Hitoshi Kino Short Story Collection: Love Sign

My Dress-Up Darling

Wakana Gojou is a high school student training to become a traditional doll artisan. A childhood incident left him deeply hurt when a friend rejected his passion for dolls, so he now keeps to himself and avoids sharing his interests with others. He spends his afternoons alone in the home economics room, practicing his sewing skills. His quiet routine changes when Marin Kitagawa, a popular and outgoing classmate, discovers him working on doll clothes. Marin has a secret hobby of her own: cosplaying characters from video games and anime. She can design and imagine costumes, but she cannot sew them herself. Marin asks Wakana to make her cosplay outfits, and he reluctantly agrees. As they work

Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro

Naoto Hachiouji is a shy, introverted second-year high school student who spends his afternoons drawing in the art club room. His quiet routine is shattered when a group of girls discovers his manga pages and mocks him openly. One of them, the first-year Hayase Nagatoro, lingers behind and begins teasing him relentlessly until he cries. From that day on, Nagatoro makes a habit of visiting Naoto and dragging him into whatever catches her interest, especially if it makes him uncomfortable. Her friends join in, but Nagatoro is particularly merciless when they are alone and gets annoyed if anyone else goes too far with him. As the daily teasing continues, Naoto realizes he does not actually di

Rent-A-Girlfriend

Kazuya Kinoshita is a college student reeling from a painful breakup. Desperate to fill the emotional void, he turns to a rental girlfriend app and books a date with Chizuru Mizuhara, a beautiful and seemingly perfect girl with a kind, caring demeanor. After their first date, Kazuya feels that Chizuru's sweetness is just an act and leaves her a negative review. This provokes her true personality: sassy, sharp-tongued, and far from the gentle image she presents to clients. Their conflict is interrupted when Kazuya learns his grandmother has collapsed, and he rushes to the hospital with Chizuru in tow. His grandmother is overjoyed, believing Chizuru is his real girlfriend. Unable to tell her

The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You

Rentaro Aijou has asked a hundred girls out and been rejected every single time. Desperate after his hundredth heartbreak, he prays at a shrine for luck in love. A god appears and promises him that he will meet one hundred soulmates in high school. On the first day of school, two girls confess to him immediately, confirming the god's words. But the god forgot a crucial detail: if any of his soulmates fails to enter a relationship with him, she will die. To save them all, Rentaro decides to date every one of his destined partners, no matter how many appear.

More Than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers.

Jirou Yakuin is a third-year high school student who has no luck in love. His school launches a couples training program: students are paired up and must live together as a married couple, with their performance affecting their grades. Jirou is paired with Akari Watanabe, a popular gyaru who is the complete opposite of him. Both are unhappy with the arrangement because they have feelings for other people. Jirou likes his childhood friend Shiori, while Akari has a crush on another boy. They agree to cooperate only to earn enough points to switch partners and be with the people they truly like. Living under the same roof, however, forces them to act affectionate in public and share private m

We Never Learn

Nariyuki Yuiga is a third-year high school student who has worked relentlessly to become a top achiever. His goal is to secure the special VIP nomination, a prestigious scholarship that would cover all his future university tuition fees and ease the burden on his destitute family. He finally receives the nomination, but it comes with an unexpected condition. Nariyuki must tutor his two brilliant classmates: Rizu Ogata, a science prodigy, and Fumino Furuhashi, a literary genius. The problem is that each girl is hopelessly mediocre at the other's subject of expertise. To make matters worse, the subjects they struggle with are the very fields they dream of pursuing in university. With applica