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Hachimitsu To Clover

From Viz:Takemoto lives in a run-down student apartment, where his greatest worry is when he'll next be able to afford to eat meat and whether he'll get to class on time. Although he's away from home and living on his own, Takemoto is far from finished growing up. Along with his crazy cast of friends, Morita, Mayama, Yamada, and Hagumi, Takemoto sets out to discover life and his true self.Was adapted into a live action film in 2006 and a live action tv series.In 2003, this manga won the 27th Kodansha Manga Award for sh?jo.

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I am With Her

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Kanori makes a new friend on her first day at a new school, Kajomi, and she decides to participate in a goukon with her new best friend. Each leaves the goukon place with a partner...

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Tousei Gensou Hakubutsushi

Plot: It's the early days of the Showa Era. In a really ordinary-looking and peaceful city, no one notices the strange things that are happening. Shinobu, a university student who manages his father's second-hand store, comes face to face with one mystery after another. At some point, these events lead to a story...

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The Embalmer

From Tokyopop:A chilling dramatic series about Shinjyurou Mamiya, an embalmer in a nation where men of his profession are viewed as outcasts engaging in an unaccepted and unclean practice. For Shinjyurou, it's just a job. But in doing it, he's gained an understanding of death, and more important, what it truly means to live...

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Kanon

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. One day a 23-year-old Japanese musician travels to Mongolia in order to get inspirations for writing a piece of music. There he meets Kanon whose mother runs the "Hotel Kanon" in the desert. Kanon grew up in Mongolia, does not know who her father is and takes him for dead as her mother told her so. Then Kanon's mother who fell from a horse dies of injury. Before her death, she tells her daughter that she came to Mongolia because she could not stay in Japan as she had an affair with Kanon's father, a musician, who is actually still alive, and she asks Kanon to find him in Japan by becoming a violin virtuoso, but dies before telling her his name. Thus Kanon goes with the young man to Japan where she learns to become a musician in a music school run by Mikami, a handsome young man and worldwide very successful musician and conductor. Soon the younger sister of her mother gives her photos of three musicians, one of whom might be her father. Kanon's erring search for her father begins...Kanon received the 1997 Shogakukan Manga Award for sh?jo manga.

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Clover (CHIYA Toriko)

Plot: Suzuki Saya, age 21, is an office lady who's never been able to forget about the guy she liked in middle school. She carries on each day now getting reprimanded by her accomplished supervisor, Tsuge Susumu, and she's not interested in having any romantic relationships... Until out of the blue, Tsuge confesses love to Saya, and brings a new prediction of love for her!?

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#000000 - Ultra Black

From iskultrip Scans:Raised in a home nearly all his life, Sanetora has been provided for anonymously for as long as he could remember. When his mysterious benefactor offers to foster him, he is more than thrilled—it's like a dream come true! The person waiting for him at his would-be new home, however, is a startlingly young man with a sharp tongue!Kanae, Sanetora's foster father, is a businessman who runs a company, and is not without an ulterior motive: Sanetora suddenly finds himself employed! As if that wasn't perplexing enough... It turns out the company is no ordinary company—it deals with strange objects that can turn their owners into freaks of nature!!Just how is Sanetora going to live his new life?!

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Yugo

Yugo Beppu is a master negotiator and mediator. Fluency in five languages, Socratic wit, and a deep understanding of human nature combined with top-level international connections make him a formidable operator. When a woman's father is seized by Dacoit bandits in Pakistan, Mayuko seeks Yugo's help. After complex and dangerous negotiations, he secures his release. After this success Yugo is called in to deal with yakuza in Japan, triads in Hong Kong, the IRA in Northern Ireland, and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Siberia. (Source: M-U)

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Shounen Hakaryuudo

Plot: Ciel is a slow (but apparently much smarter than he looks) member of the 'fairy-wing conservation group' - an organization that protects fairies from hunters who try to hunt for them for their wings, which are said to bring the possessor eternal happiness. Ren is a precocious and simultaneously immature fairy-wing hunter with a tormented past and a grudge to satiate. The encounter between these two will open the doors to a tale interwoven with fate.

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Koichirakashite

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. This manga is a love comedy collection of oneshots about how mysterious meetings can lead to falling in love before you even realize it! These stories will be sure to make laugh and cry at times.Volume One includes...-The mysterious NEET owner who appears every evening from the floor above.-The husband who struggles to support the love that has come to visit his wife-The strange businessman who has purchased a gravestone for his final resting place?!-The little brother who suddenly appeared in the room of someone living alone...

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Akumu No Sumu Ie - Ghost Hunt

Wonderland After Hours:Midori's mother has finally acquired her dream home, but it isn't long before supernatural phenomenas disrupt the peace of the family. And if unexplained electricity failures, strange phone calls, and the eerie presence of spirits weren't enough, finding unexplainable blood in the bathroom becomes the last straw. Mai and Shibuya Psychic Research are brought in to investigate, but what horrors will they find in the 'dream' home that turns out to be nothing but a nightmare?Akumu no Sumu Ie - Ghost Hunt is based on a sequel novel of the original set several months in the future from the original Ghost Hunt. It was published in 1994 and was only two volumes long.

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Plant Doll

Fron Viz:Yumiko Kawahara's disturbing short stories explore the strange and codependent world of dolls and the people who own them.Both quirky and unsettling, these science-fiction morality fables question the dark side of love and pride.

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Red River

Yuuri, a modern day teenager who just has gotten her first kiss, is suddenly whisked away to ancient Anatolia where an evil queen wants her for a blood sacrifice. Luckily, the timely intervention of Prince Kail saves Yuuri from the queen's grasp. For now. Kail promises to send Yuuri back to her home, but the queen's persistent schemes to kill them both, plus their growing interest in each other, keep those plans delayed.Orontes Renka is a side story in volume 28.

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Babylonia no Shishi

From Aerandria Scans:Sin and Leona are childhood friends – she has always been fascinated with the mysteries of the ancient Near East, and he has always been fascinated with her, to the point where he is ready to follow her thousands of years in the past, to the days of the Kingdom of Babylonia, where she has a very special part to play…

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Gokusen

Yamaguchi Kumiko is the granddaughter of a yakuza boss who would rather become a high school teacher than continue the family tradition. The principal lets her teach on the condition that her students don't find out her background, otherwise parents will be in an uproar. Her class 2-D, is filled with delinquents, but she won't give up on them. Sawada, the leader of the class, finds out her secret because some things are hard to hide when you've been raised by yakuza. Will he tell and get her fired, or will her background be revealed some other way? What messes will these misunderstood punks get into, and how will she get them out?

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Bread & Butter

Life isn't going too well for Yuzuki. She's a 34 years-old and without a boyfriend. The elementary school she works at is close to firing her, and to top it off she doesn't know what to do with her life at all. But even when she quits her job and tries an arranged marriage, things don't work out. Only the bread she eats at the small stationery store around the corner gives her comfort. So one day, she asks the store owner to marry her on a whim, and to her surprise, he agrees?

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Zoku Anastasia Kurabu

The long-awaited finale to Anastasia Club.

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Majo no Biyaku

Plot: AnimeNewsNetwork:In the story, Kaoruko runs a small herb shop after losing both of her parents when she was young. One day, a mysterious man dressed in all black enters the shop. Kaoruko is about to discover the true nature of this man named Kaname Hibiki.

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Natsuyuki Rendez-vous

From Stiletto Heels:A young man with poor eyesight named Hazuki works part-time in a flower shop and falls hard for the shop-owner Rokka. But what happens when he discovers that residing in her apartment is the spirit of the man she can never forget?

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K no Souretsu

The funeral bells are ringing the day that Mikaya moves into his new apartment. However, once he arrives, he learns a startling fact: the room he's moving into belonged to the dead man, K. Strangely enough, no one ever found K's body. Where is the body, and which of his eccentric neighbors was the one who killed K...?

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Meiji Hiiro Kitan

From Aerandria Scans:It’s the middle of the Meiji Era and our heroine, the little Suzu, is sold to the red lights district. However, the rich heir of a dry goods store Tsugaru buys her freedom for no apparent reason. She is deeply grateful for being saved, but she doesn’t understand why he paid so much money for her and the only explanation he offers is “we have a bond.” She tries to unravel the mystery of his feelings and gradually grows from a little girl to a young woman, always by his side. A gentle and slow-paced love story set in the Meiji Era.

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Fujoshi Kanojo

Plot: A (popular?) blog-turned-novel-turned-manga. Fujoshi Kanojo is the story of your average college student, Mutou Taiga, who falls in love at first sight with Ameya Yuiko, a senior at his part-time job. He bravely confesses to her and succeeds in starting a relationship. However, Yuiko tells him that she's a "fujoshi." Clueless to what it meant, Taiga assures her that he's okay with that, not knowing it would drag him into a romance of roller-coaster twists and turns.If you don't know what "fujoshi" means, then you must not have watched Lucky Star. Or Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. Written as "rotten woman" in kanji, it's slang that refers to a girl who is very enthusiastic about comics featuring male homoeroticism (definition thanks to WWWJDIC). In simpler words, female yaoi fans.

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JOKE:ЯR'S

Chiwa has finally returned to the Underground as a police officer. He's been enrolled in the Special Forces unit, "Great Raven", a group mostly made up of Enhanced Humans. They must protect unsuspecting children from being snatched up and 'enhanced' by the crime syndicate, Joker.

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Toukaidou Hisame - Kagerou

Halfway through the Tokaido, Hisame’s adventure continues with his childhood friend Itsuki. The plot thickens as Hisame discovers things about his father, and the mysterious demon blade Sengo Muramasa that used to belong to him. Yakumo, a newly introduced antagonist, desperately tries to get his hands on this sword, and will use all means to achieve his goal. The only link to Hisame's past and clues to as why Yakumo wants the demon blade lies with Hisame's sensei, Hibiki. Can Hisame discover his past and put the pieces together?This manga is the sequel to Tokaido Hisame.

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Tomie

Tomie was serialized in Gekkan Halloween, a shoujo horror manga magazine (The magazine is now defunct).Plot overview:Every male who encounters Tomie becomes obsessed with her and eventually kills and dismembers her. But Tomie is not human, and is always reborn...Note: There is a third volume of Tomie called "Tomie: Again" which was included in the new japanese reissued two- volume version of the Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection (???? ?????). These new stories are not included in the original ComicsOne editions of Tomie, but are available in Dark Horse's Museum of Terror volume 2.Note 2: Besides Junji Ito's Horror Comic Collection (Also called Museum of Terror), in 2000 Tomie was also published in a compilatory tankoubon called "Tomie, The Complete of Tomie" -???? ???THE COMPLETE OF TOMIE-. Regardless of the title, this volume does not include "Tomie Again" within its pages.Note 3: Some people also consider "Tomie no kyoufu gaka" [ ??????? ?? ??] as part of the Tomie franchise. Tomie no kyoufu gaka was the first Tomie's compilatory tankoubon that was ever released (It was published in 1996) and features five stand-alone stories (Gaka, Ansatsu, Mouhatsu, Youjo and Takitsubo) that were published a year later in Junji Ito's Horror Comic Collection.(For more information about Junji Ito and his other works visit: junjiito.mutagene.net )

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Worldend: Debugger

Miharu is smart, attractive and talented. One could say he's been playing life in "easy mode". That is until a teddy bear steals his wallet and a strange man comes out of an arcade game and demands Miharu play a game; the D-game! What's worse, the man even claims to be from the future. What will happen when Miharu must play to survive?

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Green (ninomiya Tomoko)

A city girl goes to the countryside and falls in love with a young farmer.

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Izayakaku

The war between the two clans intensifies. Most of the Genji (Minamoto Clan) have fallen, and were taken as captives. Among them was the young Yoritomo, a surviving successor of the Minamoto Clan. Yoritomo was pardoned by the head of the Taira Clan and was exiled to Hirugakojima, a small island in the Izu province. Yoritomo lived a peaceful and contented life in exile and never once thought of taking revenge.One day, a monk was sent to the same island, supposedly banished for insolence towards the Emperor. Incidentally, this ill-mannered monk called Mongaku is Yoritomo's acquaintance. Mongaku meets Yoritomo and tries to convince him that the time has come to take revenge on the Taira. However, Yoritomo shuns Mongaku’s words….

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Pen to Chocolate

Futaba Towako is a mangaka who just recently had her series canceled due to its lack of popularity. To make matters worse, her editor gives up on her and it only deepen hers devastation. Suddenly, Akimoto, a new editor rushes to her aid. Despite his strangeness, Towako find herself being pulled in by her new editors sincerity and passion, but whether it’s romance or writing, she’s still just a beginner and what matters most now is that she has a lot to learn!

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5-ji Kara 9-ji Made

Sakuraba Junko is turning 27 years old soon, but even so, she is without a boyfriend. But who cares?! Junko has a stable job as an English teacher and she is fine with spending her upcoming birthday alone. Well, until she is set up with on an omiai with a Buddhist monk... which, of course, she rejects. But then he shows up at her school where he has enrolled in private lessons... what will become of our Junko-sensei?

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Sayuri Hime

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. A special mini-edition of Yuri Hime magazine with extremely short manga by Fujieda Miyabi, Takahashi Mako, Shinonome Mizuo, Chi-Ran, Sunao Minakata, and Hakamada Mera and illustrations by Hibiki Reine, Hoshino Lily, Nangoku Banana, Morishima Akiko, Hakamada Mera, and Hayase Hashiba.This book was a special send-away item and is not available in stores.[B-U M]

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Yami No Alexandra

Venice, 17th century. Safinia lives a simple and happy life with her father, a renowned artisan and his apprentice Angelo. Everything changes when a man named Ricardo Carrá comes looking for her saying the rich Poliziano family wants her as the lady's companion who has "a weak constitution". However there's more to it than it seems and after her refusal, her father is mysteriously accused of robbery and murdered.

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The Three Times

Plot: Hina, a Japanese foreign student. Junho, sufferer of Elite OCD. Won, a girl with her own way of seeing the world. A campus life story of these three people. Deals with the issues of Japanese, Korean and global society.The author, Yellow Goo Mi, was born in Japan, but since her parents are Korean, the Japanese government will not give her a Japanese citizenship (which is considered a problem in some aspects; these people are slightly alienated by the 'real' Japanese people in society, despite their extremely Japanese upbringing). As a person with a Japanese and Korean heritage, she writes about the problems in modern Japanese and Korean society, plus the global society in more recent chapters.The first part of the webtoon focuses on Hina and the Japanese society, an example being the more increasing problems with Japanese bullying (ijimae).The second part of the webtoon focuses on Jun Ho and the Korean society, an example being the flaws of Korean education system. Currently, the webtoon now focuses on the global society.Original webcomic

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Doll: Ic In A Doll

From Tokyopop:A woman develops an unusual closeness to a doll that will effect her human family from beyond the grave... A man wants to make his doll into the perfect human lover, but discovers that humans are not perfect... A father buys his son a doll

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Mato-chan

No summary

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Gensou Gynaccoracy

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Collection of short stories.2 - KamakurianSci-Fi story about building kamakuras after the weather warms further globally providing less snow for local customs.3 - A Happy Birthday from ParadiseHoshihiro is a 40-year-old virgin who desperately wants a girlfriend. But thanks to his "chastity", he has been chosen as the next fairy king. But in the two weeks until the wedding...4 - Tsutsu-IzutsuItagua and Kagua are two aliens whose spaceship broke down while they were visiting Earth, leaving them stranded and hiding in a dried water well. Due to the distance to their planet, they took 13 years to ask for help. And now finally...5 - Cops and RobbersA petty robber learns of the existence of the "Village of Honesty", where they only tell the truth, and he goes with the purpose of rip off all the townfolk.At the entrance of the village he finds a fork with two beautiful women, one who tells the truth and one who tells lies, and he could make only one question to find the right way.6 - New Century GodslayerGod decides to destroy the world because of mankind's behavior and entrust the creation of a new world to his son.

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Chronos - Deep

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K - Lost Small World

Is the story of how Misaki Yata and Saruhiko Fushimi met and parted ways.

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Aisuru Hito

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. The heroine is named Kinoshita Sakiko. She is 20 years old, and a college student. She is totally in love with her 28 year old university professor, Chifyu-sensei. He is tall, moody, and handsome, with short dark hair and sexy eyes. Unfortunately for Sakiko, he always refuses her very aggressive displays of affection. Yet she never gives up. Even when faced with a housing crisis, Sakiko goes to drastic lengths to earn money so she can stay in the area and continue her pursuit of her teacher. However Sakiko isn't very bright when it comes to making money. She actually tries to sell herself on a street corner!! But her price is too high, and no one is interested. Then she meets a guy on the street named Natsuo. He is also really cute, with long blond hair. He is interested in Sakiko, and after one really great kiss, he takes her to his apartment. Things are starting to get steamy when they are interrupted by the arrival of Natsuo's brother. Guess who it is?

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Koi Uma

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. From Alice Dreams :Shiina is a rich daughter of a business man who went bankrupt. She lost her house, and her engagement was broken off. The only thing left for her is a club that was left in her name. Having no idea of how the club is, she visits it, a

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Planet Ladder

From Tokyopop:Kaguya is the orphaned survivor of a war she can't remember. She has grown to love her new life and the parents who have adopted her, until once again, her life is torn away from her. A boy she remembers only in her dreams comes to Kaguya and gives her the truth ... that she is a princess from another world...

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Porando Hishi Ten No Hate Made

In the 18th century, The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was an elective monarchy, in which the king was elected by the nobility. The kingdom thrived under its unprecedented in the history of Europe, yet flawed democratic political system. Many difficult t

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Hayabusa - Sanada Dengekichou

From Shoujo-Sense:Sasuke Sarutobi is the commander of the Sanada army's elite force, Hayabusa. While Sasuke serves Yukimura with respect and love, within his squad he is known to be very strict and have an extreme S personality.As Sasuke twists their arms to make them stand up to it, Hayabusa members strive day after day to uphold their duty...Note: S = sadist

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Boku To Senpai No Tekken Kousai

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K - Memory Of Red

From AQUA Scans:In Shizume city there's a legend about a red king with demon-like abilities that single-handendly created the Homra organization, as long as you get accepted into Homra, you can gain extraordinary powers.

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Ane no Kekkon

Yori Iwatani is close to her 40s and is giving up on love and marriage. She has decided to live a quiet solitary life in her hometown. But when a handsome former classmate appears, things change for her.

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Kanojoiro No Kanojo

Mayu, a young stylist is dumped by her boyfriend, thus she needs to find a new home. She makes an aquaintance with his neighbor, Yuka Shimizu, a lonely girl with a very particular dream, to become a free-fight champion despite her small stature.

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Otomodachi Kara Hajimemashou.

Akira is a young girl who, while not a recluse, is incredibly awkward when it comes to socializing. She desperately wants to make a friend, but it seems like it will take ages before that will ever happen.

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Lega No 13

From Aerandria Scans:Venice, the latter half of the 16th century. Young Legare works as an apprentice to his father, an apothecary, but his real passion is the forbidden art of Alchemy. One day, a fortune teller predicts that he will meet four people with the power to change destiny and shortly after, his father is incarcerated on suspicion of alchemy. Legare, the real alchemist, is forced to produce gold for the person who arrested his father. Follow him through the mysteries of Venice, through his struggles, his encounters with powerful friends and enemies, and his search for the Philosopher's stone.

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Private Prince

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. His highness the prince of Estolia Wilfred became an exchange student in Eito University. His noble appearance and gentleman�s manners quickly filled the campus with hysterical women�s voices. Miyako also studies at that university and for her master�s thesis, she is determined to interview the prince about his great-grandmother. But when she approaches him about it, she suddenly discovers �the dark side� of his character...?!

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Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si-do

Korean manhwa based on a novel.The heroine reports a hit and run case which disrupts the family of Hui Won. He constantly abuses her while falling in love with her along the way.However, she has a boyfriend - Eun Gyu - who is the singer of an ongoing

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Gente - Ristorante no Hitobito

Plot: Follow-up to Ristorante Paradiso, that focuses on the daily lives of Casetta Dell'orso's staff.

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Teke Teke Rendezvous

From Stiletto Heels:Tayoko is a gyaru who flaunts herself on the outside, but is still a virgin who has not yet known love. Despite being a student in the agricultural department, she works parttime in a hostess club, where she meets and becomes interested in a patron's grandson named Shishio.Â

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Erotic Fairy Tales: The Little Mermaid

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Lotte has always been fascinated by the surface world, but mermaids are forbidden to ever have contact with humans. One day, she finds a handsome young man adrift in a shipwreck and takes him to shore. More obsessed with the surface than ever, Lotte jumps at the chance to become human when a demon named J offers her a magic potion. But there's more to J's potion—and his intentions—than meets the eye...

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