Manga like Inochi wo Odoru

Odoriba ni Skirt ga Naru

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Kiki Haruma always dreamed of doing ballroom dance as the feminine "partner" role, but as she aged she grew taller and taller, eventually causing her to give up ever looking good in a dress or anything girly. Now in the second-year of high school, she specializes in the masculine "leader" role—until one day, her partner suddenly leaves her. When Michiru Toribami, a petite and pretty first-year student, comes to join the ballroom dance club, Kiki asks her to be her new partner, but Michiru told her that she only dances the leading role—and she wants none other than Kiki to be her partner.

Tags: Dancing , Yuri , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Female Cast , School , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love

COCOON

Also known as cocoon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A heart-wrenching chronicle of loss and resilience based on the true story of the Himeyuri corps of student nurses in WWII.

San and her best friend Mayu attend a boarding school for girls in Okinawa, but their studies are interrupted when they and the other students are recruited to help the war effort as assistant nurses. Sent to the front lines, the girls must deal with more than just the threat of enemy bombs overhead. Stuck working in the horrifying caves of a field hospital, San wishes she could wrap herself and her friends in a cocoon of protection. But invisible threads of affection are no match for the carnage that surrounds them, and day by day, more students perish. Worn down by starvation and loss, what will San and her remaining friends do when they are told to find their way home through the fields of total war?



Tags: War , Tragedy , Historical , Survival , Female Protagonist , Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Suicide , Gore , Rural , Primarily Female Cast , Crossdressing , Medicine , Primarily Teen Cast