Manga like Himegoto: Juukyuusai no Seifuku

Bokura no Hentai

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Three boys in junior-high who cross-dress because of differing reasons meet each other through a cross-dressing community website, and decide to meet up in real life. "Parou" started cross-dressing because the boy he liked refused to date him unless he dressed up as a girl. "Marika" is transgender and identifies as female. Lastly, "Yui" is an antagonistic boy who adopted the persona of his older sister after her death. In contrast to Parou and Marika, Yui is sorely disappointed at the meeting.

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Transgender , Seinen , Gender Bending , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Psychosexual , Rehabilitation , Boys' Love , Bullying , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Hypersexuality , Male Harem , School Club

Boku wa Mari no Naka

Also known as Inside Mari.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

A young man is a shut-in, with nothing to do but kill time. The sole pleasure in his life is following home an angelic high school girl he sees every day in a convenience store. Today, like any other day, he follows her, but…



Tags: Female Protagonist , Body Swapping , Dissociative Identities , Gender Bending , Seinen , Philosophy , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Hikikomori , Primarily Female Cast , Rehabilitation , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Masturbation , Primarily Teen Cast , Nudity , Yuri , Unrequited Love , Tragedy , Bullying , Disability

Kuzu no Honkai

Also known as Scum's Wish.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Psychological , Romance

Mugi and Hanabi are the perfect high school couple...but their relationship is built on a single shared secret: They're each in love with someone else.



Note: Chapter count includes 6 extra chapters.

Tags: Heterosexual , Seinen , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Netorare , School , Love Triangle , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Age Gap , Fake Relationship , Yuri , Unrequited Love , Nudity

Shounen no Abyss

Also known as Boy's Abyss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

In a town with nothing, in the middle of a daily life with seemingly no signs of change, high schooler Reiji Kurose was "just" living. Family, dreams for the future, childhood friends. All of them were binding him down to that city. He thought he would "just" keep on living like that. Until he met her. Is there hope in living? Is there light waiting ahead? It's the start of a boy meets girl series which reflects the "now".

Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Tragedy , Suicide , Seinen , Psychosexual , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Crime , Yandere , Age Gap , Nudity , Teacher , Heterosexual , Idol , LGBTQ+ Themes , Ensemble Cast , Rural , Female Harem , Bullying , Incest , Marriage , Hikikomori , Time Skip , Natural Disaster

Madoka no Himitsu

Also known as Madoka's Secret.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Madoka Yamada loves to play with dolls and looks so cute in custom made dresses. But Madoka is a boy. Afraid that he will be made fun of again for being “girly,” Madoka decides to hide that part of himself when he moves to his new town and school. He fits right in, and all his classmates like him, except for one, Itsuki Tanonaka, whose seat is right next to his. Madoka thinks that Itsuki is cool and “manly” and says so, only to be met with his classmates’ snickers. What’s the big deal?! Will Madoka be able to keep his secret for long?



Tags: Crossdressing , Primarily Child Cast , Coming of Age , Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gender Bending , School , Bullying , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Love Triangle , Tomboy , Tsundere

Shimanami Tasogare

Also known as Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare.

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

Not only is high schooler Tasuku Kaname the new kid in town, he’s also terrified that he’s been outed as gay. Just as he’s contemplating doing the unthinkable, Tasuku meets a mysterious woman who leads him to a group of people dealing with problems not so different from his own. In this realistic, heartfelt depiction of LGBT+ characters from different backgrounds finding their place in the world, a search for inner peace proves to be the most universal experience of all.



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Coming of Age , Found Family , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Ensemble Cast , Transgender , Crossdressing , Agender , Boys' Love , Asexual , Yuri , Rehabilitation , Suicide , Aromantic , Primarily Teen Cast , School

Ashita, Watashi wa Dareka no Kanojo

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

"One time a week, I will be the girlfriend of [someone]." A bitter love story depicting the realities of love between female college students who earn money on behalf of her and men attracted by her. The first volume is a young office worker who rents the protagonist snow as a fake girlfriend, and draws a distorted love pattern of sota and snow. A substitute girl who plays the customer and the woman of their ideals to the end... Is the distance between two people's mind really close?

Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Work , Heterosexual , Prostitution , Philosophy , Fashion , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Age Gap , LGBTQ+ Themes , Makeup , Boys' Love

Aku no Hana

Also known as The Flowers of Evil.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

The story opens as middle school student Takao Kasuga receives an F on a math test. But he doesn't even seem to notice because he's too engrossed in surreptitiously reading Beaudelaire's The Flowers of Evil. And the day goes downhill from there. In a moment of weakness, he finds and takes home the gym clothes belonging to sweet, pretty Nanako Saeki on whom he has a major crush. Unfortunately for Takao, there's a witness to the theft: Nakamura, who has a huge chip on her shoulder and a sadistic streak.

As the saga unfolds, we see Takao struggling to decide whether to confess or cover up his misdeeds at the same time that he tries to win over the girl of his dreams, and avoid the blackmail attempts of Nakamura, his new ”BFF.”

Smart, funny, and emotionally engaging, The Flowers of Evil introduces a character who's not a hero, but just an ordinary teenager in search of true love and real friendship.



Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Philosophy , Denpa , Love Triangle , School , Rehabilitation , Classic Literature , Tragedy , Time Skip , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Sadism , Bullying , Suicide , Female Protagonist , Writing , Rural , Urban , Heterosexual , Blackmail , Nudity , Crossdressing

Double House

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

From the creator of Pieta comes the story of a connection between two women, Maho and Fujiko, who live in the same apartment building. Maho, a trans woman, saves Fujiko, a girl from a rich family who's left home and is living on her own, one night, and the two become fast friends. As they grow closer, Fujiko confesses to Maho that she has feelings for her...

Note: Includes the one-shot "Tinker Bell no Hanzai".

Tags: Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Yuri , Urban , Philosophy , Bar , Office Lady