Haru's Curse - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2019

When Shiino, an onery office clerk, learns of the apparent suicide of her friend Mariko, it feels like her heart is ripped in two. The pair had a strong relationship during high school, as Shiina was the only one that knew the terrible truth of Mariko's home life, and of the scars and bruises that marked her friend's body. They may have been both powerless to stop the abuse, but they were empowered by their bond with one another. In her grief, Shiino becomes convinced that the only way to save her friend, at least this once, is to steal Mariko's ashes from her parent's apartment, and run.

• Vol: 14+; Ch: 147+
• 2015 - ?

Kishibe Shino, a high school student. 17 years old. Her parents died, and then six months ago, so did her older brother, her only remaining blood relative. Now she lives with her “brother’s wife,” Nozomi-san. “We might not be blood related, but we’re family.” The story they write is a bit clumsy but full of something inexplicable. Slowly but surely, they happily grow together through their sensitive daily life.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 32
• 2019 - 2022

"This is our first time meeting, but I would like us to get divorced." 10 years ago, with a single written agreement - a mere piece of paper, Rio, the young daughter of a long-standing family in Kyoto, became bound in marriage to a complete stranger. The man who suddenly becomes her husband is Takamine, the handsome president of an IT company. A decade has now passed, with neither husband nor wife ever having met, or exchanging so much as a conversation. One day, Rio suddenly decides to make her way to Tokyo to meet her husband. When they finally meet for the first time, she immediately requests that they get divorced. Takamine is taken aback by Rio's beauty. However, due to personal reasons, he has no intention of getting the divorce. And when Rio visits Takamine again days later, he makes the absurd suggestion for them to move in together!

• Vol: 10; Ch: 50
• 2017 - 2022

Okado Akiba is 27 years old and has one conviction: she will never get married. However, one fine day, a strange marriage proposal is offered to her: Shin Momose, an editor, wants to marry her not out of love, but because he needs the title of "groom" for some obscure reason... Akiba ends up accepting and a very unusual marriage begins... Could what was supposed to be a simple arranged marriage lead to a real romantic relationship?

• One Shot
• 2015

While on her deathbed, a mother decides to record three video messages for her daughter Saki, instructing her husband to show them to her at different stages of Saki’s life. One on her third birthday, the second on her first day of primary school, and the final one when…

• Vol: 5
• 1995 - 1997

Rumiko is a 23-year-old office lady (OL) whose parents have been pressuring her into letting them set up an omiai. They have several possible candidates she could choose from. Rumiko is not interested. She has her sights set on a guy at her work. However, when her romantic dreams with her coworker do not turn out as she planned, she agrees to meet whoever her parents choose for the omiai. They introduce her to Kenya Ootsuki. He is handsome and friendly, but their meeting doesn't go very well, and Rumiko refuses to marry him. Imagine her surprise at work when she is introduced to her new co-worker- Kenya! He has been hired at her company and is a successful employee. Rumiko and Kenya are thrown together more often, and a relationship starts to grow. But will a relationship based on an arranged meeting last?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2015

• Vol: 8+
• 2019 - ?

Born to a noble family, Miyo is raised by her abusive stepmother and married off to Kiyoka, a soldier so heartless his prior fiancées fled within three days into their engagement. With no home to return to, Miyo slowly starts to open her heart to her cold and pale husband-to-be, despite their rocky introduction... This might just be her chance at finding true love and happiness.

• Vol: 4+; Ch: 32+
• 2018 - ?

A browbeaten and mistreated daughter is cast out of her family home and sent to audition as a bridal candidate for the heir to one of the most powerful families in the land. Considered nigh worthless for having failed to inherit the superhuman powers of the bloodlines into which she was born, Miyo Saimori lives her days unwanted and unloved. She is treated as a servant by her half-sister who, unlike Miyo, is blessed with unusual powers, while her step-mother and very own father have little time or love for their eldest daughter. Ultimately seen as nothing more than a nuisance and a drain on the family wealth, Miyo is packed off to the Kudo house as a bridal candidate for its heir, Kyoka Kudo. But whispers abound about the Kudo clan, the most powerful in all the land. Still, will the allegedly cold and cruel house into which Miyo aims to marry prove much warmer than the family she left behind?

• Vol: 3; Ch: 10
• 2022 - 2023

On the night of my mother's funeral, I had relations with her lover... Chigusa returns home for the first time in 13 years upon receiving the news of her mother's death. She finds a man who used to be her "mother's lover" living in her parents' house! Chigusa is confused, but reaches out her hand to him as she grieves the loss of her beloved...? A mysterious life together, where various kinds of "love" intersect!