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“ "I always just worried about what could have been, and I'm already this age!" That isn't how it's supposed to go, but somehow I'm already thirty-ish! That's how it is for Rinko. It's six years until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and she's been thinking about marriage but...
Note: Nominated for the 9th Manga Taisho Award and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.”
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“Kurashita Tsukimi is a "kurage (jelly fish) otaku" girl who wants to be an illustrator. She comes to Tokyo and starts to live in a girl-only apartment Amamizukan. One day she meets a fashionable lady, who saves a jelly fish. But she turns out to be a man in drag.
Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010) and won the 34th Annual Kodansha Manga Award in the Shojo category.”
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“Single with no regular job, Go Nanhee starts a new cleaning gig and meets Oh Deokhoo; literally the filthiest, NERDIEST guy she's ever seen! If that wasn't bad enough, his uber expensive action figure goes missing during her shift! Now she’s stuck cleaning his messy apartment in order to pay him back. Can a man who’s only ever seen a girl in games and a woman who only fawns over stars on TV… actually fall in love?”
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“Saya is a "modern" and uninhibited woman whose greatest passion, however, is her work. His workaholics ended up removing all the men with whom she had a relationship, who complained about how much Saya was "married" to her work. One day a new employee starts working in her company; Ryouichi Kiriyama seems different from any other man she has ever met, but she still doesn’t know that underneath Kiriyama’s facade, he hides something else.
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“Although Ilene Jung is a popular webtoon artist, she needs another job. A crappy desk job to be exact, one tyrannically controlled by the meanest manager in the world: Jim Kang. He insults her work, refuses to teach her, and even makes her miss an important appointment by forcing her work late on her very first day…”
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“Yaeun Chu is about to turn thirty. While her friends marry and start new lives, she works full-time at a lighting company and sees her boyfriend on the weekends. That all ends when she discovers he’s having an affair with one of her coworkers. Drowning herself in work until her body and mind begin to fail her, Yaeun struggles to keep her head above the raging waters of romance, personal happiness, and life after thirty.”
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“Natsumi just lost her younger sister, Haru to chemotherapy. As her sister's coffin finally closes for the last time she whispers "wait for me until I join you", but Haru's finace, Tougo has other plans which might mend both their hearts.”
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“Asuka is a twenty four years old successful career woman who dreams of marriage so she can become a full time housewife and someone who can create a warm home where in her husband would always be fond of returning...”
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“Kawana Tsugumi works for an interior design company. She goes to a drinking party at a client's architectural office and happens to meet her first love. He's more handsome than ever and it isn't until he's leaving that she realizes something has changed; Ayukawa is in a wheelchair.”
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“Who wouldn't be upset if they had a boss who treated them cruelly and unfairly? That is the life of Eom Boran, Henzel Company secretary under the leadership of Kwon Sehu. Unable to forget, Boran decided to vent her frustration by writing children's picture books…”
Toukyou Tarareba Musume