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Status: Finished

After arriving in Tokyo to live with her uncle, Suzume collapses in a nearby park where she had once seen a shooting star during the day. A handsome stranger brings her to her new home and tells her they’ll meet again. Suzume starts her first day at her new high school sitting next to a boy who blushes furiously at her touch. And her homeroom teacher is none other than the handsome stranger!

Notes:
Includes three extra chapters.
Volume 5 includes the one-shot "Cookie Girl Cream Boy (クッキーガールクリームボーイ)"
Volume 6 includes the one-shot "Tsuyu Kaoru (ツユカオル, A Love Story in Moist Rainy Days)"
Volume 7 includes the one-shot "Heroine no Ryuusei (ヒロインの流星, Heroine's Shooting Star)"
Volume 9 includes the one-shot "More than Words (モアザンワーズ)"
Volume 11 includes the one-shot "Hibi Ryuusei: Suzume no Parallel Koukou Nikki (日々流星－すずめのパラレル高校日記－, Daily Shooting Star: Suzume's Parallel School Diary)"

Tags: Shoujo , Love Triangle , School , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Teacher , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Urban , Primarily Teen Cast , Fake Relationship

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Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet

Also known as Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet.

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

Fumi Oono, second-year high-school student. Stuck with the debts of her father, she needs a job—fast. While she did indeed manage to find one as a housekeeper for THE Akatsuki Kibikino, it leaves much to be desired. After all, the novelist has a mean glare and an even worse attitude...And on top of that, she has to live with him?!

Note: Includes 8 extra chapters (from which two are Hirunaka no Ryuusei extras, released with this series).

Tags: Shoujo , Coming of Age , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Adoption , Writing , School , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Tragedy , Time Skip , Work , Cohabitation

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Ao Haru Ride

Also known as Ao Haru Ride.

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

Futaba Yoshioka thought all boys were loud and obnoxious until she met Kou Tanaka in junior high. But as soon as she realized she really liked him, he had already moved away because of family issues. Now, in high school, Kou has reappeared, but is he still the same boy she fell in love with?

Note: Includes two extra chapters and two one-shots.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Unrequited Love , Tomboy , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Tsundere , Tragedy , Time Skip , Age Gap

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Naver Series

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Living no Matsunaga-san

Also known as Living-Room Matsunaga-san.

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

After her parents leave to care for her ailing grandmother, high schooler Miko “Meeko” Sonoda moves into her uncle’s boarding house. There, she meets its rather unusual residents, including the oldest of the bunch: the grumpy mother hen, Matsunaga-san. With the help of her housemates, Meeko begins to adjust to her new life away from her parents, but she soon learns that no matter how far away from home she is, she’s still a young girl at heart—especially when she finds herself falling for Matsunaga-san…

Tags: Shoujo , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Cohabitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Love Triangle , Ensemble Cast , Urban

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Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki

Also known as In the Clear Moonlit Dusk.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Yoi Takiguchi has long legs, a deep voice, and a handsome face…in other words, Yoi is such a good-looking guy that most people don’t notice or care that she is, in fact, a girl. Indeed, she’s had the nickname “Prince” as long as she can remember. That is, until she met Ichimura-senpai…the only person who’s really seemed to see her for herself. To her surprise, she’s not sure how to handle this new relationship, especially when her newfound friend is a prince himself (and a guy prince, at that).

Note: Nominated for the 46th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shoujo Category in 2022.

Tags: Shoujo , Tomboy , School , Heterosexual , Iyashikei , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle

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INKR

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Hibi Chouchou

Also known as Like a Butterfly.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Shibazeki Suiren is a stunningly beautiful girl. When she enters high school, most of her classmates are astonished by her beauty, but after noticing her quiet manners and lack of contact with anyone else except her friends Yuri and Aya, she receives the nickname "Takane no Hana", a beautiful flower but impossible to reach. However, after a fellow freshman called Kawasumi Kouha saves her from a persistent suitor, she finds herself mesmerized by him... as he's the only boy who won't look at her no matter what.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle , Martial Arts

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Comico

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Tsuiraku JK to Haijin Kyoushi

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

Mikoto Ochiai is ready to jump off the rooftop of her high school's building after she got rejected by the boy she loves. However, her physics and home room teacher Jin Haiba suddenly appears on the rooftop for a smoke, talked to her and saved her from falling down. He even asked her to go out with him which made her confused. How will things go between the smart and calm Mikoto and her seemingly carefree teacher Jin? Note: Includes 20 extra chapters.

Tags: Teacher , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Episodic , Rehabilitation , Shoujo , Denpa , Heterosexual , School , Meta , Tragedy , Love Triangle

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Hana to Yume+

Lezhin

Manga Park

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Koi wa Ameagari no You ni

Also known as After the Rain.

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

Akira Tachibana. 17 years old, high school junior. Akira, awkward when it comes to expressing her feelings, finds herself secretly falling for the manager of the family restaurant where she works, one Masami Kondo, age 45. The curtain rises on the small love story that begins to unfold between Akira, stuck standing on the crossroads of adolescence, and Kondo, at the turning point of his own life…

Notes:
Includes one extra chapter.
Won the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Award in the General Category.
The publishing rights of the manga got acquired by Shueisha on 2025, and the first volume of its Shinsouban got published on April 17th, 2025.

Tags: Age Gap , Work , Athletics , Rehabilitation , Coming of Age , Writing , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Unrequited Love , School Club , Heterosexual , Restaurant , School , Tragedy , Classic Literature

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Kono Kyoushi, Zettai Wazato.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The beautiful Mio Saeki may seem like a proper young lady. But when she's in the language-arts classroom she acts like an old man, eating squid sticks and talking about horse-racing. Only her teacher Shirokawa knows her true nature and despite his slightly sadistic teasing, they get along so well that she finds herself falling for him.

Note: Includes 4 extra chapters.

Tags: Age Gap , Slapstick , School , Shoujo , Teacher , Tsundere , Heterosexual

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Manga Mee

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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 20 extra chapters.

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

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Moe Kare!!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Wakamiya Hikaru is a 15-year-old teenager who wants a boyfriend that'll protect her. She likes to read shoujo manga all the time. One day, she gets kissed by a handsome, perverted boy who she called the "Perverted Prince." Later on, she finds a guy who looks exactly like him, but the eyes are different. What's going on?

Tags: Shoujo , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , School , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , Nudity , Primarily Teen Cast , Teens' Love , Martial Arts

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Piccoma