1. *Love & Trap* After being bullied at elementary school, Mochida 'Maki' Masaki learns to use his own body to enchant and trap the most powerful person at school to protect him from potential bullies. However, a chance train encounter sparks a complicated friendship with notorious classmate, Aihara Ryuuji, which soon changes Maki's life and ultimately his view of love. 2. *Love & Honey* Maki begins to question the point of his relationship with Aihara. 3. *Love & Whip* Maki discovers that Aihara's cousin, Aihara Kaede, has a thing for Aihara and a bit of contempt for Maki. 4. *Love Blood* Sawaguchi Mirai takes a train to the countryside to get away from his own life, and unexpectedly finds love. 5. *Us, Blooming* Now working at a flower shop, Murakami Takashi is very set on winning the heart of Sakurai Ryui, the beautiful object of his secret and burning love, but his pervy manager, Fujimori Haruhiko, keeps getting in his way. Extra. *Let's Visit the Aihara House!* A short, comedic tale of Maki's reluctant visit to Aihara's home.

Karen Kohiruimaki always felt out of place in the real world. Due to her extreme height, she found it hard to make friends with other girls her age. Everything changes when she's introduced to VR and Gun Gale Online. In GGO, Karen is free to play the cute, chibi avatar of her dreams! Can Karen find friendship in this bullet-ridden MMO...? (Source: Yen Press) *Note: Chapter count reflects the magazine releases; the manga was re-arranged into 20 chapters across 4 volumes.*

Reborn as an amnesiac extra, Elia craves a simple life in the forest. But fate intervenes when she rescues a child who uncannily resembles her lost brother... and is the story’s villain. Suddenly thrust into the main plot, she fights to lift a fairy curse off the villain’s brother and even enters a contract marriage. Elia is beginning to wonder… is she the cause of all this trouble? (Source: Tapas)

Sakai Hiroaki is a high school teenage mastermind with a genius-level intelligence and a lack of interest in anything that is easy to him. During one unlucky day, in an attempt to stop a student from committing suicide, he ends up committing suicide himself. After he awakens, he finds himself not in the real world, nor in heaven, but in purgatory, along with a group of others who did the same. Sakai discovers that he and his peers are subjected to never-ending intense death games in this world for reasons unknown to him, and he tries to find a way to escape.

"Irasshai!" Welcome to the most unruly cafe in Kichijouji and its charming staff of five who have absolutely nothing in common. When tempers rise, so do mop handles, giant boulders and repair bills. Meet Jun, a mild mannered high school student with a sharp tongue and superhuman strength. Tarou, a clean freak with a deadly aim in the art of mopping. Maki, a sloppy, lazy woman chaser. Minagawa, a talented pastry chef equally skilled in the arts of voodoo, and the impulsive, cheerful, though desperately unfortunate Tokumi. A feast of comedy based on the popular Japanese radio drama. (Source: DMP) *A rehashed version was released in 2009.*

A young woman, net nickname “Mushi-nee,” finds herself sucked into a world not unlike the online real-time strategy game that was her only escape. She had captained the “Arachnea” faction…but it’s one thing to do on a computer, and another to find herself face-to-face with giant arachnids who hail her as queen! But rather than shrink from her fate, she steps up…to become the conquering queen she knows she can be! (Source: Kodansha USA)

When Akira’s class is magically summoned to another world, he and his classmates are awarded fantastical powers–but while one of them is lucky enough to become a true Hero, Akira becomes a mere Assassin. However, against all odds, the Assassin just might be the most powerful role of all! Harboring doubts about the intentions of the king, Akira uses his newfound strength as a master of the shadows to uncover the secrets and conspiracies of the crown. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

Sakuta’s shut-in sister, Kaede, has been content always being at home after the bullying incident that put her there. Plus, that’s where her favorite onii-chan is! Yet, slowly but surely, Kaede begins to venture beyond the four walls that protected her these last few years, regaining more and more of the life and freedom the old her knew. But even with Sakuta, Mai, and everyone else in her corner— treating this case of adolescence syndrome isn’t going to be easy. *Source: Yen Press*

Lucia is the new girl at school. She and her sister run a public bath that's all the rage. When Lucia meets a terrific-looking surfer boy, there's just one little problem: Lucia is a mermaid-not just any mermaid, but a princess on an important mission to save the seven seas from an evil force bent on taking control of the marine world. Such a responsibility doesn't leave much time for romance. But Lucia vows to protect her world and win the heart of handsome Kaito. (Source: Del Rey) *Note: Includes the one-shots Moonlight Goddess Diana (MOONLIGHT GODDESS ディアナ), Nude ni Natte (ヌードになって, Get Nude) and Cherry Blossom (チェリー ブロッサム), contained within Volume 7 of the manga.*

The romance between the Incubus’ aide the Lizard (Gray Ringmarc) and Alice. Once a capable assassin, now a sensible and mature adult. Alice thinks herself just a child beside him, incompatible with him despite her attraction to him… A manga adaptation of the otome game Clover no Kuni no Alice that focuses on Gray.

Sakura picks Ryouichi up at a brothel and their one night transaction soon turns into more of a rent-boy relationship. Can these two damaged people figure out that their true feelings run much deeper than any monetary based transaction? In Chapter 5, (A Bird at Sea, A Door in the Sky) Ryuu is a sad but tough kid from Osaka who is trying to overcome his past. When an American, Stefan, takes an interest in him, will it lead to more than just friendship? Ryuu's story is continued in the Kiss DJ. (This is part of the Rules series. A complete Rules series timeline can be found in the Synopsis for Rules.)

"The World" is a massively multiplayer online game played by more than twelve million people across the globe. Within this virtual world Haseo, a PK (Player Killer), continues an endless fight. Everything he does is for the sake of the girl Shino, who back in the real world, is hospitalized by an unexplained coma. However, on finally meeting with his sole lead, a PK called “Tri-Edge,” Haseo is dropped back to Level 1 by a mysterious power! Can Haseo save Shino now that he has lost all of his abilities? Tatsuya Hamasaki, writer of the scenario for the .hack//G.U. games, now turns his hand to its novelization! (Source: TOKYOPOP)