Manga like Himitsu no Recipe

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 8 extra chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Love Triangle , School Club , Unrequited Love , Acting , Philosophy , Aromantic , Shounen

Kuchibiru Tameiki Sakura Iro

Also known as Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink.

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

Both volumes are a collection of seven short stories each, revolving around an all-girl's school. The first, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapter from the first volume and the first five chapters of the second volume feature the same protagonists.

This entry will reflect the Futabasha edition (published in April 2012), which has some chapters re-ordered compared to the previous (incomplete) Ichijinsha edition.

Volume 1:
Tomodachi ja Nakute mo (Even if We're Not Friends)
About two girls who were friends in junior high but end up going to different high schools.

Tengoku ni Ichiban Chikai Natsu (The Summer Closest to Heaven)
Tells the story of a ghost who accidentally possesses a girl, then takes advantage of the situation to interact with the woman she loves.

Kiss to Koi to Oujisama (A Kiss, Love, and a Prince)
The main character is kissed by her sempai, who is playing opposite her in the school play, and freaks out because she always imagined her first kiss would be with a boy, preferably a dashing prince.

Itsuka no Kono Koi (This Love From I Can't Remember When)
Tells the story of one girl's unrequited love.

Kusuriyubi ni Kiss Shitara (If I Kiss Her Ring Finger)
Nana wants to take things farther with Hitomi, but Hitomi doesn't seem interested. Meanwhile, Nana's failed her midterms, and she uses the make-up tests as an excuse to avoid Hitomi.

Chocolate Kiss Kiss
Valentine's Day is coming up, bringing both sweet and sad memories for Nana and Hitomi.

Tsuki ni Negai wo (Wishing on the Moon)
Can Nana and Hitomi manage to balance their relationship with the other demands on their time?

Volume 2:
Naisho no Koibito (Secret Girlfriends)
Classmates
Arashi no Mae (Before the Storm)
Honki no Iede (Running Away...For Real)
Watashi-tachi no Monogatari (Our Story)

Kuchibiru ni Cherries (Cherries For Your Lips)
Tells the story of a girl who's in love with her best friend.

Honto no Kimochi (Real Love)
About a pure-hearted writer who is baffled when an underclassman suddenly confesses her feelings to her.

Tags: School , Episodic , Yuri , Anthology , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Ghost , Teacher

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 , Unrequited Love , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Bisexual , Tragedy , Incest , Shounen

Ohimesama no Himitsu

Also known as Secret of the Princess.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Fujiwara is the school’s most admired student and captain of the volleyball team, but her reputation is at risk when she accidentally breaks the principal’s most prized possession, a priceless vase. Fellow student Miu witnesses the accident, and Fujiwara begs her not to tell. In exchange, she’ll do whatever Miu wants. It turns out that what Miu wants is to date Fujimaru! Although this wasn’t an arrangement that either girl expected, the two soon discover that breaking the vase may have been destiny’s way of bringing them together.

Tags: Yuri , School , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Tomboy , Volleyball , LGBTQ+ Themes , Fake Relationship

Sayonara Rose Garden

Also known as Goodbye, My Rose Garden.

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

England, the early 1900s. Alice, a young noblewoman, has a Japanese maid named Hanako working in her household. The two have a fairly typical relationship…until the day Alice begs Hanako to kill her. As Hanako tries to figure out why her mistress would make such a terrible request, she and Alice grow closer until an entirely new feeling begins to blossom between them.



Note: Chapter count includes an extra Intermission chapter in vol. 2.

Tags: Maids , Historical , Yuri , Ojou-sama , Foreign , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Writing , Shoujo , Primarily Adult Cast , Love Triangle , Teacher , Fake Relationship

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Also known as Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Set hundreds of years in the future after an environmental catastrophe, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (also known as Yokohama Shopping Log) centers on the simple life of Alpha, an android who runs a small coffee shop in coastal Japan. Alpha stands witness to chronicle the end of humanity’s days with coffee, a slice of watermelon, and the sound of her moon guitar backed by distant seagulls. Quiet and bittersweet, this tale is about the melancholy beauty that can be found even as the end approaches.



Tags: Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Rural , Robots , Time Skip , Lost Civilization , Seinen , Coastal , Artificial Intelligence , Episodic , Travel , Work , Mopeds , Yuri , Family Life , Restaurant , LGBTQ+ Themes , Motorcycles , Nudity

Baihe Gezi

Also known as Lily Lattice Shop.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Supernatural

There is a new store in that cursed corner of the town. There must be no business there at all!!



Tags: Episodic , Yuri , Age Gap

Hentai Yoku Dekimashita

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Tsundere , Blackmail , Boarding School , Archery

Sekai de Ichiban Oppai ga Suki!

Also known as Breasts Are My Favorite Things in the World!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

For Chiaki, the handsomest girl in school, breasts are her passion in life-especially her friend Harumi's! This yuri comedy brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "bosom buddies"!



Note: Includes 13 extra chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Large Breasts , Nudity , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Seinen , School , Flat Chest , Tsundere , Archery

Kamiina Botan, Yoeru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana

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

Kamiina Botan is a 20-year-old college student.
At the welcome party for the dorm she was assigned to, the dorm leader Ibuki gives her a highball to drink and she becomes tipsy, leading to her involvement with Ibuki from now on... A tipsy teasing girl's comedy!

Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Food , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Episodic , Bar , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Yuri , Travel , College