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River's Edge

Also known as River's Edge.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Haruna Wakakusa and Yamada become friends after she saves him several times from her boyfriend's constant bullying. Through him she gets to know Kozue Yoshikawa, a fellow student who also models professionally. The three emotionally stunted teens' lives briefly yet intensely intertwine for one semester before splintering from the aftereffects of one disastrous night. For both Wakakusa and Yamada, their emotional awakening fosters an unlikely friendship between the two battered souls.

Tags: Coming of Age , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Josei , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Bisexual , Nudity , Cheating , Primarily Teen Cast , Drugs , Gore , Heterosexual , Yuri

Oyasumi Punpun

Also known as Goodnight Punpun.

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

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town.
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back.
He wants to find some porn.
That’s what he wants, but what does he get…?



Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Tragedy , Philosophy , Denpa , Psychosexual , Suicide , Urban , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Anti-Hero , Time Skip , Fugitive , Surreal Comedy , Meta , School , Cult , Work , Nudity , Gods , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Ghost

Hibari no Asa

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

Teshima Hibari is a 14 year old girl with a body that is more sensual than most girls her age. Her story includes the opinions and reactions of all of the people around her, as well as the actions of her own life. The chapters explore the thoughts and feelings of classmates and adults, men and women. The males often have romantic or sexual feelings for Hibari, while the women sometimes have feelings of inferiority or jealousy. Whether positive or negative, it seems everyone has a reaction to Hibari.



Tags: Josei , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , POV , Philosophy , Psychosexual , Bullying , Survival , Suicide , School , Ensemble Cast , Urban , Heterosexual

pink

Also known as Pink.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

Pink is a manga about a Japanese girl named Yumi, a beautiful girl in her early 20s. During the day, Yumi works as a regular office lady, but by night, she works as a prostitute. Yumi needs her two jobs to make ends meet. She also needs the extra income to feed her unusual pet, a crocodile, which she keeps in her apartment. Working in an office is quite normal for young Japanese women, but keeping a pet crocodile, and being a prostitute makes Yumi stand out. In truth, few girls are like Yumi, however, many readers can empathize with her. Young women love their "something," symbolized by her pet crocodile, and they can also identify with Yumi's "wild at heart" nature.

Tags: Josei , Prostitution , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast , Animals , Office Lady , Work

La Quinta Camera

Also known as La Quinta Camera.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

An apartment in Italy. In four of the rooms live four single men with singular personalities. Into this peculiar ménage steps an exchange student, the new tenant of the fifth room. Brought together by chance, friends by choice, they pursue their dreams together as the days drift gently by.



Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Age Gap , Ensemble Cast , Iyashikei

Nora to Zassou

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

Following the death of his daughter, Assistant Inspector Yamada Hajime has lost hope in everything, and jobs like closing under-aged prostitution rings don't exactly help matters. But there he meets a girl who looks alarmingly like his late daughter. Her name is Umino Shiori, a runaway girl who's desperate enough to sell herself to escape her house but won't tell anyone why.

Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Survival , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Police , Fugitive , Drawing , School , Crime , Found Family

Toumei Ningen no Hone

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Supernatural

At first glance, the family of Kinomiya Aya may seem quite ordinary: loving mother and father and a kind elder brother, however, appearances can be deceiving—Aya's father constantly beats her mother, scolds them for the slightest "transgressions," and commits other inappropriate deeds. Her brother spends all of his time selfishly ignoring what's right in front of him in favour of enjoying himself. Her mother is enduring it all for her children, and both mother and daughter live in constant fear of Aya's father. Because of all this, Aya envies ordinary families and the children who enjoy them.

One day, after witnessing a quarrel between father and mother turn violent, Aya experiences a great deal of stress, due to which she gains the ability to turn invisible. At first, the girl indulged in her superpowers, but eventually she makes a decision that will probably make her blame herself for the rest of her life...

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Crime , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Philosophy , Family Life , School , Photography , Yuri , Shounen , Work , Super Power

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 , Tomboy , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Yuri , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Philosophy , Rehabilitation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Denpa

Hito Seijin

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Youth Drama about two school boys - childhood friends. One of them always bullied by his classmates as a 'sissy' and the other lacking the guts to stand up for him. One day, when they are both at the beach together, a kiss happens. And a confession. But someone else photographs this intimate moment. A youth drama navigating friendship, loyalty and deeper emotions.

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Coming of Age , Seinen , School , Bullying

Ai to Noroi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Aiko Yamada lives a cursed life. Her family members are blinded by their religion, her mother beats her, and her father sexually assaults her. On top of that, by no fault of her own, she became part of the 'Sakakibara Generation' - those children born in 1982, who society considers predisposed to murder. As Japan continues restlessly through the nineties and the news of Boy A shocks the country, Aiko begins to wish for a way out of this maddening world. Will she succumb to the fate society prescribes to her?

Tags: Female Protagonist , Seinen , Autobiographical , Rehabilitation , Tragedy , Cult , Prostitution , Incest , Suicide , Hikikomori , Cheating