Manga like Hana Monogatari

Haikei, Arishi Hini Saku Hanatachi e

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Kasumi, a serious girl who has just started at an all-girls school, discovers a letter tucked into an old book she found in the library. The letter's writer yearns to have a special relationship with another girl, like how it was described in the book… A romance about the the old-school "S" kind of girls-love.

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Writing , School , Seinen , Primarily Female Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Suicide , Yandere

Hana Monogatari

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

The manga centers on Hanayo, an elderly woman whose husband of many years has only recently died. After finishing a Buddhist service for her husband, she finds herself walking out in town alone for the first time in a long time. She stumbles onto a cosmetics store, and meets a beautiful woman named Yoshiko Doujima, and falls in love at first sight. Hanayo had long given up on makeup after her husband nagged her about it, but putting some on with Yoshiko's help brightens her heart.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Elderly Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Bisexual , Makeup , Classic Literature , Fashion , College , Work , Seinen , Iyashikei

Yume no Hashibashi

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

Kyoko is at the autumn of her life.

She can barely recognise her own family member. But one day, someone she remembers perfectly comes to visit. Her name is Mitsu, the woman Kiyoko had a love story with. Just after the war, when they were still teenagers, they nearly did the irredeemable out of passion.
Despite a few meetings from time to time, life ups and downs separated them, but the story draws us back in the time when they couldn't imagine life without each other.



Tags: Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tragedy , Achronological Order , Historical , Female Protagonist , Josei , Suicide , Elderly Protagonist , Rural , Primarily Adult Cast

Sakura Namiki

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Takahashi Makoto's The Rows of Cherry Trees is quite old—it's from 1957. It centers around three members of the table tennis club at an all-girl school. The story begins with the school tournament, where Yukiko faces off against first her rival, then her crush.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Female Protagonist , Table Tennis , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle

Maya no Souretsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

A horror story, in which the main character and her family go to their summer house for vacation and people start dying one by one. The twist is that the main character, Reina, is falling in love with her mysterious neighbor, Maya. But who is Maya really, and how does she know so much about Reina's family?

Note: The series was published as a single volume in 2005 along with two other stories, "Otouto" ("Little Brother") and "Kurisuchiina no aoi sora" ("Christina's blue sky").

Tags: Shoujo , Yuri , Female Protagonist , Rural , Revenge , Tragedy , Incest , LGBTQ+ Themes , Arranged Marriage , Crime , Family Life

Aoi Hana

Also known as Sweet Blue Flowers.

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

Fumi and Akira were best friends when they were little, with Akira always looking after the crybaby Fumi, but that all ended when Fumi's family moved away. Several years later, Fumi's family returned, and she and Akira happened to bump into each other on their way to school. They became friends again, quickly slipping back into old patterns. Shortly after, Fumi began dating a cool, attractive upperclassman who, coincidentally enough, had ties to Akira's current school, the prestigious Fujigaya Girls' Academy.



Note: Includes 10 extras chapters from the volumes.

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Coming of Age , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , School , Female Protagonist , School Club , Acting , Josei , Time Skip , Bisexual , Asexual , Unrequited Love , Nudity

Tamaki to Amane

Also known as Tamaki & Amane.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Family, romance, friendship--endless relationships tether us to the people we love. From the Edo period to modern-day Japan, the postwar era to the seventies, Tamaki and Amane's fates intertwine time and time again.



Tags: Episodic , Josei , Reincarnation , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Family Life , LGBTQ+ Themes , Suicide , Disability , Found Family , Unrequited Love , Bisexual