Kei Kitahara, a visionary screenwriter who has taken postwar Japan by storm, has made the difficult decision to lay down his pen for good after he realizes the people he's been basing his characters on have all met unfortunate ends. He spends his days in misery, waiting to die, until a reason to live finds him in the gutter, too drunk and beaten to move. Kei can't help but be attracted to his savior's bewitching innocence, and the urge to write about him grows stronger by the day. Knowing he can't take the risk, he vows to never use his pen against him, but will temptation prove too great? (Source: SuBLime) *Notes: \- Chapters 1 to 8 were split into two parts in the original serialization and later combined in the volume releases. \- Includes one extra chapter.*
At the Sako Detective Agency works the reliable Rou Nakamura. Despite his rugged looks, intimidating glares and pink hair, animals seem to adore him, making him the perfect candidate for finding lost pets. Rou is also in love with his boss, Detective Fumika Sako. When he isn't helping Fumika out on a case, Rou is always on the lookout for a chance to sneak in a kiss! (Source: Kuma) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*
Shindou works at a company where a certain product is being created. A product that is a cyborg sexroid modeled based on an actual boy's body. Shindou is then grudgingly put in charge of their prototype. He is initially very against his new assignment, but this cyborg boy eventually manages to melt his heart.
A truck driver picks up a runaway high school boy who wants to go to the sea after his delivery falls through. *Note: Published in Canna Vol. 34.*
Souichi's life is turned upside down when he starts living with the noisy and dog-like Gaku, who on top of being a NEET has zero skills to do household chores. But for some reason, Souichi cannot leave Gaku alone and starts feeling comfortable living with him. One day, Gaku makes a sudden announcement "I want to get married to Sou-chan!" Souichi, who had being disowned by his parents, had never thought he could have a family... (Source: Printemps Shuppan, translated)
Shuu and Sena have feelings for each other, but they are afraid to express them. While their relationship is in such a fragile state, a car accident occurs at the beach. Shuu wakes up in the hospital when he heard the sirens of an ambulance in the distance. Ignoring his aching body, he rushes to Sena's hospital room, There he found Sena, who starts calling Hiiragi by his surname, "Kutsuna"? *"I just want to see 'you' once again, by that dazzling sea."* (Source: Printemps Shuppan, translated) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*
Seijirou, a typical 40-year-old salaryman, resigns from his company after taking responsibility for his subordinate's failure. During an interview for a new job, he comes face-to-face with a 12-year-old boy named Taishi, the young head of the prestigious Arisawa family! Bound and held captive, Seijirou is forced to work for this family. Through the daily chaos of being shoved around by the insufferable Taishi, Seijirou comes to understand the struggles of someone unable to live like a child.
1. **Touhikou ja Arumaishi** (逃避行じゃあるまいし); Canna vols. 80, 82, 84 2. **Touhikou ja Arumaishi** (逃避行じゃあるまいし); Canna vols. 80, 82, 84 3. **Touhikou ja Arumaishi** (逃避行じゃあるまいし); Canna vols. 80, 82, 84 4. **Koishi-sa Tsunotte** (恋しさ募って); Canna vols. 70, 72 5. **Koishi-sa Tsunotte** (恋しさ募って); Canna vols. 70, 72 6. **Koishi-sa Tsunotte: Ureshihazukashi-hen** (恋しさ募って 嬉し恥ずかし編); Canna vol. 74 7. **Sou Iu no Hayaku itte yo!** (そういうの早く言ってよ!); Petit Canna vol. 4 8. **Kore mo Ai no Katachi** (これも愛の形) 9. **Party no Nochi wa Itsumo Samishii** (パーティーの後はいつもさみしい)
Koshimizu Koharu, an 30-something woman with little romantic experience, has always wanted to redo a love that ended in high school when she was too shy and couldn't do anything about it. Upon entering a new company, she unexpectedly meets Date Ritsuka, the man she had a crush on at the time. This coincidence makes her determined to ask him out to dinner, but she gets drunk from nervousness...and when she wakes up, she's naked in bed! Date makes a proposal to her after she apologizes for the previous night's mistake: "Become my slave." Koshimizu wants to be promoted from slave to lover, and Date, while nonchalantly brushing it off, acts suggestively. What will become of their love?!
Sada is an earnest high school teacher admired by students and colleagues alike. One night while walking through the city, he stumbles upon a student being violently attacked in an alley. As he tries to call for help, Sada finds himself on the end of the attacker's blade, bleeding to death on the ground. When he wakes up on a slab in an unknown laboratory, he comes face-to-face with his savior, a scientist named Mamiya. But Sada quickly realizes that in cheating death, he has become something...inhuman. What's more, he's now fully dependent on Mamiya to survive. What awaits him in this new life of death and deadly secrets? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment) *Note: Includes two extra chapters.*
Twenty-year-old Kouta works at a local guest house, and when a new part-timer joins the staff, he’s mortified to learn it’s someone he never thought he’d see again—his junior high classmate, Chizuru. Not only do these two share a past, they’ve shared a kiss, albeit one that only happened because of a “punishment game.” Thanks to that, Kouta assumes Chizuru wants nothing to do with him. Yet the moment these two former classmates are alone together, Chizuru kisses Kouta again, then confesses he took the job just to be with him! Is this another cruel prank, or a chance to start over? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
