Manga like Heart no Kakurega

Hana wa Saku ka

Also known as Does The Flower Blossom?.

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

Sakurai, who works for an ad agency, bumped into a young man on his way home. He dropped some business materials and a magazine and messed them up. Luckily, the young man happened to have the same magazine and offered Sakurai to hand it over, so Sakurai followed him to his house. The young man, Minagawa Youichi, was a college student and owned a big old house, which was used as a boarding house. Sakurai thought Minagawa was unsociable and hard to go along with, but somehow he started to visit his house frequently and...



Tags: Boys' Love , Drawing , LGBTQ+ Themes , Age Gap , Work , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Office , Orphan , College

Tonari no Metaller-san

Also known as The Metalhead Next Door.

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

Impoverished graduate student Kento nearly freezes to death outside his new cheap (unheated) apartment during a blizzard. Luckily, he's saved by neighbor Soushi, a quiet and somewhat frightening young man who dresses in all black. Although he exudes an aura that screams "keep away," his eyes, hidden behind long rocker hair, plead for something else. Over the following year, the two share meals together, but as the time passes, the closeted Kento finds it increasingly difficult to ignore his growing feelings. Will he choose to maintain the peaceful, happy times he's grown to love or risk it all for the possibility of something more?



Tags: Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Food , Metal Music , Disability , Nudity , Snowscape

Free Punch

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

1-2) Yamada runs away from home and goes to hang out at the school until things cool down. Unfortunately he runs into his homeroom teacher who takes him home.

3-5) Ikeda moves into his dormitory to find out his room mate Kazuma has a terrible personality.

Tags: Boys' Love

Hanakoi Tsurane

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

The self-destructive type, Sougorou is the heir of one of the well-known families in Kabuki world. He has no interests in other actors his age with the exception of Gensuke who he recognizes as his rival and never wants to lose to no matter what. However, fate plays a cruel trick on him and the two of them end up as classmates... How will their relationship develop...?

Note: There are two different endings to this manga. The difference starts in the middle of the last chapter. The tankoubon version is a bit longer and more fleshed out compared to the magazine version.

Tags: Acting , Work , Primarily Male Cast , Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , Tragedy

Maison Ikkoku

Also known as Maison Ikkoku.

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

Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku, the exam-addled college student; Mrs. Ichinose, the drunken gossip; Kentaro, her bratty son; Akemi, the boozy bar hostess; and the mooching and peeping Mr. Yotsuya. Funny, touching, and a tad off-kilter, Maison Ikkoku is the great Rumiko Takahashi at her very best.



Tags: Seinen , Cohabitation , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Episodic , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Coming of Age , Tsundere , Found Family , Nudity