Spring 2026

Ame loves sweets, and nobody appreciates that habit more than Caries, a living cavity that has made her mouth its home. Caries calls Ame “Mom,” treats her teeth like household furniture, and even takes control of her body whenever another reckless idea appears, paying little attention to the protests of the person whose mouth it actually is.Ame tries to manage the guest her own habits created, but Caries has a very different argument: Ame gave her a home and keeps feeding her sugar, so of course she is her mother. Between tooth brushing, cravings, and nonstop chaos, an ordinary battle against cavities turns into the strangest parent-child relationship imaginable.

Yoon Bomi is known as the bright, dependable student who seems to have everything under control. One lie told to protect her best friend changes that. To keep someone else's feelings safe, Bomi ends up in a pretend relationship with Choi Jinyoung, a classmate she never expected to grow close to.The arrangement is supposed to be simple, but everyday moments make pretending harder. Bomi begins questioning what she truly wants, while Jinyoung carries feelings of his own beneath their contract. Between friendship, misunderstandings, and old hurts, the two enter the confusing spring of first love, where being honest with someone else starts with admitting the truth to themselves.

Yukiya Asagi and Miku Sakura created their “I love you” game in sixth grade: they take turns saying the phrase, and whoever gets embarrassed first loses. Four years later, the game is still going, but what began as childhood teasing has become much more dangerous now that genuine feelings are growing behind the words they repeat so easily.Every attempt to fluster the other becomes a confession without quite being one, and every small victory makes ending the game harder. Both want to become more than childhood friends, but a real confession would mean abandoning the safe rules that have protected them for years. So they keep playing, each waiting for the other to be brave enough to break them first.

Spica Virgo dreams of entering the Royal Diana Academy and becoming a great sorceress like Claude Sirius, the youngest instructor the school ever had before his mysterious disappearance. There is one serious problem: Spica cannot use magic at all, and she has neither money nor connections to find the mentor required for admission.A talking black cat with exceptional magic suddenly appears, looking like the impossible answer she needed. He has a problem of his own—a curse that trapped him in feline form—so the two make a secret bargain: he will teach her magic if she helps restore his body. Unfortunately, the method for breaking the curse is far more embarrassing than any spell, and their master-apprentice pact soon begins uncovering secrets neither expected.

Meiko Morita leaves her rural hometown for Tokyo to attend the prestigious Amamiya Girls' Academy, imagining that her new dormitory will match the glamour of city life. Instead, she discovers that the residence is actually a manga café, and its tenants are expected to help run the business as part of their community service.Meiko may be hopeless with modern technology, but she is warmly joined by dorm leader Rie, popular streamer Marika, and aspiring pro gamer Neo. Between classes, customers, and the daily work of keeping the café alive, the girls build a shared life far different from what Meiko expected, but richer in friendships and experiences than any luxurious dorm could have offered.

Kumarba and his friends leave familiar surroundings behind for Toytoyland, a town built from toys where almost anything can become part of the next adventure. New faces, strange games, and little problems wait around every corner, giving Kumarba plenty of chances to learn, help, and make mistakes. The setting may be different, but his curiosity has not changed: every unfamiliar object is something to investigate, and every new friend is another reason to turn an ordinary day into a bright, playful discovery.

After the conflict with Tanpopo, Taiyou Asano has grown stronger and become more deeply rooted in the Yozakura family, while Ai, once tied to the organization, is given a chance to begin a different life under their roof. Defeating the enemies who targeted Mutsumi has not ended the danger, however. The conspiracy reaches into the Yozakura family's own past and brings their father, Momo, back to the center of the threat.Through harsher training and new missions, Taiyou continues developing his abilities so that he can stand beside Mutsumi's siblings rather than always needing their protection. The closer the family comes to understanding what happened in the past, the clearer it becomes that their next enemy knows their secrets from within. Protecting Mutsumi now means confronting the Yozakura family's history, not merely stopping attacks from outside their home.

Thirty-nine-year-old Juuzou Oogami is a legendary hitman who has never failed an assignment. After wiping out a powerful organization, he is stung by a mysterious wasp, collapses, and wakes up in the body of a 13-year-old boy. Before he can understand what happened, his boss gives him a new order: use that body to infiltrate a middle school.A man who knows almost everything about assassination knows very little about being an ordinary student. Between classmates, homework, and adolescent chaos, Juuzou tries to complete his mission and find a way back to his real body, but the world of killers refuses to leave him alone, and old dangers soon reach his new life.

In the year 199X, nuclear war burns the world, drying the seas and reducing civilization to ruins. Humanity survives only to enter an age ruled by strength, where gangs and brutal fighters seize food and water while the weak live at the mercy of anyone powerful enough to crush them.Across this wasteland walks Kenshiro, the man with seven scars on his chest and the rightful successor to the deadly martial art Hokuto Shinken. He pursues Shin, the man who took Yuria from him, yet he cannot ignore the cries of the oppressed along the way. Every village he saves and every tyrant he brings down spreads his name farther across the desert, gradually turning a man searching for the woman he loves into a symbol of hope in a world that has forgotten mercy.

Teacher Hiyori Hiwamura's reputation reaches the classroom before she does. Students call her the Scary Teacher and trade rumors that anyone who angers her will be cursed. Akihito Abikura, one of her students, believes the same image until he encounters Hiyori after school and sees what nobody else knows: she is painfully shy, gentle, and intimidating mostly because she has no idea how to express herself. Akihito becomes the one person who understands the truth and begins helping whenever her awkward behavior makes her reputation even worse. The more he learns about her, the harder it becomes to see the terrifying teacher everyone describes, and the more protective he feels toward the vulnerable side she accidentally entrusted to him.

Kazuya enters his family’s resort trip still unable to make sense of the distance between himself and Chizuru. After everything they have shared, he begins to believe that keeping their rental relationship alive will only hurt them both, and he resolves to end the long-running pretense once they return to Tokyo.Mami, however, has no intention of letting their secret survive the trip. When she exposes the truth in front of Kazuya’s family and friends, the story that has protected him and Chizuru for so long collapses at once. With nowhere left to hide, Kazuya must finally decide whether Chizuru is someone he can let go of or the person he has been trying to hold on to all along.

Botan Kamiina begins university life in a new dormitory and soon notices the quiet resident assistant, Ibuki Tonami, drinking alone. Botan has never tried alcohol before, but curiosity leads to her first sip and reveals a far more assertive, openly flirtatious side than anyone would expect from the polite first-year student.Different drinks become memories the two share, from shochu to whisky, while Ibuki, who has long preferred solitude, slowly allows other people closer. For Botan, the joy of discovering a new drink becomes inseparable from the people sitting beside her, and each glass brings both women a little farther out of the shells they arrived with.

Shizuku Kanzaki spent his childhood subjected to the unusual training of his father, world-renowned wine critic Yutaka Kanzaki, from memorizing subtle aromas to learning how a drink should be presented. Resenting the world his father tried to force on him, Shizuku walked away and took a job at a beer company, refusing to taste wine at all.After Yutaka dies, Shizuku learns that inheritance will not pass to him by blood alone. He must identify twelve wines his father called the "Apostles," followed by the legendary bottle said to stand above them all: the "Drops of God." His opponent is Issei Tomine, a brilliant wine critic whom Yutaka adopted shortly before his death. With no formal tasting career to rely on, Shizuku is forced back toward the senses his father trained all his life and into a competition inside the very world he once refused to enter.

Awajima Musical School gathers girls from across Japan who dream of standing onstage, turning its boarding house into a small world where ambition, friendship, envy, and hope live under the same roof. Wakana wants to become a musical star, scholarship student Emi constantly draws attention, Kinue runs the house while carrying an old promise, and teacher Katsurako has her own history with a family of performers.Their lives are not told through one heroine or one straight timeline. The story moves between girls and years, showing how a brief moment in one person's youth can become a defining memory for someone else. The school offers a rare path toward their dreams, but it is also a harsh place where talent and effort cannot guarantee success. Through training, rivalry, and intimacy, the girls shape who they are before knowing which of them will ever reach the stage.