Manga like Soredemo Boku wa Kimi ga Suki

Moteki

Also known as Moteki.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Yukiyo Fujimoto’s life has been in a rut. He is about to turn thirty and has never held a steady job or had a girlfriend. And at a time when the prospects for hope seem at their lowest, suddenly his phone blows up! Out of the blue he is contacted by several women from his past! His moteki has finally come!! Love has struck and cupid’s arrow has hit him repeatedly and, coincidentally, all at the same time! A former co-worker and music enthusiast Aki Doi invites him to a rock festival and sparks fly under the stars! An amateur photographer Itsuka Nakashiba calls looking for advice and companionship. A previous coworker and love interest Natsuki Komiyama reappears in his life mysteriously inserting herself amongst his friends and family! And former high school classmate and juvenile delinquent Naoko Hayashida returns to his hometown! She no longer looks like a delinquent but has she changed much inside?!

Yukiyo may seem to have many options now, but is he ready for love? And are any of these women? The stage for love might be set, but the time might only be right for him to finally grow up!



Note: Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010) and Volume count is 2 for Kodansha USA as they published 2 omnibus volumes.

Tags: Seinen , Age Gap , Drawing , Heterosexual , Rehabilitation , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Hikikomori , Time Skip , Female Harem

Musunde Hiraite

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

A collection of high school love stories, each chapter featuring a different student. For example, Hiro has a crush on a cute upperclassman girl, but she has rejected his advances 15 times! Will Hiro be able to find a way into her heart? His friend Akechi keeps a notebook of information on all the girls at school, but when he goes after the secrets of an incredibly quiet and shy girl, will his interest become more than professional curiosity?

Each chapter focuses on a different character, although they are all related through being classmates.

Tags: School , Ensemble Cast , Shounen

Yagate Kimi ni Naru

Also known as Bloom Into You.

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

Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and awaits the day she gets a love confession that sends her heart aflutter with bubbles and hearts, and yet when a junior high classmate confesses his feelings to her…she feels nothing. Disappointed and confused, Yuu enters high school still unsure how to respond. That’s when Yuu sees the beautiful student council president Nanami turn down a suitor with such maturity that she’s inspired to ask her for help. But when the next person to confess to Yuu is Nanami herself, has her shoujo romance finally begun?



Note: Includes 8 extra chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Love Triangle , School Club , Unrequited Love , Acting , Philosophy , Aromantic , Shounen

Tokyo DTED

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

"When we enter high school, be sure to make me your own." was the promise made to Tetsuo Sugihara by childhood friend Kaede Shiraishi as young children before she moved away. Kaede never left Tetsuo's mind for a second for eight whole years, his dreams finally came true when they both reunited in high school. However his dream is crushed when she started dating his older brother. crushed and broken hearted he decides to take up a shady middle aged man on a job offer in Tokyo's Shimokitazawa district instead of college with his crush and older brother and after graduation sets off for his chance for change in this youth drama that tugs at your heartstrings as it depicts a young man who continues to mature through his many encounters and leave you wondering the questions,What awaits Tetsuo during his journey? Who awaits Tetsuo during his journey? Will he love again?...

Tags: Seinen , Work , Female Harem , Nudity

Taishou Otome Otogibanashi

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

In this story set in the early 1920s, Tamahiko is the son of a wealthy family, but his life is changed forever when an accident cripples his right arm. No longer considered by his father as an heir, he is shuffled off into the country, to live out of sight. The teenage Tamahiko shuts himself in his new home, bitterly thinking of it as the place where he will die. One day, he learns that his father has 'bought' him a bride to take care of him, when the young teen girl named Yuzuki arrives at his door. She comes into his life like an innocent ray of sunshine, and Tamahiko's view of the world and his life starts changing bit-by-bit.

Note: Includes 4 extra chapters.

Tags: Historical , Family Life , Coming of Age , Arranged Marriage , Marriage , Disability , Heterosexual , Rural , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Tragedy , Netorare , Ojou-sama , Hikikomori , Age Gap , Adoption , Nudity ,

Ookami Shounen wa Kyou mo Uso wo Kasaneru

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Keitarou Itsuki is a high-school student unhappy about the menacing look of his eyes. Keitarou tries to confess to the girl he likes, Aoi Tokujira, but she rejects him flat out. Thinking that his eyes were the reason why she rejected him, he confides in his older sister about it at her salon, who helps by giving him a complete makeover...as a pretty girl! Forced to head home like this, he runs into Aoi in town, but she doesn't recognize him and thinks he's a somewhat manly girl. Before he can leave, Aoi asks him to help her overcome a problem she's had for many years: an intense fear of men.

Volume 3 and 4 each contain extra stories.

Tags: Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Gender Bending , Seinen , School , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes

Ore ga Doutei wo Sutetara Shinu Ken ni Tsuite

Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Ichijo Kazuya thought that he was murdered, but when he came to, he was back in his high school days. He lived his entire life as a playboy and had had countless sexual encounters with women until that fateful day that he was killed. He realizes that his murderer was his old high school friend Tanaka Masaki who was jealous of Kazuya’s relationships and his built up anger eventually exploded. Taken back 15 years into his past, it seems that he has been given a second chance at life and given a chance to make different choices. He decides that the way to prevent his eventual demise is to make sure Masaki is more successful with girls and loses his virginity before Kazuya. But fate seems to be steering Kazuya towards the path of his previous life and keeps introducing the same girls he had sexual encounters with.



Tags: Seinen , School , Age Regression

Kuzu no Honkai

Also known as Scum's Wish.

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

Mugi and Hanabi are the perfect high school couple...but their relationship is built on a single shared secret: They're each in love with someone else.



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Nyan Nyan Prelude
Volume 2: Nyan Nyan Serenade
Volume 3: Nyan Nyan Oratorio
Volume 4: Nyan Nyan Cantata
Volume 5: Nyan Nyan Andante
Volume 2 contains the side story "Little Little Princess" (Little Little Princess).

Tags: Heterosexual , Seinen , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Netorare , Female Protagonist , School , Love Triangle , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Age Gap , Fake Relationship , Yuri , Unrequited Love , Nudity