Manga like Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai

Taiyou no Ie

Also known as House of the Sun.

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

As a child, Mao spent all her time at Hiro’s house across the street. Going to his house always made her feel cheerful. A few years later, Mao’s father gets remarried and Mao finds herself with nowhere to call home. Hiro ends up letting her stay with him in the house he’s been occupying alone since the death of his parents. A love story unfolds, between two childhood friends of different ages.



Note: Includes twenty extra chapters.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Family Life , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Shoujo , Age Gap , Tsundere , Tragedy , Heterosexual , School , Adoption , Estranged Family , Cohabitation , Primarily Teen Cast , Orphan

Lovely★Complex

Also known as Love★Com.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Rather than bow to the inevitable, Risa and Atsushi join forces to pursue their true objects of affection. But will their budding friendship become something more complex?



Note: The chapter count includes the one-shots "Hoshi ni Nattemo Aishiteru" and "Bokura no Ibasho".

Tags: School , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Unrequited Love , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Love Triangle , LGBTQ+ Themes , Transgender , Chibi , Basketball

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii

Also known as Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku.

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

Narumi Momose has had it rough: every boyfriend she’s had dumped her once they found out she was an otaku, so she’s gone to great lengths to hide it. When a chance meeting at her new job with childhood friend, fellow otaku, and now coworker Hirotaka Nifuji almost gets her secret outed at work, she comes up with a plan to make sure he never speaks up. But he comes up with a counter-proposal: why doesn’t she just date him instead? In love, there are no save points.



Notes:
Includes 29 extra chapters.
The English edition combines 2 Japanese volumes into one each (so e.g. the first two Japanese volumes are combined into 1 English volume).

Tags: Otaku Culture , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Video Games , Work , Heterosexual , Episodic , Josei , Female Protagonist , Office , Male Protagonist , Meta , Iyashikei , Ensemble Cast , Cosplay , Tsundere , Crossdressing , Chibi

Otona-Najimi

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

For 24 years these two childhood friends never saw each other as a possible love interest, but now that they both are adults something changes.

Tags: Love Triangle , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual

Totsuzen desu ga, Ashita Kekkon shimasu

Also known as Everyone's Getting Married.

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

Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife. After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her to pursue his own career goals, she encounters popular newscaster Ryu Nanami. Asuka and Ryu get along well, but the last thing he wants is to ever get married. This levelheaded pair who want the opposite things in life should never get involved, except…



Tags: Josei , Love Triangle , Primarily Adult Cast , Marriage , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual

Spicy Pink

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

Sakura is a hard working shoujo mangaka who has no time for relationships. She is forced to attend a goukon and meets a rude and patronizing doctor. Despite their differences they begin dating. Can she find love with this petulant man?

Tags: Heterosexual , Josei , Female Protagonist , Work , Writing , Love Triangle , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing

Hotaru no Hikari

Also known as Hotaru's Way.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

“I’d rather nap at home than fall in love.” 27-year-old Hotaru is a career woman and a himono, who unexpectedly finds herself involved with a younger man … How will this josei romance play out?!



Tags: Josei , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Cohabitation , Age Gap , Office Lady

Karekoi Rehabiri - Waruagaki, Shite mo Ii Desu ka?

Also known as Love Rehab.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

"Let us two dried up adults try to blossom together again." Though I'm all dried up, hitting my limit tonight my life is about to take a complete one-eighty...

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual

Konin Todoke ni Han wo Oshita Dake desu ga

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

Akiba Okado is 27 years old and has one conviction: she will never get married. However, one fine day, a strange marriage proposal is offered to her: Shin Momose, an editor, wants to marry her not out of love, but because he needs the title of "groom" for some obscure reason... Akiba ends up accepting and a very unusual marriage begins... Could what was supposed to be a simple arranged marriage lead to a real romantic relationship?



Tags: Josei , Fake Relationship , Marriage , Heterosexual

Ou-sama no Shichiya

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Amy always falls for the wrong guys. Her first crush made her into a slave, and when she confessed to a guy, he literally pushed her away. Next, she was cheated by her former boyfriend. Can she find her key to become a better judge of men by working with Shuu in his pawnshop?

Tags: Shoujo , Work , Heterosexual