Manga like Gozen 3-ji no Muhouchitai

Still Sick

Also known as Still Sick.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Makoto Shimizu is just an ordinary office worker, blending in seamlessly with her colleagues on the job... That is, until her coworker Akane Maekawa discovers her well-hidden secret: in her spare time, she draws and sells girls' love comics!

Akane is the last person Makoto would think of as a nerd, but as the two grow closer, it starts to seem like Akane may have a secret of her own...



Note: Includes 3 bonus chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Drawing , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Otaku Culture , Office Lady , Office , Aromantic , Shoujo , Bisexual

Sekine-kun no Koi

Also known as Sekine's Love.

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

Keiichiro Sekine, age 30, is an exceptionally "unfortunate" man. Though he's a hot, elite businessman who's popular with both women and men alike, he's cursed with a "triple handicap" of being insensitive, passive and a jack-of-all-trades, but master of none. Having lived a life that's been somewhat out-of-focus, Sekine resolves to make a change and heads for a small knitting and handicrafts store. While knitting and counting the stitches, Sekine finds himself recalling horrible memories in his past and the feel of his previous upperclassman, Kazune's, bone-thin body! But after meeting the store owner's granddaughter, Sara, Sekine's love life might finally begin... or not.



Tags: Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation , Age Gap , Work , Nudity , Heterosexual , Urban

Nodoka no Niwa

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

This is a love story between 23 year old grad student Asahina Motoko and her 64 year old professor Sakaki Ikuo. Motoko is a very mature and serious girl with poor social skills and is often called dark and gloomy by her classmates. However she finds Professor Sakaki to be kind and easy to talk to, despite his reputation as a strict and scary teacher. Although Professor Sakaki tells Motoko that her feelings for him are not love, something is developing between the two of them, and it might change them both into better people.

Tags: Josei , Tragedy , Age Gap , College , Teacher , Love Triangle , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist

Pen to Chocolate

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Although the mangaka and editor are partners on the job, they have, in some ways, a relationship that is more "deep" than that of lovers. Though unfortunately for Touko Futaba, not only is her series suddenly discontinued due to a slump in popularity but the editor in charge of the project deserts her, leaving her on the verge of throwing herself off a cliff. A new editor, Akimito, then decides to step in, and his high expectations strikes Futuba's heart with the desire to work sincerely once again and helps her regain support for her work.

Tags: Josei , Drawing , Work , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast

Shounen Shoujo

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Shounen Shoujo
Famires☆Night
Border Line
Kenritsu Mammoth Nishi Koutou Gakkou
Treasure Room
Aka-Coat no Selma


Tags: Anthology , School , Josei

Trap Hole

Also known as Pitfall.

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

"My life has totally fallen apart..." Haruko was 29, with both her 30s and a blissful marriage right on the horizon, when her fiance dropped a bomb that tore that happiness to shreds. Her friends and family do their best to cheer her up afterward, but she just can't shake the suffocating feeling that plagues her days. If only, she wishes, there were someplace where it would be easier to breathe... And that's when her old classmate Asano invites her to come join him in bustling big-city Tokyo! She went from the top of the world to rock bottom so fast, she didn't even see the precipice she'd been standing on, but now Haruko is taking the reins and starting over from square one!!



Tags: Josei , Urban , Acting , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Rehabilitation

Futsutsuka na Yome Desu ga!

Also known as The Delinquent Housewife!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

A family comedy manga about a high school boy and his sister in law who moves in, who has a BIG secret from her past.

Tohru Komukai and his bride-to-be, Komugi, move in with his family just until they find a place of their own. Or, that was the plan, until Tohru suddenly leaves for a long-term business trip overseas, leaving Komugi to fend for herself on her in-laws’ turf. While Komugi is pretty, considerate and appears to be an ideal housewife, the truth is she doesn’t know how to do a lick of housework, and can’t cook at all. Also, she has a secret past as a member of an all-girls bosozoku biker gang! The only member of the family to learn these secrets is Dai, Tohru’s younger brother, and he helps Komugi keep up appearances until she can learn how to hold her own as a domestic goddess...



Tags: Seinen , Family Life , Delinquents , Heterosexual , Marriage , Unrequited Love , Male Protagonist

Bonkura Bonbon House

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

The manga starts with Kazuki, a university student in Tokyo, visiting her family during spring break. At first, her parents were pleased by her visit, but Kazuki doesn’t return to Tokyo even after a few days. And then one day she just tells her parents that she left university. She has no aspirations and so starts the story with her; she is being lazy at home as a ‘bonkura musume’.

Tags: Josei

Tokyo Tarareba Musume

Also known as Tokyo Tarareba Girls.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

"I spent all my time wondering 'What if?' Then one day I woke up and I was 33."

Rinko doesn't think she's that bad-looking, but before she knew it, she was thirty-something and single. Now she wants to get married by the time the Tokyo Olympics rolls around in six years, but… that might be easier said than done!



Note:
-Nominated for the 9th and 10th Manga Taisho Award and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.
-Includes 25 extra chapters.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Female Protagonist , Satire , Heterosexual , Urban , Primarily Female Cast , Age Gap , Bar , Love Triangle