J-Novel Heart

It’s been a year since Aoi started working at Kura, and now spring break is full of excitement: a hot springs trip with Kiyotaka and Akihito, a book club party, and more! But at the same time, she is struggling to decide whether to tell Kiyotaka how she feels about him. One day, an editor shows up at Kura under the pretense of doing an interview for a magazine. Then, in the middle of the night, the master forger Ensho steals a Shino tea bowl from right under Kiyotaka’s nose. The next morning a written challenge from Ensho arrives—the mysteries continue in Volume 5 of Holmes in Kyoto!

After being reincarnated as the "villainess" from the otome game Fortune Lover, Katarina expected to meet doom in the form of one of many Catastrophic Bad Ends. She managed to avoid them all, but her engagement with Prince Jeord still looms over her head.In this short story volume, a bitter rival appears to interfere with said engagement, and Nicol is looking for... a fiancée? And we learn trivia about Katarina's circle of friends, such as how they would choose to be reincarnated.Sigh at Katarina's cluelessness in these stories that jump back into the past! More Katarina, more zany antics, more manga pages!

Ruri Morikawa was summoned to a different world along with her “childhood friend,” Asahi. Exiled from Nadasha, the nation that summoned her, she ends up living in the Nation of the Dragon King. Working a part-time job, attending tea parties—her life seems pretty fulfilling... That is, until Nadasha declares war with Asahi spearheading the charge. Will Ruri be able to convince the overly-dependent Asahi before it’s too late? Find out in the second installment of this magical, otherworldly tale!

As a plain, unassuming noble’s daughter, Marielle doesn’t stand out in high society. Imagine her surprise when she receives a marriage proposal from the sought-after Simeon, second-in-command of the Royal Order of Knights!Simeon, the heir to an earldom, is highly accomplished in scholarly and military arts—and he’s gorgeous. So why did he propose to such an unremarkable noblewoman?Despite being a target of envy and scorn, Marielle is happy. After all, Simeon seems to be exactly her type: a dashingly handsome man with glasses who appears gentle on the outside, but who has a dark and scheming side!Welcome to Marielle’s world, where people aren’t always what they seem—and a prim, proper exterior can hide the heart of a sly and devious fangirl!

The wedding is just two days away! Despite her plain appearance and inferior social status, Marielle is finally about to marry the man of her dreams: Simeon, the Vice Captain of the Royal Order of Knights.He’s outwardly cold and vicious, but kind and pure on the inside—and the contrast sets her fangirl heart on fire. He’s everything she could wish for and more. After many sleepless nights preparing the manuscript for her next novel, all the obstacles are cleared and only bliss awaits. Now nothing stands between Marielle and the altar.Or so she thinks. While Marielle and Simeon are out shopping, a robbery takes place, revealing a conspiracy—and Marielle is kidnapped by the criminals!The fourth volume in the adventures of the devious fangirl who secretly obsesses over her fiancé and everyone around him!

After being forced to stop in the Kingdom of Dal Canto, Lucia and her friends continue their journey to purify the Cristallo Sacro and save the world. The party, which had been awkward at first, had finally come together as true companions as they approached their final stop. When Lucia and Maria decide to purify the last tree together, a black dragon with the power to destroy an entire country appears. Lucia manages to purify it, but her Soap disappears along with it!?

Half a year has passed since the Remno revolution ended. Spring has rolled around again, bringing with it what Mia considers to be one of the most important occasions of the year — spring break. Freed from the duties of school and station, she’s ready to seize the day! By which she means, of course, do absolutely nothing productive and lounge around in bed all day.Her indolent plans are cut short, however, when her own granddaughter, Bel, is whisked backwards through time and deposited in front of her. Just when she thought she was finally done with worrying about the guillotine, she learns of the grisly future awaiting her, in which a war of succession rends the empire in two. Mia herself has been killed by poison, and Bel narrowly avoided execution by leaping through time.As if that wasn’t enough, she discovers that this terrible chain of events can be traced back to Rafina’s tragic transformation into a dictator. Altering the course of history will, of all things, require her to defeat Rafina in the upcoming election for student council president!Underprepared, polling abysmally, and trailed by a granddaughter who inherited all her, erm, Mia-est bits, she once again finds herself at a historical turning point... without the faintest clue of what she's supposed to do!

After being reincarnated as the villainess of an otome game, Katarina has now successfully cleared not only the end of the game's storyline, but also graduation from the Academy of Magic, without meeting any Catastrophic Bad Ends!...Or so she thought! Get ready for... Fortune Lover II! In the sequel to the original otome game, the evil character of Katarina Claes returns full force, and faces even more disastrous endings!As Katarina joins the ranks of the Magical Ministry to avoid being swept off to the castle by Jeord, she may have jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire! With bad ending flags everywhere, will she ever be able to lead a peaceful life?

In a world of everyday magic, Nanalie has always dreamed of becoming a receptionist at the prestigious Sorcerer's Guild. To achieve her goal, she needs to attend a magic school full of princes and the daughters of nobles. Determined to prove that a commoner can be the number one student, she must compete with Rockmann, the son of a duke. When she graduates, she lands her dream job and they go their separate ways. Nanalie enjoys spending each day alongside her familiar Lala and her kind co-workers, but it seems that fate won’t let her escape her entanglement with Rockmann that easily...

With the war with the Kingdom of Nadasha brought to a close, Ruri Morikawa lives a peaceful existence as the “Beloved” of the Nation of the Dragon King... that is, until another Beloved is attacked. For their safety, the Nation of the Dragon King ends up taking the Beloveds of two other nations under their wing. However, with one being spoiled and self-centered and the other being hard-headed and strong-willed, the Nation of the Dragon King gets a little more than they bargained for. How will Ruri and the others handle these two and the growing threat targeting Beloveds?!

Marielle is finally married to Simeon, the gorgeous military officer who is everything her heart desires! After a stressful wedding day, it’s time to relax as they set sail on their honeymoon.Marielle’s first-ever sea voyage fills her with excitement. Not only does she have a whole new environment to explore with new people to observe, she even gets to see Simeon looking extra dashing out of uniform! Her only apprehension is about meeting Simeon’s grandfather for the first time—what if he doesn’t like her?But their newlywed bliss is interrupted when the ship is attacked by pirates! It looks like troubled waters ahead—and perhaps there’s more going on than meets the eye...The fifth volume in the adventures of the now happily married fangirl who obsesses over her husband and everyone around him!

Lucia Arca was an ordinary, unremarkable laundrymaid in the royal palace. Even her unique magical power, Soap, was boring: it simply created soap bubbles that removed stains. But when she learned one day that Soap could also calm and stop rampaging monsters, the king decreed that Lucia must join the Sacred Maiden and her companions on their quest to cleanse the land and save the world.On a mission to save the world alongside the Sacred Maiden, the famed Dragonslayer, a prodigy magician, and other great heroes, what is an ordinary laundrymaid like Lucia to do?But she learns that even extraordinary heroes are ordinary people, in their own way. A heart-warming romantic comedy featuring an ordinary but earnest heroine!

Surrounded by the hate-filled gazes of her people, the selfish princess of the fallen Tearmoon Empire, Mia, takes one last look at the bleeding sun before the guillotine blade falls...Only to wake back up as a twelve-year-old! With time rewound and a second chance at life dropped into her lap, she sets out to right the countless wrongs that plague the ailing Empire. Corrupt governance? Check. Border troubles? Check. Natural calamities and economic strife? Check.My, seems like a lot of work.Hard work and Mia don’t mix, so she seeks out the aid of others, starting with her loyal maid, Anne, and the brilliant minister, Ludwig. Together, they strive day and night to restore the Empire. Little by little, their tireless efforts begin to change the course of history, pushing the whole of the continent toward a new future.And why did the selfish princess have a change of heart, you ask? Simple—she didn’t. She’s just terrified of the guillotine. They hurt like hell, and Mia hates pain more than work.

Despite being reborn into the role of the villainess from an otome game, Katarina has successfully graduated from the Academy of Magic and overcome all of the Catastrophic Bad Ends that awaited her. Now she's working at the Magical Ministry with her friends and her reliable and adorable Dark Familiar, Pochi, at her side! Surely there can be nothing but happy days ahead.Not so fast! Turns out there's a sequel to Fortune Lover, and it takes place at the Ministry! If Katarina returns in the game, does that mean that she could face even worse fates than before?!After already meeting one character from the sequel, Dewey the boy genius, Katarina now has to make sure that she doesn't run afoul of Cyrus, the stoic anti-ladies'-man. And if that wasn't enough to deal with, she now has to search for an ancient magical contract!Join Katarina once more in the seventh volume of the popular romantic/catastrophic comedy!

Nanalie has finally achieved her childhood dream of becoming “A Receptionist at the Sorcerer’s Guild.” New on the job, she spends her days enjoying her life at Harré with her familiar Lala and her kind fellow receptionists. But somehow she finds herself still competing with her old rival from her school days, Rockmann. One day, Nanalie, two of her fellow receptionists, and the Order of Knights all head out together to investigate the place where a missing person was found—and one of the Knights is Rockmann!? And on top of that, he won’t stop bugging her about every little thing she does!Here is the long-awaited second volume of this slice-of-life isekai fantasy series about one optimistic young woman!

Nineteen-year-old Ruri Morikawa gets wrangled into a messy situation when her selfish childhood friend strands her in another world! To make matters somehow worse, a mysterious conspiracy then gets her abandoned in a perilous forest. Through an unexpected turn of events, she comes into possession of a mystical bracelet that allows her to transform into a white cat. Now that she's in the Land of the Dragon King, she has to hide the fact that she's human—which means spending her days as a little white cat, for the time being... But how will she exact her much-earned revenge against those who’ve wronged her while stuck in the form of a small, fluffy, cuddly kitty cat?!