Manga like Sayonara Rose Garden

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 , Time Skip

Itsuwari no Marigold

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Kasumi Hana visits her late brother's pen pal, Urushizawa Lily, to inform her of his death. If she had been misleading her brother, she would have murdered Urushizawa Lily. However, Lily is a blind girl who genuinely cared about Hana's brother.

For Lily's sake, Hana decides to become her brother.

Tags: Yuri , Disability , Crossdressing , Primarily Female Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Historical , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Estranged Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Bisexual

Joryuusakka to Yuki

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Young cafe worker Yuki dreams of romance and a life far more wonderful than her own, but has no way to do anything but hope for the future – but a chance encounter with the beautiful, mysterious authoress Azuma Beniko, a woman who seems to know love like the back of her hand, might change the very way she looks at the world…

Note: Includes chapter 7.5 (Cat) and an epilogue.

Tags: Yuri , Writing , Historical , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Work , Age Gap , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Suicide

Shuujuu Yuri Anthology: Rhodanthe

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

A Yuri anthology focusing on romances between masters and servants/lords and retainers, some include period settings or fantasy themes.

Tags: Anthology , Yuri , Maids , Primarily Female Cast , Age Gap , Nudity , Animals , Tragedy , Shapeshifting

Tatoe Todokanu Ito da to Shite mo

Also known as If I Could Reach You.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In this heartwrenching new yuri manga, a teenage girl comes to terms with her own sexuality through her crush on her brother’s wife. Hopelessly in love, high schooler Uta must navigate living with her brother and Kaoru, her crush … and sister-in-law. Desperate to get over her unrequited feelings, Uta pulls away, but when the cracks in her brother’s marriage begin to show, Kaoru begins to confide in her new teenage sister, which just makes matters worse!



Note: Includes 6 extra chapters.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Yuri , Family Life , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Age Gap , Time Skip , Ensemble Cast , School , Estranged Family , Work

Mejirobana no Saku

Also known as A White Rose in Bloom.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Ruby is a student at an elite European boarding school. Things are going pretty well for her until she finds out that she won’t be able to go home at Christmas. Instead, she’ll be stuck at school with only one other student–the aloof and beautiful Steph–for company. As Ruby tries to understand Steph, she becomes more and more interested in the other girl. But can she break through Steph’s icy exterior?



Tags: Yuri , School , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Foreign , Josei , Boarding School , Crime , Gore

GIRL FRIENDS

Also known as GIRL FRIENDS.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

When it comes to grades, bookish high school student Mariko Kumakura is at the top of her class. Socially, however, she is shy and lonely, typically eating lunch by herself. Enter the charismatic and beautiful Akko Oohashi, whose goal is to befriend Mariko and burst her out of her introverted shell.

In the process of transforming Plain Jane Mariko into one of the cutest, most popular girls in school, deep feelings begin to emerge that suggest something deeper than friendship. Will these feelings destroy the budding relationship between Mariko and Akko, or will it turn into something else?



Note: Includes 9 extra chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Seinen , Nudity

Uminekosou days

Also known as Days of Love at Seagull Villa.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

When Mayumi’s fiancé leaves her for another woman, Mayumi impulsively decides to move away and start over again by the seaside. Once there she meets Rin, a tough but kind single mother who runs the housing complex Seagull Villa. While the two women might not have a lot in common, they’re drawn to each other, and the relationship growing between them is deeper than they expected. Sail away on this tale of romance by the sea!



Note: chapter count includes three 4-koma extra chapters.

Tags: Rural , Yuri , Family Life , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Incest , Found Family , Time Skip , Primarily Female Cast , Coastal

Tayutau Hanairo

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

A student at a Japanese women's academy in the 1910's, Higashikuze Miyoko is forced to question her picture of the ideal Japanese woman when she meets Fujiwaka Mari, a "New Woman" who wants to shrug off the prescribed path and paint her own future.

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Historical , School , Boarding School

Versailles no Bara

Also known as The Rose of Versailles.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Oscar François de Jarjeyes is a young noblewoman raised as a son by her father. As commander of Marie Antoinette's palace guard, Oscar is brought face-to-face with the luxury of King Louis XVI’s court at Versailles. Joined by her servant André, Oscar is privy to the intrigue and deceit of France's last great royal regime.



Tags: Shoujo , Class Struggle , Foreign , Historical , Politics , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Gender Bending , Love Triangle , Philosophy , Royal Affairs , Military , Swordplay , LGBTQ+ Themes , War , Bisexual , Arranged Marriage , Kingdom Management , Unrequited Love , Suicide , Medieval