovers Summer continue the story of Shizuka, son of a now shamed rich family, and Jin famous baseball player, from the 3rd story in Star Na Koi. Shizuka has run away from Japan. Devoted Jin finds him in New York, but Shizuka's guilt is eating away at him. . . Chapters 5 and 6: Honey in the Dark and Mermaid in the Dark make up the final story. A blackout has plunged a tunnel into chaos. A blind beauty and the panicked man whom he helped out on that day have an unforgettable and powerful connection. Their relationship is passionate, but is it destined to fail because they 'see' the world too differently? Also, there is a mystery behind his loss of eyesight and it seems sinister. . . The final chapter is a very short comedic skit, entitled, The Star's Hair.

From Liquid Passion: When business leads Haruna to Nakagawa's family-owned brewery, it's love at first sight for Haruna. Too bad that Nakagawa and his crotchety grandpa can only say "not interested" to his offers. Will Haruna ever secure the distribution rights to the best sake in town? And more importantly, will he manage to win over the cantankerous brewer's grandson?

Collection of oneshots. 1) A strange man hired a younger man to act as his new lover to get rid of his ex-boyfriend who's stalking him. It turns out the younger man is a student in the class of the older man... Sweet and a bit of angst. 2) True Blue - Momo and Harumi are childhood friends, and Harumi has always relied on Momo. One day he sees Momo walk into a hotel with an older man. 3-5) The Lover in the secret room - Kou and Natsume are good friends and also happens to the Captain and Assistant Captain on the schools soccer team. Natsume has always liked Kou, until he finds out that Kou is going to study abroad in France. Oda, who's also on the team has liked Natsume from afar. He confesses his feelings for him and then chains him up in his home. (slight bondage) 6) Kaoru and Sei have been living together ever since Kaorus' dad was sent overseas for work. Kaoru catches Sei making out. Sei tells him that he likes someone else, but he can never be with him.

Junya still has Kyouichi’s handkerchief from a long time ago when they met. But now, after their parents got married to one another, they meet again this time as step-brothers. Junya wants to return the handkerchief, but isn’t sure that Kyouichi remembers him or that fateful night. Kyouichi also has unusual pains that suddenly develop and the only one he can contact is Junya. Are these pains just an excuse to be able to touch his step-brother? (from f-m)

The first person who hurt me was of my own gender. Tsubaki is in the same class as Kaoru and Koutarou is the gentle big brother. What embrace their souls are desires and tenacity... They are hurt, they throb, they are drowned, they cry... They love with their body and soul, these are the real ordinary lives of these boys. (Note: the title for this manga (Dousei Ai) generally means "homosexuality", however, the kanji used has a different meaning than the kanji that are properly used for spelling "homosexuality". The kanji for this series is the same for "living together" (同棲) instead of (同性) which means "same-sex")

Series of oneshots : 1) The Catharsis of Pure Love 2) Love Switch 3) Pure Love Complex 4) Animal Gang 5) Falling Into the River of Love

10 years ago there was an explosion that broke seals of the demon world... that time demons came to the human world. To keep them away, special wards were created, which kept demons in one place... but not only demons.. also humans who survived the explosion were imprisoned there. A few years after the explosion, a special delegation was sent to check inside the ward, and to save humans left there... but there were no longer any humans... there were ouma... fusion of demon and human that could use demonic powers while having the rationality of humans.... Sleeper is a band which has 6 members... among them there is Mika, whose powers are not know yet and Row, who sometimes can't hold his demonic nature... this is their story...

From Baka-Updates: In Tokyo lives the young teacher Tsunagu who has to deal in his poor life with all sorts of bad-ass students and suffers a lot from his relationship with the violent lover Akira whose heart he knows he'll never have. In spite of Akira's threats Tsunagu refuses to give up his teaching job because he wants to be there for a few good students like Aoitsuki. However, unknown to him, angelic-looking Aoitsuki isn't what he seems. Meanwhile there is Shou...

From Attractive Fascinante: Itsuki was one of the potential successors of the Toudou family, but was chased out of the family after being framed. Unknown to Itsuki, Kyouya, another potential successor, has been sending money to help him for the past year. Under any circumstances, the members of the Toudou family should never accept another person’s gratitude. Thus, Kyouya wants Itsuki to obey him for the help he has received from Kyouya. Is this a trap set up by Kyouya or does Kyouya really wants to help Itsuki to return to the family?

From Blissful Sin: Haruka is good-looking and popular, but quite the devil. Tokiwa is a quiet and shy loner. After their chance encounter in Katekyo!, the unlikely pair have begun dating. Though he was aware of Tokiwa's reticence, Haruka is beginning to feel frustrated with the pace of their relationship. What will happen to the pair when Haruka begins to question his senpai's feelings?

Garai is a Japanese Catholic Priest, who is unable to give up his lifelong sexual relationship with Yuki, a beautiful and sadistic young master criminal. Yuki's malicious crimes have become more and more extreme over the years, claiming many innocent lives, and Garai is tormented by guilt at his inability to stop them

From Fantasyshrine: Chapters 1-3: ~ A Lie & Coffee & Sweet Kiss (Pgs. 7-37) ~ A Key & Confession: Part 1 (Pgs. 39-67) ~ A Key & Confession: Part 2 (Pgs. 70-99) When Kano, a cafe owner, was attacked by some hoodlums dispatched by a land shark; a secretive, shady character, Otowa came to his rescue! Since then, Otowa frequented Kano's cafe and kept the yakuza at bay. Kano was unaware of the danger he's in and started to look forward to Otowa's visit... Until an equally dangerous man lured Kano out of Otowa's protection, and all hell broke loose...! Chapter 4: Confuse Me Sweetly In Darkness (Pgs. 5-32) This is the story between Yazaki and Yoshino. It picks up where they left off in the first story and tells how they became a couple. Chapter 5: If I Could Feel The Hand (Pgs. 33-60) this is a one shot about 2 coworkers mutual love affair, Isuzu & Kaidou. Chapter 6: A Mansion of Love (Pgs. 61-84) This is a oneshot about the love between a master and his servant, Shizuki & Aoi.

From Moi-xRyu Scanlations: Every morning high-school student Nanami catches sight of this one surfer he secretly begins to admire. Incidentally, however, it is later on a certain day that they reunite in a classroom! Turns out that this one-year-older senpai, named Shuu, is in fact one who, while characteristically mature, is unsociable to the extent that he’s even notorious for being someone difficult to approach. Even so, for some reason, Nanami becomes the sole person that he can smile at and laugh with, over and over again… As they repeatedly spend more time together after school, by midsummer, Nanami finds himself receiving a kiss near the seaside?! And so, a story of dazzling first love ensues.

Rules series timeline: 1) Please (ch5) -- Hydra dj - Kiss -- Hydra dj - Kiss After 2) Hydra dj - Skies 3) Hydra 1+2+3+4 (ch1-4) 4) Hydra 3+4+5+6 (ch5-6) -- Hydra dj - Blue Film First (after Hydra ch8) -- Hydra dj - Heavenly (between Hydra ch9 and ch10-11) -- Hydra dj - The Days Before -- Rules dj - Real Thing -- Rules dj - Hello Again 5) Lovers and Souls 6) Rules dj - Fragile 7) Vanity ** 8) Dreamers High ** 13) Rules (volumes 1 & 2) 14) Rules dj - If Winter Comes, Can Spring Be Far Behind? 15) Rules (v3) 16) Rules dj - Song Birds 17) Another Day on the Planet (booklet) 18) Rules dj - Double Trouble 19) Rules dj - Overload 20) Rules: 2nd Season ** doujinshi also the ones in ( -- ) are doujinshi's

Collection of oneshots: 1) Saigo ni, Kimi Dake wo Hiro has been inseparably bound up with his selfish friend from his childhood. He is called and comforts him whenever his friend parts from his lovers. His friend confesses his love to Hiro only after they fall over the cliff and is going to die... 2) Love Letter An urban delinquent student should transfer to local school by his parents' order. There he is stalked by a rude but pure local student... 3) My Most Beloved is Still You A supervisor and his subordinate love each other. Returning from business tour of 3 months, the beautiful subordinate has become fat... 4) Koi no Sokubaku A new recruit keeps working overtime with his wish to be admitted by his supervisor. But his colleague puts the blame on him. The supervisor gets him mixed up with an industrial spy and tortures him... 5) Late Night Rain Many people have tried to persuade a surgeon of genius to reactivate in vain. The surgeon keeps living in seclusion because he failed the operation of his lover's brain cancer and has a lapse of confidence. One boy starts working as his live-in housekeeper but the boy is his ex-patient of the surgeon and doesn't have much time... 6) A Liar A boy loves his pet, an android. But the android returns sweet nothings to the boy because the android has no feeling. A fire occurs. The android takes his life upon saving the boy. Decrypting the microchip of the android in the cold ashes, plenty words of love are displayed on the full screen... From Aarinfantasy

Kohitsuji Project is about a boy being accepted into a prestigious school not knowing he is the "sheep" that is meant to let the vampires learn that humans are not to be treated like food!

From Fujoshi Bitches: It was definitely out of the blue. Manato, my favorite brother, is adopted?! Even so, I still sleep beside him, just like when we were little, because I couldn't leave the brokenhearted Masato alone― His slender waist leaning against me; His hair which feels so soft and fluffy and his sexy expression when looking at me… I can’t think of Manato as my elder brother!! Growing up under the same roof…A heart-warming love❤A story about all of the five brothers of Takasuga family❤

Hiding that fact of being gay for years, high school student Kaede has a thing for his friend, Okuda. ?i must never let him know about my feelings.? decided Kaede deep down in his heart. Where will all these mixture of feelings lead to? Also includes He Requested Happiness.

Once a rich young master, Yuzuru hit rock bottom after his family went bankrupt. That was eight years ago. The butler who took care of him, Iwase, has since risen to the top. When Yuzuru learns of this, he returns in an attempt to make some quick cash. But Iwase sees a kid who is still his charge. He captures Yuzuru and locks the young master in what was once his own home. Now, Yuzuru must use every trick in the book to make Iwase realize that things have changed, that he is no longer the innocent child from years ago.

Mitsuo's dream lifestyle with his beautiful, gentle boyfriend, Keiichi, has begun, but until now.... they haven't had sex. Mitsuo wants to continue one step at a time, but Keiichi's guard is tougher than he thought, and he's not reaching out to Mitsuo...?! Turned into a coward by love? College student, salary man, slow love, younger seme. Besides the title story, "It goes without saying", "it's also called love", "to the unseen future" are also specially included.

From "Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics" by Paul Gravett: It follows the lifelong relationship between Kain Walker, a New York cop who has hidden his homosexuality, and his younger blond boyfriend, Mel Frederics, an orphan with a troubled past.

Yamanobi Apartments have a story behind them: Anyone who lives there will gain something big, but lose something big as well. This is a collection of stories about the various tenants and their love lives. 1) Muroi Kaname has just moved into Yamanobi. The naturally unsocial Kaname doesn't care about stories, and also quickly manages to alienate himself from everyone in the building. But when his upstairs neighbor, talkative Fujimura, sees a different side to him, he's determined to be Kaname's friend. Kaname slowly lets himself grow closer to Fujimura, but will their friendship withstand the jinx? 2) Kamimura Mizuki has always chosen lovers for their looks, and gotten nothing but trouble. This time he wants a sincere guy, and he already has one picked out: Itokawa from his work. But getting his attention is proving to be somewhat difficult. At least slacker apartment caretaker Akabame always listens to his troubles... 3) Nojima is known as the life of the party, always light-hearted and in a good mood. But he's really a bundle of insecurities! He's hiding a secret love for cool classmate Kariya and has moved into Yamanobi for the jinx. But his secret love is slowly turning him into a stalker! extra) Kanata has been in love with Soejima Ibuki for two years now, but he always sees Soejima-san with a new partner. Will Kanata be able to tell Soejima how he feels or will he suffer with an unrequited love forever? extra 2) 3 short comedies on the residents of Yamanobi Apartments.

[From MegKF]: A talented young Japanese chef deals with working for the father of the only chef who always gets the best of him. But what are they going to do as this rivalry develops into something else? There are two extra at the end of each volume. Volume 1 extra is called A Man You Can't Resist. Volume 2's is an extra from Boku no Koe, My Changeable Voice.