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Namida Ame to Serenade

Also known as Rainy Day Serenade.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Supernatural

On rainy days, Hina has dreams about her younger self playing with a mysterious boy in a garden she's never seen before—until, by chance, she stumbles upon the place. There's a young man there, Takaaki, who mistakes Hina for his fiancée Hinako. He whisks her back to what he thinks is her home, where Hina's doppelganger is waiting, and Hina realizes this isn't the Tokyo she left behind but Japan in the year 1907! Is this all a dream or something much stranger?



Tags: Josei , Historical , Time Manipulation , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Love Triangle , Suicide , Torture , Circus , Arranged Marriage

Nobunaga Concerto

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance

History classes have never interested Saburo. He never saw the point of learning something that happened in the past, let alone a few hundred years ago. But when he falls off a wall, he travels through a wormhole and ends up in 16th century ancient Japan. He meets a very young Oda Nobunaga, one of the most influential figures in Japanese history, who turns out to be identical in appearance as Saburo. The real Nobunaga, sick of the castle life and wanting to travel, orders Saburo to take his place. Without knowing how to get back to his time, Saburo tries to make sure history isn’t rewritten for the infamous Oda Nobunaga.



Note: Won the 57th Shogakukan Manga Award for shounen.

Tags: Historical , Shounen , Anachronism , War , Time Manipulation

Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan: Noukou Giga

Also known as Sengoku Komachi Kurotan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Teenage history buff Shizuko Ayanokoji is a student at a specialized agricultural high school. One day, just as she's walking home from school, she suddenly finds herself transported back in time to the Sengoku Period…and who then appears before her but warlord Oda Nobunaga himself?! Captured by Nobunaga's army, Shizuko immediately vows to prove her agricultural expertise to him, but can she really fulfill this promise?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Agriculture , Historical , Food , Samurai , Anachronism , Rural , Military , Time Manipulation , War , Archery , Ghost , Amnesia , Shounen

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 , Maids , Episodic , Adoption , Asexual , Heterosexual , Conspiracy , Ojou-sama , Chibi , Suicide , War , Aromantic , Desert , Religion

Kaze Hikaru

Also known as Kaze Hikaru.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance

In the year 1863, a time fraught with violent social upheaval, samurai of all walks of life flock to Kyoto in the hope of joining the Mibu-Roshi—a band of warriors united around their undying loyalty to the Shogunate system. In time, this group would become one of the greatest (and most famous) movements in Japanese history... the Shinsengumi!

Into this fierce milieu steps Kamiya Seizaburo, a young would-be warrior who, though lacking in combat experience, possesses a fiery enthusiasm to both aid the Mibu-Roshi in their mission and to avenge his wrongfully murdered family. One of the Mibu-Roshi's most gifted (and immature) swordsmen, the legendary Okita Soji, agrees to take Seizaburo under his wing. What no one suspects, least of all Soji, is that Seizaburo is actually a girl named Tominaga Sei in disguise!



Note: Volume 45 includes the one-shot "Oo-Edo Shinsengumi! Kaze Hikaru Another World".

Tags: Samurai , Swordplay , Shoujo , Gender Bending , Episodic , Historical , Primarily Male Cast , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Crime , Crossdressing , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Revenge , Assassins , Suicide

Chikutaku Bonbon

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Taking her grandfather's advice, Iwa, who is in Tokyo for work, strives to do good deeds wherever she goes. Whether it be rescuing an injured bat on the sidewalk or helping out a sickly young man, the city is turning out to be a very interesting place.

Note: Includes a one shot: 'Beach is Beautiful'.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Vampire , Josei , Historical , Maids , Heterosexual