Manga like Namida Ame to Serenade

Tendou-ke Monogatari

Also known as Tales of the Tendo Family.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Masato, a son of the Tendo family, is meant to marry Hojo Ran, the daughter of a baron. There’s just one problem: she’s a fake. The real Ran has fled after hearing that few make it out of the Tendo family alive. In her place is a young woman who says she will die if it means saving someone else’s life.



Tags: Historical , Shoujo , Revenge , Crime , Heterosexual , Arranged Marriage , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Martial Arts , Twins , Crossdressing , Fake Relationship

Emma

Also known as Emma.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Calling upon his former governess, William Jones, gentleman, is startled when his knock is answered by an uncommonly beautiful servant, the soft-spoken Emma. Throughout his visit, William's eyes drift to the maid whenever she enters the room, and he contrives to meet Emma socially as she goes about her errands. But London society is a web of strict codes and divisions. For the son of a wealthy merchant, seeking out a working-class girl is simply not done! William's father plans for his son to marry into the peerage and elevate the Jones family to greater heights, but although William says and does what is expected of him, he longs only for Emma's company...



Tags: Maids , Foreign , Historical , Work , Female Protagonist , Adoption , Educational , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Seinen , Ojou-sama , Orphan , Butler , Teacher , Nudity , Time Skip , Travel , Cars , Trains , Ships

Ashi-Girl

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

Hayakawa Yui is totally a unmotivated, lazy girl who loves sleeping and eating. She's 16 but looks like a boy from elementary school; her one and only talent is to run really fast. After accidentally switching on the time machine which her younger brother made she travels to the Sengoku period, where luckily she joins retreating foot soldiers using the name Yuinosuke. Then she eats some amanitas and meets the man of her dreams.

Note: Includes 6 extra chapters.

Tags: Josei , Historical , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Time Skip , War

Kaze Hikaru

Also known as Kaze Hikaru.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance

In the year 1863, a time fraught with violent social upheaval, samurai of all walks of life flock to Kyoto in the hope of joining the Mibu-Roshi—a band of warriors united around their undying loyalty to the Shogunate system. In time, this group would become one of the greatest (and most famous) movements in Japanese history... the Shinsengumi!

Into this fierce milieu steps Kamiya Seizaburo, a young would-be warrior who, though lacking in combat experience, possesses a fiery enthusiasm to both aid the Mibu-Roshi in their mission and to avenge his wrongfully murdered family. One of the Mibu-Roshi's most gifted (and immature) swordsmen, the legendary Okita Soji, agrees to take Seizaburo under his wing. What no one suspects, least of all Soji, is that Seizaburo is actually a girl named Tominaga Sei in disguise!



Note: Volume 45 includes the one-shot "Oo-Edo Shinsengumi! Kaze Hikaru Another World".

Tags: Samurai , Swordplay , Shoujo , Historical , Coming of Age , Primarily Male Cast , Episodic , Gender Bending , Female Protagonist , Crime , Crossdressing , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Revenge , Assassins , Suicide

Du Saramui Wangnyeo

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Romance

Baek Cheon and Ye Hwa, born at the same time and day, grew up together like sisters. However, both lead contrasting lives, with one being the last princess of Kangwi country, and the other being a nursemaid's daughter serving the princess.

As time passed, Baek Cheon, aware of her engagement to the emperor of Daeju, decides to run away with cries for freedom and true love. In the end, Ye Hwa was made to enter the palace in princess Baek Cheon's stead.

Using their indistinguishable looks, the two of them switched places and entered the palace together after many troubles. However, in contrast to the extravagance, the palace is filled with dark secrets, and they are now embroiled in its events.

The dangerous double life of Ye Hwa, who switches back and forth from a maid to a princess, just how will it end...?!

Tags: Female Protagonist , Historical , Full Color

Sekine-kun no Koi

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

Even though he’s an elite hunk, Sekine Keiichiro is a man who has lived his life out of focus, cursed by three handicaps: he’s stoic, passive, and a Jack of all trades but master of none.

Tags: Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation , Age Gap , Work , Nudity , Heterosexual , Urban

Veil

Also known as Veil.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

A chance encounter. A handsome soldier. A beautiful woman. A tentative love affair smolders on the snowy cobblestone streets, out of sight of those that might keep them apart.

Veil is a beautifully illustrated full-color romance manga, told in stylish short vignettes, beautiful illustrations, and secret moments.



Tags: Foreign , Heterosexual , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Disability , Fashion , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Full Color , Police

Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 6

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

The manga adapts the game of the same name, and centers on heroine Azusa Takatsuka. Azusa is high school girl who one day finds herself in a world that appears very similar to Japan's Taisho period. She quickly runs into trouble, but is saved by a man named Darius, who calls himself a "demon."



Tags: Shoujo , Isekai , Historical , Male Harem , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation

Koi Tsukiyo no Himegoto

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

At that time, it was a crime for young girls to love...Set in the Taisho era, this is a story about the forbidden love between a young girl and a student. Tamaki is the only daughter of a wealthy family, but she's been lonely since she was small, because her parents do not care about her at all. One day, Kuroda Kageaki came to her house as a student. Gradually, Tamaki started to harbor a love for him. And yet her mother, Satoko, caused harm to Kageaki...!? Hidden there is a dreadful past! This is a sad and painful love story set in the Taisho era.

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Time Skip , Historical

BASARA

Also known as Basara.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Basara is a post-apocalyptic fantasy adventure series and one of the most popular shoujo manga of the 90s in Japan. It is the story of how a young girl becomes "the child of destiny" and finds the strength to free her people and seek revenge for the death of her brother.



Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shoujo category in 1992.

Tags: War , Twins , Shoujo , Politics , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Coming of Age , Revenge , Fugitive , Slavery , Conspiracy , Heterosexual , Travel , Class Struggle , Disability , Pirates , Desert , Lost Civilization , Archery , Royal Affairs , LGBTQ+ Themes , Astronomy , Animals , Bisexual , Prison , Tomboy , Boys' Love ,