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Gokinjo Monogatari

Also known as Neighborhood Story.

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

Welcome to Happy Berry! No, this isn’t a fruit stand, but the label dreamed up by aspiring fashion designer Mikako Koda. In her quest to make a name for herself in the fashion world, Mikako enters Yazawa Arts Academy, a prestigious art school, alongside her strictly platonic childhood friend Tsutomu. But there's one problem—Tsutomu's uncanny resemblance to a rock star skyrockets him to popularity and leads him to date the prettiest girl in school. Now Mikako can’t help but wonder if what she feels is jealousy.

Tags: Shoujo , Fashion , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , School , Meta , Urban , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast

Peach Girl

Also known as Peach Girl.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

It's not easy being beautiful. The envy, the jealousy, the vicious rumors spread by your best friend. That's life for young Momo. While everyone thinks that Momo is a wild party girl, the reality is that she is shy and lonely. Can Momo confess her love to her classmate, Toji, or will her best friend Sae steal him away. It's a bittersweet drama of growing up and fitting in that will charm readers everywhere.



Volumes 1-8: Peach Girl; Peach Girl Authentic (2nd English Edition)
Volumes 9-18: Peach Girl - Change of Heart

Tags: Shoujo , Love Triangle , Bullying , Tanned Skin , School , Swimming , Revenge , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist

Koukou Debut

Also known as High School Debut.

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

After blindly following the advice of fashion magazines and the like, Haruna fails to win the eye of any guy. Convinced that a coach is needed (just like when she trained for softball), she recruits cute upperclassman Yoh Komiyama to instruct her on how to make herself more appealing. Yoh agrees, with one catch: Haruna had better not fall for him!



Note: The last two volume, Koukou Debut -Enrenhen-, contains oneshots and side-stories of the series.

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

Kodomo no Omocha

Also known as Kodocha: Sana's Stage.

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

Sana Kurata is a cheerful, energetic child actress in 6th grade who appears on a popular TV show. With her mother, Misako, and her manager, Rei, at her side, life is full of happiness. But her class at school, led by Akito Hayama, is plagued by chaos. In the face of such conflict, what will Sana do?!



Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Coming of Age , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , School , Acting , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Adoption , Suicide , Heterosexual , Family Life , Slapstick , Orphan , Tsundere

Hayaku Shitai Futari

Also known as Let's Do It Already!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

His rule: No sexual relations until age 18! Her rule: No rules.

Free-spirited Yuri Hasegawa and straitlaced Keiichiro Katsuragi have fallen in love. But his elite political family—which has produced a long line of prime ministers—does not allow male descendants to engage in any sexual relations until they are 18. Can the physically affectionate Yuri and rule-abiding Keiichiro keep their relationship strictly chaste?

Yuri and Keiichiro have gotten to know each other on their daily commute to their respective high schools. Yuri makes a passionate love confession to Keiichiro, and he feels the same! As a new couple, Yuri rushes in to kiss her new boyfriend, but...!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Shoujo , Gyaru , School , Kuudere , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Chibi

Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta

Also known as The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Music , Romance

Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya falls head over heels for an employee at a local CD shop. He's got an air of mystery about him, great style, and an impeccable music taste. Little does she know—this supposedly male employee is actually her female classmate Mitsuki! Mitsuki generally keeps to herself, but since her seat is right next to Aya's, she can't help but be extremely aware of the other's crush. Revealing the truth is out of the question for Mitsuki—but perhaps getting closer to Aya wouldn't be so bad...



Tags: Female Protagonist , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Rock Music , Tomboy , Primarily Teen Cast , Short-Form Chapter , Gyaru , Primarily Female Cast , Work , School , Josei , Fashion , Iyashikei , 4-koma , Time Skip

Furare Girl

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The drop-dead-gorgeous and high-sex-appeal Akasaka Hibiki is going through breakup blues. Soon after being dumped, she's asked to become her schoolmate Aoyama-kun's mistress?! Aoyama-kun will try to gain Hibiki's affections through different means, so let's just hope he doesn't nosebleed to death in the process.

Note: Includes 15 extra chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Meta , Heterosexual , School , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast

Shugo Chara!

Also known as Shugo Chara!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

Everybody at Seiyo Elementary thinks that stylish and super cool Amu has it all: But nobody knows the real Amu, a shy girl who wishes she had the courage to truly be herself. Changing Amu’s life is going to take more than wishes and dreams–it’s going to take a little magic! One morning, Amu finds a surprise in her bed: three strange little eggs. Each egg contains a Guardian Character, an angel-like being who can give her the power to be someone new. With the help of her Guardian Characters, Amu is about to discover that her true self is even more amazing than she ever dreamed.



Note: Includes three extra chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Magic , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Coming of Age , Crossdressing , Love Triangle , Nekomimi , Tsundere , Henshin , Philosophy , Gender Bending , Fairy Tale , Family Life , Tragedy , Time Manipulation , Astronomy , Orphan , Space , Super Power , Writing , Anti-Hero , Estranged Family , Tomboy , Fugitive , Homeless , Heterosexual , Urban Fantasy , Age Gap , School Club , Idol , Male Harem , Fairy , Fashion , Adoption , Rehabilitation , Espionage , Femboy , Achronological Order

Beauty Pop

Also known as Beauty Pop.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Kiri's friend Kanako gives a present to one of the members of the Scissors Project. Her act of kindness is interpreted as a bribe to get a makeover, and they reject her out of hand for being too ugly. Kiri decides to help Kanako and give the boys a lesson in what true beauty is.



Included one-shots:
Volume 2: Dream Come True
Volume 3: Teen Drop
Volume 7: Twisted Typhoon; I Want to Be a Prince
Volume 10: Shampoo's Concern; Hysteric Heart; Daily Life in the Narumi Family

Tags: Female Protagonist , Work , Shoujo , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , School , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , Fashion , Makeup , Male Harem , Tsundere

Spicy Girl

Also known as Spicy Girl.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Rika Sawaguchi is a campus idol known as "Madonna of Sugiura High." With dozens of "boyfriends-in-reserve," she is confident to bring every men on their knees in front of her. When her best friend Mako was dumped by the school's playboy Kazuki Hirota, Rika volunteered to avenge her by attracting Kazuki then dump him once he is hooked, yet Kazuki is much more than an average opponent.



Tags: Shoujo