Manga like Banana Bread no Pudding

What is Banana Bread no Pudding about?

Status: Finished

Now that Ira's older sister is getting married, who will take her to the bathroom after ten p.m. and sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" outside the bathroom door in order to protect her from the beautiful, androgynous, child-eating clown? Will marrying a closeted gay man help?

Tags: Shoujo , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Philosophy , Denpa , Age Gap , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Crossdressing , Heterosexual
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Wata no Kuni Hoshi

Wata no Kuni Hoshi

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

Chibi-Neko is a young kitten who has been abandoned. She doesn’t know she has been abandoned, and doesn’t know the difference between cats and humans. Indeed, she imagines herself as a human girl and believes she will become human someday. She is found and rescued by a boy named Tokio, who has just graduated from high school. However, he flunked the entrance exams and now is not sure of his future or what he will do. Chibi-Neko soon begins to love Tokio and wants to become a human and marry him someday. But then she sees Tokio with another girl in the park, and sees that he is in love with this girl. She also keeps getting visited by Raphael, a mysterious male cat who tries to tell her that cats cannot become human, they are always cats. What will Chibi-Neko do?

Tags: Shoujo , Philosophy , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Animals , Nekomimi
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Kusa Kanmuri no Hime

Kusa Kanmuri no Hime

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

The various speculations concerning Kiriko: Evil Spirit, Demon, Ghost, Witch. Gossiping concerning Kifune: Stupid, Bisexual, Male-whore. She defends him so he decides to ask her out. Is there truth behind these words of malice?

Tags: Shoujo , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Male Cast , Afterlife
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Onii-sama e...

Onii-sama e...

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

A classic manga about girls at a private all-girls school. The storyline centers around the experiences of Nanako, a "normal" girl who is invited to join the prestigious school organization, the Sorority, and is resented by all the other students because she doesn't appear to be qualified. Other key characters are Nanako's two friends: Tomoko, her friend since childhood who is alienated by Nanako's decision to try to join the Sorority, and Mariko, a strange, obsessive girl who is invited to join the Sorority along with Nanako; her "older brother," Henmi, who she corresponds with by mail; and the "Three Magnificent Ones," all of whom are admired and quasi-worshipped by the rest of the student body: the head of the Sorority, Miya-sama, the haunted, pill-popping rebel, Saint Juste, and the star athlete with a mysterious disease who doesn't like the Sorority, Kaoru-no-kimi.

Notes:
Includes the one-shot "Canterbury no Natsu (カンタベリーの夏, Summer in Canterbury)".
Includes the one-shot "Yureru Soushun (ゆれる早春, Early Spring Trembling)."

Tags: School , Shoujo , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Drugs , School Club , Tragedy , Tomboy , Bullying , Primarily Teen Cast , Suicide , Ojou-sama , Disability , Estranged Family , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Basketball
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Akihiko Kaku Katariki

Akihiko Kaku Katariki

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Supernatural

A collection of short stories:

Akihiko Kaku Katariki (秋日子かく語りき)
Middle-aged housewife Tatsuko dies after being hit by a runaway taxi, but before moving on she gets to return to life for one week by borrowing the body of Akihiko, a high school girl who survived the same accident.

Long Long Cake (ロングロングケーキ)
A university student meets a shape-shifting alien.

Niwa wa Midori-kawa wa Blue (庭はみどり川はブルー, The Garden is Green and the River is Blue)
After her death from an illness, a young woman temporarily takes over the body of her own three-year-old daughter.

Mizu no Naka no Tissue Paper (水の中のティッシュペーパー, Tissue Paper in Water)
High school girl Kuriko's precognitive dreams cause trouble when she has a dream about her boyfriend falling for someone else.

Tags: Shoujo , Aliens , Anthology , Ghost , Shapeshifting , Afterlife , Age Regression
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Joker e...

Joker e...

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

About a boy who is transformed into a girl through a freak accident and is caught up into a love triangle.

Notes:
Includes the one shot "Umi ni Iru no wa... (海にいるのは…)"
Includes the one shot Housenka Pan (ほうせんか・ぱん)"

Tags: Gender Bending , Shoujo , Love Triangle , Tragedy , Foreign , Time Skip
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Bianca

Bianca

Also known as Bianca.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Note: Published in English as a part of the A Drunken Dream and Other Stories manga anthology by Fantagraphics.

Tags: Shoujo , Dancing , Female Protagonist , Tragedy
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Ichigo Monogatari

Ichigo Monogatari

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

Ichigo is a fourteen-year-old half Japanese girl that grew up in Lapland. After the death of her father, she moves to Japan where she is hosted by Ikuta Rintaro and his family. His father is a writer and his older brother Shintaro is an university student. Ichigo’s secret dream is to marry Rintaro someday.

Since Ichigo can’t read kanji, she is obliged to attend primary school. On top of that, her whole lack of familiarity with the culture and customs of the Japanese generates a lot of misunderstanding and confusion. But the people around her start to love her as she is a very kind girl, despite her poor health. Rintaro also begins to experience affection for Ichigo, but her health gradually becomes worse…

Tags: Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Crossdressing
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