Manga like Maison Ikkoku

Love Hina

Also known as Love Hina.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

When Keitaro Urashima fails his entrance exams to get into Tokyo University for the second time, he's officially an unemployed and uneducated slacker. To make things worse, his parents have kicked him out of his house. Fortunately, his grandmother owns the fabulous Hinata Lodge and has agreed to take Keitaro in as caretaker. What he doesn't know is that the lodge is actually a girls' dorm and he's the only guy around! Most guys would kill to live with five sexy ladies, but if Keitaro's not careful, this job will kill him.



Tags: Tsundere , Female Harem , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Shounen , College , Primarily Adult Cast , Time Skip , Primarily Female Cast , Nudity , Samurai , Coming of Age

Ranma 1/2

Also known as Ranma ½.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

Years ago, Genma promised his old friend Soun Tendo that Ranma would marry one of Soun’s three daughters and carry on the family’s martial arts school. Except that the girl picked to be Ranma’s bride doesn’t seem to like him, Ranma keeps getting into fights…and did we mention that whole changing into a girl thing?



Tags: Gender Bending , Love Triangle , Martial Arts , Henshin , Ensemble Cast , Mixed Gender Harem , Episodic , Shapeshifting , Female Harem , Femboy , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , School , Shounen , Nudity , Tomboy , Ghost , Demons , Arranged Marriage , Magic , Animals

Urusei Yatsura

Also known as Urusei Yatsura.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life , Supernatural

What would you do if a tiger skin bikini-clad alien followed you to school every day? Poor Ataru's life has never returned to normal since volatile extraterrestrial princess Lum fell for him. Now an excruciatingly wealthy and genteel rival, Mendo, adds to Ataru's torment. Not to mention an unending stream of extraordinary classroom visitors and educational materials including incompetent cherry blossom spirits, a legendary nightmare-eating tapir, and a fourth-dimensional camera that breeches alternate realities.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Aliens , Slapstick , Episodic , Heterosexual , Shounen , Youkai , Female Harem , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Nudity , Anti-Hero , Animals , Shapeshifting

Kimagure Orange☆Road

Also known as Kimagure Orange Road.

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

Kyousuke Kasuga and his family had just moved to a new town to start over after being discovered the Kasuga family has ESP powers. Soon after transferring to his new school, he meets two delinquents Madoka Ayukawa and Hikaru Hiyama. Together, the three main characters develop a strong love triangle that lasts through the rest of their high school lives.



Tags: Love Triangle , Shounen , Episodic , School , Super Power , Bar , LGBTQ+ Themes

Hachimitsu to Clover

Also known as Honey and Clover.

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

Takemoto lives in a run down student apartment, where his greatest worry is when he'll next be able to afford to eat meat and whether he'll get to class on time. Although he's away from home and living on his own, Takemoto is far from finished growing up. Along with his crazy cast of friends, Morita, Mayama, Yamada, and Hagumi, Takemoto sets out to discover life and his true self.



Notes:
Won the the 27th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 2003.
Chapter count includes 11 extra chapters.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Josei , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Heterosexual , College , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Rehabilitation , Philosophy , Teacher , Drawing , Work , Cycling , School , Male Harem , Tragedy , Bar

Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou

Also known as The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior.

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

Thanks to his parents’ job transfer, Usa has to live on his own. The problem is, his new place is full of weird people, and the upperclassman he admires is one of them…? A teenage romance comedy that’s heavier on the humor, not so much on the romance!



Note: Includes 4 extra chapters.

Tags: Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual , School , Love Triangle , Time Skip

Living Game

Also known as Living Game.

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

Raizo Fuwa is a 25-year-old salaryman living in a cramped home and working in a crowded office in Tokyo. His hopes for improved conditions are dashed when the new office building his company is supposed to move into is condemned as unsafe because the construction company has been cutting corners. Since the old building is already being demolished, they have no choice but to "temporarily" move the office into Fuwa's new flat. The final complication arrives in the form of the new employee Izumi Hiyama, a high school dropout the boss has promised to take care of as a favour to her family. No landlords are willing to rent to a 15-year-old girl, so she too has to move into Fuwa's home/office.



Tags: Age Gap , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Seinen

Tokimeki Tonight

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

This is a long, epic manga that spans three generations of the Etou family. The first part is about Ranze, a relatively normal high school girl, except for the fact that her father is a vampire, her mother is a werewolf, and that she has magical powers of her own. Her family was banished from the Magic World to live among the humans, and they now guard the gate between the two realms. The story really begin when Ranze falls for a human boy, which her parents strictly forbid. Later story arcs focus on Ranze's brother and on Ranze's daughter.



Note: Includes 9 extra chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , Vampire , Werewolf , Female Protagonist , Body Swapping , Heterosexual , Family Life , Shapeshifting , Magic , Super Power , Twins , Surreal Comedy , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Time Manipulation , Memory Manipulation , Boxing , Reincarnation , Age Regression , Gods , Mythology , Necromancy , Slapstick , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , War , Yakuza , Fairy Tale , Henshin , Body Horror , Orphan , Yandere , Writing , Acting , Witch

Asatte Dance

Also known as Dance Till Tomorrow.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Erotic college comedy. Suekichi goes to university and has, as any Japanese university student, time for hobbies. Things change when he attends his great grandfather's funeral and wakes the next morning in his room with a very sexy girl besides him. His great grandfather has left him a little inheritance but there are some conditions. Meanwhile, sexy Aya keeps hanging around and refuses to go away. The beginning of a strange relationship which revolves around suspicions and desire.

Tags: Heterosexual , Nudity , Love Triangle , Seinen , School Club , College

Mahoraba

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

Shiratori Ryushi wants to become a picture book writer, and he moves to an apartment, Narutaki-So, in order to go to an art school in Tokyo. Narutaki-so is an old Japanese style one-story house which doesn’t fit in urban scenery. It is owned by the cousin of his mother, and the manager of the apartment is Aoba Kozue. She is his second cousin, and they met with each other when they were children although he doesn’t remember her much. She is in the second grader of a high school attached to Aoba Junior Collage.

There are five people living in Narutaki-So. First, Chanohata Kotomi is living in the room #1. She is a best friend of Kozue. Then, the resident of the room #3 is Momono Megumi. She is a kind of person who goes her own way. In the room #5, Kurosaki Sayoko and her daughter Asami are living. Asami is in the first grade of a junior high. Finally, in the room #6, Haibara Yukio is living with his puppet, “Johnny”.

They are all characteristic and eccentric persons. However, in fact, the most eccentric person is Kozue. She has a secret; when she is shocked at something, she changes her personality. Not knowing this, Shiratori moves to Narutaki-So to realize his dream. What kind of a new life will be waiting for him?

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Urban , Heterosexual , Dissociative Identities , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Harem , Shounen , Iyashikei , Drawing , Kuudere