Our Everlasting by Touko Kawai

 

For beach bum Horyu, it’s more than the surf that’s up. He has just confessed his undying love to the timid and quiet Shouin. Though Shouin feels the same, he is reluctant to return Horyu’s affections. Unknown to Horyu, Shouin already had his heart broken and is – as the saying goes – once bitten, twice shy. It looks like Horyu will wipe out on this one, unless he can convince Shouin that he won’t ever go through the same heartache twice.

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/4cd4BZ7)

Blue! Blue! Blue! by Amamiya

 

When Kippei Takiya, the brother of two older sisters, realizes that he desperately needs money to buy a birthday present for his lover, he decides to live and work onsite at a ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn). There, he meets the well-educated Masumi Honjou, a man who is neither too strict nor too lenient, and who has a charm which embodies the word "mature." As Takiya continues working at the ryokan, he starts to become interested in Honjou...

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/3vbsvU9)

A Love Song for the Miserable by Yukimura

 

Akida is truly miserable. After three years, he's been reunited with Nao, who has succeeded as a patisserie and is now a formindable rival at Akida's department store. In the past, Akida's cold anger turned into love. But Nao doesn't know that...

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/3x0X935)

No One Loves Me by Yugi Yamada

 

Kusaka is a used-book store owner... Iijima, a hotheaded, power-suit sales person of a big publishing house: when two total opposite personalities get together, of course you will see the sparks of love fly!

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/4ajdJcD)