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“Aim for it! The first Japanese female astronaut commander!” The middle school girl Asahida Alice is good-looking and popular, but her speech is poor-quality and she can't keep up with her daily classes. She meets a solitary genius, Inuboshi…? “I will make you smart.”

Seojin, who fled to the countryside to escape loan sharks, finds himself in a job that hedidn't have in his destiny: pepper farming.One day, a sudden stomachache forces Seojin to fertilize someone else's field,only to be caught by the farm owner, Cheol.After their chaotic first meeting,Cheol, for some reason, begins helping Seo-jin with his farm work.However, Seo-jin is completely captivatedby Cheol, and only intends to use him as a farmhand, snack shuttle, and s** partner(?)...Will Cheol be able to win Seo-jin's heart, who is always running around?+

I woke up to find myself as Duke Kalis Fall — with a wife and a daughter! Kalis seems to have been a man indifferent to his own family, and tension rules within the Fall household. Upon arriving in this world, the first thing I remembered was a certain otome game… but my daughter, Laurier, is the villain in that game! I’ll make sure my beloved wife and daughter are truly happy, and I won’t allow her to become a villain! Thus begins the story of a father determined to prevent a tragic ending!

"Ahjumma, if I defend you, what will you do for me?" Successful attorney Jung Doyoon ends up taking on a case involving the family who abandoned him during his childhood. Now in the position of power, he moves back into the house of the mother and daughter... "We've already had dinner, shall we all sleep together now?"

This is a strange family story. I went camping with my family. We met a man with a strange demeanor and a strange lantern that could alter time and space! I can't believe it's real! Or....is it? Kazoku Scramble is a collection of short stories with a twist, based off of the novel with the same name. However it encompasses its own original stories so original fans and new readers can enjoy.

“You possess true skill. Your environment was simply holding you back.” Alto, a young appraiser who was forced to work like a slave in the aristocracy-driven Kingdom of Dramd, has his life turned upside down when he is scouted by Beralt, a soldier from the enemy nation, the Glaus Empire. In this completely meritocratic country, Alto’s off-the-charts appraisal talent is discovered, and he’s suddenly nominated to be an executive candidate in the military! Immediately after joining, Alto has great expectations placed on him by the military executives, a group of powerful individuals. Yet, the people he chooses to ally with are only hopeless dropouts facing desperate situations… This is an exhilarating rise-to-power fantasy where Alto uncovers the hidden talents of his comrades and carves out a new destiny!

Exceptional skills, terrible looks. Just when I thought everything was over, a miraculous beauty came into my life! People go wild over my dazzling new appearance, and a dreamlike life unfolds before my eyes. But this beauty… was not a blessing.

It’s the first day of school at Hyakki Academy, and incoming first-year students Mamekichi Maizuka and Tamao Akisame are running late! As fellow troublemakers, they become fast friends, but there’s no time to stand around and chat! After all, they’ve heard talk of a delinquent teacher who cleaves buildings in half, so who knows what other sorts of peculiar professors await them…?

Ayumu Otsuki is a space lover with an ambitious dreamto meet an alien. Despite lacking friends or romantic experience, she started the Astronomy Association by herself, which is the only place where she feels she belongs. One day after school, she dropped an association poster, but an upperclassman picked it up for her. The upperclassman introduced herself as Hayami, and Ayumu completely fell in love at first sight when Hayami recognized her passion! Ayumu's mind is now filled with love, and she goes all out to share her feelings. However, Senpai seems to already adore something else. She fell for a fitness junkie?! A peculiar girl's straightforward romcom!!

My first "friends-with-benefits" was also the first person I ever fell in love with. Kiyotaka Sano and Tamaki Aihara—two people with basically zero romantic experience—match by happenstance on a dating app and end up becoming FWB. They both fall for each other. But they each convince themselves that if they don't keep acting like "calm, casual adults," the other will toss them aside. So even as they keep sleeping together... they can't seem to let their hearts get any closer...

"Why. Da**, do you have something to say?"My first impression of Joo Kwon-oh was that he was a total punk.He was the kind of guy who would casually spit out vulgarities while smoking a cigarette. The way he twisted his neck from side to side, glaring at others, was intimidating.Joo Kwon-oh knew exactly how to assert dominance among the group of guys.Without a doubt, his first impression was the worst."Hey. Can you lend me a pen?""Here.""Oh, thanks."But coincidentally, I started to run into Joo Kwon-oh more frequently.Maybe, Joo Kwon-oh isn't as reckless as I thought.I became increasingly curious about him. Before I knew it, my eyes were always following him, and my hands were sketching him.+

In this world there are 5 different races: Angels, Demons, Beastkin, Vampires, and Humans. Among them, Elle, an angel boasting immense power, belongs to the Angel Police. Having a strong sense of Justice in her heart, she is strict with both herself and others and diligently carries out her duties. One day, Elle, because she is a member of the Angel Police Elite Force, is ordered to capture the timid demon Eve. Elle ends up chasing Eve who is a bit of a problem child who manages to escape from prison every time she is caught! Moreover, both Eve's ability to swiftly escape and her strong summon beasts make it quite difficult for her to be captured! While she is chasing Eve, she gets caught up in an outrageous incident!!

At a certain evening party, Aurelia’s fiancé breaks off their engagement, only for her to die and return to the age of ten, again and again. The first time, it was suicide born of despair. The second, she was murdered. The third, an accidental death… Through these repeated lives, Aurelia comes to realize that her fiancé never truly loved her. Determined to live freely in her fourth life, she resolves to avoid their engagement altogether and search for another match. At a tea party, she encounters someone unexpected: the knight Yuris, a man rumored to be a playboy in every version of her life—!?

Kim Hoon lives a life at rock bottom, working as a part-timer who makes solicitation calls for the illegal loan company 'Myeongdong Capital.' He is also the secret lover of 'Madam Bae,' the daughter of Myeongdong Capital's chairman. One day, Madam Bae asks him to pick up her son, 'Bae Jea,' from school. Kim Hoon goes to get Jea without much thought, and there, he hears an unexpected proposal from the boy...

Reincarnated as a villainess in an otome game, Cecilia realizes that as the heroine’s rival, she’ll die no matter what route she takes. Convinced that she can avoid her death flag by masquerading as a man, she crossdresses and assumes a new identity. In the process, however, she ends up replacing her brother-in-law as the knight charged with protecting the heroine! And now the prince who should be condemning her to death wants to hang around her all the time...?! Cecilia will do whatever it takes to achieve a peaceful and carefree life, but if her guise ever slips it’s Game Over!

Jung Won travels between worlds, working as a “contractor” (hitman/mercenary). After deciding to retire from his contractor work and return to normal life for the sake of his younger sibling, his brother Jung Yoon suddenly disappears into the other world. Now Jung Won must reclaim the powers he lost upon retirement and venture back to bring his brother home. Can he recover his lost abilities and rescue his sibling?!

A girl whose wish is to see the ocean. A boy who is afraid of the outside. A school trip that was canceled and a journey to fulfill her wish.

Discovering a hidden talent at death's door, 78-year-old Ma Bok-hee embarks on an unlikely new career path: becoming a Magical Girl! After a life of hardship leads to a terminal diagnosis, she accepts a life-extending offer to ensure she sees her granddaughter reach adulthood. Though stumbling over the terminology—asking, "Magi... what girl? You sayin' if I do that, I can live 'til my grandbaby's all grown up? Alright then, I'll do it!"—she embraces her new role with determination. Now, a rejuvenated Bok-hee must defend East Village from the mysterious 'Doksu' and his corrupted villains in this spirited tale of a grandmother finding her true calling at the very end of her life.

Read Otherworld MercenaryJung Won travels between worlds, working as a "contractor" (hitman/mercenary). After deciding to retire from his contractor work and return to normal life for the sake of his younger sibling, his brother Jung Yoon suddenly disappears into the other world. Now Jung Won must reclaim the powers he lost upon retirement and venture back to bring his brother home. Can he recover his lost abilities and rescue his sibling?!

After someone tried to kill her, Liz wakes up with amnesia. For some reason, her previous self had been pretending to be “useless,” and she transforms from a gloomy, dowdy dropout into a competent, confident beauty! She begins to brilliantly and satisfyingly get back at the noble ladies who used to bully her. Meanwhile, one of two princes approaching her may have been the lover of her past self…!? A hidden-high-spec noblewoman rises to success while being loved—royal romance × mystery!

A mangaka and her salarywoman roommate come to realize that their feelings of friendship might actually be something quite different.

Lucia, a young lady who was diagnosed as having "no magical powers" as a child and treated as a failure, leaves home in despair when her family finds only her adopted daughter, Lisette, the daughter of a saint, loved. She is taken in by a magical tower where special wizards live, along with a fluffy wolf beast. There, she is doted on by Serhi, a genius wizard who is supposed to be cold and misanthropic, and her hidden talents begin to blossom. Meanwhile, Lucia's former family and those around her, who never loved her, are showing unexpected reactions to her disappearance... This is the beginning of a doting romantic comedy in which the hero expresses his feelings out loud and never allows any misunderstandings!

A two-shot originally published in Yuri Hime December 2019 and January 2020.

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