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My Broken Mariko

Also known as My Broken Mariko.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Tomoyo Shiino has stood by her friend Mariko through years of abuse, abandonment, and depression. However horrific her circumstances, their friendship has been the one reassuring constant in Mariko's life-and Tomoyo's too. That is, until Tomoyo is utterly blindsided by news of Mariko's death. In life, Tomoyo felt powerless to help her best friend out of the darkness that ultimately drove her over the edge. Now, Tomoyo is determined to liberate Mariko's ashes for one final journey together... to set free her dear, broken Mariko.



Notes:
Includes the one-shot "YISKA".
includes the extra "Home Sweet Home!".

Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Coastal , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Rehabilitation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Philosophy , Yuri , Denpa

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 , Josei , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Elderly Protagonist , Rural , Primarily Adult Cast

Look Back

Also known as Look Back.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Fujino is a fourth grader who draws a manga strip for the school newspaper. Her art makes her the star of the class, but one day she's told that Kyomoto, a student who refuses to come to school, would also like to submit a manga for the paper...



Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on September 3, 2021.

Tags: Drawing , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Hikikomori , Shounen , Coming of Age , Work , Meta , School , Philosophy , Primarily Child Cast , Rehabilitation , Yuri

Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata

Also known as The Summer You Were There.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Shizuku is a shy girl who hardly talks to other people. Instead, she loses herself in creative writing, crafting a novel that she never plans to show anyone. But when Kaori–Shizuku’s cute, popular classmate–gets her hands on Shizuku’s manuscript, everything changes. Kaori is a huge fan, and suggests that Shizuku can get inspiration for her writing if the two of them start dating! Can these very different young ladies create their own love story together?



Tags: Yuri , Tragedy , Writing , Female Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Disability , Bullying , Primarily Female Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Fake Relationship , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Suicide , School

Yoiko no Shouzou

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

Hana is a college girl lacking ambition and motivation, when she meets a beautiful woman named Yoiko, who calls her self a "vengeful spirit" and tells Hana, "You have been cursed and you will die." To lift the curse, Hana must investigate the mystery behind this beautiful ghost, and her only clue is a sooty painting. The more Hana looks into Yoiko's background, the more she falls under Yoiko's captivating spell.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Yuri , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing , Historical , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tragedy , Ghost , Disability , Military , War , College , Bisexual

Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu

Also known as The Summer Hikaru Died.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Two boys lived in a village: Yoshiki and Hikaru. The two did everything together...until the day Hikaru was encompassed by a mysterious light. That was when everything changed—Hikaru most of all. Yoshiki still wishes from the bottom of his heart to always stay by his side...but is there even a Hikaru left to be with?

Tags: Monster Boy , Male Protagonist , Rural , Cosmic Horror , Body Horror , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Boys' Love , Mythology , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Unrequited Love , Gods , Curses , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Aromantic , Asexual , Mountaineering

Otona ni Nattemo

Also known as Even Though We’re Adults.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Ayano, an elementary school teacher in her thirties, stops by a bar one day and meets another woman named Akari. Sparks fly as the two chat, and before the night is over, Ayano even goes in for a kiss. Akari is intrigued but confused...especially when she discovers that Ayano has a husband! Both Ayano and Akari are about to find out that love doesn’t get any easier, even as you grow older.



Tags: Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Josei , Family Life , Cheating , Hikikomori , Teacher , School , Ensemble Cast , Time Skip , Love Triangle , Work , Bisexual , Unrequited Love , Achronological Order , Coming of Age , Restaurant , Filmmaking , Urban

Haruka Tooki Ie

Also known as A Home Far Away.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In the winter of 1990, a young man named Alain finds himself lost and searching for direction. He currently cannot find it at home nor through the church. But when he meets Hayden, a free-spirited cook, he at least finds someone he can relate with. He may not know where his life is going but at least he has someone to lean on. But Alain's new life, filled with new feelings and many new challenging experiences, may force him to find his path on the road...



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Travel , Boys' Love , Tragedy , Fugitive , Religion , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Crime , Foreign , Prostitution , Nudity

Hana to Uso to Makoto

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Some time before the June of summer. One day, she suddenly died...
"I" and the corpse of the girl who should have died, "Makoto", spent those false summer days in that apartment.
The relationship between these two sad, distorted people slowly becomes clearer...

Tags: Zombie , Shounen , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Urban , Yuri , Surreal Comedy , Philosophy

Tsuki to Koi wa Michireba Kakeru

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Hanako and Shiori have been best friends since childhood. Everyone who looks at them think they are the perfect duo, a "prince" and "princess" meant for each other. This story travels through various stages of their lives, guided by the question: what is the true nature of our relationship?

Tags: Yuri , Time Skip , Work , School , Female Protagonist