TOP MANGA OF THE MONTH

Living with strange creatures has its ups and downs.

"He protected me, complimented me... and became my first love." Aoi's an instructor at an art and graphic design school, and ever since she was little, people have been telling her she's too uptight and boring. One day, when a colleague tells her the same thing, another colleague, Sosuke, defends her traits as strengths, not weaknesses. It doesn't take long for Aoi to fall in love with the guy who saw the good in her despite her reputation. When they're alone together after a party, Sosuke asks her an interesting question... Be sure to check out this sweet and innocent (!?) romantic comedy about the conscientious Aoi and the goofy Sosuke, brought to you by Coda!

Ai's boss-slash-crush, Kazushi Soejima, and best friend, Moe Kimizuka, started dating...! In the throes of heartbreak, Ai Nitobe meets a younger guy, Kotaro Mochizuki, who's a total puppy-dog type! It's love at first sight (for Kotaro anyways...). He asks Ai on a date and manhandles her at work! But, she still wants to see that wolf one more time... Nobody knows where this love boat is heading!!

One day, Itsuki, a beast-like boy with a vibrant, fluttering gold mane and a sharp gaze that could kill, appears before plain-old Rika. She knows he's trouble but can't resist him after tasting the sweet poison from his bared fangs. She tells herself, "This is not love!!" The action she desires won't stop even if she's devoured and her heart is torn to shreds!! This title also includes non-serialised works gems of short stories by Yuuki Hinase.

Men are so hard to understand, even as an adult. It's been one year since Ako was dumped by her fiance and her heart is in tatters. Suddenly, she bumps into an ex-boyfriend, but is treated as nothing but a friend with benefits! That's when her cheeky junior coworker at work confesses 'I love you', out of the blue!? "I go with the flow and end up with my coworker (9 years younger than me)..." This surprise confession sets Ako's heart pounding... An adults' love story to sweetly soothe both the heart and body.

Rena takes her work seriously, but she doesn't get along with her curt boss, Mr. Odagiri. One day, she sees him smile and now she can't stop thinking about him. Even though he's strict, he has a cute side and he pays attention to her... She loves his soft side that he doesn't show to anyone else. He kisses her and whispers in her ear, "If you're interested, I'll teach you." In bed, he shows yet another secret, beastly side of himself... This is a sweet, erotic love story between a girl and her cool boss.

"Do you really think I'm trustworthy?" I can't believe my neighbor, who helped me in a pinch, could suddenly change like this!! For as long as she can remember, Honoka has never excelled at anything. Working as a dispatch worker with no aspirations, she becomes increasingly anxious about her future. To make matters worse, her boyfriend with whom she lives, suddenly breaks up with her and moves out. Left all alone in her quiet apartment, Honoka encounters something truly terrifying...!! In a blind panic, she goes knocking on the door of her neighbor, Hikaru, a kind and good-looking college student, to ask for help wearing nothing but a bath towel!! "Seriously, how can you expect a guy who'd put a half-naked woman up for the night not to have an ulterior motive?" No sooner does Honoka feel safe, than Hikaru suddenly changes, pushing her down onto the sofa and licking her from neck to chest like a starved wolf!! The question is, which is more terrifying...!?

Twin sisters with opposite personalities… Which one will the prince choose? Ever since they were kids, Alessandra has felt inferior to her twin sister, Dea, who’s naturally charming, beautiful and the life of the party. Alessandra’s college boyfriend broke her heart by dropping her the moment he met Dea, and ever since, Alessandra has thrown herself into her research. Then one day a man named Rini appears. He’s like a prince straight out of a fairy tale. He greets Alessandra and steals her heart in an instant. But when Alessandra learns that he met Dea first, she figures it’s all over. But what if she’s wrong about what Rini really wants?

Mariah doesn't trust men. It doesn't help that her job has conditioned her to believe that all rich and handsome men are complete jerks, either. When Zayad, a man with the imposing presence of a proud foreign king, practically overflowing with confidence, moves in next door, Mariah can't help but feel hostility toward her new neighbor. However, when she takes a spill in the shower and is left unable to move, the one to hear her cries and come running to the rescue is none other than Zayad himself! He's the last person she wants to see her in this unsightly state! Ignoring her pleas not to enter the bathroom, Zayad mercilessly opens the door...

Abby fell in love with Nick, a millionaire, and they got married, but her happiness didn’t last long. She faced a cold bed, rumors about his relationship with an actress and his secret connection with his secretary...but she still loved him. When Abby joyfully told him she was pregnant, he unexpectedly pushed her away and said he didn't want it or her. He divorced her and didn’t even acknowledge the child. It has been four years since that dark, sad time in Abby’s life. Now Nick has appeared and is asking for a reconciliation. What does he want? Abby wants to refuse, but she feels like she’s been captured by his gaze...

Elena returns to her hometown of Seville to attend her older sister Reina's engagement party. Her sister has been promised to Vidal Marquez, who is both an old childhood friends as well as Spain's foremost authority in banking. However, Reina has broken off her engagement and disappeared! Theirs wouldn't have been a marriage of love; the purpose of the marriage was to get Vidal to give his assistance to the bank her parents own. Now that Reina has vanished, Elena gets offered up as a sacrifice after being in the wrong place at the wrong time! Elena has been aware of Vidal's arrogance and coldheartedness ever since they were children. How can she ever marry a man like him?

Vere Tolladine, a successful businessman, needed help. He'd been taking care of his late brother's wife and her children and couldn't keep doing it alone. So Fabienne became his live-in nanny. Vere is unfailingly kind to everyone...except Fabienne! She can't understand why Vere treats her differently, but she can't stop thinking about him. Fabienne has conflicting feelings about Vere that become even more complicated when she realizes that Vere is in love with his sister-in-law...

In order to meet up with her sister and her husband, who live in politically unstable Zimbabwe, Emily travels on her own to Zanzibar. Her biggest mistake is to accept the charming words of a French trader who offers her a free ride in a yacht in return for her services as a crew member. This man turns out to be a drug dealer, and after being exposed by the sheikh, the trader offers Emily as a gift! The sheikh thinks she is a prostitute, and her attempts to convince him otherwise fall on deaf ears. And now, she finds herself held captive in the luxurious palace...!

Today is Dilly's wedding. The preparations were all steadily underway when she discovers a shocking truth from a conversation between the groom and her father. He proposed to her because he had his eye on some reward? It was all a plan devised by her father because he was worried about his thirty-year-old, single daughter. Thoroughly humiliated, Dilly runs up the aisle and out of the church still clad in her wedding dress. She jumps into the white limousine that was supposed to be used for her honeymoon and instructs the handsome chauffeur to drive away. Dilly just isn't meant to fall in love. She'll never be able to get married. While staring in astonishment at Dilly's angry antics, chauffeur Mick is roped into playing the part of her groom...?

Tsuda and Sakae are both artists who coincidentally painted nearly identical paintings. Now they are students at the same school. Are they destined to be together?

Alena, the 19-year-old scion of a well-respected, old Russian family, falls in love at first sight with Kiryl, a man she met in the lobby of a high-class hotel. He cuts a devilishly stylish figure, so she has no idea that this man who wears an air of danger around him like cologne has painfully risen up from the slums to become a billionaire. With his sweet words and the simple press of his lips to the back of her hand, Alena readily offers up her body and her heart to him. She could have no idea, at the height of her happiness, that the dazzling pleasures he offers her are, for him, a means to revenge!

Salim and Grace were once lovers. But when she was made to face the reality of her unworthiness of the crown prince of a desert kingdom, Grace left Salim without a word. Angry at her abrupt departure, Salim tracks her down. They survive a plane crash and find themselves washed up on a deserted island. The shock causes Grace to lose her memory. And yet, whenever Salim touches her, memories awaken within her. Under these extreme circumstances, Grace is forced to realize that she can't live without him.

For just one night, shy Tina wishes she could be a woman who is confident and attractive. So when she meets a devilishly handsome man at Carnival in Venice, she casts caution to the wind and gives her virginity to him. They remain masked and spend an enchanted night together. But the very next morning when Tina peeks underneath his mask while he sleeps, she discovers her brother’s rival—Nico! Shocked by the irony of fate, she runs away without a word only to find, two months later, that she is carrying his baby!

"You con artist. Someday I'll have my revenge!" Taz is dumped without explanation by her lover, Judeo, who suddenly turns on her. He believes that she and her father schemed to trick his family out of a fortune, and continues to despise her until they meet again, six years later - and Judeo is now Taz's stepmother's fiance. Is he using her to seek revenge? Taz tries to stand up to him to protect her stepmother and her late father, but finds that his appeal has only increased in the passing years, and that she is unable to resist his cruel but beautiful eyes...

A woman perfect for affairs-that was his first impression of Willow,the prep-school girl visiting a friend's house during summer vacation. A fancy party at the mansion is Willow's first experience with the finer things in life,as she's a bookworm used to a humble lifestyle. Wearing a provocative dress loaned to her by a friend,the shy Willow accidentally falls asleep in the kitchen-not thinking in her wildest dreams that the Greek tycoon Theodore Kadros would soon arrive,and not realizing how his gaze filled with lust when he looked at her...

Our story takes place in medieval England, where Simon, second son of the de Burgh family, has grown tired of peaceful days. "At least let me take on some robbers...." And just as he wishes, he is assailed by a band of thieves during his journey. In an unexpected attack, he and his men are taken prisoner! Even more surprising, the leader of the thieves is revealed to be a woman! Having never suffered such humiliation in his life, Simon trembles with fury. But at the same time, he slowly falls for her charm...

Lucy’s life isn’t exactly a fairy tale. Pret a Party, the company she founded with her three friends, is verging on bankruptcy due to her ex-husband's embezzlement. But she refuses to discuss the matter with her gorgeous trustee, Marcus, because while she’d fallen for him the moment they met, he’d always treated her like a child. Her powerful feelings for him have caused her nothing but trouble, and even her marriage had been an act of rebellion against him. But one evening, after Marcus forcibly escorts Lucy home from a party, he suddenly kisses her! The kiss leads to a night of passion…so why does she awake the next morning to find him as cold and distant as ever?

Professional gambler Lorna lives the drifting life: hit one casino, clean house, and then move on to the next. Her luck runs out when savvy casino owner, Dante Raintree notices her unusual winning streak. She expects an interrogation, but what she gets is far more eerie: he reveals he's psychic, just like her! Dante, convinced Lorna's a supernatural spy sent to collapse his clan of psychics, drags her to his home as a captive! In book 1 of the Raintree miniseries, Lorna travels on a journey of self-discovery and passionate romance!

What will the billionaire give this lost girl? Freedom? Or captivity? Miranda was once known as the queen of high society, but now she lives alone on a deserted island in the Caribbean. Or, she did until a man named Louis made a sudden intrusion into her island home. He knows all about Miranda's past, and comes across as exceedingly arrogant. Especially when he announces that her uncle has sold him the island and everything on it…including her! It was because of her uncle that Miranda had to abandon her former life… And now this? Yet when Louis abruptly steals a kiss from her, she feels an intense heat envelop her body…