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Sensitive Boy

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Stories of bittersweet youth, about troubled boys facing coming-of-age questions about love, sexuality, and other psychological issues.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , School , Episodic , Asexual

Hibari no Asa

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

Teshima Hibari is a 14 year old girl with a body that is more sensual than most girls her age. Her story includes the opinions and reactions of all of the people around her, as well as the actions of her own life. The chapters explore the thoughts and feelings of classmates and adults, men and women. The males often have romantic or sexual feelings for Hibari, while the women sometimes have feelings of inferiority or jealousy. Whether positive or negative, it seems everyone has a reaction to Hibari.



Tags: Tragedy , Psychosexual , Philosophy , POV , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Josei , Bullying , Survival , School , Ensemble Cast , Urban , Suicide , Heterosexual

Otousan ga Hayaku Shinimasu you ni

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Asuka and Hotaru are close sisters who seem to have a healthy family life from the outside even though they don't have a mother. Their dad, though, seems to "discipline" them quite often.

Tags: Tragedy , Incest , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Family Life , Age Gap , Suicide

Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan

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

"I have something I don't want to lose"

"So much so that these terrible feelings have grown."

A pianist who attempted suicide 3 times, Juri, is taken to help her aunt at a prison where murderers who killed indiscriminately are sentenced to death. There, she meets a man named Yuu who took the lives of 3 people. A mother's antagonism--a brother's death... Together they embrace the violent rebellion in their hearts caused by the large, deep scars they carry. However, before long, they both embrace an earnest hope in their hearts. "I want to live"...

An adaptation of novel by South Korea's most popular female novelist, Gong Ji-Young.

Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Rehabilitation , Suicide , Nun , Religion , Classical Music

Hetakoi

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

For his twentieth birthday, Shizuka chooses to go to a hot springs alone. To his surprise, he also ends up seeing his first naked woman... a passed out drunk girl. Soon afterward he enters college, and his friend from high school convinces him to join the female dominated travel and hot springs club. Amazingly, the girl he saw naked, Ruka, is also a member of the club! Now he must interact with his club more or less normally, and pretend he doesn't imagine Ruka naked every time he sees her. He is determined that his embarrassing secret never be made public!



Volume 10 contains three bangai-hen chapters.

Included one-shots:
Volume 5: Katakoi (カタコイ); Weekly Young Jump Vol.53 2006.09.25
Volume 10: Toori no Kado wo Magaru made (通りの角を曲がるまで, Until I Turn Around the Corner)

Tags: Seinen , Male Protagonist , College , Heterosexual , Nudity , Love Triangle , School

Satougashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai: A Lollypop or A Bullet

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Yamada Nagisa is a bored teenager who finds everyday life extremely unappealing: thus her plans to join a military academy as soon she graduates. On the last term of middle school, a strange girl named Mokuzu Umino, who claims to be a mermaid, transfers into Nagisa's class and, much to her bewilderment, begins to follow her around incessantly.

An annoyed and discomfited Nagisa initially strives to avoid these encounters, but then she begins to catch glimpses of the pain...

Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Child Cast , Bullying , Hikikomori , Shounen , Rural , Disability , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes

Boku no Namae wa "Shounen A"

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A story about a goodhearted boy named Takashi, who murdered his teacher at the age of 13 to protect his childhood friend Yui.

The story revolves around tragedies happening to both of them because of that incident.

Tags: Crime , School , Tragedy , Revenge , Heterosexual , Denpa , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Nudity , Detective , Rehabilitation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Hikikomori

Semete, Ano Yuki no You ni

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

A bittersweet story of young love. An original work, published as a doujinshi at C79.

Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , School

Life

Also known as Life.

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

All Ayumu dreams of is making it into the same high school as her best friend. But when she gets in and her friend doesn't, their friendship crumbles—sending Ayumu spiraling into depression. She finds relief in cutting herself, but soon realizes that her scars may interfere with her budding high school life. Can she trust her new friend, Manami, who seems too good to be true? Or will Ayumu's apparent lack of compassion and understanding get her tossed aside like she was before? And is there anyone else out there who could possibly love her for who she is? A melancholy coming-of-age story by Keiko Suenobu!



Note: Won the Kodansha Manga Award in the shoujo category in 2006.

Tags: Bullying , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Shoujo , School , Suicide , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Yuri , Tragedy

JK to Sutego no Akachan

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

A schoolgirl during her post teen pregnancy abandons her baby son while a gyaru student who found him takes care of him. This is the story of two girls from different backgrounds in a similar predicament.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Shounen , Gyaru , School , Family Life , Parenthood , Found Family