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Takara Nako, 28. Her love life and career were both going reasonably well — until the boyfriend she was thinking of marrying turned out to be cheating on her, dumped her without mercy, and she lost her job on top of it all. The one who reaches out to the heartbroken Nako is a handsome young heir, Osawa Yuki, whose life she had once saved when she found him collapsed in the street. “Will you marry me? …Me, specifically.” What Yuki proposes is a one-year contract marriage. He needs her to act as his wife to put a stop to the stream of marriage arrangements pouring in. The conditions are suspiciously generous — room, board, and a large sum of money upon contract completion. Nako turns him down at first, but Yuki’s sincerity wins her over, and she ends up accepting. As they spend their days together as a fake married couple, Nako gradually finds herself genuinely falling for Yuki. But Yuki is carrying a heavy secret — he has only one year left to live. Where will this time-limited love, born from a lie, lead the two of them…?

Publisher Hayakawa is celebrating its 70th anniversary with two manga anthology reprints. One collection is dedicated to mystery works while the other compiles SF stories printed over the publisher's long career. The Ripe Star (Ureta Hoshi) by Osamu Tezuka, February 1972 in SF Magazine Dual Isolation Cell Satellite (Eisei 2-ren Dokubou) by Leiji Matsumoto, February 1972 in SF Magazine 7P (2) – H.G. Wells by Shotaro Ishinomori, October 1969 in SF Magazine Captain Past by Go Nagai, November 1970 in SF Magazine Ragini by Moto Hagio, February 1980 in SF Magazine Dorothy by Keiko Fukuyama, August 1984 in SF Magazine Aquatic People (Mizubito) by Hideo Azuma THE GHOST OF SF KID (SF Kozou no Yuurei) by Tori Miki Heikou Wars by Eiji Yokoyama Ojii-chan no Shosai/Uchuu by Tetsuya Imai Megane wo Kai ni by Yu Tsunamino Futokou by Tsubana Mister Donut by Daisuke Nishijima(Original concept: Yusaku Kitano), June 2002 in SF Magazine Mahou Shoujo Time-chan Sono 1 Onee-chan wa Kaidan wo Ochiru Yume wo Miru no ka by Akihito Yoshitomi To, Aru Hi no Boku no Himo by Natsujikei Miyazaki Sister of My Dreams (Ore no Yume no Imouto) by COCO

Pairing: Gintoki x Hijikata

Pairing: Gintoki x Hijitaka

Carjacked and hit by a truck, Park Min Seo wakes up as Madelyn Roseheart, a frail baron’s daughter destined to marry the terrifying Duke of the North, Torsten Icewood. But Min Seo has no interest in romance—she’s a businesswoman who wants nothing more than to annul the engagement and start fresh. The twist? The Duke is none other than her carjacker, who was also reincarnated here… and claims they’ve both been thrown into a romance novel he once read, in which their characters are destined to die. The harder Madelyn tries to break free from her fate, the more entangled she becomes with her thuggish fiancé. And between murderous parties, poisoned tea, and hidden truths, one question remains: will they outsmart their tragic ending, or fall for each other in the process?