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Heian-era Kyoto. Rumours swirl of the beautiful Kaguya-hime, who sets her suitors impossible tasks to complete but is a favourite of the young Emperor. The Emperor's bodyguards, the Takiguchi, have been decimated by a massacre known as "The Fifteen Nights of Blood", of which there was only one survivor; the mysterious Tsukuyomi, who intervenes in a fight between the Takiguchi and the Hokumen, the forces of the ex-emperor Giten-no-Kimi. Tsukuyomi is the only known survivor of the Fifteen Nights of Blood, and searches for vengeance for their brother's murder. Yet Tsukuyomi is not what they seem in many ways - and when they meet Princess Kaguya, it becomes clear that there is far more than meets the eye to the intrigues of the Imperial Court.
Let The Idol Fly is a talent show held by Apple TV, and will select 8 girls from 100 trainees to form a idol group. Song Zihe is one of them. And Ling Jingye, as the president of Hao Feng Group, was steady, efficient and fierce. But when he accidentally knew Song Zihe online, a new world appeared in front of him. He became her fan and treated her as the treasure and even used all his money and ways to cheer her up!
He had robbed her of everyone she loved To Karen Aylward, newspaper magnate Hal Chissolm was a monster. He'd refused to marry Kirsty, her pregnant twin sister, so that Kirsty had given up their son at birth--to be adopted by Karen. Then Kirsty was fatally injured in a terrorist attack. And from her deathbed she had told Hal about their child. It was the first Hal had heard of him. He wanted the son he had never known and he threatened to take him away unless Karen agreed to marry him. To her he had seemed to be a man of no feeling, yet clearly he was--and the feelings he aroused in Karen were equally intense ....
A writer and an editor who are lovers. The writer keeps basing characters on her lover, and the editor wants her to stop because she's afraid that people at work will find out about their relationship. From the anthology "Girls Only."
From Esthétique : Kakinomoto Karin, the daughter of a millionaire, lost her ability to walk in an accident. During her stay at the hospital, she fell in love at first sight with the medical researcher, Okita Teppei! She bought him a house, but only on the condition that that Teppei spend two hours with her every day. Karin, who only wanted Teppei's heart, will one day find out that not only does Teppei already have a fiancée, but he has a frightening split personality... !
Nana, an apathetic 24-year-old with nothing much in her life, suffers a car accident and wakes up in her 14-year-old junior high body. As she lives through each day, she starts to remember things she buried deep in her memory, and she can now not remember being involved with her older sister, whom she deeply admires, and her sister's first love, a senior at her school.
When Mikami Kotoha (26) once again encounters sexual harassment in the Italian restaurant where she works, she decides she's had enough. She quits her job and makes plans to renovate her beloved grandmother's cafe (though it had been more like a cafeteria) to set up her own restaurant. Her older brother enlists the help of his former classmate, Hirosawa Kazuya (28) so that she has someone who can help her with the manual labor. The two work together peacefully, but two days before the opening, her plans are put in jeopardy!
"I'm sorry... I love you so much, Kanade... I can't hold back anymore..." Don't say that while holding my underwear, damnit...!!
Masahiro, the delinquent son of a Yakuza leader, and Tsubaki, a famous trans make-up artist, are in a long-distance Osaka-to-Tokyo relationship. However, Masahiro’s younger brother and Tsubaki’s supporter go in between them. Because of this, Masahiro begins to feel inferior to Tsubaki and worries if it’s okay for him to stay as he is...?!
From Blue Flor: A garden with thistles in full bloom scented like black tea, a garden visited by a beetle who speaks the human tongue, a garden filled with laughter and a freshly baked Mirabelle tart, a garden where walking 47 steps will show you a sea lion's broken pool...
The Lady With Special Circumstances Is Now Adored and HappyStory 1: And Thus, the Solitary Songstress Is Adored (Creators: Akiko Kawano & Aki Shikimi)The only duty of the ostracized Mute Songstress' is to heal a wounded, mythical beast through her songStory 2: On This Occasion, I've Entered Into a Long-Distance Marriage (Creators: Haori & Mahiro Arisawa)Although she married the neighboring country's noble for political reasons, her very busy husband hasn't shown himself at all?Story 3: The Laidback Lady and the Kind Prince (Creators: Anne Mitsuki & Ryou Asano)The man a poor lady met when she went to a party hosted by the royal family is actually the extremely mindful prince?!Story 4: After My Engagement Was Canceled, a Weird Man Picked Me Up (Creators: Amayokan & Yukura Kinomiyama)After her engagement ended, a lady from a viscount house received a marriage registration request from the absolute zero' young master?Story 5: The Fourth Princess' Wedding Circumstances (Creators: Hadzuki & Airi Ayase)The princess rumored to be lecherous and a playgirl is actually a humble princess who works in the city?!
Master of the Haunted Inn introduces us to a young man sometime in middle Meiji-- the late 1880s or early 1890s. He owns an inn where people are said to be able to see the ghosts of their loved ones.To this place comes a young woman who was married to a man she'd never seen before, an invalid whose dying wish was to wed her. He died on the same day as they met. Even with this history, she feels herself his wife and desires earnestly to see him again.In other stories we have lovers yearning for a last meeting, a little girl out looking for her father, and a young temple servant, dead many centuries, who cannot rest in peace.
