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2.5 Jigen no Ririsa

Also known as 2.5 Dimensional Seduction.

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

“I have no interest in real girls!”

So claims Okumura, the president of the school’s manga club. He’s your typical otaku, obsessed with a sexy (fictional) 2D manga character known as Lilliel. Then the new school year starts, and a (real!) 3D girl named Lilysa whose passion is cosplay joins the club. Lilysa convinces Okumura to become her photographer–and guess who her favorite manga character is? Not only that, but Lilysa is into modeling the fetishy stuff! The boundaries between 2D and 3D start to blur as this hot-blooded romantic comedy unfolds.



Notes:
Won 4th place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category.
Includes 40 extra chapters.

Tags: Cosplay , Otaku Culture , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , School Club , Photography , Shounen , Primarily Female Cast , Gyaru , Kuudere , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Bisexual

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 , Office , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Iyashikei , Ensemble Cast , Meta , Cosplay , Tsundere , Crossdressing , Chibi

Nicoichi

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

This is a story about the love and hardships of a 29 year-old guy named Makoto Suda. Makoto is an ordinary office worker in every sense but one - in front of Takashi, his stepchild, he disguises himself as a woman and plays the role of a beautiful mother. While leading this “fatherless family” life, he falls in love with a woman. One morning he sees her on a crowded train, but… she’s being molested!?

Tags: Gender Bending , Seinen , Crossdressing , Parenthood

Ore ga Fujoshi de Aitsu ga Yuriota de

Also known as I Love Yuri and I Got Bodyswapped With a Fujoshi!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Meet Reiji Yoshida: a yuri otaku that loves yuri more than anything else in the world. All he wants is to enjoy his hobby in peace, but trouble ensues when he crosses paths with Mitsuru Hoshina, a fujoshi who is obsessed with boys’ love. Hijinks ensue, and a vengeful ghost residing in their school’s manga club swaps their bodies! Polar opposites in both personalities and hobbies clash in this exciting first volume—follow the adventures of their comedic body swap experiences!



Note: Includes five extra chapters.

Tags: Body Swapping , Gender Bending , Otaku Culture , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist

2.5 Jigen Kareshi

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Koino Tsumugi is a sixteen year old otaku who only has eyes for "Tokki"—a 2D character in her favorite otome game! She has no interest in real boys... Then one day she's rescued by a guy who's the spitting image of Tokki...?!

Tags: Heterosexual , Shoujo , School , Female Protagonist , Otaku Culture

Sakura Sakura

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Fifteen years ago, natality decreased greatly in Japan and the few who were born during that time are called the "LastGen."

Hanasaka Haru, a 15-year-old LastGen kid, has never met any classmates before. Now, he goes to school for the first time and meets Himeshiro Sakurako. But Sakurako is not quite the ideal classmate he imagined, and his dream school life isn't turning out the way he wanted it to...

Tags: School , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Shounen