Are Sweets and Cats the Key to Peacefully Calling Off an Engagement?!
Seren, the eldest daughter of a duke, has grown up being teased for her plain looks, nicknamed “Princess Drab” in comparison to her younger sister, who is a real beauty. One day she overhears her fiancé, Prince Helios, and his friends talking about how her sister would make a much better wife.
In order to avoid marriage with the prince, Seren plans to become a top-level magician and gain the freedom that comes with the title. To achieve this, she teams up with a black cat, a familiar lent to her by Viol, leader of the Ice Magicians, after she finds out about his secret weakness to sweets! Together they’re going to do whatever it takes to bring a peaceful end to her unwanted engagement!
The Drab Princess, the Black Cat, and the Satisfying Break-up It is also Known as: 地味姫と黒猫の、円満な婚約破棄, The Dull Princess and the Black Cat’s Amicable Engagement Annulment
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life , Shoujo , Magic
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5. Isekai ni Kyuuseishu toshite Yobaremashita ga, Arasa ni wa Muri nano de, Hissori Book Cafe Hajimemashita.
When a “god” tells Tsukina that she is to be transported to another world to become its savior, Tsukina isn’t interested. As a bookish thirty-something, she has zero desire to go on some big adventure…so when she arrives in the strange new land, she decides to use her magical powers to create a cozy little book café instead. But when a fellow “savior” starts causing trouble, Tsukina might just have to play the hero, after all!
Note: Includes 4 extra chapters.
The Savior's Bookcafe Story in Another World has finished publishing and it has 30 Chapters. It is also Known as: 異世界に救世主として喚ばれましたが、アラサーには無理なので、ひっそりブックカフェ始めました。, Isekai ni Kyuuseishu toshite Yobaremashita ga, Arasa ni wa Muri nano de, Hissori Book Cafe Hajimemashita.
4. If You Touch My Little Brother, You’re All Dead
I became sixteen year old Rosalette. She fell out of bed and when she opened her eyes, she had possessed a character in “Asterion of a Blue Starry Night” a cliche BL novel with passion, fantasy, drama, and angst. Plus, she was Rosalette, the older sister of Asteron. Asteron was the protagonist and the one who committed suicide at the end of the novel. She left herself to go through the flow of events in the story. At the end of that, she went back in time to become sixteen year old Rosalette again. She thought that standing by was what she did wrong, so she raised her younger sibling finely, but she died from an outside force and returned as Rosalette once more. She changed her direction. She indulged in training herself instead of her brother. That didn’t seem to work either. She had learned magic but still returned, and she had lived all the way till her graduation, but still returned. Rosalette Roxburgh who is always returning to her sixteen year old self, is still looking for a way to die indefinitely.
If You Touch My Little Brother, You’re All Dead has finished publishing and it has 74 Chapters. It is also Known as: You're All Dead if You Mess With My Brother, I’ll Kill You All if You Mess With My Brother, If You Mess With My Brother, I Will Kill You, If You Touch My Brother, You're All Dead, If You Dare Lay A Hand On My Little Brother, You’re All Going To Die
3. Who Made Me a Princess
When I opened my eyes I had become a princess!
But out of all characters in this romance novel, why is it the princess who has the fate of dying to her own blood-related dad, the emperor!
If I want to live, I must not be seen by that emperor dad.
“When did this kind of scumbag start living in my castle?”
The man who doesn’t have single drop of blood nor tear to drop, that cold emperor Claude! Will Atanasia who had been caught by the emperor be able to survive?
“I… What do I do…..?”
Who Made Me a Princess is currently publishing and has 219 Chapters. It is also Known as: Suddenly Became A Princess One Day, One Day I Became a Princess, 某天成为公主
2. Who Made Me a Princess
The story of Athanasia, forsaken princess of the Obelian Empire, ends with her execution at the hands of her own father—or does it? Her tragic tale is the plot of the novel The Lovely Princess. But now, a modern woman who read the book has just woken up as baby Athanasia herself, filled with her own memories and knowledge of the story she’s stuck in! Determined to survive her doomed fate, infant Athanasia embarks on this new life with a plan: avoid attention and hoard valuables to fund her escape. When her plan goes awry, she suddenly needs to charm her way into the good graces of her father, the beautiful tyrant emperor, so he doesn’t kill her again!
Note: Includes 10 extra chapters.
Who Made Me a Princess has finished publishing and it has 135 Chapters. It is also Known as: Suddenly Became A Princess One Day, One Day I Became a Princess, Dites-Moi, Princesse!, One Day, I Became a Princess, Suddenly, I Became a Princess, WMMAP, ある日、お姫様になってしまった件について, Однажды я стала принцессой, อยู่ๆ ฉันก็กลายเป็นเจ้าหญิง, Plötzlich Prinzessin, Un dia me converti en una princesa, Princesa Encantadora, ¿Cómo Me Convertí En Princesa?, 某天成为公主, 某天成為公主
1. Fruits Basket
Tohru Honda is a high school freshman who is having a serious bout of misfortune. Not only was she recently orphaned with the tragedy of her mother's death, but she also has no where to live and is currently residing in a tent! However, when her luck to seems to be at its worse, she meets the Sohma family - and is invited to stay with them in exchange for taking care of the household chores.
But it isn't long before Tohru discovers the Sohmas have deep a secret. The family is cursed by the spirits of the Chinese Zodiac, and some of the children born into the Sohma family are possessed by these spirits. When possessed, they cannot be "huggled" by the opposite sex, or they transform into their respective Zodiac animal!
However, this doesn't phase Tohru, who promises to keep their secret. She continues living with them, and her grave humbleness and thankfulness never wanes. As a result, they come to be very important people in her life, and the Sohmas begin to realize how very lucky they are to have her.
Fruits Basket has finished publishing and it has 136 Chapters. It is also Known as: フルーツバスケット, Furuba
