Manga like 2.5 Jigen Kareshi

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii

Also known as Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Narumi Momose has had it rough: every boyfriend she’s had dumped her once they found out she was an otaku, so she’s gone to great lengths to hide it. When a chance meeting at her new job with childhood friend, fellow otaku, and now coworker Hirotaka Nifuji almost gets her secret outed at work, she comes up with a plan to make sure he never speaks up. But he comes up with a counter-proposal: why doesn’t she just date him instead? In love, there are no save points.



Notes:
Includes 29 extra chapters.
The English edition combines 2 Japanese volumes into one each (so e.g. the first two Japanese volumes are combined into 1 English volume).

Tags: Otaku Culture , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Video Games , Work , Heterosexual , Episodic , Josei , Female Protagonist , Office , Male Protagonist , Meta , Iyashikei , Ensemble Cast , Cosplay , Tsundere , Crossdressing , Chibi

Komatsubara ga Koibito ni Naritasou ni Kochira wo Miteiru!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Kusahara Nayuki, age 15, First Year High School Student. Adept at both studies and sports and with excellent grades, is said to be a diligent and good girl. But that status was completely a side effect of her need for 「Being Praised」... ! Appearing in front of such a Nayuki in the midst of her school life, and snatching the 1st place in the measure of a good girl, decided by absolute numbers, the「School Year Results」was... Eh!? The Hero of Darkness!!?

Included one-shot: Volume 2: Blue Spring

Tags: Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Shoujo , Chuunibyou , School , Tsundere , Delinquents

Kobayashi ga Kawai Sugite Tsurai!!

Also known as So Cute It Hurts!!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

The Kobayashi twins, Megumu and Mitsuru, were named after historical figures, but only Megumu has grown up with a taste for history. So when Mitsuru is in danger of losing his weekends to extra history classes, he convinces his sister to swap clothes with him and ace his tests! After all, how hard can it be for them to play each other! But Mego can’t rely on just her book smarts in Mitsuru’s all-boys, delinquents’ paradise of a high school. And Mitsuru finds life as a high school girl to be much more complicated than he expected!



Tags: Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Twins , Gender Bending , Shoujo , School , Tsundere , Delinquents , Bullying , Drawing , Otaku Culture , Love Triangle , Writing , Ojou-sama , Time Skip , Tragedy

Kirameki no Lion Boy

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Miwa is obsessed with Hoshi-sama, the male lead of her favorite shoujo manga. She's always found fictional guys to be more interesting than any real-life boy… Until one day when she meets Kiriatsu, a boy who looks just like Hoshi-sama!? Miwa's first real-life love affair is about to begin—!!

Note: Includes 4 extra chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Otaku Culture , Heterosexual

Sono Voice, Yuuryou Desu ka?

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Voice actor otaku Suzuna meets a boy with the ideal handsome voice, Tachibana Waku. She wants to get friendly with him but Waku is acting cold...

"So heart melting you can't help but smile!" A younger tsundere boy and a girl obsessed with him scenes o’ plenty! Whispering sweet nothings, tin-can phones, handsome voices, loaded with moe situations! Settled firmly in the first position of comico novel category, continuously receiving good reviews and high praises from its readers. Now it’s time to raise the curtain on this youthful love started with a voice!

Tags: Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , School , Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Otaku Culture

Fudanshism: Fudanshi Shugi

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Miyano Amata, known as the "Perfect Prince" for his intelligence, looks, and cool personality, is asked to substitute for his sister as an attendant at a doujinshi convention disguised as a loligothic girl. There he meets a girl from his class and they become friends, but he must crossdress in order to be with the girl while learning about the fujoshi fandom.

Includes 5 bonus chapters.

Tags: Crossdressing , Seinen , Otaku Culture , Male Protagonist , School , Primarily Teen Cast

2.5 Jigen no Ririsa

Also known as 2.5 Dimensional Seduction.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

“I have no interest in real girls!”

So claims Okumura, the president of the school’s manga club. He’s your typical otaku, obsessed with a sexy (fictional) 2D manga character known as Lilliel. Then the new school year starts, and a (real!) 3D girl named Lilysa whose passion is cosplay joins the club. Lilysa convinces Okumura to become her photographer–and guess who her favorite manga character is? Not only that, but Lilysa is into modeling the fetishy stuff! The boundaries between 2D and 3D start to blur as this hot-blooded romantic comedy unfolds.



Notes:
Won 4th place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category.
Includes 40 extra chapters.

Tags: Cosplay , Otaku Culture , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , School Club , Photography , Shounen , Primarily Female Cast , Gyaru , Kuudere , Tsundere , Yuri , Female Protagonist , Bisexual

Chihiro-kun wa, Atashi Holic.

Also known as Chihiro-kun Only Has Eyes For Me.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

It’s not every day that a guy tells you you’re his muse and to strip down while you’re just minding your own business! But that’s just what happened to Michi—she caught the eye of Chihiro-kun, a fellow student and aspiring fashion designer. He’s inspired by her, and wants to use her as his model...but can Michi stand the attention of such a devoted artiste?!

Tags: Female Protagonist , School , Fashion , Heterosexual , Shoujo , Love Triangle