Manga like Karasu ni Hitoe wa Niawanai

Oooku

Also known as Ôoku: The Inner Chambers.

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

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the shogun's Inner Chamber...



Note: Won an Excellence Prize at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival and a special prize at The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy's fifth annual Sense of Gender Awards in 2005. Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural the Grand Prize in 2009 and the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award in Girls' Category in 2011. Was nominated for the first annual Manga Taishou in 2008.

Tags: Tragedy , Matriarchy , Historical , Pandemic , Heterosexual , Politics , Shoujo , Male Harem , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Suicide , Incest , Samurai , LGBTQ+ Themes , Royal Affairs , Swordplay , Military , Bisexual , Religion , Espionage , Boys' Love

Joou no Inu

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Politics , Foreign , Bisexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Femboy , Adoption

Akki no Koukyuu Kaen

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Hu Linghua is the "evil princess" feared by everyone. Her true identity is the polar opposite of an evil woman, with a lovely face and pure personality. No one knows this... or so they thought. Until she received a secret mission from the Crown Prince, Hakuren. "Become my consort and my younger brother," Linghua ordered, and began living a double life as both the "favorite concubine" and the Crown Prince's "younger brother" --!?



Tags: Foreign , Josei , Royal Affairs , Crossdressing , Villainess , Female Protagonist

Kusuriya no Hitorigoto

Also known as The Apothecary Diaries.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she isn’t long for a life of drudgery! Using her wits to break a “curse” afflicting the imperial heirs, Maomao attracts the attentions of the handsome eunuch Jinshi and is promoted to attendant food taster. But Jinshi has other plans for the erstwhile apothecary, and soon Maomao is back to brewing potions and…solving mysteries?!



Note: Won the Grand Prize in the Printed Manga category at the Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Award 2019.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Medicine , Detective , Royal Affairs , Foreign , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , Drugs , Tragedy , Work , Politics , Crime , Episodic , Maids , Adoption , Heterosexual , Asexual , Conspiracy , Chibi , Ojou-sama , Suicide , War , Aromantic , Desert , Religion