Manga like Last Summer Vacation

Zenbu Kowashite Jigoku de Aishite

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Kurumi Yoshizawa is the student council president with excellent grades and good manners... but in private, she is stressed by her strict mother and the excessive expectations of her teachers. One day, Yoshizawa is asked by her homeroom teacher to check on her truant classmate Naoi, but Naoi only scorns Yoshizawa, as if seeing through her true feelings. On the verge of a mental breakdown, Yoshizawa makes a clumsy attempt at shoplifting, but Naoi records the whole thing... This is a violent coming-of-age story about two people struggling in everyday life with no escape.

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Blackmail , Bullying , Psychosexual , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Female Cast , Yandere , Love Triangle , Coming of Age , Torture , Unrequited Love

Adabana

Also known as Adabana.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

After the gruesome murder of two small-town residents, a ramen shop owner, and a local student, the community is left shocked. Mizuki Aikawa, the best friend of one of the victims, confesses to the brutal crime. However, nothing is as it seems, and Mizuki's public defenders believe there has to be more to the story. When the truth unravels, they discover a tale of class, exploitation, and the deeper struggles of meeting family expectations.



Tags: Crime , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Tragedy , Achronological Order , Suicide , Prostitution , Police , Torture , Prison , Sadism , Denpa , Nudity

Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Romance

Airi Sezaki and Hinako Hanamura. In the class, they are in a different group and caste with no interaction, but they have a secret that cannot be said to the others. The girls' secret is that of love, selfishness and fetishes...

Note: Includes 5 extra chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Bullying , Psychosexual , Primarily Female Cast , Yandere , Denpa , Hikikomori , Torture , School , Suicide , Primarily Teen Cast , Ero Guro , Nudity , Urban , Fugitive , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Crime , Revenge , Survival , Gyaru

Takopii no Genzai

Also known as Takopi's Original Sin.

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

Takopi travels from his home of Happy Planet to spread happiness across Earth, but meets the unsmiling Shizuka upon landing. Her friends at school and home life seem to be the source of her somber expression—and the pure-hearted Takopi is determined to change things for the better! But what truths await him when the curtains rise in this shocking drama?!



Tags: Bullying , Tragedy , Denpa , Aliens , Time Manipulation , Primarily Child Cast , Suicide , Crime , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Shounen , Magic , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Clone

Sachi-iro no One Room

Also known as One Room of Happiness.

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

That day, she was abducted. But to her, that abduction was a ray of hope -- the beginning of a new life. The girl promises to marry her abductor, and the abductor offers plenty of "happiness." This is the story of an abductor and his victim... How could it be so warm?
Note: Chapter count includes one bonus chapter.

Tags: Denpa , Rehabilitation , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Crime , Philosophy , Suicide , Found Family , Detective , Yandere , Age Gap , Homeless , Heterosexual , Coastal , Delinquents , Time Skip , Primarily Adult Cast

Mizuno to Chayama

Also known as Mizuno & Chayama.

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

Mizuno, the daughter of a mayoral candidate, is desperate to escape the suffocating pressure and scrutiny of smalltown life. Chayama, the heiress of the tea company Chayama-en, is adamantly walking down the path laid out for her, despite being forced to atone for her family’s apparent misdeeds. Yet in the bubble of the school’s third floor guidance counseling room-away from rumors, watchful eyes, and their feuding families-they’re simply Mizuno and Chayama, two teenagers who find comfort and hope in each other. But when the outside world tries to tear them apart, the two must find a way to protect their relationship and, more importantly, themselves…



Tags: Yuri , Bullying , Female Protagonist , Rural , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Politics , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Estranged Family

Satougashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai: A Lollypop or A Bullet

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Yamada Nagisa is a bored teenager who finds everyday life extremely unappealing: thus her plans to join a military academy as soon she graduates. On the last term of middle school, a strange girl named Mokuzu Umino, who claims to be a mermaid, transfers into Nagisa's class and, much to her bewilderment, begins to follow her around incessantly.

An annoyed and discomfited Nagisa initially strives to avoid these encounters, but then she begins to catch glimpses of the pain...

Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Child Cast , Bullying , Hikikomori , Shounen , Rural , Disability , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Class Struggle

Aku no Hana

Also known as The Flowers of Evil.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

The story opens as middle school student Takao Kasuga receives an F on a math test. But he doesn't even seem to notice because he's too engrossed in surreptitiously reading Beaudelaire's The Flowers of Evil. And the day goes downhill from there. In a moment of weakness, he finds and takes home the gym clothes belonging to sweet, pretty Nanako Saeki on whom he has a major crush. Unfortunately for Takao, there's a witness to the theft: Nakamura, who has a huge chip on her shoulder and a sadistic streak.

As the saga unfolds, we see Takao struggling to decide whether to confess or cover up his misdeeds at the same time that he tries to win over the girl of his dreams, and avoid the blackmail attempts of Nakamura, his new ”BFF.”

Smart, funny, and emotionally engaging, The Flowers of Evil introduces a character who's not a hero, but just an ordinary teenager in search of true love and real friendship.



Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Philosophy , Denpa , Love Triangle , Rehabilitation , School , Classic Literature , Tragedy , Time Skip , Sadism , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Suicide , Female Protagonist , Rural , Shounen , Writing , Heterosexual , Urban , Blackmail , Nudity , Crossdressing

My Broken Mariko

Also known as My Broken Mariko.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Tomoyo Shiino has stood by her friend Mariko through years of abuse, abandonment, and depression. However horrific her circumstances, their friendship has been the one reassuring constant in Mariko's life-and Tomoyo's too. That is, until Tomoyo is utterly blindsided by news of Mariko's death. In life, Tomoyo felt powerless to help her best friend out of the darkness that ultimately drove her over the edge. Now, Tomoyo is determined to liberate Mariko's ashes for one final journey together... to set free her dear, broken Mariko.



Notes:
Includes the one-shot "YISKA".
includes the extra "Home Sweet Home!".

Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Coastal , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Yuri , Rehabilitation , Philosophy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Denpa

Pieta to Transi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Thriller

Transi is a smart girl who transfers to Pieta's class, a high school girl living an ordinary life. Transi has a constitution that triggers murders around her, and she is also a detective who solves the cases. Pieta falls in love with her and offers to be her assistant. As people around her die one by one, Pieta, the person closest to Transi, somehow stays alive. This is a story of two girls who celebrate their own lives even if the world is dying.

Tags: Shoujo , Detective , Crime , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Gore , Yuri