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Kuragehime

Also known as Princess Jellyfish.

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

Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She’s loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese dolls. However, a chance meeting at a pet shop has Tsukimi crossing paths with one of the things that the residents of Amamizukan have been desperately trying to avoid—a beautiful and fashionable woman! But there’s much more to this woman than her trendy clothes! This odd encounter is only the beginning of a new and unexpected path for Tsukimi and her friends.



Note: Chapter count includes 10 extra chapters

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Fashion , Crossdressing , Foreign , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Language Barrier , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Found Family , Urban , Makeup , Male Harem , Drawing , Age Gap , Gender Bending , Coming of Age , Animals

Yawao to Katako

Also known as A Queen and an Old Maid.

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

Campy queen vs. Miss forever-alone: this defeat-your-insecurities (romantic?) comedy goes out to all you folks full of self-loathing!! Unpopular with men, unattractive, and unsure of herself...... At a mixer one night, insecure and forever-alone Fujiko found her soulmate- No, wait, it was a femme guy playing mother hen?! Fujiko has never been confident in herself as a woman, but with help from prettyboy queen Koyanagi, now she's going to give femininity another shot...!

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Heterosexual , Bisexual , Fashion , Body Image , Love Triangle

Cinderella Closet

Also known as Cinderella Closet.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Haruka is a “plain jane” who left the countryside to start her college life in Tokyo. She’s secretly in love with Kurotaki, a coworker at her part-time job, but she lacks the self-confidence to confess her feelings to him. Then she meets Hikaru, a glamorous but sharp-tongued fashionista who begrudgingly agrees to play “fairy godmother” for Haruka and help her learn to love and value herself in the process. However, there’s more to Hikaru than meets the eye!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Coming of Age , Crossdressing , Fashion , Primarily Adult Cast , Makeup , Bisexual

Haru to Ao no Obentoubako

Also known as Haru and Ao's Lunch Box.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

You may be eating alone, but you're not really alone. Today's lunch, homemade just for you, feels like a warm hug.

Geeky Haru normally shrugs off the pitying looks of strangers that don't understand her priorities in life, but one day a fluke comment leaves her down in the dumps. That same day, she meets androgynous young Ao. The two of them really hit it off and, on the spur of the moment, decide to become roommates. Except, one of the house rules is a homemade lunchbox exchange...?! Make sure to get a taste of this gentle, heartwarming story of passing messages through edible correspondence!



Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Food , Iyashikei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Aromantic , Agender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Seinen , Found Family , School , Otaku Culture , Asexual

Aoi-kun wa Mukimuki Kanojo wo Koutei shitai

Also known as Aoi-kun Wants This Muscular Girl to Flex!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Aspiring stylist Aoi, insecure about his short stature and cute looks, is tasked by his grandmother with a unique challenge: help Maju, a former elite wrestler insecure about her tall, muscular frame, choose an outfit for a matchmaking party. Polar opposites in looks and personality, this unlikely pair must team up to find Maju a life partner...

Sparks fly in this romantic "boy-meets-girl" story of transforming insecurity into confidence!



Tags: Heterosexual , Crossdressing , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Josei