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Kamisama Hajimemashita

Also known as Kamisama Kiss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity. But it turns out that his place is a shrine, and Nanami has unwittingly taken over his job as a local deity!

Nanami has all kinda of new responsibilities she doesn't understand, dangers she's unaware of, and a cranky ex-familiar who's...actually pretty hot. What's a new-fledged godling to do?



Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Kemonomimi , Demons , Coming of Age , Youkai , Gods , Urban Fantasy , Monster Boy , Found Family , School , Yandere , Time Manipulation , Amnesia , Historical , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Male Harem , Age Regression , Idol , Afterlife , Marriage , Curses , Cohabitation

Zettai Kareshi

Also known as Absolute Boyfriend.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

Rejected way too many times by good-looking (and unattainable) guys, shy Riiko Izawa goes online and signs up for a free trial of a mysterious Nightly Lover "figure." The very next day a cute naked guy is delivered to her door, and he wants to be her boyfriend! Has Riiko died and gone to heaven? The cute guy turns out to be sweet, smart, a great cook, and lots more. And he looks like a million bucks, which is what he's going to cost Riiko if she doesn't return him in time...



Included one-shots:
Volume 6: I Won't Let You Become a Star and Aromatic Boy

Tags: Shoujo , Artificial Intelligence , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , School , Urban , Heterosexual , Primarily Male Cast , Time Skip , Robots

Hime-chan no Ribbon

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

Princess Erika of the Magic Kingdom must test out a magic item that she created for a year on her human world doppelganger before she can qualify for the throne. Her look-a-like happens to be Himeko, a tomboy who worries that her boyish looks and attitude are ruining her chances with the boy she is in love with. Erika gives Himeko a ribbon that allows her to transform for an hour into anyone she wants, but if she exceeds the time limit, or if anyone finds out, she will be stuck in that form for the rest of her life.

Tags: Magic , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Tomboy , Heterosexual , Shapeshifting , Super Power , Animals , Slapstick , Urban Fantasy , Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Child Cast , School , Love Triangle , Time Manipulation , School Club , Tragedy , Reincarnation

Full Moon Joker

Also known as Full Moon Joker.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

Yukihara Mutsuki has a strange ability: the ability to understand peoples' feelings. However, usually she acts as a normal girl who is looking for love. One day, Mutsuki meets with a boy who sat beside her in a train by chance. Can this be... the destined meeting?? Mutsuki thinks like that is!

Tags: Magic , Shoujo , School , Tsundere

Papa to Arukou

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi

Eight years have passed since Haruna, once a child genius, quit university and became a poor detective. Haruna's uncle suddenly visits with a job for him--to take care of a child helper-robot, A-3. Will A-3 help Haruna find what is missing from his life?

Tags: Shoujo , Detective , Robots

Sugar Princess

Also known as Sugar Princess: Skating to Win.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

When Maya Kurinoki takes her little brother to the local ice-skating rink for the first time, she's got her hands full just trying to get him to let go of the bar. To inspire a bit of bravery in him, she attempts a double axel--and lands it! Maya never imagined that this jump would change her life...or that a coach named Eishi Todo would vow to make her a figure skating "princess"! Now all Maya has to do is convince famous skater Shun Kano to become her partner. Too bad Shun doesn't want to have anything to do with her!



Tags: Shoujo , Ice Skating , Female Protagonist

Yoroshiku Master

Also known as Sweet Rein.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

Sad at the thought of spending Christmas alone, Kurumi Sagara goes out for a walk. While she’s crossing the street, a boy bumps into her, and a rein suddenly appears that binds them together. The overjoyed boy tells her she’s his master and that she’s a Santa Claus. Kurumi dismisses him as a crazy person, but then he transforms into a reindeer?!



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Amai Kamiato
Volume 2: Eden no Tobira
Volume 3: Penguin Kakumei Side Story

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

Mekakushi no Kuni

Also known as Land of the Blindfolded.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Land of the Blindfolded is the story of high school student Outsuka Kanade who can sometimes see a person's future with a touch, and transfer student Naitou Arou, whose ESP is limited to past events. When Kanade glimpses an unfortunate incident coming, can she change it? She soon befriends Arou, who's no novice — he can turn his ability on or off at will, even using it to see an object's "memories." Are these teenaged seers of the past and future made for each other? And who's right: Arou with his "hands off" policy about meddling in people's lives, or Kanade whose more proactive stance has already had unhappy consequences?



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Machigaeru Otoko (The Boy Who Makes Mistakes), Matsuri no Ato (After the Sports Festival)
Volume 2: Hyakka Jimusho no Akuma (The Devil in the Flowered Office)
Volume 3: Ame no Naka (Inside Rain)

Tags: Shoujo , School , Time Manipulation , Super Power , Heterosexual

Guignol Kyuutei Gakudan

Also known as Grand Guignol Orchestra.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Lucille and the orchestra encounter a town overrun with the worst kind of audience: the living dead! Well, not really. They're people who have been turned into doll-like zombies. And they are definitely not a crowd to take lightly. Can a group of roving musicians use their skills to calm the beasts? Or is this curtains for the Grand Orchestra?!



Included one-shot:
Volume 5: Camelot Garden

Tags: Shoujo , Zombie , Pandemic , Foreign , Tragedy , Gender Bending , Classical Music , Estranged Family , Post-Apocalyptic , Agender , Guns

Chobits

Also known as Chobits.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

After moving from the countryside into the big city, poor college student Hideki Motosuwa finds himself down on his luck. All he wants is a good job, a girlfriend, and his very own “persocom” - the latest and greatest in humanoid computer technology. Hideki’s luck changes one night when he finds Chi - an adorable, but seemingly broken, persocom thrown out in a pile of trash. After taking her home, Hideki discovers that Chi is more responsibility than he expected - and that there’s much more to his cute new persocom than meets the eye.



Tags: Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Urban , Female Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Dissociative Identities , Heterosexual , Amnesia , Philosophy , Age Gap , Nudity , Chibi , Work , Memory Manipulation , Asexual , Crossover