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The Duchess's Contract Marriage

Rubiana set aside her vows as a nun to avenge her parents by killing the tyrant king. With that revenge complete, her younger sister sits on the throne as Empress while Rubiana governs the northern territory as a duchess. Only one promise remains: the oath she swore to God to devote her firstborn child to him. There is one problem. Fulfilling that oath requires a husband, and Rubiana has never had a relationship. Love, to her, is harder than war or slaying a dragon. Then Louis, the only descendant of the late king and a rival to the current ruler, offers her a contractual marriage: three years and nothing more, in which he will give her a child while she guarantees his safety. With danger

Her Special Seat

On the outskirts of town, a young man runs a small restaurant whose only regular customer is a woman who arrives alone, keeps her face behind a mask, and always orders enough food for two. How a slender person can eat that much becomes a puzzle he cannot let go of. He begins to suspect that she is secretly packing the second portion into containers to take home, and one day he finally works up the courage to ask her about it. Her answer has nothing to do with leftovers, and it forces him to look at his strangest patron in a completely different light. What starts as a small mystery about appetite turns into an encounter between an ordinary cook and a guest from a world he had never given m

Psycho Logical

Tomo Kunagisa, known as Dead Blue, is a genius engineer whose former teammate, Gaisuke Utsurigi, is being held captive inside the research institute of Kyouichirou Shadou, a man known as the Mad Demon. She refuses to abandon him there and sets out to bring him back. Her companion on the way is her friend Ii, whom everyone calls the Nonsense User. Neither of them knows what waits for them inside the facility, or why Shadou has taken Utsurigi in the first place. What the two of them find when they arrive is a scene far worse than anything they had imagined, and it turns out to be only the start of what is to come.

Swimming in the Dark

Yuuji Tomioka is thirty-two years old and works alone as the night-shift guard of a shopping mall. He spends his shifts slacking off, exercising on the roof and hanging around in his underwear, and the solitude suits a man who has always been terrible with people. Even so, he cannot shake the loneliness, and one night he wishes on a falling star for friends. Shortly after, he finds a strange note left at the mall door: within a year, he will go mad and die. From then on his solitary routine begins to change, partly for the better and partly for the worse, while a silhouette in a nearby apartment building watches him neglect his job. Who left the note, and why?

Ane Log

When Konoe Moyako and her younger brother Akira were children, he announced that he wanted to marry her. Moyako took those words as proof that her little brother was a pervert obsessed with her, and she has never let the matter go. Now both are teenagers, and Moyako is convinced that her mission is to rehabilitate Akira and free him from the obsession she believes he carries. The trouble is that Akira behaves like any ordinary brother: the perversion exists only inside Moyako's head, where the most innocent everyday moments turn into something far more suggestive. Every shared meal, every accidental glance and every ordinary conversation becomes raw material for the monologue running throu

Nameless Asterism

Tsukasa, Nadeshiko, and Mikage have been inseparable since they started junior high. Tsukasa has a secret she keeps from her closest friends: she has a crush on Nadeshiko. Afraid of risking their friendship, she decides to keep her feelings to herself forever. That plan falls apart when Tsukasa learns that Nadeshiko has a crush on Mikage. Wanting her friends to be happy, Tsukasa chooses to support Nadeshiko, even as her own feelings pull her in another direction. As the three navigate school life and growing emotions, their bond is tested by unspoken desires and the fear of changing what they already have.

I Met the Male Lead in Prison

A young woman opens her eyes and finds herself in prison, and not in her own world. She has been reincarnated into a romance novel as the younger sister of its villain, and she is serving time in the infamous Kambrakam Prison for her brother's crimes. Deep inside the same prison is Henrich Doran von Hel, the story's male lead, rumored to be suffering from a curse that turns him into a beast. In the original novel he is meant to meet the female lead here and spend a night with her, but her presence has already thrown the plot off course. Now she is caught between the novel's greatest villain and its protagonist, with no idea what the rewritten story holds for her.

Cohabitation with My Fiancée

Sang-Won is a middle school student, and he already has a fiancée: a 24-year-old woman who has just lost her parents and now has nowhere else to go. She moves into the Hyeon household, and from one day to the next the two of them are sharing a home, a routine and a life that neither of them chose. The nine-year age gap bothers Sang-Won more than it bothers her. He keeps insisting that the engagement is absurd and that she is far too old for him, but his fiancée does not behave like an adult at all, and little by little he stops feeling awkward around her and starts to enjoy her company. What troubles him now is something else: on the surface she is gentle and innocent, yet there are moment

The Love Song of the Cracker Ball

Takeo has looked after Wako, his next-door neighbor, since they were children. The two are the same age, but Wako was so sensitive to the cold that he often fell ill and missed school for days at a time. Thanks to Takeo's constant care, Wako has grown stronger, or so it seems. What Takeo does not know is that Wako has loved him for years. He has given up on that love and settled for being his best friend, sneaking into his room at night, sleeping in his bed and walking to school with him every morning. He has made peace with watching Takeo date other people, and prepared himself for the day Takeo finds a wife. Then Takeo says something unexpected: he might be able to have a boyfriend too.

The Heavenly Demon's Descendant

Jin Suho lost his mother when he was a child, and that loss set him on the path of a hunter. He gave everything to training, climbing to B rank, but there the climb stopped: no matter how hard he pushes, he cannot reach the strength needed to avenge her. Then, inside a Red Gate that appeared by chance, he meets a mysterious man who calls himself the Heavenly Demon. The stranger tells Suho that they share blood: Suho is his descendant, and that he needs Suho's body to settle an old score with his rival, the Blood Demon. For Suho, the offer is both a threat and a way out of the rut he is trapped in. Accepting means lending his body to his ancestor and gaining the power he has chased for year

Under Doctor

In the underworld, there is a legendary figure known as Under Doctor Haiji. He is both the greatest doctor and the strongest hero, a man whose skills are sought by those who have nowhere else to turn. If you want to live, find him. But if you don't want to die, never go near him. Haiji works in a world where medical emergencies and violent conflicts are intertwined. He treats criminals, outcasts, and anyone who cannot rely on ordinary hospitals. His medical expertise and combat ability are unmatched. Every patient brings danger, and every surgery could become a battle. As he moves through the shadows, Haiji must balance his role as a healer with his reputation as a warrior. The series blen

Amatsuki

Tokidoki has never been any good at history. When his grades fail, he is made to do make-up work at a high-tech history museum, where the past is studied through virtual reality simulations instead of textbooks. Then a monster attacks him during a simulation of the Edo period. When it is over, Tokidoki cannot leave. The game does not release him, and the old city closes around him as though it were a real place, with real people and real danger. Unable to find a way back to his own world, he has to get by in an Edo that should be nothing more than a program, while the question of what is real becomes harder and harder to answer.

Come Come Vanilla!

Kaji Rikuo is an ordinary high school student whose daily life is turned upside down by the sudden arrival of Vanilla, a cute girl with cat ears. She explains that she is a chimera, a being created from a mixture of different animals by her master, Ibu Kiriko. Rikuo has no idea why Kiriko would hold a grudge against him, but he ends up befriending the clueless and cheerful Vanilla anyway. The problem is that Vanilla can transform into a vicious beast, and a single order from Kiriko is enough to make her attack him. Rikuo is caught between his ordinary school life and the threat that Vanilla's master can unleash at any moment.

Magical Girl Raising Project

In N City, sixteen girls have gained real magical powers, granted after winning the hit smartphone game Magical Girl Raising Project. Each was one of the rare lucky players, chosen from tens of thousands, and together they spend their days helping the city's citizens and enjoying the abilities the game gave them. That arrangement changes when upper management announces a new rule: every week, the magical girl judged least productive will lose her gifts and return to ordinary life. What sounds like a simple incentive soon proves otherwise, as the conditions of the contest grow steadily more sadistic. With their powers and their futures at stake, the girls start competing against one another

Slave of Black Knight

A man has spent his life toiling like a slave within the chivalric order. Every achievement he earns is claimed by his senior, leaving him with no reward and no recognition. One day, a young girl who introduces herself as a guildmaster approaches him and scouts him for her adventurer guild. He accepts her offer half-jokingly at first, but when she shows him a substantial advance payment, he decides to leave the chivalric order behind. Upon arriving at the guild, he discovers that an S-rank title has already been prepared for him. This is the story of a man who has never had a good thing since he was born, as he begins his new life as an S-rank adventurer.

Hirunaka no Ryuusei Bangai-hen

Seven short stories and one-shots follow a cast of young people through the small everyday moments that decide where their feelings will lead. Mamura and Suzume settle into the rhythm of a life spent together, while Sarumaru takes his time to work out what he truly feels. Six years later, Shishio meets the man who lives next door. The collection also includes a gender-swapped variation on its characters and other short pieces. Chidori eats soy sauce ice cream only at the Purple Valley shop, because she insists that no other place gets the flavour right. One day she runs into the person who once made that ice cream special, and finds he has changed into someone who no longer resembles the b

Heaven's Design Team

In Heaven's Animal Design Department, a team of designers spends every day inventing new creatures while trying to satisfy their client: God. The requests that arrive from above are rarely reasonable, and the department has to answer them with something that could actually survive in the world below. Each assignment turns into a debate about biology, anatomy and behaviour. Why can't unicorns exist? What makes an animal taste good? Which creature rules the ocean, and who would win between a bird and a snake? The designers test, argue and redesign until a proposal is ready for divine approval. Between deadlines and impossible demands, the office life of the department goes on, with its own r

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners MADNESS

Rebecca grows up in Night City beside her big brother Pilar, and the two of them share a single dream: to become legendary edgerunners like their father. In a megalopolis where obsessions with technology, violence and power shape everyday life, the siblings take on whatever work they can find and leave chaos in their wake. Their days are a constant scramble to survive and prove themselves, and Night City rarely makes it easy. Every job brings rivals, setbacks and suffering, yet the two keep pushing, certain that they can still make a name for themselves. Then a mysterious man appears before them, and the course of their future starts to shift.

The Emperor's Partner

Shin-Joo Lee has always carried one regret: she never properly thanked her younger sister, who gave her own life to save hers. Years later, Shin-Joo dies in an accident after saving a child who reminded her of her sibling. On the edge of death, she pleads with whatever god might be listening for a life she can spend on her sister, and her prayer is answered. She wakes in a new world, in a new body, as the Pope Charles Hildegarde. Before she can make sense of where she is or what has happened to her, a strange man kisses her in front of hundreds of people. Her goal is simple: find the reincarnation of her sister and devote this second life to her. But the body she now inhabits, the title sh

Kaze Hikaru

In 1863, a time of violent social upheaval, samurai from all walks of life flock to Kyoto hoping to join the Mibu-Roshi, a band of warriors united by their loyalty to the Shogunate. Among the newcomers is Kamiya Seizaburo, a young would-be warrior with no combat experience but a fierce desire to fight alongside the group and to avenge a family that was wrongfully murdered. The legendary Okita Soji, one of the Mibu-Roshi's most gifted and most immature swordsmen, agrees to take Seizaburo under his wing. What no one suspects, least of all Soji, is that Seizaburo is really a girl named Tominaga Sei, hiding who she is in order to live among men who would never accept her.

Only I Know That This World Is a Game

Sagara Soma is a hardcore gamer who spends nearly every waking moment playing or thinking about games. Since childhood he has imagined how great it would be to actually live inside one. When he breaks a promise to his cousin Maki so he can keep playing, that idle wish comes true and he finds himself inside New Communicate Online, the game he had just been playing. Known to players as Neko-Mimi-Neko, the game is infamous for its trick quests, unfairly strong enemies and endless bugs, a combination that kills its players over and over. Soma arrives as a level one character in a world that offers him no favours, and nothing tells him whether death here means respawning or something final. Wha

Ten Ways to Get Dumped by a Tyrant

Scarlett Arman is no ordinary lady. She is engaged to the emperor, Charleon Kalior, the most vicious tyrant the world has ever known. But Scarlett is not from this world: she has been reincarnated as a character in a fantasy novel, and she knows exactly how her story ends: halfway through the book, she dies at the hands of her own fiancé. Determined to escape her fate, Scarlett decides to make Charleon break off the engagement. She schemes and plots, but every attempt backfires. Instead of driving him away, her efforts only draw the emperor closer. Why does he keep wanting to spend time with her? And why does he seem to have schemes of his own?

The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan

Yuki Nagato is the shy president of her school's literature club, a tiny group of only three members. She has never been very sure of herself around other people, and around Kyon, the only boy in the club, she falters even more than usual. Between club activities, classes and the antics of their schoolmates, Yuki does her best to keep her small circle together. Their days are full of club meetings and the small things that fill a school year, and through it all Kyon stays close, as the two of them slowly edge toward something quieter and more personal. For Kyon's sake, and for her precious club, Yuki must find her confidence and let her true personality shine.

I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too

A boy who has spent his life being brutally bullied finds a mysterious door standing open, and takes a step through it into the unknown. On the other side lies a world as full of magic as it is of monsters, along with a hoard of priceless artifacts. The most shocking discovery comes when he returns: whatever he brings back with him stays. He can carry the treasures and the power of that other world into his ordinary life on Earth. So begins a double life, one that pushes him to grow stronger in both worlds at once. As he moves between them, the boy who was once a target has to decide what to do with the strength he is gaining, and what it may cost him.

You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story

Ryuuto Kashima is a gloomy high schooler who spends his days watching Runa Shirakawa from a distance. Beautiful and popular, Runa rules the school and has never lacked boyfriends, so Ryuuto is convinced she would never look his way. When fate pushes him to confess anyway, she surprises him by accepting, simply because she is available at the moment. Before he can process it, she invites him to her home as if nothing could be more natural. The two have almost nothing in common: their friends, their hobbies and their love lives sit at opposite ends of the scale. Runa has plenty of experience in romance, while Ryuuto has none at all. This is not Runa's first relationship, but between clumsy co

How to Beat a Dual Girlfriend

On his first day of high school, Shindou Yuuichi gets himself a girlfriend. The only trouble is that she used to bully him mercilessly back in middle school, and he cannot work out why she has suddenly decided that she likes him. He is still turning the question over when, the next day, she seems like an entirely different person. Same face, same name, but nothing else about her fits the girl he remembers. He tells himself that cannot be right, yet the proof keeps stacking up in front of him. Caught between the classmate who made his school days miserable and the girl who now wants to be close to him, Yuuichi has to work out what is really going on and who, exactly, he is dating.

Enami-kun Has a Painful Life

Enami is a young man who aspires to become a writer, and he begins his first year of college in the literature department, which turns out to be a garden of women. Surrounded by classmates and possibilities, he is still painfully aware of one thing: he is lonely. Convinced that the right encounter can give him both a heroine and a story, Enami sets out to find the girl who fits the novel he wants to write. He treats romance as research, chasing a debut that would feel like the opening page of a book rather than an ordinary college romance. The problem is that destiny keeps refusing to cooperate, and no candidate ever matches the ideal he has in mind. While he measures every girl against th

The Legend of Martial God

Mu Soh Wol, known as the Martial God, disappears without a trace. Twenty years later, he opens his eyes again. The Central Plains have changed. Cults are rising, aiming to dominate the land. To stop them, Mu Soh Wol infiltrates the Murim Alliance, seeking the hidden truth behind the brutal war that shattered the plains. His return is not welcomed by all. Defeated foes ask who he is, and his answer fills them with despair: 'Mu So Wol... that is my name!' The legend of the War God, forgotten in time, begins once more. Now, he must confront the forces that threaten the Central Plains and uncover the secrets of the war that shattered the land.

The Concept Cafe Girl Wears Love

Tsumugu Aisaka loves clothes above all else and dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Her student life is a quiet one, until a chance encounter in Kabukicho brings her face to face with a con cafe girl and pulls her into a world she never expected. Before long, Tsumugu joins the cafe as a new cast member, trading her ordinary routine for shifts among people whose tastes and personalities are as varied as the outfits she loves. There is just one problem: whenever she meets someone new, the only thing she can talk about is clothes. As she gets to know her coworkers and the customers who pass through, Tsumugu tries to find her footing in a place where style is a language of its own.

Leviathan

After a long absence, the young shaman Samizo Kohei comes back from the dead carrying a prophecy of the apocalypse. Only part of him returns: most of his body has been rebuilt from the transplanted limbs and organs of his former friends, and those parts still hold on to their own distinctive personalities. He settles again in Shinjuku, where he works as a psychic surgeon in an unlicensed clinic and acts as the unofficial guardian of the district's underground, solving paranormal murder cases with the help of an assortment of bizarre mystics and semi-human allies. Around him, the people who once knew him cannot agree on what Kohei has become, or why he came back at all: whether he intends t

Coelacanth

Ten years ago, an explosion struck Hisano's apartment building. She would have been there, but a boy in blood-stained clothes hit her with his bike, and dropped a toy. She has kept it as a good-luck charm ever since. Now Hisano is in high school, troubled by hallucinations she cannot explain. When one of her teachers is murdered and the police start to investigate, a young man appears carrying the toy her charm belonged to. He may see the same visions that have followed her for years. As the two are drawn into the case, the explosion of ten years ago and the teacher's death begin to connect, and a pattern slowly rises to the surface.

To Be Next to You

Nina lives next door to Kyosuke, a kind and handsome boy she has loved for as long as she can remember. When he moves on to high school while she stays behind in junior high, she assumes their easy, familiar friendship will carry on much as it always has. Then she sees him kissing Yuiko, a beautiful and outgoing classmate of his. The other girl is everything Nina is not, and she clearly has feelings for Kyosuke too. What Nina once took for granted now looks fragile, and the single year between them suddenly feels like a distance she cannot cross. Caught between the comfort of being the girl next door and the fear of losing him, Nina has to decide whether she can speak up before someone els

Wolf's Rain

Two centuries ago, humans believed the wolves had died out, leaving behind a bleak, post-apocalyptic wasteland. A few survivors still exist, living hidden among people by cloaking their animal bodies with illusions and passing as human. Kiba, a white wolf, wanders this ruined world alone, refusing to give up the search for his kind. Kiba is hunting the scent of the Lunar Flower, the trail said to lead the wolves to Paradise, a promised land where they might finally live freely. The wolves who remain hidden among humans have their own reasons to follow that scent or to doubt it, and each step carries them deeper into a world that has no place left for them. Whether Paradise truly waits at t

Sunny Orange

Nanami Takatoki is a first-year high school student with terrible grades and one last chance to avoid repeating the year: passing his supplementary exam. In the art prep room he meets Kei Takanashi, a third-year who placed third in the national mock exams, whose striking looks are matched by an aura that keeps everyone at a distance. After an awkward first impression, Nanami pressures him into becoming his tutor. The arrangement is meant to be temporary, and Takanashi is hardly welcoming. Yet as the review sessions go on, Nanami's stubborn effort begins to break the ice, and he glimpses the person behind the cold exterior: a gentle, caring side and a smile his senior never shows anyone else

I Kissed My Girlfriend's Little Sister♥

Hiromichi Satou spent his whole life single, so reaching the one-month mark with Haruka, his first girlfriend, feels like a milestone: they have even held hands. The same day, his father announces he is remarrying, which means Hiromichi is about to gain a step-sister. The girl turns out to be Shigure, and she is the spitting image of Haruka. The resemblance has an obvious explanation, since the two are identical twins, separated as children and raised by different parents after the divorce. Shigure and Hiromichi agree to keep their new family arrangement quiet, especially from Haruka, who knows nothing about it. Living under the same roof as his girlfriend's double turns every ordinary day

Sayonara Sorcier

Late nineteenth-century Paris. Theodorus van Gogh is a renowned art dealer and branch manager of Goupil & Cie, a firm that caters exclusively to wealthy bourgeois clients. Convinced that art should not belong only to the privileged, he searches the studios of up-and-coming painters for new talents and techniques worth championing. The era is hostile to that ambition: the academy and the conservative elite treat art as the property of the upper classes and consider common people incapable of appreciating it. Theodorus sets out to bring works that depict the truth and daily lives of ordinary people into the limelight, determined to destroy the system from within. Behind his efforts lies a li

The Tanaka Family Reincarnates

The Tanaka family is an ordinary household with a simple passion: cats. When a devastating earthquake strikes, the whole family loses their lives at once, and they wake up together in another world as the Stuarts, the noble family that rules a barony on the outskirts of a kingdom. Their bodies belong to Western nobles now, but their minds still hold memories of their former Japanese lives. Confused yet determined, the Tanaka parents and children settle into their new roles, learning to run an estate and navigate courtly expectations. The problem is that their old habits and eccentricities do not fit the strict customs of the nobility. Where tradition demands restraint, the Stuarts behave l

Ghost Dating Simulation

Do-Yeon Choi is a streamer whose channel is going nowhere. When he comes across a mysterious dating sim called Heart-Racing Ghost Dating Sim, he downloads it without thinking twice, and finds himself trapped inside a deadly loop he cannot break. The love interests are not fictional. They are real ghosts, each one bound to a death that was never resolved, and their routes lead Do-Yeon down haunted highways and into unsolved murder cases. To keep going he has to win them over, learn what they left behind and hold his nerve in a story where romance, horror and mystery collide. Every wrong move could cost him his life, and the game does not let him leave.

7 Billion Needles

Hikaru Takabe keeps to herself. Headphones on and hood up, the high schooler holds her classmates at a distance and prefers it that way, even as her aloofness earns her their resentment. Then something falls to Earth, and the barrier she has built around herself stops being a choice. Horizon, a being from across the galaxy, takes refuge inside Hikaru's body and refuses to leave. From within her, it lends her the power to twist space itself, and it does not intend to let her sit the fight out: the creature it crossed the void to hunt, Maelstrom, is loose on the planet, and its only instinct is to kill everything alive on it. Bound together and unable to separate, the two must track down a p

The Queen of the Opera

In the early 20th century, a small republic finds itself caught between a kingdom and an empire, both of which seek to manipulate the young state to suit their own needs. Both powers want the republic on their side, and the country has no way of choosing one without losing itself to the other. To protect itself from both sides of the conflict, the republic creates a small group of soldiers whose job is to suppress revolution and dissent in any way possible. They act on orders that the state cannot carry out openly, against the movements that threaten to break the republic apart from within. This is the story of the Opera House.