Ruri Tachibana

Kumiko repeatedly attempted suicide by faking it, in order to test her husband Shiro's love. Yusaku, Shiro's mentor and the owner of a martial arts dojo, harbors feelings for Kumiko. Makoto, the only student at the dojo, secretly loves Yusaku. When Kumiko unexpectedly ends up living with Yusaku, she is tormented by the jealous Makoto.

Mihoko runs Kitanoyu, the public bathhouse left behind by her late husband, Junichi. Suzuki, a liquor store owner and former classmate of Junichi who has long harbored feelings for her, supports her in this endeavor. One day, Mihoko finds a man named Toru collapsed naked in front of the bathhouse; she nurses him back to health and hires him as a live-in employee, despite his amnesia. Toru is occasionally plagued by hallucinations of intimate encounters with a woman—visions in which he has been reduced to the status of a woman's pet. Over time, he finds himself drawn to Mihoko’s kindness, but...

Kenichi Sarumata lives all alone in a dilapidated house. One day, he discovers a mysterious scroll hidden within the wall—a secret text passed down through the Sarumata family for generations. It contains the ultimate teachings of *injutsu*—an erotic art form akin to *ninjutsu*, but centered on the mastery of sexual techniques. When Kenichi chants the incantation, a *kunoichi* named Kaede appears.

At the café where he worked part-time, Shoichi got into a confrontation with a customer couple, Kikuchi and Azusa; Kikuchi doused him with juice and hurled insults at him. Yet, for some reason, Shoichi was enraptured by the experience. Aimi, a fellow part-timer, comforted him as he felt dejected after being scolded by the manager. The two grew close very quickly...

Megumi, who has been dispatched to a food manufacturer, is madly in love with the section chief Oda, but Oda, who is popular with the other employees, also has many enemies. These enemies are the faction of Managing Director Suminaga, who are plotting to eliminate Oda, the spearhead of the president's faction, in order to take over the company. Eventually, Oda is suspended for one month due to a plot by the Suminaga faction. If things continue as they are, the company will fall into the hands of evil while Oda is away! Thinking this, Megumi fights alone to protect the company and Oda.

Mayu, a female college student, has always heeded her mother Atsuko’s constant admonitions to preserve her chastity until marriage, and she has lived her life doing exactly that. Lately, however, as she has come of age, she has been troubled by a nightly succession of erotic dreams. Unable to confide in her mother, Mayu suffers in silence—unaware that, behind the scenes, Atsuko has become obsessed with a dating site and is consumed by passionate affairs with men.

A married couple, Shinji and Junko, run a barber shop in a commuter town in Tokyo. With plenty of free time at work, the two would seek each other out almost every night, but recently Shinji had been troubled by impotence. One day, while Junko was out shopping, a woman calling herself Chihiro came into the shop asking to rest…

Misaki is a highschool teacher who witnesses the rape of a cleaner in the school bathroom. Afterwards, she goes to the home of Takuya, a student who hasn't been attending school recently, where she is drugged by Takuya's lesbian mother.