(from ebookjapan): Mirage is an old-fashioned bar on a street corner. Men who are lost in life come to the mirage, transcending time and space, and become captivated by Maya, the beautiful proprietress. What do the defeated men want from Maya? A bewitching and sad story of men by Leiji Matsumoto.
From Stiletto Heels: Douzono Tsugumi, who works for a major electrical company, spends her vacation at her grandmother's home in the country. Her grandmother soon passes away during hospitalization, and Tsugumi decides to continue living in her grandmother's house. However, a mysterious man shows up holding the key to the rear house, and despite not fully comprehending the relationship he had with her grandmother, they begin living together. Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010).
Once a delicate teenage romance between a boy and a girl, who shared all of their firsts. But then they broke up and the boy moved to Tokyo. Years later, the girl goes to college in Tokyo where she meets her ex-boyfriend again, who somehow changed into a cocky womanizer?! But there's still this certain spark between them.
After a long day of adventuring, Bare and her party members are on the lookout for romance... and thus begins their Around 30 Quest!
Ingrid didn't want to be this town's doctor. She doesn't even have a license! But now she's here, she's stuck, and she's going to make it work.
Humiliated and exiled, a poet builds an underground following within the ravenous rock scene through her enlightening poetry. Now, Laney and her friends fight against the white collar criminals who threaten their careers, all within a spectacle of visual metaphors.
Jiun's first romance ends when her crush, Jae-i, confesses that he likes someone else. To make matters worse, Jae-i mistakenly believes that Jiun's crush is his scary-looking best friend, Seohyeon, and tries to help her win him over. Now, Jiun must deal with a bigger problem than her unrequited crush, the boy-friend she had never imagined getting close to.
Bianca is just another noble lady with a simple dream: to marry into a dukedom and enjoy a life of luxury. But everything changes when she stumbles upon a book—one that casts her as the villainess, doomed to stand in the way of her real-life fiancé’s love story with a commoner girl. As Bianca realizes the book accurately depicts her own fate, she refuses to accept her tragic ending. Can she rewrite her story, or is she simply destined to become a villainess?
Eight years ago, I reunited with my first love, who had unilaterally broken up with me and disappeared. Now, I love her too much to hate her, and I declared that I would do anything to start over with her. However… “I don’t like unattractive guys.” An unexpected twist in the scenario?! In order to meet the girl I love, I must literally become her pet human(?) and say, “Make me your dog.”