Manga like Himawari-san

Oshiegoto: Doujin Kyoushi to Tensai Gal

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Sachi Kurokawa, a doujin artist in her private life, is hired to be the new art teacher at a high school, where she meets Koihaku, a gal who happens to be a talented portrait artist. Koihaku is a fan of Kurokawa's doujinshi work, and her praises make Kurokawa happy, but trying to keep her doujin work a secret, she lies and tells Koihaku that it is her older sister "Sachi" who draws the doujinshi. Now Koihaku wants Sachi to teach her how to draw like "Sachi"?

Tags: Female Protagonist , Drawing , School Club , Teacher , Yuri , Shoujo , Age Gap , Otaku Culture , School , Estranged Family , Gyaru , LGBTQ+ Themes , Time Skip

Ameiro Kouchakan Kandan

Also known as Ameiro Kochakan Kandan.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Set at a shop called The Amber Teahouse, this is a very heartwarming story that focuses on Seriho, the proprietor of the teahouse, and Sarasa, the high school student who works there part-time. It'll set your heart aflutter!

The volumes contain 16 chapters of the main series and five chapters of the author's other works published in Yuri Hime S, Tonari and Stay Tuned.



Tags: Yuri , Work , Female Protagonist , Restaurant , Primarily Female Cast , Age Gap , Primarily Adult Cast , School

Yagate Kimi ni Naru

Also known as Bloom Into You.

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

Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and awaits the day she gets a love confession that sends her heart aflutter with bubbles and hearts, and yet when a junior high classmate confesses his feelings to her…she feels nothing. Disappointed and confused, Yuu enters high school still unsure how to respond. That’s when Yuu sees the beautiful student council president Nanami turn down a suitor with such maturity that she’s inspired to ask her for help. But when the next person to confess to Yuu is Nanami herself, has her shoujo romance finally begun?



Note: Includes eight extra chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Unrequited Love , Love Triangle , School Club , Acting , Philosophy , Aromantic , Asexual , Shounen , Athletics , Restaurant , Writing , Time Skip , Nudity , Bisexual , Tragedy

R.O.D: READ OR DIE

Also known as Read or Die.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Mystery

Yomiko Readman's love for literature goes far beyond any run-of-the-mill bookworm's! In fact, she has a supernatural ability to manipulate paper in the most amazing ways. From turning a tiny scrap into a lethal throwing dagger to making a single sheet hard enough to block bullets, she's only limited by her imagination. She uses her phenomenal power to seek out legendary books containing secret information that, in the wrong hands, could be dangerous. Backed by a Special Operations Division in England, Yomiko has her hands full battling evildoers, saving the world, and trying to find time to curl up with a good book.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Shounen , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Magic

Rozen Maiden

Also known as Rozen Maiden.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Supernatural

After enduring cruelty from his classmates, Sakurada Jun shuts himself away, preferring to live in solitude. Just when he thought he’d found peace in seclusion, a mysterious box disrupts his world, revealing the enigmatic Shinku—a living doll from the legendary Rozen Maiden collection. Shinku is beautiful yet demanding, and instantly declares that Jun shall be her new servant. Before he can wrap his head around the unusual events, they’re attacked! With no other options for survival, Jun agrees to a contract with Shinku and witnesses the true nature of her power.

Now sworn to Shinku, Jun is pulled into the dangerous world of “The Alice Game,” a deadly battle where only one of the seven Rozen Maiden dolls can emerge as the perfect doll. With danger lurking at every turn and Shinku’s high-maintenance personality to contend with, Jun is about to learn just how intense playing with dolls can be!



Tags: Battle Royale , Seinen , Magic , Hikikomori , Primarily Female Cast , Urban Fantasy , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Twins , Disability , Tsundere , Family Life , Super Power

Kiniro Mosaic

Also known as Kiniro Mosaic.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Alice has just transferred to a school in Japan from England, and a whole world of adventures await with her new friends Shinobu, Aya, Karen, and Youko. Join the girls' daily school lives as they learn more about Japan's language and culture!



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Yuri , Iyashikei , School , 4-koma , Shounen , Female Protagonist

Kobato.

Also known as Kobato..

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Romance

Meet Kobato Hanato, a sweet and rather simple young girl on a quest to have her single, dearest wish granted. But first, she must learn the ways of the world from Ioryogi-san, a gruff blue dog whose bark is just as bad as his bite! Under his “tutelage” (read: constant verbal abuse), Kobato puts her efforts into passing various trials of common sense so that she may obtain the key to getting her wish—a magic bottle which must be filled with the suffering of wounded hearts that Kobato herself has healed. But with Kobato’s common sense sorely lacking, she keeps flunking Ioryogi-san’s trials left and right! It looks like the road that lies ahead of Kobato will be a long one indeed!



Tags: Magic , Reincarnation , Seinen , Angels , Female Protagonist , Iyashikei , Age Gap , Yakuza , Episodic

Ano Hi no Tsuzuki wo Shimashou ka

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

A two-shot originally published in Comic Yuri-Hime December 2019 and January 2020.

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Age Gap , Time Skip

Hon Nara Uru Hodo

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

Run by a young man passionate about literature, the small secondhand bookstore Jugatsudo welcomes a diverse array of visitors every day: lifelong book lovers, a high school student hoping to mark her transition into adulthood through reading, a widow who has come to part with her late husband’s collection, a man who seems to want to get rid of some books... Each need is an opportunity for the bookseller to connect, if only for a few minutes, with a customer’s memories.



Notes:
Nominated for the 2025 Next Manga Award in the Print Manga Category.
Ranked 4th in the 4th Crea Late Night Manga Awards in 2025.
Ranked 1st in Da Vinci's 2025 Book of the Year ranking.
Ranked 1st in the Men's Division of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2026 guidebook.
Ranked 9th in Freestyle Magazine's "The Best Manga 2026" ranking in 2025.
Ranked 2nd in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2026.
Ranked 1st in the Nationwide Publishers Recommended Comics of 2026.
Winner of the 19th Manga Taishou in 2026.
Winner of the Bookseller Prize at the 2026 EbookJapan Manga Awards.
Winner of the 30th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2026.

Tags: Seinen , Episodic , Work , Male Protagonist

Kinjo no Nanako-san

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

A female author of lewd manga frequently finds herself without motivation to work. In those cases she calls over her married neighbour, Nanako-san.

Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing , Iyashikei , Seinen , Yuri , Unrequited Love , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Hikikomori