Kiyo has spent his entire life studying, and he is finally on his way to a prestigious university in Tokyo. But, he's lost. As he sits for a moment trying to compose himself, a dashing man exits and inquires why he has been pacing around his house. Rather than be mad or make fun of his predicament, Ozaki offers Kiyo room and board if he will help take care of his enormous house! It doesn't take long for Kiyo to figure out something is up with his strange new master, other than offering young men a place to stay. Ozaki is actually a fox spirit, and he supposedly hates all humans, except for Kiyo's grandfather, who he had a connection with and offered Kiyo this arrangement as a means to repay the family debt.
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Orphan Kotarou has just moved back into his grandparents’ home outside the Takao region as he has inherited it, and he’s reliving some of his fuzzy childhood memories. One day, he is asked to tour guide to some friends to a local shrine, and some of his memories start to trickle back. He remembers a day on a trip to that same shrine where he met a tengu girl. That night, he comes back to the temple again and finds himself in an arranged marriage situation with Hime, the tengu from his memories! But she dreams of seeing the outside world and experiencing lots of different food. Kotarou agrees she should, which Hime interprets as an offer to live in his house.
High school student Chika thinks there might be something wrong with her. She doesn’t feel romantic attraction like everyone else does, but when a boy asks her out, she decides to try it after everyone says this is how she’ll fall in love. A terrifying rush into intimacy leaves Chika feeling like there’s definitely something wrong, but she moves to Tokyo to attend college and study Psychology under a professor who writes about gender identity and sexual attractions. In her first semester, Chika rents a room from that same professor, meets other psychology students, and does a lot of self-discovery that leads her to believe she may be asexual.
Osuke suddenly finds himself without a place to live. But, his luck turns around when he is mysteriously recruited by a dashing realtor into a living situation that seems too good to be true. It turns out that he’ll have to share a space with a hot guy named Nijio, and that he’ll not know a good night’s sleep thanks to the strange otherworldly presence that keeps visiting him. When it’s finally revealed, Osuke turns out to be a spirit magnet, while Nijio has special powers to help negotiate or even evict those spirits unwilling to relocate -- making them a perfect duo for the Divine Inspiration Real Estate company!
A big city cop moves to a mysterious mountain town where the former resident police officer went missing, and the Goto family acts peculiar to everyone, especially outsiders. Rumors abound that residence are cannibals, and there are many peculiar traditions and rites of passage where Agawa struggles to prove he can be part of the culture. One day, Granny Goto is discovered dead in the woods, presumably eaten by a bear, and the villagers, particularly the Goto clan, spring into action to avenge her death. Officer Agawa has little time to reign in the situation and handle it as the town’s authority. Instead, he joins the family in the hunt and gets mixed deeper in the mystery that embroiled the former town policeman.
Hashimoto is an innocent, rather oblivious office worker who doesn’t particularly get alone with his boss. Every proposal he turns in is ripped to shreds and has to be redone. Hashimoto’s only reprieve is an online game where his best partner, U.M.A., helps him take down tons of beasts and tackle tough quests. The two befriend another play, Salted Salmon. U.M.A. suggests they all meet in person and try to be friends in real life since they get along so well online. At first, Hashimoto is hesitant and concerned the transition won’t be smooth. But meeting his online friend reveals it’s actually his boss! Cue many misconceptions and misunderstandings, and Salted Salmon even gets tangled into the comedy of errors as they try to work everything out, including their feelings for one another.
Adapted by INA
In seeking to become her father’s heir, Tia assumes duties with the knights, and she begins squiring and taking on the title Dame Monique when she’s on duty. Later, one of Tia’s memories of a fateful day return to her, and she realizes a catastrophe is about to occur in the king’s private gardens. Averting it may bring her back under the gaze of the royals she is hoping to escape, but letting disaster strike again may mean lose a piece of her own family legacy as well. And there’s still so much about her mother she doesn’t know, but even Prince Ruve seems to have more answers than Tia! 
Mr. Villain, also sometimes called The General, is a leader in the Evil League, and normally, his job is to eradicate humans on Earth in order to conquer the planet for his people. But, Mr. Villain is very wise and particular about his mission. Earth isn’t going to be conquered quickly, so balancing his work life and his days off is extremely important. On one mission, he investigates several animals at the zoo and grows particularly fond of the fluffy, cuddly looking pandas. He then becomes a frequent visitor to the zoo and begins investigating other fuzzy creatures. While on his excursions, he comes into contact with the Rangers, the human protectors of Planet Earth, but as he’s maintaining his work-life balance, he calls a truce with all of them and refuses to do battle on his days off.
Nina starts off life as an orphan, but is quickly sold out by someone she trusted. Her beautiful blue eyes make her rare and alluring, but also an almost perfect double for the recently deceased princess Alisha. Her captor is Prince Azure, Alisha’s older brother, who brings Nina into the palace and strikes a deal with her to impersonate the princess in exchange for a comfortable life. Nina goes through etiquette training and soon has to put her acting skills to the test in front of the king, Alisha's father, and her stepmother, who haven't seen Alisha in a number of years. The next test will be to survive long enough to be married off to a prince and secure an alliance for her kingdom!
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Our heroine meets an untimely death but received a message just before asking her if she wanted to purchase the full insurance package for her transmigration journey. Once in the afterlife, she is asked what kind of story she wanted to be placed in, and she asked for a childcare fantasy, but she gets an S-class novel instead! Rather than live out her afterlife in relative ease compared to the hardships she endured in her first life, she’s now stuck as Ailette, an energetic child of an alchemist serving a noble household. Thankfully, she thought to partake in the full insurance package, so can purchase skills such as cooking, alchemy, fighting, and impress everyone into thinking she's a child prodigy, all to help her navigate her difficult storyline! |
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