sadslime's manga / #Josei(86)

Nagi has never been good with men, so she's excited to work with the beautiful model Aran until she learns he's actually a man who does androgynous modeling for both gender styles. When Aran meets her, he announces he wants Nagi to be his partner for a shoot, and though she's unsure, they end up agreeing to a temporary dating relationship in return for Nagi doing the shoot, so she can get used to romantic situations. The plot is nothing special. Nagi comes off as a strong character, so it's a bit annoying how often she gets jerked around. I really like pretty boys like Aran though. Trigger warning: slut shaming.

Mai and Yuta have always just been gaming friends, so when his parents are trying to force him to get married, Mai offers to pretend to be his girlfriend to get them off his back. But when a stupid bet pushes them to get involved sexually, there seems to be no going back. Trigger warning: sexual harassment, aphrodisiac.

Tono is a regular office worker and a bit of a pushover whose boss, Yukisada, takes her home one night to find not only is he her new landlord, but there was a fire in the complex, so he invites her to stay at his place while she looks for someplace new. Turns out Yukisada has been paying close attention to Tono for a long time, and now that they're living together, she can't help but start to notice him, too. It was fine but I lost interest around chapter 30. Trigger warnings: lying/manipulation, power imbalance, abusive/manipulative parent.

Himari is a beta who can't help but be a little jealous of omegas since all her relationships end since she doesn't enjoy sex. Kou is a doctor Himari hates for trying to buy the land out from under her parents' restaurant. At Himari's next phyiscal though, Kou triggers Himari's heat, and the two find out they are alpha and omega andthey somehow got bonded without either of them ever realizing it. A lot of forced and unbelievable things just to make the plot go forward. ️Trigger warning: dubcon(heat)

While working as the maid to the spoiled princess, Feli ends up falling for her scheme and getting stuck in a room with Ramel, the prime minister's son, while they are both under the effects of a love potion. When they're discovered, they're immediately pushed to get married, despite Ramel having a fiance already, and Feli feels terrible and decides it's best to divorce Ramel as quickly as possible. What she doesn't know is that Ramel fell for her at first sight and he's just terrible at expressing it. Nothing about this one stuck out to me story-wise, but the smut scenes are decent. Trigger warnings: drug(aphrodisiac), bullying.

After being kicked out by her cheating husband and cruel mother-in-law, Adeline heads back to her home village to learn that her parents have died and the village needs to offer a sacrifice to the dragon god. With nowhere else to go, Adeline offers herself, expecting to die. To her surprise, the dragon god comes for her and says they will be married if they can live together this whole month without ever once lying to each other. Trigger warnings: cheating, murder.

Wakaba works for a company that develops camping gear, so she gets ordered to go camping with their top designer, Yaotome, who seems utterly uninterested in anything but work...until things start to get steamy with Wakaba. But then he's right back to work? The more this goes on, the more mixed singals Wakaba is getting, until she has no idea what to make of him. No trigger warnings.

Kanade is an overworked office worker who slips and falls on her way home, only to wake up to her high school ex, Tatsumi, looking over her at the hospital. If that wasn't weird enough, she gets home to find her mother has given him a key and he'll be staying at her place while she recovers. He starts to get touchy feely, and Kanade thinks maybe it wouldn't be so bad to lose her virginity in a no strings attached night with her ex. Except, he deosn't seem to think he's her ex at all? Tatsumi seems pretty scummy, but he is very pretty. Trigger warnings: noncon (somnophilia), dubcon.

Yoona is an ordinary job seeker who was summoned by the king of hell to be his new secretary. Although he chose her based mostly on her looks, she's perfect meticulous and demanding and ends up being perfect at the job. The only hiccup is that on her first night there, the demon hot springs essentially made her drunk and horny, and now she and her boss have a situationship going on. Trigger warning: drunk sex

Maika is from an onmyoji family, and on her 18th birthday, she summons the shikigami Homura to protect her, only to learn that she's supposed to sleep with him to provide her energy. Maika doesn't want to do that without love, leading to some conflict between the two. But when she finally does realize she loves him, things get even more complicated as it turns out she already has a fiance she didn't know about AND love between a human and a shikigami is taboo. Not sure exactly when this came out, but it feels very early 2000s, and the whole story moves very quickly. Trigger warning: manipulation.