Mina Itoi was aiming to become a fashion designer while working part-time at a clothing store. She finally realized her dream and decided to get a job as a designer! Well, she was supposed to be, but she was transferred to another world due to an unexpected accident. When she was taken to the city by a new adventurer, Marius, she realized she was in a fantasy world. Fashion designer Mina's clothes-making fantasy begins! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
The Kunlun Kingdom has been defeated by the Western powers and is now facing destruction. Reigetsu, the "unlucky" twin sister of the emperor, happens to meet Friedhelm, the archduke of the enemy Proja Empire. Brought in for her culinary skills, Reigetsu will play the role of the legendary chef "Chunyang" to engage in some dinner-table diplomacy, with the fate of her country at stake. She is pitted against the envoys of Western powers, the Empress Dowager still holding power over the puppet emperor, and various shadowy conspirators...... Can Reigetsu save her country with the help of the handsome but picky Archduke Friedhelm? Gastronomical diplomacy by the kitchen-girl princess is about to begin! (Source: Hifumi Bunko, translated)
A comic-essay by KANA about their life after moving to Portland, Oregon, in the summer of 2017.
Saori is a lingerie designer, but she is neither particularly sexy nor good with men. The president of her company tells her to get some romantic experience, for the sake of better design, but she is too stubborn and timid to take the plunge… Then one day, she meets Sekiya, a rude but handsome man at a bar. When they share a cab ride home, he kisses her out of the blue. Then at the urging of her junior colleague, Saori ends up going on a date with him. Saori's calm mask is on the verge of cracking at his aggressive approach…! (Source: Berry's Books, translated)
A super famous celebrity has a crush on ordinary me!? *Note: Originally published in Dessert Magazine 2024 May issue.*
A quiet, moonless night. Tsukishiro Michiru has a dream of being lost inside a mysterious old castle. She meets with five jewels that had taken the form of attractive men. She is ordered by the castle's master. "Choose the jewel you think suits you the best by the night of the next full moon". However, the jewels only have exceedingly harsh personalities that would be called "cruel", "beastly", "sadistic", "scheming", or "yandere"! As though being guided by something, in the real world she then meets five men that look the same as the jewels she met in the dream world. But completely different from the jewels, these men are refreshing and wonderful. Are they the same person or a different person? If they are the same person, which one is their true self? While spending the day with the gentle and refreshing men and the nights with the extreme and ill-mannered men, the curtain is opening on days filled with a puzzling "gap"!
*Note: Originally published in Dessert magazine issue 6/2025*