Manga like Hana Yori Dango

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e

Also known as Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom.

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

Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki has gotten herself to transfer to a high school in Japan...but not just any school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she's going to an all-guys' high school...and disguising herself as a boy! But as fate would have it, they're more than classmates...they're roommates! Now, Mizuki must keep her secret in the classroom, the locker room, and her own bedroom. And her classmates--and the school nurse--must cope with a new transfer student who may make them question their own orientation...



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Natsu no Ori (The Cage of Summer)
Volume 4: Kawaki no Tsuki (The Thirsty Moon)

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Male Harem , Gender Bending , Cohabitation , School , Love Triangle , Athletics , LGBTQ+ Themes , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip , Boarding School

Ouran Koukou Host Club

Also known as Ouran High School Host Club.

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

One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the "Host Club," a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it's there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else.



Note: Includes 14 extra chapters.

Tags: Male Harem , Shoujo , School Club , School , Crossdressing , Female Protagonist , Gender Bending , Slapstick , Mixed Gender Harem , Tomboy , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Twins , Meta , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Parody , LGBTQ+ Themes , Heterosexual , Cosplay , Love Triangle , Episodic , Agender , Chibi , Tsundere , Gyaru , Bisexual , Incest

Itazura na Kiss

Also known as Itazura na Kiss.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Ever since she entered high school, Kotoko Aihara wanted to be in the same class as Naoki Irie. The only problem, Irie is the smartest student in school while Kotoko is one of the dumbest. Now in 3rd year high school, she still isn't there. One day, her home gets destroyed and the only place else to go was to Irie's home. Now that she lives close to him, will their relationship be the same, or will it become greater than it is?

Notes:
Includes the one-shot "Boku ga Naku"
Includes the one-shot "Pink no Yuki ga Futtara..."
The manga was canceled due to the unexpected death of the author.

Tags: Shoujo , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , Work , School , College , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Medicine , Tennis , Family Life

Tokimeki Tonight

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

This is a long, epic manga that spans three generations of the Etou family. The first part is about Ranze, a relatively normal high school girl, except for the fact that her father is a vampire, her mother is a werewolf, and that she has magical powers of her own. Her family was banished from the Magic World to live among the humans, and they now guard the gate between the two realms. The story really begin when Ranze falls for a human boy, which her parents strictly forbid. Later story arcs focus on Ranze's brother and on Ranze's daughter.



Note: Includes 9 extra chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , Vampire , Werewolf , Female Protagonist , Body Swapping , Heterosexual , Family Life , Shapeshifting , Magic , Super Power , Twins , Surreal Comedy , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Time Manipulation , Memory Manipulation , Boxing , Reincarnation , Age Regression , Gods , Mythology , Necromancy , Slapstick , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , War , Yakuza , Fairy Tale , Henshin , Body Horror , Orphan , Yandere , Writing , Acting , Witch

Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou

Also known as Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances.

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

Yukino Miyazawa has it all - perfect grades, looks, the admiration of her peers. She's the #1 student at her school... at least she was until he showed up. The new boy, Soichiro Arima, one-ups her in every department. And the worst thing about it is that he's sincere! With her ego in jeopardy, Yukino will do whatever it takes to regain the spotlight, but falling in love was never part of it.



Notes:
Includes four extra chapters.
Includes the following one-shots:
Volume 1: Tora to Chameleon: Yakusoku wa Isshuukan (The Tiger and the Chameleon: A Promise for One Week)
Volume 4: Ashita Mata Mori de Aou ne (Meet Me Again Tomorrow in the Forest)
Volume 8: Abareru Ousama (The Raging King)

Tags: Coming of Age , School , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Age Gap , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Band , Tanned Skin , Tomboy , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Tsundere , Yandere , Time Skip , Acting , Amnesia

Marmalade Boy

Also known as Marmalade Boy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Miki’s life was pretty ordinary until the day her parents told her they were swapping spouses with another couple! Thanks to this unconventional arrangement, Miki now has two new stepparents and a hot new stepbrother, Yuu! Miki isn’t exactly thrilled with her new situation, and though Yuu is super cute, he’s also kind of a jerk. Can Miki sort out her complicated feelings for him and come to terms with her new family?



Tags: Shoujo , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Inseki , School , Tennis , Family Life , Work , Age Gap , Unrequited Love , Time Skip

Parfait Tic!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Fuuko is a happy and cheerful girl. One day, two cousins, Daiya and Ichi, move into the apartment upstairs. Cold Ichi and mischievous Daiya gave a very bad first impression. All three are going to the same school as well. How will Fuuko's high school life turn out?

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

Good Morning Call

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Nao Yoshikawa stays behind to live by herself when her parents leave to inherit her grandpa's farm in the country. On the day she moves into her new apartment she soon discovers that it was rented also to Hisashi Uehara - a cute, super-cool and popular guy from her school. Not only did their housing agency unexpectedly close down, the landlord of the apartment tells them that they had to pay more for their apartment then they had expected. With both no money and no home to return to, Nao and Hisashi decide to live together as flatmates.



Contains the one-shot: Kare to Kanojo ni Hanataba wo (His and Her Fortune Bouquet) in volume 1
Kazuya is a young model who has always had a crush on Harumi but she couldn't care less! That is until Kazuya losses his memory, does Harumi possibly harbor feelings for Kazuya?

Tags: School , Shoujo , Cohabitation , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Chibi , Primarily Teen Cast , Tsundere

Kaichou wa Maid-sama!

Also known as Maid-sama!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

As if being student council president of a predominantly male high school isn’t hard enough, Misaki Ayuzawa has a major secret—she works at a maid café after school! How is she supposed to keep her image of being ultrasmart, strong and overachieving intact once school heartthrob Takumi Usui discovers her double life?!



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Toumei na Sekai (A Transparent World)
Volume 4: Tsuide ni 3 Baka mo Maid-sama! (And While We're at It, the Idiot Trio as Maids!)
Volume 4: Soshite Momotaro mo Maid-sama (Peach Boy Is a Maid Too!)
Volume 6: Aoi Haru (Blue Spring)
Volume 6: Fukukaichou wa Ouji-sama!? (The Vice-President Is a Prince?!)
Volume 7: Aoi to to Yukai na Nakama-tachi (Aoi with Fun Friends)
Volume 8: Baka to Furyou to Hero to (An Idiot, a Delinquent and a Hero)
Volume 8: Toaru Asa no Seitokaishitsu (A Particular Morning in the Student Council Office)
Volume 11: Kaichou wa Shisuji-sama! (The President Is a Butler!)
Volume 11: Konnichiwa Imouto desu (Hello, I'm the Little Sister)
Volume 12: Sentimental Ikkun (Sentimental Ikkun)
Volume 13: Maid Latte Hikaeshitsu (Maid Latte Back Room)
Volume 15: Baka to Furyou to Madonna to (An Idiot, a Delinquent and a Madonna)
Volume 17: Comics Kakioroshi Short Story (Exclusive Short Comic)


Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Tsundere , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Tomboy , Work , Maids , Male Harem , Restaurant , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Bar , Love Triangle , Butler , Cosplay , Chibi

Hot Gimmick

Also known as Hot Gimmick.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

In company-owned rabbit-hutch apartments live tenants who can't afford to live anywhere else, and the apartment complex in which high-school girl Hatsumi Narita lives is ruled over by the rumor mongering, self-righteous Mrs. Tachibana. Get on Tachibana's bad side, and life becomes hell. When Hatsumi has to buy a pregnancy test because her popular sister Akane is late, Mrs. Tachibana's son, Ryoki, who used to bully Hatsumi as a kid, promises not to tell the world about Hatsumi's secret, only if she becomes his slave. Suddenly Azusa, Hatsumi's protector in their youth, reappears to save her again! He's moving back into the neighborhood! Despite the budding romance between Hatsumi and Azusa, Ryoki has control over her through the secret that could ruin the lives of everyone in Hatsumi's family, and he hasn't forgotten who his slave is!



Tags: Heterosexual , Tsundere , Male Harem , Love Triangle , Sadism , Revenge , Yandere , Torture , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Unrequited Love , Adoption , School , Blackmail