Black Sesame Salt and Custard Pudding - Recommendations

• Vol: 10; Ch: 39
• 2013 - 2020

Life isn't going too well for Yuzuki. She's a 34-years-old and without a boyfriend. The elementary school she works at is close to firing her, and to top it off she doesn't know what to do with her life at all. But even when she quits her job and tries an arranged marriage, things don't work out. Only the bread she eats at the small stationery store around the corner gives her comfort. So one day, she asks the store owner to marry her on a whim, and to her surprise, he agrees...?

• Vol: 13; Ch: 50
• 2010 - 2015

As a child, Mao spent all her time at Hiro’s house across the street. Going to his house always made her feel cheerful. A few years later, Mao’s father gets remarried and Mao finds herself with nowhere to call home. Hiro ends up letting her stay with him in the house he's been occupying alone since the death of his parents. A love story unfolds, between two childhood friends of different ages.

• Vol: 4+; Ch: 33+
• 2022 - ?

At age forty-five, office worker Sasaki has had enough of the corporate grind. His only solace is smoking-and the friendly smile of supermarket cashier Yamada. When Sasaki can't find Yamada after a particularly trying day, a striking woman invites him to smoke with her. The despondent man thinks he's made a new smoking buddy in the cool, teasing Tayama, but Sasaki doesn't realize he already knows her!

• Vol: 10+; Ch: 40+
• 2017 - ?

An ordinary girl, Yae, loses her home and job at age 29 and has nowhere to turn. But when she runs into a childhood friend, Takumi, he “proposes” she live with him in a high-rise condominium in the city, acting as his fake spouse … A tale of deceit … involving a handsome architect!

• Vol: 15
• 2001

Yuuka Fujita is 18 years old, and a high-school graduate. However she has not gone on to college like her high school classmates. Instead, her parents are trying to marry her off, sending her to way too many omiai meetings. This story begins with Yuuka refusing to go to another omiai. In her anger and haste, she literally knocks down her latest potential marriage partner. His name is Ryo Kusuru, and he is a college science professor at 36 years old. Their omiai meeting goes well enough however it doesn't look like much is settled at their first meeting. She does think Ryo is very handsome, despite him being a much older man. Ryo seems to like Yuuka well enough also, even though she is so much younger than himself. Meanwhile, Yuuka's parents keep sending her to more omiais with more men.

• Vol: 7+; Ch: 27+
• 2016 - ?

Shino, 30 years old, is an experienced woman both professionally and emotionally. But today, it is marriage that worries her and she wishes to find a partner who, like her, aspires to settle down. Only Mayuki, a young man nine years younger than her, declares his love to her and enters her life without warning! How can she resist so much spontaneity and fervor? Shino then decides to have a casual relationship with him until she finds the one who will meet her selection criteria...

• Vol: 4+; Ch: 29+
• 2020 - ?

Narumi is a high-spec, popular man who has gotten bored with life since everything goes his way. On the other side is Takanashi, a woman who passionately throws herself into her hobbies and work. People call her "the tuna that'd die if she stopped swimming." Through a twist of fate, these two people who are polar opposites had a marriage interview with each other. Narumi attended the meeting with the intention to reject the other party. However, an attacker rushed at him during the interview, and Takanashi handled the situation with extremely magnificent martial arts?! Takanashi, who Narumi looked down on as a straight-laced oddball, is actually "Taka-san," a mysterious person Narumi has extremely high regard for! Receiving a shock, Narumi had already embraced her by the time he noticed...

• Vol: 2
• 2021

Due to the Isurugi family's circumstances, Haru has to enter into a political marriage with his former girlfriend and childhood friend, Rio Tamaki. Living together under one roof, a dry life together for the sake of formality... though in actuality, the two have unresolved feelings for each other..."O-oh no... if he's this close to me... my feelings for Haru are still..." "There's no way I can let her find out that she still has a strong influence on me." While desperately pretending as if they've gotten over their feelings for each other, their awareness towards the other grows. A fake marriage where a former couple's love is gradually reignited. Watch as the vexing love comedy about the two's fake marriage life is interwoven.

• Vol: 8+; Ch: 53+
• 2018 - ?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 3
• 2012 - 2015

This story is about a university student named Mikari who finds herself falling in love with the most unlikely of partners: Kaga-san, a 52 year old widower who lives in her apartment building. The scent of the incense sticks he burns in his deceased wife's honor clings to his body, drawing her in..