Manga like Hotaru no Hikari

Switch Girl!!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Tamiya Nika is a beautiful, outgoing, popular high school girl. She has just the right look, just the right fashions, and is everyone’s friend. What everyone at school does not know is how hard Nika works to keep up this perfect image, and what she is REALLY like at home. When not at school, Nika is a scary, sloppy, tight-fisted girl who wears glasses, an ugly sweatsuit, and has her hair pulled back into unattractive buns. She lays around playing video games and reading manga. Her attitude is bossy and cranky, and she travels far out of her way to shop where she won’t be recognized.

Every day, Nika “Switches On” with a strict regimen of beautification that involves primping and plucking and careful dressing. The only person who knows about Nika’s Switched On/Off modes is her best friend, who is also aware of the reasons behind the changes.

However, soon a second person finds about about Nika’s personalities - someone who has his own On/Off switch, but in reverse! His name is Kamiyama Arata, and he is a recent transfer student. He meets Nika when she is in OFF Mode, and then again at school when she is ON. However Nika can see that he has his little secret. At school, Arata wears thick swirly-eyed glasses and messy hair that make some bullies think he is an otaku. However, at home, he ditches the glasses and is downright gorgeous! He is just the opposite of Nika, but why?



Included one-shot:
Volume 3: Switch Girl!! (pilot)

Tags: Shoujo , School , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast

Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Michiko is an unemployed 30-year-old. She has just broken up with a younger boyfriend whom she supported financially until she drained all of her savings. Michiko then has a chance meeting with a former boss she used to dislike.

Note: Includes four bonus chapters.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Office Lady , Heterosexual , Restaurant , Work , Love Triangle , Food , Urban , Estranged Family , Matchmaking , Marriage , Gangs , Unrequited Love

Dekiru Neko wa Kyou mo Yuuutsu

Also known as The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today.

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

When Saku took in a stray black cat, she never expected that he would become the equivalent of a housekeeping life partner. But Yukichi, a giant cat who towers over Saku, is not your ordinary feline. He takes great pride in his culinary skills, and a good sale at the supermarket always gets his whiskers twitching. Saku may not have her act together yet, but at least she has Yukichi!


Eighteenth place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category

Tags: Female Protagonist , Office Lady , Shounen , Animals , Iyashikei , Primarily Adult Cast , Anthropomorphism , LGBTQ+ Themes , 4-koma

Uchi de wa Kaemasen!

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Nanami is a 26-year-old single office lady on her way home from working late, trying to catch the last train, when she witnesses two guys get into a fight. She ends up helping to take care of Souta, a college student who got beat up in the fight. Although he has a handsome face, he is a womanizer, and on that same night, he rolls into Nanami's house and starts to......!? "You can treat me like kind of a pet." A slightly dangerous cohabitation romantic comedy between an experienced college boy and an older office lady who is a zero at love! Note: includes seven extra chapters

Tags: Cohabitation , Age Gap , Office Lady , Heterosexual , Josei , Female Protagonist

Hibi Chouchou

Also known as Like a Butterfly.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Shibazeki Suiren is a stunningly beautiful girl. When she enters high school, most of her classmates are astonished by her beauty, but after noticing her quiet manners and lack of contact with anyone else except her friends Yuri and Aya, she receives the nickname "Takane no Hana", a beautiful flower but impossible to reach. However, after a fellow freshman called Kawasumi Kouha saves her from a persistent suitor, she finds herself mesmerized by him... as he's the only boy who won't look at her no matter what.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle , Martial Arts

Tokyo Tarareba Musume

Also known as Tokyo Tarareba Girls.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

"I spent all my time wondering 'What if?' Then one day I woke up and I was 33."

Rinko doesn't think she's that bad-looking, but before she knew it, she was thirty-something and single. Now she wants to get married by the time the Tokyo Olympics rolls around in six years, but… that might be easier said than done!



Note:
-Nominated for the 9th and 10th Manga Taisho Award and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.
-Includes 25 extra chapters.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Satire , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Urban , Bar , Primarily Female Cast , Love Triangle

Gisou Furin

Also known as A Fake Affair.

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

After searching and failing to find a husband for 3 years, Shoko Hama is ready to give up. Tired from work and marriage-less future prospects, she quits her job and travels on a solo trip to Korea. On the plane ride there, Shoko meets the young and attractive Jobanni Park, but accidentally tells him… she’s married? Now caught in her own web of lies, Shoko is about to have the wildest time of her life!



Tags: Foreign , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Long Strip , Travel , Age Gap , Primarily Adult Cast , Full Color