Loving the Now: Side Story

Dandadan

Momo Ayase is a high school girl who believes in ghosts but thinks aliens are nonsense. By chance, she befriends a boy at school who is obsessed with the occult and UFOs, but rejects the existence of spirits. She nicknames him "Okarun." To settle their argument, they make a bet: Momo visits a spot known for UFO sightings while Okarun heads to a haunted tunnel. Their separate excursions prove both of them wrong, as they discover that aliens and ghosts are very real. The encounter leaves them marked by bizarre powers and throws them into a chaotic world of yokairaqs and extraterrestrial threats. Together, they must deal with the surreal dangers now disrupting their everyday lives while navig

The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity

Rintaro Tsumugi is a second-year student at Chidori High, a boys' school known for its delinquents and low achievers. Despite his intimidating appearance, he is gentle at heart and quietly helps out at his family's patisserie. One day, while working at the shop, he meets Kaoruko Waguri, a cheerful girl who treats him with warmth instead of judging him by his looks. They get along easily, but Rintaro soon learns that Kaoruko attends Kikyo Girls' High, the prestigious neighboring school whose students look down on Chidori. As the two grow closer, they must navigate the deep-rooted rivalry between their schools and the disapproval of those around them, all while trying to build a connection t

Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun

At Kamome Academy, students whisper about the Seven Mysteries, supernatural phenomena tied to the old school building. One of them is Hanako-san, a ghost said to haunt the third stall of the third-floor girls' bathroom and grant any wish to whoever summons her. Nene Yashiro, a first-year student obsessed with the occult and desperate for romance, dares to call on Hanako-san hoping for help with her love life. But the spirit who appears is not the girl from the rumors: Hanako-kun is a boy, and he has no simple magic to offer. When Nene's attempts to win over her crush lead her to swallow a mermaid scale and turn into a fish, Hanako-kun saves her. In exchange, she becomes his assistant, and

The Quintessential Quintuplets

Futaro Uesugi is a brilliant but poor high school student whose family is burdened by debt. His quiet, solitary life takes a turn when he lands a well-paying tutoring job for a wealthy family. The catch: his five students are his new classmates, the Nakano quintuplets. Ichika, Nino, Miku, Yotsuba, and Itsuki are beautiful, stubborn, and completely uninterested in studying. They are on the verge of failing, and before Futaro can teach them anything, he must first earn their trust. What begins as a simple job becomes a daily struggle to connect with five very different sisters who share the same face. As Futaro works to help them graduate, his relationship with each sister deepens in unexpec

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

Ao Haru Ride

Futaba Yoshioka enters high school determined to reinvent herself. In middle school, her popularity with boys made her female classmates jealous and left her isolated, so now she acts deliberately unfeminine and distant to avoid standing out. Her plan seems to work until she runs into Kou Mabuchi, the boy she secretly loved back then. Kou disappeared suddenly during middle school, and his return stirs up feelings Futaba thought she had buried. But the gentle, kind boy she remembers is gone. In his place is a cold and pessimistic young man who admits he once felt the same way about her, yet insists they can never go back to how things were. As they navigate an awkward new dynamic, Futaba tr