Manga like Chiruhi

What is Chiruhi about?

Status: Finished

In the title piece, Chiruhi, Orin is a prostitute who works on a boat near the seashore. She falls in love with a young hairdresser, who is one of her customers, even though she knows it is an impossible love. This collection consists of six historical short stories which tragicomically depict people trying to do their best in the city of Edo throughout the seasons.

Tags: Historical , Prostitution , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Anthology , Seinen , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Female Cast , Rural , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Youkai , Oiran

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Chou no Michiyuki

Also known as Flight of the Butterflies.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

"Sorry—I know you must've been lonely. Don't worry. I won't keep you waiting long..."

Maruyama, Nagasaki's pleasure district—where the music of shamisens mingles with the language of foreign lands. From artist Kan Takahama comes a tale of love and death: a beautiful courtesan, a man on his deathbed, and their secret past...

Notes: Nominated to the 20th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Tags: Oiran , Seinen , Historical , Nudity

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Sakuran

Also known as Sakuran.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Romance

The story follows Kiyoha, sold into a brothel as a child and forced to work as a maid and her rise to prominence as one of the top-ranking courtesans in Yoshiwara. The allure of the "flower and willow world" as it was called by artists in the day is underscored by the very real tragedy, heartbreak and difficult lives led by those seemingly glamorous courtesans. Will Kiyoha's fox-like wiles give her a chance to break free of her gilded cage? Or will her fighting spirit ruin her chances of ever escaping the brothel?

Tags: Oiran , Female Protagonist , Historical , Seinen , Tragedy , Prostitution , Orphan , Time Skip , Nudity

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Kagerou Inazuma Mizu no Tsuki

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

A collection of stories set amongst the oiran (high-rank courtesans before the time of geisha) in (mostly) the Yoshiwara district of Edo, a famous historical 'red-light district.'

Kagerou no Shou
Inazuma no Shou
Mizu no Tsuki no Shou
Nagasaki Bojou

Tags: Oiran , Anthology , Historical , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Tragedy

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Comic Days

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Mademoiselle Butterfly

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Our heroine is a girl who lives as a geisha in Japan. She has a male childhood friend who’s always been kind to her and is her favorite. He’s a painter, only he paints on human body parts and she loves it when he paints beautiful butterflies on her arms. She goes to visit him one day and finds a naked woman lying in his room. Immediately after, she gets a customer who’s rich and very interested in her. The thought of being away from her friend pains her, but is everything really too late?

Tags: Historical , Shoujo , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , War , Age Gap , Tragedy , Twins , Oiran

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