Manga like Hello, Melancholic!

What is Hello, Melancholic! about?

Status: Finished

Asano Minato is a tall but stooping first-year high school student. Though she’s an awesome trombone player, she does everything she can to fade into the background. Despite her best efforts, however, Minato catches the attention of her bubbly and charismatic upperclasswoman Hibiki, who wants Minato to join the band she’s forming at school and won’t take no for an answer! Will Minato be able to let go of the past and play in a band again? Can polar opposites harmonize through music? Slow jam your way into this dulcet yuri series!



Note: Includes 4 bonus chapters.

Tags: Band , School Club , Yuri , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Iyashikei , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Rehabilitation , Tsundere
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Here is a list of Manga similar to Hello, Melancholic!

Whisper Me a Love Song

Sasayaku You ni Koi wo Utau

Also known as Whisper Me a Love Song.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance

Bubbly, energetic first-year high school student Himari falls head over heels for her senpai Yori after hearing her band perform on the first day of school. Himari tells Yori she just loves her, and to Himari's surprise, Yori says she loves Himari back! But when Himari realizes that she and her senpai are feeling two different kinds of love, she begins to ask herself what "love" really means...



Notes:
Eighteenth place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category
First place in Yuri Navi’s best Yuri Manga of 2020

Tags: Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Band , LGBTQ+ Themes , School Club , School , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Unrequited Love , Bisexual , Tragedy , Incest
Given

Given

Also known as Given.

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

Ritsuka Uenoyama is bored with it all—with school, with his basketball club, and even with his one true passion: playing guitar. That is, until the day he finds his favorite hidden napping spot occupied by a strange boy cradling a broken-stringed guitar. At first, Uenoyama is nonplussed by Mafuyu Sato and his slightly odd behavior, but when, on a whim, he asks Mafuyu to sing, the power of that song pierces him to the core.



Tags: Boys' Love , Band , Rehabilitation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Musical Theater , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Unrequited Love , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Bisexual , School , Suicide , Urban , Love Triangle , Kuudere , Tsundere
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Rock it, GIRL!!

Rock it, GIRL!!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Romance

Kaname likes playing her guitar and singing by the streets and can't believe her ears when a strange girl who's actually a music producer suddenly offers her a contract for a debut CD.
However she tells Kaname that her voice is completely worthless and that she'll have to debut within a band and just be the guitarist. Furthermore, the vocalist who will sing the songs in her place is an arrogant girl full of herself who immediately starts bullying her; however...

Tags: Band , Yuri , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Time Skip , Primarily Adult Cast , Rock Music
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Tsubame Tip Off!

Tsubame Tip Off!

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

A new highschool student with a complex about her height - Tsubame.

Being unathletic and clumsy she seeks to join a cultural club, and despite her height she gives off the persona of a small and shy girl. Enter her upperclassman, Ibis, a small girl with a big presence, who suddenly invites her to the basketball club?!

Note: Originally published as a one-shot.

Tags: Basketball , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Yuri , School , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast
Failed Princesses

Dekisokonai no Himegimi-tachi

Also known as Failed Princesses.

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

Opposites attract in this new high school yuri manga!

Fujishiro Nanaki is super cute, super popular, and super annoyed with anyone as plain as her classmate Kurokawa Kanade. When Nanaki finds out her boyfriend’s cheating on her, however, her life makes a complete 180—as does her relationship with Kanade. This all-new yuri manga series explores the budding romance between the cool girl in school and the “plain” girl she once brushed off!



Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Fashion , Primarily Female Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Otaku Culture , Gyaru , School , Bullying , Love Triangle , Nudity
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Bocchi the Rock!

Bocchi the Rock!

Also known as Bocchi the Rock!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Hitori Gotoh just wants to be popular, but the thought of interacting with her classmates makes her fall to pieces. Her solution-become a rock legend so cool that people approach her instead! However, while spending all of middle school in her closet shredding on the guitar may have earned her anonymous internet fame, it did nothing for her social skills. Now a high schooler, Hitori’s feeling ready to shrivel up and die-when she gets a sudden request to fill in for a band! It’s like her wish came true-but does this most anxious of introverts have what it takes to perform in front of a live audience?!



Note: Includes three extra chapters.

Tags: Band , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , 4-koma , Primarily Teen Cast , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Hikikomori , Rock Music , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Seinen , Tsundere
Mizuiro Cinema

Mizuiro Cinema

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Aqua Blue Cinema is about an actress and a girl she meets through unusual circumstances.

Tags: Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Acting , Love Triangle , Work , Primarily Teen Cast
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Hana to Hoshi

Hana to Hoshi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sports

Hanai is a junior higher and the best at table tennis. She's never lost, and she's won many tournaments, but after some freshman she's never heard of beats her like it was nothing, she starts losing every game after that and she can't get rid of that feeling of defeat. Now it's her first day of high school and she's decided to quit table tennis and live an ordinary high school life, but on the first day, she runs into the very girl that first defeated her. It turns out that she's also quit table tennis, but this girl always has a cold expression on her face and Hanai can't help but feel that this girl is always looking down on her and trying to mess up her perfect high school life. One day the girl falls asleep in class, and Hanai reaches over to wake her up. As she does so, the girl, still half asleep, looks up at her with a smile and almost kisses her. The girl later tells Hanai that she was having a dream about her, but Hanai coldly brushes it off thinking she's just messing with her and walks away - as the girl behind her looks down while blushing...

Note: Chapter count includes 2 extras.

Tags: Yuri , School , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle , Table Tennis , School Club , Tsundere , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
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Girl meets Rock!

Futsuu no Keionbu

Also known as Girl meets Rock!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Music , Slice of Life

With a passion for richly textured Japanese rock, first-year high school student Chihiro Hatono steps into the world of the light music club, new guitar in tow. But what awaits her behind those doors...? A drama of unfiltered youth and musical ambition takes the stage!



Note:
Winner of the Tsugimanga 2024 Award in the Web Manga Category.

Tags: Band , Female Protagonist , School Club , Shounen , Coming of Age , School , Rock Music , LGBTQ+ Themes , Heterosexual , Yuri , Bisexual , Aromantic
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All

Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta

Also known as The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Music , Romance

Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya falls head over heels for an employee at a local CD shop. He's got an air of mystery about him, great style, and an impeccable music taste. Little does she know—this supposedly male employee is actually her female classmate Mitsuki! Mitsuki generally keeps to herself, but since her seat is right next to Aya's, she can't help but be extremely aware of the other's crush. Revealing the truth is out of the question for Mitsuki—but perhaps getting closer to Aya wouldn't be so bad...



Tags: Female Protagonist , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tomboy , Josei , Rock Music , Gyaru , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Work , School , Iyashikei , Fashion

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