Manga like Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

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

Horimiya

Also known as Horimiya.

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

At school, Kyouko Hori is known for being smart, attractive, and popular. On the other hand, her classmate, the boring, gloomy Izumi Miyamura tends to get painted as a "loser fanboy." But when a liberally pierced and tattooed (not to mention downright gorgeous) Miyamura appears unexpectedly on the doorstep of secretly plain-Jane homebody Hori, these two similarly dissimilar teenagers discover that there are multiple sides to every story...and person!



Notes:
-Includes 20 extra chapters.
-The 17th volume got released on July 18, 2023. This was 2 years after its original ending. This new volume included 10 extra chapters.

Tags: Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Tsundere , School , Family Life , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Slapstick , Episodic , Shounen , Love Triangle , Bullying , Urban , Time Skip

Kieta Hatsukoi

Also known as My Love Mix-Up!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Mistaken identity leads to a blossoming romance between two boys.

Aoki has a crush on Hashimoto, the girl in the seat next to him in class. But he despairs when he borrows her eraser and sees she’s written the name of another boy—Ida—on it. To make matters more confusing, Ida sees Aoki holding that very eraser and thinks Aoki has a crush on him!



Notes:
Winner of the 67th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shoujo Category in 2021.
Includes 5 extra chapters.

Tags: Boys' Love , Shoujo , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , Bisexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , School , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Amnesia , Time Skip , Unrequited Love

Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko!

Also known as Tomo-chan is a Girl!.

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

Boyish high school girl Aizawa Tomo finally manages to tell her childhood friend Jun that she’s got a crush on him. Unfortunately, her confession goes right over his head—he didn’t even realize she was a girl until junior high, and even now, Jun still thinks of her as a bro! How can Tomo-chan possibly convince him otherwise and win Jun’s heart?



Notes:
Originally published daily on Twi4. The volume release compiled the series into 51 chapters.
Includes 8 sets of bonus pages, where each set is considered a chapter; each volume contains a set.

Tags: Tomboy , 4-koma , Female Protagonist , School , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Primarily Teen Cast , Athletics , Episodic , Judo , Shounen , Martial Arts , School Club

Tsurezure Children

Also known as Tsuredure Children.

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

This manga is for those of you who just can't seem to say, "I love you." Toshiya Wakabayashi's acclaimed school-romance is jam-packed with frustration, embarrassment, and awkwardness!



Tags: 4-koma , School , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Age Gap , Kuudere , Love Triangle , Yandere

Oresama Teacher

Also known as Oresama Teacher.

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

Mafuyu is the no-nonsense, take-charge and hard-hitting leader of her high school gang. But when she gets expelled for being a delinquent, her mother, fed up with her daughter's wayward ways, sends Mafuyu to an isolated school far off in the country.

Determined to make the best of the situation and make her mother proud, Mafuyu decides to turn over a new, feminine, well-behaved leaf. But her fighting spirit can't be kept down, and the night before school starts she finds herself defending some guy who's getting beaten up. One slip wouldn't have been a problem, except the guy is…her teacher?! How can Mafuyu learn to be a good girl if her teacher won't let her forget her wicked past?



Note: Chapter count includes the one-shot “Omae Watashi no Koto Suki daro” and 1 extra chapter.

Tags: School , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Delinquents , Teacher , Bisexual , School Club , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing , Gender Bending , Gangs , Tomboy

Ore Monogatari!!

Also known as My Love Story!!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Takeo Goda is a GIANT guy with a GIANT heart.

Too bad the girls don’t want him! (They want his good-looking best friend, Sunakawa.)

Used to being on the sidelines, Takeo simply stands tall and accepts his fate. But one day when he saves a girl named Yamato from a harasser on the train, his (love!) life suddenly takes an incredible turn!

Takeo can hardly believe it when he crosses paths with Yamato again, and he finds himself falling in love with her… But with handsome Sunakawa around, does Takeo even stand a chance?



Note: Shueisha released its 14th volume on April 24th, 2024. This volume contains an extra chapter and the 2 chapter sequel "Ore Monogatari!! Yukiyama Mystery!? no Maki".

Tags: Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Food , Unrequited Love , School , Love Triangle , Surreal Comedy

Romantic Killer

Also known as Romantic Killer.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

High schooler Hoshino Anzu has a great life. Every day she plays video games, pigs out on snacks, and pets her beloved cat. But this blissful existence is turned into a confusing mess when a magical creature transports her to an altered reality bereft of her favorite things. Now she's stuck with hot guys instead! How can she possibly survive in such an awful world?!



Note: 12th place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category

Tags: Female Protagonist , Parody , Full Color , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Harem , Aromantic , Magic , Shounen , Love Triangle , Asexual , Slapstick

Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensaitachi no Renai Zunousen

Also known as Kaguya-sama: Love is War.

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

As leaders of their prestigious academy’s student council, Kaguya and Miyuki are the elite of the elite! But it’s lonely at the top… Luckily for them, they’ve fallen in love! There’s just one problem—they both have too much pride to admit it. And so begins the daily scheming to get the object of their affection to confess their romantic feelings first… Love is a war you win by losing.



Notes:
The first 10 chapters were published in Monthly Miracle Jump. It switched to Weekly Young Jump starting with Ch. 11, with the chapter count being reset. This entry still includes the first 10 chapters from Miracle Jump.
Winner of the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for "Best General Manga" category in 2019.

Tags: Heterosexual , School , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , School Club , Ojou-sama , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Slapstick , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Parody , Meta , Episodic , Love Triangle , Politics , LGBTQ+ Themes , Philosophy , Bullying , VTuber , Conspiracy , Crossdressing , Foreign

Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru!

Also known as This Art Club Has a Problem!.

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

Hi, my name is Usami Mizuki. I’m a second year member of the art club at Tsukumori Junior High, and I need to vent: this club has a problem! Why the heck isn’t anyone besides me taking this seriously?! The club president doesn’t do anything but sleep all the time, Cole-chan never even shows up, and Uchimaki-kun—oh, don’t get me started on him. All he does is draw and obsess over his “2D waifus.” What is this, the manga club?! Hmph, whatever. Not like I care. Sigh. He’s talented enough to win awards with a little effort—but uhm, don’t...don’t tell him I said that, though... Agh! Just how am I supposed to keep this club going?! Help me!



Tags: School Club , Female Protagonist , School , Drawing , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing , Chuunibyou , Otaku Culture