27-year-old Mio Sakurada, who works for a confectionery company, enjoys her work and has a fulfilling life, but she has one problem: she has never been in love. One day, Mio attends a blind date and is saved from a crisis by a stranger. When they spoke, he seemed surprisingly shy and awkward, but Mio liked the man who gave her courage. Later that day, he comes to Mio's company as a new employee. Mio is swept away by a younger man who is usually a 'shady' guy, but approaches her straightforwardly and passionately.

Asuka, a secretary at a major construction company, has had a crush on Koya, the vice president, for three years. She has given up on the idea that it is a love that will never come true, and has decided to quit her job. Then one day, a car accident causes "a problem" between them...! As soon as they start living together with a deadline until the problem is solved, Koya declares his engagement in front of everyone! Asuka is perplexed by this emergency situation, but Koya's forceful but single-minded gaze moves her to fall in love with him...!

Shunsei Mizukami is a refreshingly handsome man who is one of the top achievers in the company. He is an elite whom everyone admires. Shunsei spoke kindly to me and supported me whenever I was not good enough when I joined the company. Nodoka Kojima, an office worker, is living a life full of happiness after Shunsei unexpectedly proposes to her. Nodoka is steadily making preparations to marry her ideal fiancé, but one day she is confronted at work by Hisase, a man who is rumored to be ruthless even within her company. The sweet life with her ideal fiancé takes an unexpected turn...

A family runs a popular video channel with 500,000 subscribers. Their daughter Mika, a high school student, has been in poor health since she was a child, and the family is known for coming together to fight against her illness. Ritsuko, in particular, is especially diligent in taking care of Mika, but there is a terrifying intention hidden behind all of this!! (Source: Akita Shoten, translated)

Ran from February 1958 to April 1969 in Heibon.

"What's it like to be really in love…?" Benisuke, a kappa boy who is in the throes of puberty and longs for love, is a good-natured boy. He mediates on the the possibility of love for a shy childhood friend, saves a drowning serpent in a river, kisses another kappa to break a curse that had turned him into a frog, and so on. In the process of helping various people (and youkai), he himself becomes involved in a colorful love affair. A youkai love story unfolds in a country town set in the Showa era. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)