Manga like Koi to Yobu ni wa Kimochi Warui

Takane to Hana

Also known as Takane & Hana.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The meeting between Takane and Hana ends in an explosive manner, and Hana is convinced that she’ll never have to see that awful Takane again. But Takane actually seems interested in Hana! Exasperated by Takane’s immature attitude, yet amused and intrigued despite herself, Hana wonders if her hilarious rivalry with Takane just might lead to love!



Note: Includes 23 extra chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Age Gap , Work , School , Love Triangle , Transgender , Chibi , Crossdressing , LGBTQ+ Themes , Arranged Marriage , Heterosexual , Time Skip

Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet

Also known as Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet.

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

Fumi Oono, second-year high-school student. Stuck with the debts of her father, she needs a job—fast. While she did indeed manage to find one as a housekeeper for THE Akatsuki Kibikino, it leaves much to be desired. After all, the novelist has a mean glare and an even worse attitude...And on top of that, she has to live with him?!



Note: Includes 8 extra chapters (from which two are Hirunaka no Ryuusei extras, released with this series).


Tags: Shoujo , Coming of Age , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Adoption , Writing , School , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Tragedy , Time Skip , Work

Kowamote Koukousei to Jimiko-san

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

“I’ve come back for you.” The handsome boy who moved away ten years ago has returned… with a super scary face?!

Sachi, the 26 year old manager of a little florist shop, was closing up when suddenly a high schooler with a terrifying face approached saying, “I came as promised.”

The manly and earnest high schooler with a terrifying face X The super dull plain jane, in a heart bursting love story! ♥



Tags: Shoujo , Age Gap , Horticulture

Koi wa Ameagari no You ni

Also known as After the Rain.

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

Akira Tachibana. 17 years old, high school junior. Akira, awkward when it comes to expressing her feelings, finds herself secretly falling for the manager of the family restaurant where she works, one Masami Kondo, age 45. The curtain rises on the small love story that begins to unfold between Akira, stuck standing on the crossroads of adolescence, and Kondo, at the turning point of his own life…



Note: Includes the epilogue.

Tags: Age Gap , Work , Athletics , Writing , Female Protagonist , Seinen , School Club , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Restaurant , School , Tragedy

Watashitachi wa Koi wo Shiranai

Also known as We Know Nothing About Love.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The cool, quiet girl and the airheaded playboy are in their first ever romance!? Welcome to a romcom about two high school students who are a bit slow to pick up on things and haven't ever had their first crush!! During the autumn of their first year of high school, Hayato Kuga is assigned to sit next to Yuki Amano. Miss Amano is basically silent at all times and never smiles. So, Mr. Kuga has to try this and that to get her attention thanks to the wall he senses coming from her. As this is ongoing, even Miss Amano, who found Mr. Kuga annoying at first, is starting to open up to him...!?



Note: Chapter count includes two bonus chapters in volume 1

Tags: School , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , 4-koma , Seinen

Hirunaka no Ryuusei

Also known as Daytime Shooting Star.

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

After arriving in Tokyo to live with her uncle, Suzume collapses in a nearby park where she had once seen a shooting star during the day. A handsome stranger brings her to her new home and tells her they’ll meet again. Suzume starts her first day at her new high school sitting next to a boy who blushes furiously at her touch. And her homeroom teacher is none other than the handsome stranger!



Notes:
Includes 3 extra chapters.
Includes the one-shot "Tsuyu Kaoru (ツユカオル, A Love Story in Moist Rainy Days)"
Includes the one-shot "Heroine no Ryuusei (ヒロインの流星)"
Includes the one-shot "More than Words (モア ザン ワーズ)"
Includes the one-shot "Cookie Girl Cream Boy (クッキーガール クリームボーイ)"
Includes the one-shot "Hibi Ryuusei: Suzume no Parallel Koukou Nikki (日々流星－すずめのパラレル高校日記－, Suzume's Parallel School Diary)"

Tags: Shoujo , Love Triangle , School , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Teacher , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Urban , Primarily Teen Cast

Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou.

Also known as Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took In a High School Runaway.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Yoshida is just your average salaryman, drowning his tears in booze. On his way home one night, he finds a runaway high school girl sitting on the street. She offers to sleep with him in exchange for a place to stay―and Yoshida lets her off the hook and offers her work instead. A rom-com between the most unbalanced couple you'll ever find!



Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Love Triangle , Work , Urban , Office Lady , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Female Harem , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Gyaru , Shounen

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii

Also known as Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku.

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

Narumi Momose has had it rough: every boyfriend she’s had dumped her once they found out she was an otaku, so she’s gone to great lengths to hide it. When a chance meeting at her new job with childhood friend, fellow otaku, and now coworker Hirotaka Nifuji almost gets her secret outed at work, she comes up with a plan to make sure he never speaks up. But he comes up with a counter-proposal: why doesn’t she just date him instead? In love, there are no save points.



Notes:
Includes 29 extra chapters.
The English edition combines 2 Japanese volumes into one each (so e.g. the first two Japanese volumes are combined into 1 English volume).

Tags: Otaku Culture , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Video Games , Heterosexual , Work , Episodic , Josei , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Meta , Iyashikei , Office , Ensemble Cast , Cosplay , Tsundere , Crossdressing , Chibi

My Fair Neighbor

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

Sakura Yuki and his neighbor, Momo were separated during Yuki's third year of high school because of a certain incident. Yuki thought that they weren't really friends considering that there was a 12-year age gap between him and young Momo. But 10 years later, Momo, now a high school student, becomes Yuki's neighbor once again. Momo is eager to be friends again but Yuki feels differently as he remembers things he buried in his heart long ago. Momo and Yuki battle their past and and present and slowly become closer than ever.

Tags: Age Gap , Shoujo , Time Skip , Coming of Age , Delinquents , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Suicide

Sensei Kunshu

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The story revolved around Ayu, who constantly gets rejected by the person she confessed to. She then met someone whom she madly fell in love with but turns out to be her Teacher (the older brother of Hiromitsu from Heroine Shikkaku). A hilarious rom-com about the struggles of being in a student-teacher relationship.

Tags: School , Shoujo , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Heterosexual