Moteki 1 ― Love Strikes!

One of the hottest authors in Japan today, makes her English language debut with a story about love, coming of age and hope...at age 30! Mitsuru Kubo (creator of YURI on Ice!) reveals how you never know when fortune will strike. So when love strikes repeatedly to one once lonely person, all at once, she knows it's time to take a chance! It could be all or nothing when happiness is at stake!

Yukiyo Fujimoto's life has been in a rut. He is about to turn thirty and has never held a steady job or had a girlfriend. And at a time when the prospects for hope seem at their lowest, suddenly his phone blows up! Out of the blue he is contacted by several women from his past! His moteki has finally come!! Love has struck and cupid's arrow has hit him repeatedly and, coincidentally, all at the same time! A former co-worker and music enthusiast Aki Doi invites him to a rock festival and sparks fly under the stars! An amateur photographer Itsuka Nakashiba calls looking for advice and companionship. A previous coworker and love interest Natsuki Komiyama reappears in his life mysteriously inserting herself amongst his friends and family! And former high school classmate and juvenile delinquent Naoko Hayashida returns to his hometown! She no longer looks like a delinquent but has she changed much inside?!

Yukiyo may seem to have many options now, but is he ready for love? And are any of these women? The stage for love might be set, but the time might only be right for him to finally grow up!

Mitsurou Kubo (pen name for Mitsuko Kubo) was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki in 1975. She made her manga debut at the age of 21, partnering with authors or lyricists to adapt their work for a pair of women's anothologies. Her first original work, 3.3.7 premiered in the legendary Shonen Magazine (publishers of Fairy Tail and Negima) and ran for ten volumes. She followed that up with another Shonen Magazine series call Tokyuu; a twenty volume long series about an officer in the Japanese Coast Guard. While Tokyuu was her breakthrough, Moteki catapulted her into a new stratosphere. The series written for the men's magazine Evening was an instant multimillion unit seller and inspired a television drama and motion picture. Kubo's success would lead her having her own columns about writing and modern women in Japanese society. She has hosted a few weekly radio shows and is a regular television commentator. Ans she recently began writing screenplays for television including the award winning international sensation YURI on Ice!