Manga like Akai Ito Kudasai

Boku to Kimi no Taisetsu na Hanashi

Also known as Our Precious Conversations.

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

Nozomi Aizawa has has kept her feelings for her schoolmate Azuma-kun a secret for quite a while, but the time has come for her to finally confess. His response, though, is far from ordinary! Led in circles by his hilarious tangents, these two awkward teenagers find themselves growing ever closer while muddling through misunderstandings and off-topic rants. When the airheaded stalker Aizawa-san finally connects with the petulant know-it-all Azuma-kun, the result is a romantic comedy worth talking about!



Note:
Nominated for the 43rd Kodansha Manga Award in the Shoujo Category in 2019.
Winner of the 44th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shoujo Category in 2020.

Tags: Shoujo , Heterosexual , School , Meta , Writing , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Episodic

Spice to Custard

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Satonaka Tamami (Tama) has been in love with her childhood friend Tsukimori Masachika (Chika) for 10 years now. Tama first confessed to Chika when she was just six but got turned down. Chika told her that he might consider if they were in high school!

10 years worth of wait is now over and Tama declares to her friends that she is going to confess to Chika. But her friends are worried since Chika is kind of cold and he is in the kendo club that forbids its members from any relationship.

Tama still musters enough courage and asks Chika out. Chika turns her down on the spot. However, seeing how he almost broke his childhood friend's heart, he decides to give her a chance to go out with him but only if she can keep their relationship a secret! Tama is in ecstasy and really looking forward to their relationship but, keeping their relationship a secret might not be as simple as she had thought.

Note: Includes 8 extra chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , School Club

3D Kanojo: Real Girl

Also known as Real Girl.

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

Tsutsui Hikari is an otaku, and he mostly avoids social life. Hikari has only one friend at school, who is also a social misfit, and he is mocked brutally by most of his classmates for being creepy and weird. One day, he ends up having to clean the school pool with Igarashi Iroha, who appears to be pretty much everything he hates in real-life girls. She skips school, has a blunt manner, doesn't have female friends, and seems the sort to be promiscuous. However, she is friendly to Hikari, and even stands up to the people who make fun of him. Hikari's bitterness and trust issues lead him to say pretty harsh things to Iroha, but she never dismisses him as creepy. After a while, it starts to look like Iroha may become his first real-life, 3D girlfriend! Will he be able to handle it?



Tags: Shoujo , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Otaku Culture , Love Triangle , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Amnesia