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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 , Cohabitation

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…



Notes:
Includes the epilogue.
The publishing rights of the manga got acquired by Shueisha on 2025, and the first volume of its Shinsouban got published on April 17th, 2025.

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

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

Aoki Kaoru is a 26-year-old woman who has never had a boyfriend. Normally unattached and unmotivated in her own life, Kaoru decides to start up a nail salon as a side business in addition to her regular job as a medical clerk. Although having a severe adversity to physical touch, she is forced to confront that fear when she meets a man who can’t help but touch others.

Tags: Age Gap , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Female Protagonist , Medicine , Heterosexual , Office , Nudity , Tsundere , Love Triangle , Software Development , Time Skip

Sennetsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Ruri, a college student working part time at a convenience story, finds herself drawn to Nosegawa, a middle-aged customer who comes in every day to buy two packs of cigarettes. When she works up the nerve to ask him for a ride home one rainy day, their interaction in the car kindles something in Ruri's heart - a strange and unknown new heat...

Tags: Seinen , Age Gap , Yakuza

Ojikoi

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Sanjou Arashi is a high school girl who works part-time for a company that does odd jobs. She’s quite serious and has a strong sense of responsibility that offsets her boss–a man who is seemingly more interested in goofing off and smoking than running the place.



Tags: Heterosexual , Shoujo , Age Gap , Detective , Work

Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari

Also known as Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You.

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

At age forty-five, office worker Sasaki has had enough of the corporate grind. His only solace is smoking-and the friendly smile of supermarket cashier Yamada. When Sasaki can't find Yamada after a particularly trying day, a striking woman invites him to smoke with her. The despondent man thinks he's made a new smoking buddy in the cool, teasing Tayama, but Sasaki doesn't realize he already knows her!



Note: On June 23, 2022 it was announced that the manga got licensed by Square Enix. It started being published in the magazine Big Gangan on August 25, 2022.
Winner of the Next Manga Award 2022 in the Web Manga Category.

Tags: Seinen , Konbini , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Age Gap , Work , Male Protagonist , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Office

Ao ni, Fureru.

Also known as Seeing Blue.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Ruriko Aoyama is a high school girl who has a blue birthmark on her face. She always tries not to care about it and be worried by others. One day, she happened to see her new class teacher Kanda's notebook. The pages were closely written about students' information in his class but Ruriko, and decides to question him about it. However, he reveals that he has a face blindness (prosopagnosia)—he can't tell people's faces.



Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: School , Seinen , Age Gap , Disability , Teacher

Sono Koi wa Ichigo no Youni

Also known as Strawberry Love.

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

20-year-old university student, Sara Moritani, rushes back to the countryside to help her grandfather with his farm after he’s been injured. There, she meets a veteran strawberry farmer named Minori Sugiura, who is 13 years older than she is. He teaches Sara the ropes of strawberry farming. At first, she was frightened by Minori’s intimidating demeanor. But after discovering many surprising sides to him, she could feel love taking roots within her heart. On the other side of the relationship, Minori finds himself attracted to Sara. But due to their age difference, he finds it difficult to express his feelings to her... Thus begins a pure and touching love story between these two awkward lovebirds.



Tags: Age Gap , Heterosexual , Rural , Shoujo , Agriculture , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Chibi

Kono Koi, Chaban ni Tsuki!?

Also known as Matcha Made in Heaven.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance

Chako Hananoki thought she'd found happiness in a handsome fiancé, but when she realized a marriage to him would mean a total erasure of herself, she broke it off and moved back into her childhood home in the country... only to find a strange man and young woman living there? She finds a way to coexist with them, but when her stalker fiancé follows her home, she declares to him (and accidentally to the whole village as well) that this new man in her life is her husband?!

Tags: Food , Rural , Josei , Female Protagonist , Found Family , Fake Relationship , Heterosexual

Bread & Butter

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

Life isn't going too well for Yuzuki. She's a 34-years-old and without a boyfriend. The elementary school she works at is close to firing her, and to top it off she doesn't know what to do with her life at all. But even when she quits her job and tries to have an arranged marriage things don't work out. Only the bread she eats at the small stationery store around the corner gives her comfort. So one day, she asks the store owner to marry her on a whim and to her surprise, he agrees...?

Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Josei , Work , Marriage , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Drawing , Age Gap , Heterosexual