Ten years ago, Olympia fell in love in Greece. The man she loved was the fiance her grandfather had chosen for her Nik, a sexy and gentle young man who was also something of a playboy. The two of them felt a mutual attraction, but then Nik was misled to believe that Olympia had cheated on him, and he rejected her. It was a disaster. Olympia left Greece behind her, injured by the lies. But now, her grandfather demands that she become affianced to him again.... How?.

Supermodel Maxie is the beautiful mistress of an older man who suddenly falls ill. Seeing this as his chance, multimillionaire nephew Angelos arrives and demands that Maxie become his mistress next. After Maxie announces that she won't be intimate with anyone but her future husband, Angelos suggests that they have a contract marriage. The fact that she is his wife would be kept secret, but he would still enjoy the intimate benefits, an arrangement Maxie resents despite being attracted to him. However, there is a reason for Maxie to get married as soon as possible...

After Leonie's husband, Crown Prince Badyr, was imprisoned, she was forced to flee Dhoman. But it's been five years since the coup d'etat and still Leonie has had no word from him. She resigns herself to the fact that their love is over and focuses on working and raising their daughter, Jade. Leonie has kept the fact that she had a child secret-she fears Badyr would take her daughter away if he knew. And when her husband suddenly reappears, her fears become all too real...

Six months after her husband's tragic death, Shanna throws herself into high society's nightlife in some feeble attempt to ward off her loneliness. Unfortunately, she's caught the eye of wealthy playboy Rick Dalmont and he relentlessly pursues her, refusing to take no for an answer. What he doesn't know is that a string of misfortunes had frozen her heart...and she's not certain she could never love again.

Meg returns home, and reunites with Steven. He is not only a large-business owner and her brother's best friend, but also Meg's former fiance. Many misunderstandings plus her dream to be a ballerina spur her to leave him and run off to a different state. But four years later she still hasn't forgotten him. Steven, still bearing the scars of the breakup, is still in love with her. This causes him to hate her even more. He wants to get his revenge by sleeping with her....

A 33-volume collection of award-winning oneshots put out by Kodansha from 2002-2012. Some of these would later get serialized or collected in other volumes. **Serialized or otherwise collected:** AKABOSHI Tomo [Shishunki Syndrome](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=10895992058) AKIZUKI Risu [Oku-sama Shinkaron](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=8585) ARAI Hideki [8-gatsu no Hikari](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=48516) ARAMAKI Keiko [GENOMES](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=100366) ASADA Torao [Spoonman 3.18](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=7155) ASHINANO Hitoshi [Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=586) Endo Hiroki [Kitto Kawaii Onnanoko Dakara](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=5984) ENOMOTO Shunji [Golden Lucky](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=44334) IGARASHI Daisuke [Obayashi ga Hikoeru Hi, Hoka (collected in Hanashippanashi](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2347) IRIE Kiwa [Haikibun! Sakanahime](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=54246) IRIE Noriko [Neko no Te Kashimasu](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=34406) KIMURA Kon [Koube Zaijuu](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=6616) KITOH Mohiro [Vandemieru no Tsubasa](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2395) KOMAI Yu [Sonna Yatsua Inee!!](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=16844) MATSUMOTO Taiyou [STRAIGHT](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=9964) NIHEI Tsutomu [BLAME! (prototype chapter, included in NOiSE)](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2275) OHARA Shinji [Boku wa Otouto](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=23188) SAMURA Hiroaki [Mugen no Juunin](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1628) SOUJI Hajime [Sanmon Mirai no Katei Houmon](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=95297) TOUME Kei [Kurogane](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1034) TOYODA Minoru [Love Roma](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=5227) TSUCHIDA Seiki [Miseinen](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=65435) URUSHIBARA Yuki [Mushishi prototype chapter, collected in Filament](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=35219) WAKANA Shouhei [Kamen Tenshi](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=38659) **Other:** Hiramatsu Kannosuke [Yume](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=134645) ABE Yoshitoshi [Ame no Furu Basho](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=70439511114) Eshikawa is a man who has lost sight of his life and stumbles through it, with no clear meaning or purpose. One day, he is informed that his ex-girlfriend committed suicide, which sets his brain on retrospect mode. He goes on a journey of self-revelation and contemplates upon the myriad of human emotions, the joys and sorrows of normalcy. YAMAZAKI Ren [Like a Laika](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=15464858831) From Atelier du Noir Scans: The daily, average life and interactions of some of a ship’s crew as they depart to explore space. Winner of the Jiro Tanaguchi Special Award for manga in the 2010 Four Seasons Award Anthology. NADEGATA Nazuna [Kokenoshima](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=25320595156) From Atelier du Noir Scans: On a remote island, a skilled swordsman who honed his craft on the local population attempts to atone for his sins and lift a curse by hunting and killing demons. Winner of the Hagio Moto Special Award for manga. KIBA Kouichi [Jagua](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=26870403448) As the protagonist is returning home one night, she runs into a man who had just been in a car crash. As he is dying, he asks her to throw a certain package into the sea. JOUYAMA Yui [Zanuff the Butcher](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=57841268625) A butcher with a dark secret finds a little girl. HAYASHIDA Q [Sofa-chan](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=9150331372) Tells the story of a female ghost who lives on a couch and it's the debut work of Q Hayashida as mangaka. KANOU Rie [Kingdom of Stars](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=20282565791) Oneshot about love, religion, and a big misunderstanding that leads to a weird situation...

Official parody of Kodomo no Jikan published in Winter 2012 magazine with the participation of numerous mangaka, who made a chapter each, as a tribute to the Watashiya Kaworu series, who also added one of its chapters. Includes: 1. **Hoken no Jikan** (ほけんのじかん), Kouichi Kusano 2. **Kisu no Jikan** (きすのじかん), Yoshikazu Hamada 3. **Okane no Jinkan** (おかねのじかん), Mikabe Setsuna 4. **Rin-chan★Baka Kyoudai** (りんちゃん★バカ兄妹), Yuna Kagesaki 5. **Untitled**, Hidetaka Kakei 6. **Sensei no Hoshii Mono** (せんせーのほしいもの), Cotoji 7. **Kodomo no Tessellation** (こどものテッサレ―ション), Q-tarou Hanamizawa 8. **Untitled**, Fumika Natsume 9. **Untitled**, Satoru Matsubayashi 10. **Untitled**, Utamaro 11. **Onetsu no Jikan** (おねつのじかん), Tarou Shinonome 12. **Untitled**, Sato Yoshimi 13. **Untitled**, Asami Sekiya 14. **Untitled**, Arima Honda 15. **Shiroi-sensei no Jikan♡** (白井せんせいのじかん♡), Mutsuki Tsutomu 16. **Untitled**, Milk Morinaga 17. **Moshimo 3 Nin ga Sagume ni Nyuugaku shitara** (もしも３人が咲女に入学したら。), Towa Ooshima 18. **“Nakamura.”** (「中村。」), Takarada Gorgeous 19. **Real Kodomo no Jikan** (リアルこどものじかん), Shuuzou Oshimi 20. **Abunai Mizugi no Jikan** (アブない水着のじかん), Itokatsu 21. **Shiroi-sensei to Tsuki Aitai node Oyajima-sensei ni Naritai.** (白井せんせいと付き合いたいので小失島せんせいになりたい。), Ayami Kazama 22. **Untitled**, Ooi Masakazu 23. **Honobono Reiji-san** (ほのぼのレイジさん), ÖYSTER 24. **Untitled**, Touko Shiwasu 25. **Untitled**, Kanko Nakamura 26. **Iidabashi no Futaba-chan: Kodomo no Jikan Tokubetsuhen** (飯田橋のふたばちゃん　－こどものじかん特別編－), Story : Ryouichi Yokoyama, Art : Mayumi Katou 27. **Shugyou Sankan no Jikan** (授業参観のじかん), Kaworu Watashiya

Chika makes her money from compensated dating. One day, she enters a love hotel with a man who has a certain request: "I want to tie you up and tickle you." She's bedazzled after he shows her the money, and thinking it would be fine for a little bit, Chika gives him the OK; but she had no idea of just what she was going to go through after that... (Source: [DLsite](https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/work/=/product_id/RJ349913.html))

A collection of one-shots from Harta contributors on the theme of women with "slender" bodies.

In a world where sexual roles are reversed, I, who can use rare healing magic, am incredibly popular with women!? "Please cover your chest!" "Why would I need to care about covering my chest as a woman!?" After my clothes were dissolved by a slime, the female adventurer Elmie didn’t hesitate to take off her own clothes and hand them to me, a man. I was reincarnated into a world where goblins, orcs, and even female thieves don't target women—they target men. In this world of reversed sexual roles, I, an unaware reincarnator, unknowingly raise the affection of the women around me!? Moreover, I discover that I hold the highest rank in the healer profession, the *"Holy Man,"* the only one capable of using recovery magic. Not only do high-ranking female adventurers start coming after me, but even the queen starts pursuing me!? A fantasy where I'm relentlessly desired in a world of reversed sexual roles!

[Official English on Renta](https://www.ebookrenta.com/renta/sc/frm/item/145646/) Aki's distant relative Shu is six years younger than him, and he's always been smart and kind. Even now as a high schooler, Shu loves Aki just as much as ever. Nothing has changed about Shu other than... those big arms of his... Oh, if only Shu would hold him in those arms. To drown his feelings for Shu, Aki's been in a dead - end relationship with another man. He feels pathetic for not professing his love to Shu, but he still wants to be his "big bro" a little longer. One day, though, Aki's beloved angel Shu tells him that he's always loved him and wants them to be together! ...When he's old enough. What will become of their special relationship!?

Toushirou, an omega, and Alex, his Nyartigian alpha mate, are spending each day together in bliss-until Alex receives a summons to go to the UK for a temporary assignment. What’s more, the letter comes with an extra note: Bring your omega mate with you. Though Alex hesitates over the dangers of bringing an omega overseas, Toushirou is fascinated by the idea of visiting a foreign country. But the new land awaiting them might not be as welcoming as Toushirou hopes, and the two must give their all to protect their relationship against those who wish to tear it down… (Source: Yen Press)