Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2009

Based on the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2007

Based on the novel Kanikousen by Kobayashi Takiji.

• Vol: 1
• 2008

A story about the hardships of the crew of a crab fishing ship as they struggle under capitalist exploitation.

• Vol: 1
• 2011

Lacy Davis has an unfortunate turn in Guatemala when an untrustworthy taxi driver abandons her, stealing her luggage, traveler's checks and passport! Alone and with no real grasp of the local language, Lacy must rely on the kindness of Jordan Stone, a mysterious yachtsman, to find her way back home. When the pair make a deal to travel the high seas to return to America, what will be the greater threat to the pair: a dangerous hurricane headed their way, or the whirlwind romance threatening to toss all they know overboard? 

• Vol: 1
• 2011

I may be just a shy, boring person, but I'll reinvent myself on this cruise! Lana Walker holds this thought firmly in mind as she boards the ship that will take her all around the South Pacific. However, just as she clears the gangplank in her usual plain navy business suit, she trips! "Watch out!" Zac, a sailor clad in a dazzlingly white uniform with eyes a deeper blue than the ocean itself, catches her. Lana's face glows hot from his teasing smile. "What's going on with me?" But just when she's almost taken in by his charm, she overhears him: "Women are all as vicious as piranhas."

• Vol: 1
• 2012

Cassie Winters gave up on marrying for love after her parents, who she’d always thought were passionately in love with each other, got a divorce. Instead, she’s decided to marry a man compatible with her. on paper, but for whom she feels nothing. But the morning after her bachelorette party, she finds herself naked in a strange bed…alongside a man she’s never met before! Now she’s stuck on a cruise with this stranger she can’t even remember spending the night with. While she tries to avoid him, she finds it difficult to ignore her growing feelings for him. Will her feelings about marriage keep her from falling for this man, or will she follow her heart and risk making the same mistake her parents did?

• Vol: 1
• 2008

Christina is a tanned tomboy who works as a crew member on ships. One day she is suddenly approached by a handsome and mysterious man at a Mediterranean harbor town. Why would he choose to talk to her, when there are so many other beautiful girls? He tells her his name is Luc Henri, and she realizes everyone in town knows him by name. He tells her he will see her again before leaving. A few days later, while working on a ship chartered by a royal family, Christina bumps into Luc again...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 2006 - 2008

It’s the year 1967 and while the Apollo space missions are getting underway and the US are deploying soldiers to Vietnam, a disenchanted student heads home with a broken heart and an empty wallet. On the trip the self-confessed science fiction fanatic meets a mysterious girl who calls herself Emanon. However, while she may seem like an ordinary girl, Emanon claims that even though her physical body is that of a seventeen-year-old, her mental age is over three billion years old. With memories dating back to the single-celled organisms at the beginning of the world right through to the present day, Emanon curses her ability and wonders why a person with such an encyclopaedic knowledge of history should even exist. Now, as the student talks more with Emanon, he begins to realise that reality truly is stranger than fiction.

• Vol: 1
• 2011

Leah felt like all her dreams had come true when she married the handsome billionaire Gerard. That is, until she overhears him say the most shocking thing: “Any man who marries for love is an idiot. I married Leah because she’s a virgin and perfect for sculpting into the ideal wife.” All his loving words were a lie? Hurt, Leah runs away and, six months later, is making a living as a deckhand on a cruise ship. Suddenly, Gerard’s twin brother, Gareth, shows up! He looks just like Gerard, but his personality is the exact opposite of his brother’s; he’s kind and loving, and Leah finds herself falling for him…!

• Vol: 1
• 2009

Lisa was having a vacation in sunny Spain when she was involved in a car accident. The owner of the car, Angus Hamilton, takes her to the hospital. Angus turns out to be a man of high society - someone whose path Lisa would never have crossed if it wasn't for this accident. Even after her wounds are healed, she cannot stop thinking about the man she only met once. Then one day, Lisa receives an invitation from Angus to join him on a cruise ship. She would normally decline, but something makes her accept this surprising invitation...