Manga like Adachi to Shimamura

Yagate Kimi ni Naru Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite

Also known as Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Saeki Sayaka has always been an old soul–serious and reserved, preferring to focus on her studies rather than make friends. Until, that is, a romantic confession from another girl in middle school turns her carefully ordered world upside down. Though none of her classes have prepared her for this, Saeki must now come to terms with her sexuality in this gentle, coming-of-age novel about grappling with first love, growing up, and relating to other people.



Tags: Coming of Age , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , College , School Club , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip

Shuuniichido Classmate wo Kau Hanashi: Futari no Jikan, Iiwake no Gosen Yen

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Psychological , Romance

Once a week, Miyagi pays 5,000 yen to her classmate Sendai to buy three hours of Sendai’s time, which allows Miyagi to give her orders. Miyagi is at the bottom of the school caste while Sendai is at the top. The two, who have nothing to do with each other at school, spend time together after school under this contract. Miyagi’s orders are determined by her mood that day, and Sendai cannot disobey. One day after school… Miyagi calls Sendai to her room and gives her an unusual order.

Tags: Yuri , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Kuudere , Sadism , Estranged Family , Cohabitation , Female Protagonist , Psychosexual , Tsundere , Bondage , College , Feet , Nudity

Wasureenu Majo no Monogatari

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

Tags: Yuri , Time Manipulation , Memory Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Primarily Female Cast , School

Watashi no Hatsukoi Aite ga Kiss Shiteta

Also known as My First Love's Kiss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Takasora Hoshi's life is upended when a girl from her class named Umi Mizuike and her mother temporarily move into her family's cramped apartment. From the outset of this arrangement, Takasora finds herself annoyed by Umi's behavior...and her good looks. And though the two girls initially agree to avoid interfering with each other's lives, Takasora can't help but start to wonder where Umi keeps wandering off to at night… From the author of Adachi and Shimamura comes the bittersweet tale of two high school girls whose lives are thrust together under the same roof.

Tags: Yuri , Love Triangle , Prostitution , Age Gap , Crime , Female Protagonist , School , Incest , Aliens

Murasakiiro no Qualia

Also known as Qualia the Purple.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Through the uncanny purple eyes of Yukari, all people appear to her as robots. Her talent is both a blessing and a curse. She is able to assist the police in sizing up threats, since her “skill” allows her to evaluate humans’ quirks and physical capabilities like cataloging the parts of a machine–yet her strange sight has cost her the friendship of her peers. She does have one friend in her corner: Hatou “Gaku” Manabu, a girl at school who cares deeply for Yukari. When Yukari is recruited into a secret organization, the real trouble begins. Gaku is thrust into a realm of mystery, quantum experimentation, and alternate universes, with only her wits–and her love for Yukari–to guide her along the way.



Tags: Philosophy , Time Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Tragedy , Alternate Universe , Super Power , Yuri , Robots , Primarily Child Cast , Achronological Order , Bisexual , Gore , School , Age Regression , Magic , Rescue

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru.

Also known as My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected.

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

Hikigaya Hachiman is a high school boy with twisted character. He prefers to go against the trend and refuses to make friends with anybody. In order to get Hachiman back the right track, his school teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka forces him to enter 'Public Service Club'. There he meets other problematic students.

Includes volumes 6.5, 7.5, 10.5, and 14.5.

Tags: School Club , School , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Satire , Rehabilitation , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Harem , Meta

Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari: Monster Tale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

The first part of the Monogatari Series.

There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humour.



Note: The English release and the JP ebook edition have Bakemonogatari split across three volumes, instead of the original two volumes.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Vampire , Philosophy , Achronological Order , Meta , Gods , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Ghost , Primarily Female Cast , Denpa , Heterosexual , School , Dissociative Identities , Ensemble Cast , Tomboy , Nekomimi , Shounen

Hanamonogatari

Also known as Hanamonogatari: Flower Tale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Our sorry hero, his reformed girlfriend, and the amnesiac class president have all graduated from their high school out in the boondocks, and self-described Sapphist and ex-basketball ace Kanbaru, retired by reason of an “injury,” is starting her senior year and the narrator of this volume—her voice far more introspective than the smutty jock’s we thought we knew.

Bereft of the company of her beloved mentors, the only other person around her with any working knowledge of aberrations the junior Ougi Oshino, apparently a relative of the Hawaiian-shirted folklorist, she feels a bit alone and blue, and sick with dread that the devil residing in her left arm courtesy of the Monkey’s Paw might act up again while she sleeps.

Investigating a rumour that she fears might lead back to her, the former star ends up peering into an abyss of negativity called Rouka. Trapped in a pit the like of which could only be escaped by the one girl who was able to pull off slam-dunks in her basketball nationals, can the penitent Kanbaru, however, still be aggressive?



Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Yuri , Tomboy , Ghost , Urban Fantasy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Basketball

White Album 2: Yuki ga Tsumugu Senritsu

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

Fall, when graduation is only half a year away.

Haruki Kitahara, the final member of the light music club that dissolved, plays his guitar by the window after school in preparation for the school festival. It was the one and only adventure of a good student who spent two diligent years on his studies.

But when a flowing piano melody and a voice as a clear as bell harmonize with his guitar... He goes from being alone, to being two, then three in the light music club, as the semester he dreamed of, no, hoped for, began.



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Kubishime Romanticist: Ningen Shikkaku - Zerozaki Hitoshiki

Also known as Strangulation: Kubishime Romanticist.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Psychological

Now that he’s a cool college student, our anti-hero Iichan thinks his crime-solving days are behind him. Cynical, sarcastic and minimally engaged in his studies, Iichan is much more interested in his own feelings of disaffection and isolation. But despite his resolve to remain aloof, he’s pulled into the narrative when he encounters and bonds with a serial killer named Hitoshi Zerozaki – a homicidal maniac with the soul of an artist whose talent is on display at the grisly scenes of his crimes.



Tags: Crime , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , Urban , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Detective , Mopeds , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Suicide , Yandere , Love Triangle