This is a series of manga anthologies based on popular “villainess” novels. The protagonists are all young noblewomen who were rejected by their fiancés for various reasons, but who did not let themselves be discouraged and found their own happiness. Each volume contains several short stories adapted by different artists and themed. **Digital Manga:** [CMOA](https://www.cmoa.jp/title/268010/)

From [MangaHelpers](https://www.mangaupdates.com/groups.html?id=48756242591): Rai has now forged a new empire and has ushered in an era of peace. With his Empress Reila, he has heirs to continue his legacy. However, a group of pirates has been threatening the peace of the empire. This group of pirates is led by a powerful young man who claims to be the child of Masamune, and who has been raised by barbarians. The young pirate does not know the identity of his father, but he is determined to exceed him and to bring down the empire. Ryuga Rai must find some way to deal with the situation, both to protect his empire and because he knows that he is actually the young rebel's father.

When Kensuke Niikura transferred to a new school in the third grade, he lied about having a girlfriend named Makoto when he introduced himself to his new classmates. For the next four years, even after he entered junior high, Kensuke continued to make up stories about his “imaginary girlfriend." One morning in the second year of junior high, a real girl "Makoto" appears in front of Kensuke…? This is fantastical story about a lying boy caught between reality and deception! (Source: Shonengahosha, translated)

Murasaki, who's always busy studying, suddenly gets an invitation to a Halloween party from his quirky twin classmates.

Maki Hanai is a 20-year-old university student who is currently on academic leave. On the last day of her part-time job at a coffee shop, a regular customer, a man in his thirties named Otoya Hyakumogi, offers her a job as a live-in employee making vegetable juice. Feeling threatened to her virtue by living with Otoya, a university lecturer in history whose private life is shrouded in mystery, she insists that she has no interest in dating older men. However, after saving him from an accident, she discovers that he is a vampire over 300 years old! (Source: Kodansha, translated)

The series sees mathematician Gakuto Mikoshiba, from Kaminaga's other series Kakuritsu Sōsa-ka (Probability Investigator), battle wits with Yakumo Saito from the Psychic Detective Yakumo series. (Source: Anime News Network)