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“MY ONLY CRIME WAS LOVING YOU…” Aristia la Monique was the child of prophecy, raised to be the companion of the future emperor-until she wasn’t. When the actual child of prophecy appears on the palace grounds, Aristia is immediately cast aside by both fiancé and country and forced to watch as Jieun is handed the love, future, and throne that was supposed to be hers. Her only reward for a lifetime of obedience is death…or rather, a second chance at life! When she unexpectedly wakes up in her ten-year-old body, Aristia resolves to escape the shackles of prophecy no matter the odds. This time, she’ll take fate into her own hands! **Official Translations**: * English: [Yen Press](https://yenpress.com/9781975337261/the-abandoned-empress-vol-1-comic/) (physical copy)

A good girl. An obedient daughter. A submissive wife. Scarlett spent her entire life being the prized doll on the shelf; first for her father, and now for a cruel duke who is to be her husband. Tired of the belittling and manipulation, Scarlett finally decides to take matters into her own hands and fight for a life of freedom. And that's the thing about girls who've been forced to be quiet their whole lives - no one's ready for what'll happen when they finally decide to speak up. **Original Webtoon:** [Naver Webtoon](https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list?titleId=813180), [Naver Series](https://series.naver.com/comic/detail.series?productNo=9607523) **Official Translations:** [English](https://www.pocketcomics.com/comic/9029?languageCode=en), [S.Chinese](https://www.kuaikanmanhua.com/web/topic/18140), [French](https://www.webtoons.com/fr/romance/double-tromperie/list?title_no=5525), [Japanese](https://manga.line.me/product/periodic?id=Z0002981), [Thai](https://www.webtoons.com/th/romantic-fantasy/double-affair/list?title_no=6953), [Indonesian](https://www.webtoons.com/id/romantic-fantasy/to-have-an-affair/list?title_no=7184) ***Note:** The novel originally released as R15, it later released in 2020 as R19 but the R19 tag is due to heavy content not necessarily explicit scenes. The novel physical version is the 2016 version.*

After overcoming many obstacles as an LGBTQ+ person, Prin has become a successful star. But soon they woke up in the body of a nobleman from a past era, "Woradet," who was gay like them. Although at first they thought they would live a quiet life and find a way to return to their original world, they were dragged into the impending political events. "I just ignore everything and enjoy the privileges I receive as the son of the governor. Don't care who is suffering...BUT if I have to live in this world where LGBTQ+ people like me will be labeled as wrong forever, I'm betting on changing it myself!"

A collection of short stories by Ingénuo author. 1) *Pure Love* 2) *Double Faced Venus* 3) *100% Pure Girl* 4) *Summer's Noon* 5) *Bloody Sculpture*

From [INKR Comics](https://comics.inkr.com/title/23-kindness-is-a-disease): Sangwoo -- a rich high school boy, meets Jinyeong and quickly deepens a new friendship. Sangwoo's friend starts to warn him to stay away from Jinyeong and that Jinyeong is using him. Sangwoo tries to find out more about Jinyeong's hidden story with Jooyeoung -- their dead classmate!

Ellie is a secretary who is only serious about serving the King of Corosol. She's sober and dull, but she's had a dream since she was a girl. It's just like Cinderella; just for one night, to dance the waltz. Her dream was about to come true. She was supposed to go to the ball tonight, borrowing Princess Lucia's dress. But on her way to the ball she was kidnapped because she was mistaken for the princess! Ellie is trapped in a dingy hut, but for some reason, one of her kidnappers seems to be protecting her...?

From Kodansha: Naoki is an older guy, 40 years old to be exact. He lives a mundane single life in the real world but enjoys venturing into the VR world as a female avatar. One day in the VR world, he meets a young happy-go-lucky girl named Honami, whom he slowly becomes attracted to but who is the real Honami and what will become of their relationship?

Nora didn’t want to die. All she wanted, was to save a cat from drowning. When she drowned instead, she woke up in another world: Catsrule, a world ruled by cats! These aren’t your normal kitties though, they walk on two legs and look like us but we’re their pets! It’s not all milk and catnip however, soon Nora is captured and adopted by a cute cat boy who hates humans named Caesar. Can Nora return to her normal life or will she spend nine lives as a cat’s pet? Russian:|| Коты правят миром! Нашим - тайно, другим миром явно. И могут даже завести себе бездомного человека. Вы в этом еще сомневаетесь? Рано или поздно придется признать: коты правят миром.|| French:|| Nora ne voulait pas mourir. Tout ce qu'elle voulait, c'était sauver un chat de la noyade. Après s'être noyée, elle se réveille dans un autre monde : Castrule, un univers gouverné par des chats ! Pas de simples chats cependant, ceux-ci marchent sur deux jambes et nous ressemblent et à l'inverse, c'est nous, leurs animaux de compagnie ! Nora est capturée et adoptée par un adorable garçon, appelé Caesar, qui déteste les humains. Nora pourra-t-elle reprendre une vie normale ou passera-t-elle neuf vies en tant qu'animal de compagnie d'un chat ?||

The moon rises and sinks, where should this memory with no way out go?

From Kodansha Comics: From the mind of Japan's “queen of horror manga” comes a short story collection sure to put a grin on your face and send a chill down your spine. Survive six of the author's hand-picked scares, plus original commentary from the author. For more than 30 years, Inuki Kananko has been terrorizing girls and boys with twisted catch-22s and ghoulish monsters. Discover one of the best-kept secrets of global horror with this selection of some of Inuki's most popular short comics.

Orphaned at a young age and drowning in her father's debts, Anastasia spent her days starving despite being a noble. One day, her uncle, Count Everdeen, proposed to pay off her family's debts if she agreed to get engaged to his enemy, Duke Theodore. Having no better alternatives, she accepted her uncle's offer and moved to Theodore's palace. Despised by Theodore and his servants, all kinds of mistreatments awaited Anastasia, from ruining her dress to serving her rotten food, with the last straw of Theodore telling her it was a good thing her parents died. However, Anastasia's lonely and depressing life takes a turn when she encounters a gentleman at a ball... **Original Novel:** [Chapters](https://series.naver.com/novel/detail.series?productNo=5470204), [Volumes](https://series.naver.com/novel/detail.series?productNo=6775759) **Original Webtoon:** [Naver Series](https://series.naver.com/comic/detail.series?productNo=11334825), [Ridibooks](https://ridibooks.com/books/5101002016) **Official Translations:** English ([Tappytoon](https://www.tappytoon.com/en/book/if-you-so-desire-my-despair), [Manta](https://manta.net/en/series/if-you-so-desire-my-despair?seriesId=3878)), [Japanese](https://www.comico.jp/comic/7985)

Dani Torres has only ever wanted to be one thing: a professional tennis player, just like her mom. Unfortunately, having her perfection-driven mom as her coach ended up making her resent the sport. After a career-ending injury, Dani’s parents send her away to recover for the summer in a little coastal village. There, she meets Blanca, a girl full of life and in love with astronomy. They don’t start off on quite the right foot, but something about starry-eyed Blanca is impossible to stay away from. And though she’d much prefer to avoid thinking about her future, Blanca decides it’ll be her mission to get Dani to feel inspiration again.

When a man saves a fox, the last thing he expects is for her to return to him a beautiful maiden, but gratitude is powerful and so is the law of the fox. When it comes to finding a love match, don't rule out pairing with a tiger, wolf or bear! This collection of seven fantasy short stories is about finding love in the strangest of places.

When life is so bad that you'd rather be held hostage, your next step is obvious. That's what Elaine realizes after a fatal accident slings her back to the past, where she wakes up as her powerless child self. All it takes is pretending that she's the daughter of her evil uncle the king to be captured by the enemy empire's tyrant. However, Elaine knows that she must struggle to prove her value as a hostage in order to survive. Or so she thinks...the last thing she expects is to take the emperor's heart hostage with her cuteness, of all things! It's not long before Elaine is adopted into the imperial family - which includes a scary empress dowager and three equally intimidating princes. Earning their approval as an outsider seems like an uphill battle, but now that she's come this far, Elaine is determined to win over these formidable royals! **Original Novel:** [Naver Series](https://series.naver.com/novel/detail.series?productNo=5475229) **Original Webtoon:** [Naver Webtoon](https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list?titleId=800001), [Naver Series](https://series.naver.com/comic/detail.series?productNo=8842951) **Official Translations:** [English](https://www.tappytoon.com/en/book/the-empires-cutest-little-hostage), [Japanese](https://manga.line.me/product/periodic?id=Z0002736), [Indonesian](https://www.webtoons.com/id/romantic-fantasy/the-empires-cutest-little-hostage/list?title_no=7196)

Julia, a lowly servant from the marquess' estate, has no idea how she lost the ability to speak. With no memories before the age of twelve, she's simply been told a certain incident traumatized her. While everyone treats her harshly at the estate, Julia has been able to barely survive with the help of Camille, the second son of the marquess. Camille even helps her speak again using his special power, "Arcana." However, that's when the jealous servants plot against Julia and throw her out of the estate. The duke's eldest son, Glen, stumbles upon injured Julia and takes care of her. Now, between Camille's obsessive passion and Glen's genuine affection, which one would Julia choose?

He is a dark beast worthy of his name who’ll do anything for money. This is what Isabella Barret is told about Lion Black, the man she must marry while in disguise as his actual fiancée, Violet Lancaster. As dangerous as this gamble is, if Isabella manages to fool Lion until their one-year marriage contract is over, she’ll be freed of yet another contract that has kept her shackled for the past five years. But to Isabella’s surprise, she isn’t the only one putting up a fake act in the relationship, as Lion’s heart might not be as cruel as his reputation suggests. And what’s more, the longer Isabella looks at him, the more she begins to see in him a precious old friend who presumably died years ago…

“In your sweetest moment, I will give you Hell.” Alexandra was a wicked woman who did not mind staining her hands with blood in order to make her husband the emperor. However, he repaid her unconditional devotion with betrayal, an extramarital affair, and a gruesome death. Just before Alexandra died, she had one thought in her head: “If I could go back into the past, I would be willing to be his wife again. Then I can show him how painful it is to be betrayed by the one you loved the most!” Miraculously, Alexandra returned to the day of her wedding with her husband. She decided to become the empress once again to exact the most delightful and brutal revenge she can… - https://www.pocketcomics.com/comic/7535 - https://www.lezhinus.com/en/comic/revenge_honey

Two young girls at a renowned boarding school depend on and despise each other for the attention they both desperately want—and the love they cannot sustain. Every rose has its thorns, each dazzling flame burns in this period thriller set in turn of the century Seoul, during Japan's colonial occupation of Korea.

Suffering from a terminal illness, Yuuta's mother asks him to film her last moments, which he does. From her radiant smile when she is with her family to the times when sickness ravages her body in the hospital, he records hours upon hours of footage. After her passing, Yuuta compiles her life into a movie to screen at his school, deciding to add a bit of fantasy to the ending of his film, Dead Explosion Mother, with a literal explosion! Following the backlash caused by his supposedly tone-deaf portrayal of his mother's death, Yuuta trudges to the hospital roof to take his own life—but there, he meets a girl named Eri. Captivated by his film, Eri requests Yuuta to make a new one that will blow the previous out of the water and prove his critics wrong. The movie they set out to make will stand apart by blurring the line between fact and fiction. And of course, it wouldn't be a Yuuta film if it didn't have his personal flavor—just a dash of fantasy.

A port town where the Mafia actively operates behind the scenes. Gohongi is a young man who has come back to this to place where he was born after many years and finds a job working at a video rental store, which also becomes his new home. It is here that he begins to live with a young girl named Mei and a homosexual by the name of Katsura. But both of them are members of the Mafia group, Lovely Town. And fifteen-year-old-Mei is a ruthless hitman. There have been rumors that the struggles between Mafia factions are becoming more intense. Still not able to completely grasp the situation, Gohongi winds up getting dragged into a world of trouble... [Official English Translation](https://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga/girl-may-kill/volumes)

“I was reborn…and I want to die again.” Despite choosing to die in her previous life, our protagonist is reborn as Selena, the short-lived villainess from a novel. The character Selena was written to be so villainous she spends her final moments isolated in a dungeon. But our reincarnated protagonist has no will to live anyway, so she might as well jump (again) and save Selena from her predetermined miserable fate. But when Selena’s family and a knight prevent her from dying, what can she do…? (Source: Pocket Comics)

Ten years have passed since my brother's dead body was discovered in the bottom of a cliff. Rumour said, he was escaping his engagement and supposed to meet his lover there... But that person never came. After searching for years, I've finally reunited with him again. "Did you really betray my brother...?" He trembles like a child. But he is still as beautiful as the first time he smiled at me. Kai, the owner of my brother's heart, and the man who had stolen my first love... Who does your heart belong to? "Tempest of Cage" is your ideal Taisho-era BL that involves tragedy, family drama, and a love triangle. Follow Yoshihisa and Kai on the journey to make peace with their past... **Official English Releases:** [Manga.Club](https://www.manga.club/book/title/TEMPESTCAGE-EN), [Manga Planet](https://mangaplanet.com/comic/613af962ae604), [Renta](https://www.ebookrenta.com/renta/sc/frm/item/143855/)