Collections of one-shots that won the monthly Hop Step Award from 1987 to 1996.

From [Chibi Manga](https://www.mangaupdates.com/groups.html?id=3006): WARNING Rental boyfriend X love drama = an extremely dangerous trap (trap), trap (trap). trap (trap)!! Nobody would expect the conclusion to this love story!! "The person who really falls in love loses. Then it’s best to make the other person fall completely for me..." Hime who attends an all girls high school is called "the charismatic love master". But the truth is Himi has never had a relationship that has lasted more that two weeks. And that Hime met a boy under the worst circumstance. Hime decided to make Kei her "boyfriend"…!? This love is a trap and extremely dangerous!!

Pairing: Sasuke x Naruto. A collection of funny short stories about Naruto and Sasuke's relationship. Don't mind that the english sound effects stop somewhere in the middle... (from Scan Clan)

Isekai × Idle Game = The Strongest!? Idle games—a system designed for the busy modern world that lets you grow stronger quickly with minimal effort, often while you’re away from the game entirely. After an ordinary middle-aged man is reincarnated into a fantasy world, a sudden thought strikes him: “If I apply idle game mechanics in another world… wouldn’t I become the strongest?” But can the logic of idle games—passive growth, automation, exponential scaling, and offline progression—really work in a living, breathing fantasy world!? To reach absolute power with minimal active effort, he sets out to establish an idle-game system in this new world!

https://www.cmoa.jp/title/284913/ The beautiful yet expressionless Wistaria was ordered by her ruthless and abusive father, a duke, to become queen no matter what it took. However, the Prince of Kronos, Alphonse, ended up choosing Marguerite, the daughter of a mere viscount, as his fiancee. Driven into a corner, Wistaria attempted to assassinate Marguerite but fails and is executed by her childhood friend and knight commander Garland, who once told her that he wanted to become a knight and protect the weak. Never had she tought she would be the one to be judged. The warmth of these sweet childhood memories was short-lived though, as she was mercilessly struck down with a sword. The next moment, however, time had rewound!　 This time around, Garland offers his hand to save her, saying, "If you want, I can always take your hand..."? A time-rewind love fantasy about a duke's daughter fallen into darkness and an overprotective knight commander!