Otaku culture has finally become mainstream, and Megumi can't quite get used to it. Divorced, with a teen daughter, Megumi thinks fondly back to her days as an anime and manga otaku in 1995. That year, she...

Yukari, who helps her father run a fish shop, and Kanta, a butcher who owns a store across the street, have known each other since childhood. Now, in her late twenties, Yukari's worries about "love," "family...

Sellen lives in the dukedom and is known as the "Gloomy Princess", due to constantly being compared to her younger sister Marietta, who is praised for her unparalleled beauty. One day, Sellen overhears Prince...

From unwanted advances from her boss and work dumped onto her by coworkers, thirty-year-old Tomoko Hanno, or Panko for short, struggles to stand up for herself. But when her rusty bike breaks down, she meets...

The story centers on the relationship between Tsuneo and Josee. Tsuneo is a university student, and Josee is a young girl who has rarely gone out of the house by herself due to her being unable to walk. The two...

Unable to get around without a wheelchair, a young woman named Josee leads a solitary, housebound existence. Her key to the outside world is her friend Tsuneo, a recent college graduate and her so-called...

There are two sides to every working adult: One they show when they're on the job, and one they show when they're off the clock. For coworkers Sotaro Amata and Akira Hanku, this holds doubly true. Outside the...

Official English: INKR, Azuki 24-year-old Aki finds herself newly single when her long-time boyfriend cheats on her. She begins living in a sharehouse with a former classmate and boyfriend from junior high...

Maki's first love was her high school classmate, a girl named Midori. But Midori broke up with Maki at graduation, saying they were now "too old to be fooling around dating girls." Ten years later, Maki still...

DARK HERITAGE from fictiondb:Had she found her identity or her destiny? Rebel had been fortunate to be adopted-by the James family. The Australian clan fully supported her search for her mother's roots--even...

Tomoko is 37 years old and works in the general affairs department. In the same department is a woman known for her eccentricity, Haru Hatsuse. She doesn't care at all about how others see her, wearing flashy...

This is an autobiography that tells the story of Akiko Hayashi, the author as she was in her third year of high school at the beginning of the story. Through her friend Futami, Akiko starts going to an art...

"Beatrice used her family's influence to impose herself as my fiancée. It's not what I wanted."Beatrice is the daughter of an influential Duke in the Kingdom, and has just overheard some of the girls saying...

Kento is a guy with terrible dating habits who breaks hearts right and left. Mari is a woman stuck in an affair with a married man. Be it coincidence or fate, they bump into each other in front of a shrine, and...

Just like always, I made dinner and waited for my husband to come home. But when he came back, he kept ignoring me. He acted as if I wasn't there. What's more, after he finished dinner, he started checking his...

In the year 1863, a time fraught with violent social upheaval, samurai of all walks of life flock to Kyoto in the hope of joining the Mibu-Roshi—a band of warriors united around their undying loyalty to the...

I want to be married... And someone like Tomizawa would be perfect! Mariko, 29, wants to seal the deal by 30. However, marriage requires affection and Mariko's affection is reserved to a man she can...

Koyomi Inagawa, wedding planner. Despite working freelance, she is highly sought-after and admired for her skill even among her peers in the wedding industry. She tends to embrace every whim of the bride and...

Kiri and her husband, both in their 30s, have been happily married for several years. They don't have any children yet, and Kiri knows that at her age they'll need to start trying soon if they ever want to. Yet...

When it comes to love, high schooler Chika wonders if she might be an alien. She’s never fallen for or even had a crush on anyone, and she has no desire for physical intimacy. Her friends tell her that she just...

From Pocket Comics: Ryouko Suehara is 29. Everyone around her is getting married or already has children... But she wants to get married, too! And the man who appears in front of her is...?! Original...

Smart, successful and good-looking Iwaya Sumire works for a big newspaper. However, her boss asks her to leave for being too "perfect" a woman. Feeling angry and dejected Iwaya returns home depressed, and most...

Once upon a time, two kingdoms, one rich in gold, the other rich in water, shared a border. The two nations were always fighting until an agreement was struck: the most beautiful girl in the gold kingdom would...

Midori is a former psychologist, and for some reason quits and opens the "Heartful Store" on Goldenrod Hill. Many local women, weary of their everyday routine, consult her and find peace.