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Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Aoki Kaoru is a 26-year-old woman who has never had a boyfriend. Normally unattached and unmotivated in her own life, Kaoru decides to start up a nail salon as a side business in addition to her regular job as a medical clerk. Although having a severe adversity to physical touch, she is forced to confront that fear when she meets a man who can’t help but touch others.

Tags: Age Gap , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Work , Medicine , Heterosexual , Office , Nudity , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Software Development , Time Skip

Natsu no Zenjitsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

The only thing in Tetsuo's mind is art. The beauty, the nature, and the quality of art. One woman watches him handle his art. Her name is Akira. She watches as he constantly tries to draw day after day, and she oversees the completion of his work at a local art exhibition. Akira apparently has become interested in Tetsuo's love for art and his work. One rainy night, Tetsuo notices that Akira left her umbrella and he decides to deliver it to her. He finds her and gives her the umbrella and doesn't use it as he claims that the umbrella isn't his. As Tetsuo leaves, Akira tells him to wait. He turns around and finds Akira bringing her lips towards his... Love has bloomed in the middle of a rainy night.

Includes bonus chapters for each volume:
Volume 1 has a 3 page extra.
Volume 2 has extra "A Manga Artist's Cruel Tale"
Volume 3 has extra "Nyatsu no Zenjitsu" (にやつの前日)
Volume 4 has side story "Kirei na Keshiki Misete Ageru!" (きれいな景色見せてあげる!, I'll Show You A Beautiful Landscape) and extra "Catering To Each Other's Fetishes".
Volume 5 has an omake and two side stories, "Toshikoshi no Omoide" (年越しのおもいで, Memories of New Year's) and "2-gatsu 14-nichi no Omoide" (2月14日のおもいで, Memories of February 14th).

Tags: College , Work , Drawing , Seinen , Age Gap , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Nudity

Piccolina

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Akira, the young owner of a yakitori restaurant, has fallen for a beautiful bunny girl named Houka who often comes to the restaurant. However, she is surrounded by four other bunny girls who look exactly like her. "Just who is the real Houka Mineka?"

Tags: Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Food , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Cosplay

Utsubora

Also known as Utsubora - The Story of a Novelist.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

The story begins when Aki Fujino, a beautiful girl who the novelist Mizorogi knew, dies under mysterious circumstances. Then a girl appears before Mizorogi, and although she introduces herself as Aki's twin sister Sakura, her true identity is a complete mystery. As Mizorogi's past ties with Aki come to light, people begin to suspect him of plagiarism. Mizorogi's life spirals deeper into darkness as his editor and the police probe further into Aki's death and Mizorogi's connection with her.



Tags: Suicide , Writing , Twins , Age Gap , Nudity , Josei , Tragedy , Meta , Detective , Male Protagonist , Bisexual

Joryuusakka to Yuki

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Young cafe worker Yuki dreams of romance and a life far more wonderful than her own, but has no way to do anything but hope for the future – but a chance encounter with the beautiful, mysterious authoress Azuma Beniko, a woman who seems to know love like the back of her hand, might change the very way she looks at the world…

Note: Includes chapter 7.5 (Cat) and an epilogue.

Tags: Yuri , Writing , Historical , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Primarily Adult Cast , Age Gap , Work , LGBTQ+ Themes , Suicide

Koi wa Ameagari no You ni

Also known as After the Rain.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Akira Tachibana. 17 years old, high school junior. Akira, awkward when it comes to expressing her feelings, finds herself secretly falling for the manager of the family restaurant where she works, one Masami Kondo, age 45. The curtain rises on the small love story that begins to unfold between Akira, stuck standing on the crossroads of adolescence, and Kondo, at the turning point of his own life…



Notes:
Includes the epilogue.
The publishing rights of the manga got acquired by Shueisha on 2025, and the first volume of its Shinsouban got published on April 17th, 2025.

Tags: Age Gap , Work , Athletics , Writing , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Unrequited Love , Heterosexual , School Club , Restaurant , School , Tragedy

Toaru Tenin to Kyaku no Hanashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Saki, a college student working at an izakaya, has a crush on Shiraishi, an office worker who is a regular customer. Be brave for your first love today! I gave him a love letter and... Shiraishi also has no experience in love!? A heartwarming love comedy♪

Note: Includes 7 extra chapters.

Tags: Iyashikei , Josei , Chibi , Primarily Adult Cast , Age Gap , Work , Heterosexual , Love Triangle

Doukyonin no Sano-kun wa Tada no Yuunou na Tantou Henshuu desu

Also known as My Housemate Sano-kun Is Just My Editor!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Shinomiya Teiichiro is a prolific, workaholic novelist who is too consumed with writing to take care of himself. To prevent him from neglecting his well-being, his editor, Sano Satoru, moves in with him. But when the calm and collected Shinomiya finds himself flustered by Sano's constant presence and good looks, he begins to question their relationship. After all, Sano is just his editor, isn't he?!



Tags: Iyashikei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Writing , Work , Boys' Love , Cohabitation , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist