Manga like blue

also known as Blue

Genres: Drama

What is Blue about?

Status: Finished

Kayako Kirishima and Masami Endo are about to discover that their recent friendship is turning into obsessive love. But when today’s hopes and yesterday’s dreams meet tomorrow’s problems, will they be able to continue? With clear outline and confused feelings, Kiriko Nananan demonstrates that it is possible to make a Blue manga from black and white.



Tags: Yuri , Coming of Age , Josei , School , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Coastal , Primarily Female Cast , Age Gap , Heterosexual , Bisexual
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Here is a list of Manga similar to blue

Shiroi Heya no Futari

Shiroi Heya no Futari

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Resine, a rich girl whose parents died in an accident, leaves her selfish relatives in order to attend the boarding school that her mother went to. Once there, she meets her roommate Simone, a blunt, rude troublemaker and the kind of girl Resine would rather do without knowing. However, she finds herself strangely drawn to Simone nonetheless, and the turns their relationship takes could be dangerous for them both.

Note: Also includes the one shots Tooi Sanbika (遠い讃美歌) and Mizu no Naka no Sora (水の中の空)

Tags: Yuri , Shoujo , School , Anthology , Foreign , Tragedy , Historical , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Boarding School , Delinquents , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Crime
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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.



Included one-shots:
Volume 2: Summer in Canterbury (ゆれる早春)
Volume 3: Early Spring Trembling (カンタベリーの夏)

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

Hot Road

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Kazuki always felt a barrier between her and her mother, because her father, who died when she was still a child, was someone her mother hated. She wasn't a child born out of love. One day, Kazuki is persuaded by a friend to meet Hiroko-san, the girlfriend of the head of the motorcycle gang "NIGHTS". And there, she meets Haruyama...

Tags: Shoujo , Delinquents , Gangs , Motorcycles , Tragedy , Heterosexual , School
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Kabocha to Mayonnaise

Kabocha to Mayonnaise

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

Miho and Sei are living together. She works at a boutique while he tries to make it as a songwriter and musician. Even though Miho still can’t forget about Hagio, her ex-lover, she is happy in her relationship with Sei.

However, all is not well for the young couple. Struggling to make ends meet, Miho decides to take a second job as bar hostess. As she becomes increasingly desperate for money, Miho eventually gives in to one of her client’s sexual advances. When Sei finds out about this he begins to distance himself from her. Things get even more complicated for Miho when Hagio suddenly reappears in her life.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Cheating
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Mizuno & Chayama

Mizuno to Chayama

Also known as Mizuno & Chayama.

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

Mizuno, the daughter of a mayoral candidate, is desperate to escape the suffocating pressure and scrutiny of smalltown life. Chayama, the heiress of the tea company Chayama-en, is adamantly walking down the path laid out for her, despite being forced to atone for her family’s apparent misdeeds. Yet in the bubble of the school’s third floor guidance counseling room-away from rumors, watchful eyes, and their feuding families-they’re simply Mizuno and Chayama, two teenagers who find comfort and hope in each other. But when the outside world tries to tear them apart, the two must find a way to protect their relationship and, more importantly, themselves…



Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Rural , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Politics
I Don't Like Sundays

Nichiyoubi Nanka Daikirai

Also known as I Don't Like Sundays.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

A collection of oneshots including "I Say a Little Prayer":

Kiyoko is in a bar one day, drowning her sorrows, when she runs into a girl who used to have a crush on her in school, Ayumi. They end up hooking up. Kiyoko knows she's gay, but Ayumi has never been with another woman before. Will they manage to work things out?


Tags: Yuri , Unrequited Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen
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After Hours

After Hours

Also known as After Hours.

Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Romance

The club is hopping and Emi isn’t…so she ends up hiding in a corner after her friend ditches her to flirt with a guy! Emi figures the night is a bust, but then someone amazing comes to her rescue. Kei is a DJ, and her effortless self-confidence captivates Emi. Is this just a wonderful night out or the start of the rest of her life?



Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Band , Urban , Work , LGBTQ+ Themes , Seinen , Bisexual , Age Gap , Nudity
Staring at Your Back

Neoui Dwieseo

Also known as Staring at Your Back.

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

Takeru Inomata is a high school student living in a small provincial town. Rumors, marriage, children, or things people'd rather leave unsaid... it all goes way over his head. He's just living a quiet life without trouble or passion, taking each day as it comes. That is, until a new student enrolls in his school. Takeru's surprised to discover that the newcomer is none other than Kotaro, one of his classmates from elementary school. Soon, the teenagers start getting closer to each other... Is it the beginning of a new love ?



Tags: Boys' Love , Primarily Teen Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , Rural , Coming of Age , School
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Not All Girls Are Stupid

Guzu na Onna Bakari ja Nai Ze

Also known as Not All Girls Are Stupid.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

A collection of one-shots by Minami Q-ta.

1-6. Guzu na Onna bakari ja Nai ze (愚図な女ばかりじゃないぜ)

3-4. Tanoshii Houkago (楽しい放課後; Fun After School)
This is a two-part one-shot that tells about the relationship between Iwata Megumi, the idol of Chofu High School, and Midorikawa Mayuko, also known as Miss Chofu High School. When another student takes a picture of the two of them in an intimate moment, what lengths will Megumi go to to get the picture and negative? Note: contains non consensual sexual situations.

Ninpu-chan (にんぷちゃん)
Hikari-chan no Koibito (ひかりちゃんの恋人)
Koibito to Wakareru Hi (恋人と別れる日)

School Days (スクール・デイズ)
This centers around a girl named Misaki who hates the co-ed school she was forced to transfer to and desperately misses her best friend from the girls' school she used to attend. Note: contains heterosexual sex.



Tags: Josei , Yuri , Anthology , Nudity
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Indigo Blue

Indigo Blue

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

Rutsu, a novelist, finds herself caught between her boyfriend and another woman.

Tags: Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Yuri , Josei , Writing , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Heterosexual
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