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Mondaiteiki Sakuhinshuu

Also known as Confidential Confessions.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Confidential Confessions is a shocking new manga series that deals with many of the hard-hitting issues that teens face today. Using emotionally moving story lines and multi-dimensional characters, each groundbreaking volume tackles such topics as teen prostitution, rape, HIV, stalkers, suicide, and sexual harassment.



Tags: Shoujo , Drugs , Female Protagonist , Anthology , School , Primarily Female Cast , Prostitution , Suicide , Coming of Age , Bullying , Teacher , Nudity , Yuri

Coelacanth

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

Ten years ago, there was an explosion at Hisano's apartment building. She would have been there, but she'd been hit by a bike ridden by a boy in blood-stained clothes. He dropped a toy scale when it happened, and she's been hanging on to it as a good-luck charm ever since. Now Hisano's in high school. One of her teachers was murdered, and the police are investigating. A young man suddenly appears carrying the toy that scale belonged to. And perhaps... can he also see the hallucinations Hisano has always been plagued with? Everything is connected as the pattern slowly rises to the surface.

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Detective , Amnesia , Crime , Adoption

Hakoniwa no Soleil

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance

After visiting her deceased teacher's grave, a guy suddenly falling of the staircase where Asahi Sena ended up saving him. That guy, Itsuki Tobari turned out to be her deceased teacher's younger brother. They started to talk about things from the past, about the dead of Itsuki's sister and an 11-year-old boy who killed her, who was Sena's bestfriend. What happened to the boy who killed her now? Together, they start to find out what did actually happen during that tragic day.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Drawing , Amnesia , Female Protagonist , Revenge , Orphan , Age Gap

Life

Also known as Life.

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

All Ayumu dreams of is making it into the same high school as her best friend. But when she gets in and her friend doesn't, their friendship crumbles—sending Ayumu spiraling into depression. She finds relief in cutting herself, but soon realizes that her scars may interfere with her budding high school life. Can she trust her new friend, Manami, who seems too good to be true? Or will Ayumu's apparent lack of compassion and understanding get her tossed aside like she was before? And is there anyone else out there who could possibly love her for who she is? A melancholy coming-of-age story by Keiko Suenobu!



Note: Won the Kodansha Manga Award in the shoujo category in 2006.

Tags: Bullying , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Shoujo , School , Suicide , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Tragedy , Yuri