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Helter Skelter

Also known as Helter Skelter: Fashion Unfriendly.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological

If you are aware of fashion in Japan, you must have seen Liliko's face. For the last few years, she has been at the top of the modeling world, with her face and body promoting the biggest brands. But as everyone who is in this world admits, staying on top is a constant and never ending battle. There are always new faces introduced to the public. Younger models and new looks are brought into the fold every season. And keeping that position means learning to adapt and learning to cope with change.

To maintain her position Liliko has decided to go under the knife. This is not her first go with this service. It is yet another round of plastic surgery, all done to keep herself looking young and vibrant. However, in this case just a little nip and tuck was not enough. Liliko is bent on undergoing a full body makeover. From head-to-toe, every inch of her will undergo cosmetic surgery, and thus begins her madness.



Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Fashion , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Tragedy , Primarily Female Cast , Body Image , Acting , Drugs , Body Horror , Modeling , Nudity , Revenge , Idol , Urban , Police , Detective , Suicide , Bisexual , Yuri , Time Skip , Unrequited Love , Work

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 , Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Primarily Teen Cast , Nudity , Bisexual , Cheating , Drugs , Gore , Heterosexual , Yuri , Body Image

Ai no Seikatsu

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

After his live-in girlfriend breaks up with him, Santa Hayashiya runs away from his apartment at night because he can no longer afford the rent. A classmate, Junko Sakurada, invites him to move in with her and her brother, but the relationship between the Sakurada siblings seems... strange.
A story of yearning, a story of people that want to love and be loved.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Urban , Heterosexual , Aromantic , Male Protagonist , Incest , Ensemble Cast , Nudity , College , Drawing , Psychosexual

Bikachou Shinshi Kaikoroku

Also known as Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Perverts are people who know the shape of their desires. They have carefully traced those contours like a blind man using both hands to measure the shape of a vase. Colette works in a brothel in early 20th century Paris, an occupation she can't escape. She and the other girls support each other, satisfying the desires of their clients, day in, day out. The one source of hope in her difficult life was her trysts with Leon. But Colette could never be sure if Leon really loved her... The strength of women in their pleasurable confines; the naked desires of the 'amorous gentlemen.' Welcome to a beautiful, bewitching bordello of love and desire..


Note: Chapter count includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Josei , Writing , Nudity , Work , Prostitution , Female Protagonist , Historical , Psychosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Foreign , Yuri , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Primarily Female Cast , Bisexual

not simple

Also known as not simple.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Ian, a young man with a fractured family history, travels from Australia to England to America in the hope of realizing his dreams and reuniting with his beloved sister. His story unfolds backwards through the framing narrative of Jim, a reporter driven to capture Ian’s experiences in a novel: not simple. A story within a story, a book within a book, a tale about the search for family, for an emotional home.



Tags: Tragedy , Coming of Age , Seinen , Achronological Order , Estranged Family , Foreign , Writing , Travel , LGBTQ+ Themes , Boys' Love , Male Protagonist ,

Sabishisugite Rezu Fuzoku ni Ikimashita Report

Also known as My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness.

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

A hugely popular comic on Pixiv, My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness offers readers an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman’s exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age.



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Autobiographical , Non-fiction , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Family Life , LGBTQ+ Themes , Rehabilitation , Psychosexual , Disability , POV , Yuri , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing , Primarily Female Cast , Survival , Achronological Order , Urban , Nudity , Denpa , Full Color

Kabocha to Mayonnaise

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

Miho and Sei are living together. She works at a boutique while he tries to make it as a songwriter and musician. Even though Miho still can’t forget about Hagio, her ex-lover, she is happy in her relationship with Sei.

However, all is not well for the young couple. Struggling to make ends meet, Miho decides to take a second job as bar hostess. As she becomes increasingly desperate for money, Miho eventually gives in to one of her client’s sexual advances. When Sei finds out about this he begins to distance himself from her. Things get even more complicated for Miho when Hagio suddenly reappears in her life.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Cheating

Tokyo Girls Bravo

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

The story takes place in the 80's. Kaneda Sakae, a high school girl living in Sapporo, suddenly moves to Tokyo with her mother...

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Urban , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Nudity , School , Rock Music , Bullying , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Psychosexual , Suicide

Sakuran

Also known as Sakuran.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Romance

The story follows Kiyoha, sold into a brothel as a child and forced to work as a maid and her rise to prominence as one of the top-ranking courtesans in Yoshiwara. The allure of the "flower and willow world" as it was called by artists in the day is underscored by the very real tragedy, heartbreak and difficult lives led by those seemingly glamorous courtesans. Will Kiyoha's fox-like wiles give her a chance to break free of her gilded cage? Or will her fighting spirit ruin her chances of ever escaping the brothel?



Tags: Oiran , Prostitution , Seinen , Historical , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Work , Tragedy , Time Skip , Orphan , Nudity

Solanin

Also known as Solanin.

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

College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude. Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Naruo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world.



Notes:
Nominated for the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan and the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material.
Includes one extra chapter and one-shot "Haru yo Koi (Awaiting Spring)" first included in the October 2017 new Japanese edition.

Tags: Coming of Age , Band , Seinen , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Urban , Rock Music , College , Office Lady , Nudity