sadslime's manga / #Romance(97)

Tono Asako is known as a spinster, but she doesn't mind as long as she can take care of her frail younger sister. But when the soldier Shintaro Kido requests her sister as a bride, Asako can't let someone with his reputation take her sister, especially when she hears he only wants a bride to give birth to an heir. Asako begs him to take her instead, and Kido agrees, beginning their relationship as husband and wife in which Asako believes herself to be a replacement bride, but Kido seems to have wanted her all along. Asako starts off seeming like a very strong character, but once married it feels like she immediately loses any strength to her actions and just becomes your basic FL and dutiful bride. It's fine, but not a standout story. Trigger warnings: Sexism, attempted rape, threat of suicide.

Ichika is a romance writer who's editor suggest she goes to a host club to get more experience for her writing, and she's almost date-raped until the police bust in and police officer Jin ends up taking care of her heat, instead. Turns out, they're a fated pair. Not particularly interesting straight omegaverse smut. Trigger warnings: drug(aphrodisiac), dubcon.

Ran is a struggling college student who enjoys her job at a cafe that her favorite author, Mikami, frequents. But when her family falls into bigger financial troubles, her friend convinces her to try a job as a sugar baby while promising she won't have to do anything she's not comfortable with. But when Mikami sees her get roofied on her first date, he intervenes and then offers to become her new sugar daddy instead, to protect her. Trigger warning: drug(roofie/aphrodisiac).

Mio and Sagara grew up together, Mio as the boss's daughter and Sagara as his subordinate in the yakuza, but one night Mio sees Sagara having sex and suddenly realizes how sexy he can be. She wants on in that, so when he confronts her, she invites him and they find out they have great compatibility. But after they started this relationship as basically friends with benefits, how can they transition once feelings are involved? Surprisingly cute despite the stupid name, though it is smutty. I liked the non-traditional FL in this one. Even just having a FL who can say out loud she wants to have sex is a huge plus, and she wasn't even embarrassed. Trigger warnings: voyuerism, somnophilia(in a relationship), gun.

Sumire's sister and mother have always treated her terribly, made her work, and made her do all the housework, but even Sumire's shocked when her sister racks up a debt with the yakuza and her family decides to sell Sumire off to pay it. Meanwhile, the yakuza head, Touya, can't help but empathize with Sumire's situation a bit, so he finally decides to make her his housekeeper instead of selling her into a brothel, and now Sumire lives with the yakuza clan. Pretty cute despite the dark subject matter at the beginning. Trigger warning: human trafficking.

Kaoru and Yui are twins, but after Yui’s boyfriend messes around with Kaoru thinking she’s her sister one night, she comes for the first time. He’s interested in helping her come out of her shell, so the two start a relationship of sexual favors, though sex is off limits. Trigger warning: cheating

Wakako is just a girl with bad luck who went to a shrine and ended up leaving with a talisman that happened to contain Rai, the god who eats bad things. Rai has to kiss Wakako (and more) to feed, and though she's hesitant at first, the two end up falling for each other, and Rai says that if she's happy and has no more negative emotions to feed him, his life will naturally shorten and they can live together as a normal couple. But their happiness is interrupted by the bad turn in Wakako's mother's illness which makes her question if being around Rai is courting disaster. Interesting setup. Their first interaction has some dubcon, but after that they're good about consent. Trigger warning: dubcon

Slice of life for a couple with a big age gap

A serious man avoids love and all the trouble it brings, only to find out his neighbor is a succubus and desperately needs his help.