These stories, roughly paralleling the original Wedding Peach storyline, feature younger characters aimed at a younger audience. Wedding Peach: Young Love is a collection of these often-overlooked episodes. Fans of the original series will be tickled to see their favorite characters, both hero and villain, recast in this warm and fuzzy alternate adventure. Yazawa even throws in a few new characters for readers to fall in love with. There's the demon trio of Blitz, Cloud and Noise and a few more Jama folk, too. Together, they join Wedding Peach and her heavenly crew for one final tussle between good and evil. (Source: VIZ Media)

All Misaki wanted was a free education. Instead, she accidentally lands an exclusive contract with the most prestigious girl in school... to serve as her personal maid! Misaki soon discovers that Amanotsuka Academy for Girls is no ordinary school—her classes are all about how to be a maid, too! Students who impress the school’s elite young ladies with their domestic service skills might be lucky enough to become a “Seraph,” guaranteeing them a job with an upper-class household after they graduate. But Misaki doesn’t want to be a maid; she just wants to study hard, go to college, and work for a good company. So why did Himeko make her into her Seraph out of nowhere? What kind of rich girl hires a maid who wants nothing to do with the job?! If she wants to get through high school, Misaki has a lot to get used to! (Source: J-Novel Club)

Twenty-year-old former wage slave Yuki Tanaka now works among her idols: the streamers of Live-On, one of Japan’s top VTuber companies. As the gorgeous, polite Awayuki Kokorone, she delivers only the most ladylike content. Unfortunately, her subscriber count and savings are at rock bottom. One evening, after Yuki thinks she’s ended her stream, she cracks a few cold ones—and more than a few crude jokes—while watching Live-On’s video archives. But her viewers hear it all, and clips of her bawdy, drunken commentary go viral overnight. Yuki thinks her career is over...until her manager reveals that everyone at Live-On has been waiting for her to snap all along and gives her free rein to drink on-stream. Now free of all feigned purity, she jumps right into her new “rowdy drunk” character and is welcomed into the fold by her fellow Live-On VTubers, who turn out to be just as crazy as she is! With her views and finances skyrocketing, Yuki’s work—for the first time in her life—is actually fun! (Source: J-Novel Club) *Note: Chapter count includes 8 volume prologues and 10 epilogues.*

Scaredy-cat Shinji Takasaki gets forced to take a picture in the science room after school as part of a punishment game, where he comes across the self-proclaimed ghost Sagara. Sagara, who tells Shinji he's "interested" in him, says he'll curse him if he doesn't come back to visit the science room. The more time they spend together, the less Shinji feels like he was forced to be there... But ghosts like Sagara have to move on eventually, so how long can they keep this up? (Source: Futekiya) 1. **Houkago no Ghost** (放課後のゴースト, Ghost After School) 1 2. **Houkago no Ghost** (放課後のゴースト, Ghost After School) 2 3. **Houkago no Ghost** (放課後のゴースト, Ghost After School) 3 4. **D-tou Danshi Toire** (D棟男子トイレ, D-Block Boy's Toilet) 1 5. **D-tou Danshi Toire** (D棟男子トイレ, D-Block Boy's Toilet) 2 *Note: Includes an extra chapter.*

A short heartwarming story from amusement park. Contains no dialogue. Source : MAL

Cardinell regains memory of her past life, and she realizes she's been reincarnated from a romance-novel-reading 40-year-old lab researcher to a villainess in a romance game. The only problem is, she never actually played these games in her past life... She just has a hazy idea of what will happen next, but Cardinell decides there's no point in fighting fate. She needs to suck it up, play the villainess, and get exiled!! What she can do is prepare herself for life after exile by learning more about medicine (her trade in her past life) and building strong bonds with her family. But, for some reason, the prince who she assumes is supposed to break off the engagement seems to actually like her... and the rest of the royal family, too...!! (Source: Renta!)

With the Demon King defeated, the world is at peace once more... And with that peace, the hero's party's handyman Theodore is out of a job. With all the money he could ever need already tucked away, he considers retiring. But he's instead suddenly called on to investigate the New World! En route to his new destination, he comes across and tames a slightly offbeat juvenile dragon. And so, Theodore's life on the frontier begins! His busted trio of skills, Appraise, Craft, and Tame are all he needs in his lackadaisical cultivation efforts, surrounded by a bizarrely cute crew! (Source: Manga UP!)

Ryotaro Sakurai is a 29-year-old office worker at an architecture firm. One day, he is asked to visit an architect's office, and who should await him there but a beautiful, mesmerizing young woman...... No, wait, young man!? When the up-and-coming young architect Hibiki Fujimoto takes a liking to him, Ryotaro finds himself reeling at the mercy of Hibiki's frivolous and freewheeling antics. Not to mention, when Hibiki makes advances toward him with that pretty face, he just... can't......!! (Source: Renta!)

When an unknown Arm Slave surfaces somewhere in the Taiwan Strait near mainland China, MITHRIL orders Melissa Mao and her team to go into a divided Hong Kong to investigate the perpetrator of the unknown Arm Slave. As the team continues to check into the reports of the unknown Arm Slave, the culprit is believed to be a potential SRT recruit back from Sousuke's training days in Belize when he was not recruited by MITHRIL.

Hero: a title that carries the most severe punishment a criminal can earn. Why? Because these “heroes” are the front line in humanity’s war against the Demon Blight. Driven mad by centuries of fighting, the penal hero forces are made up of the most morally bankrupt to exist throughout history. They fight without hope of redemption, driven mad at the helplessness of their mission as the fallen are resurrected to continue struggling for all eternity. It is to this chaos that Xylo Forbartz—former captain of the Order of Holy Knights—is sentenced for his crime of deicide. But after he encounters Teoritta, an unknown Goddess of the Blade, the two will forge a pact with the power to change the course of history, and maybe save the world from annihilation… *Source: Yen Press, Vol 1*

For Yoo Jae-Min, debuting as an idol is everything, but his skills are outshined in particular by Jung Woo-Hyung. The other boy's laid-back attitude, especially toward their fans, irks Jae-Min, but their dynamic shifts when they become roommates and Woo-Hyung starts noticing cute sides to Jae-Min that he hadn't before. The fans notice this change and Jae-Min focuses all his attention on them and their love, which bothers Woo-Hyung. Will their group, 4ever, hit it big, or will Woo-Hyung and Jae-Min's tumultuous relationship lead to its downfall? (Source: Lezhin US)

A humanoid vulture takes in a little girl.