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Status: Finished

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 , Age Gap , Drawing , Male Harem , Gender Bending , Animals , Coming of Age

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Paradise Kiss

Also known as Paradise Kiss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Yukari wants nothing more than to make her parents happy by studying hard and getting into a good college. One afternoon, however, she is kidnapped by a group of self-styled fashionistas calling themselves "Paradise Kiss." Yukari suddenly finds herself flung into the roller-coaster life of the fashion world, guided by George, art-snob extraordinaire. In a glamorous makeover of body, mind and soul, she is turned from a hapless bookworm into her friends 22 own exclusive clothing model.

Tags: Josei , Coming of Age , Fashion , Female Protagonist , School , Heterosexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Meta , Bisexual , Ensemble Cast , Love Triangle , Transgender , Time Skip , Unrequited Love , Nudity

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Tokyo Tarareba Musume

Also known as Tokyo Tarareba Girls.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

"I spent all my time wondering 'What if?' Then one day I woke up and I was 33."

Rinko doesn't think she's that bad-looking, but before she knew it, she was thirty-something and single. Now she wants to get married by the time the Tokyo Olympics rolls around in six years, but… that might be easier said than done!

Note:
-Nominated for the 9th and 10th Manga Taisho Award and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.
-Includes 25 extra chapters.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Satire , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Primarily Female Cast , Bar , Urban

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Manga Planet

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Genderless Danshi ni Aisareteimasu.

Also known as My Androgynous Boyfriend.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

His makeup is flawless! The daily ins-and-outs of an office lady and her beautiful boyfriend.

Wako and her androgynous boyfriend don’t exactly have the most traditional of relationships. She spends her days working hard in the world of publishing, while he spends his time obsessing over fashion and makeup—all with the goal of making himself beautiful just for her. This romantic slice-of-life story is about love, relationships, and breaking with tradition!

Tags: Fashion , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Crossdressing , Office Lady , Heterosexual , Idol , Makeup , Work , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Bisexual , Gender Bending , LGBTQ+ Themes , Marriage

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Pixiv Comic

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Bless

Also known as Bless.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

They said Aia was destined to be a model, and Jun was bullied for her freckles. Together, they will take back the power to define themselves in an inspirational fashion manga that asks cutting questions about what it really means to be beautiful—and what it takes to overcome an arbitrary system that seems to respect talent over hard work.

Tags: Makeup , Fashion , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Shounen , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist

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K MANGA

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Kakukaku Shikajika

Also known as Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

High schooler Akiko has big plans to become a popular mangaka before she even graduates, but she needs to get much better at drawing if she ever wants to reach her goal. Looking for an easy fix, she signs up for an art class, thinking all her problems will soon be solved. She’s in for a surprise: her new instructor is a sword-wielding taskmaster who doesn’t care about manga one bit. But maybe this unconventional art teacher is just what she needs to realize her dreams!

Notes:
Kakukaku Shikajika is an autobiography detailing the life of author Akiko Higashimura.
The manga won the Grand Prize at the 8th Manga Taisho Award in 2015.

Tags: Drawing , Coming of Age , Otaku Culture , Teacher , Autobiographical , Josei , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Non-fiction , College , Time Skip , Meta , Work , Writing , Primarily Adult Cast , Rural , Swordplay , Philosophy , Educational , Mopeds

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

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Pixiv Comic

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

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Pixiv Comic MangaPlaza

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Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge♥

Also known as The Wallflower: Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

It's a gorgeous, spacious mansion, and four handsome, fifteen-year-old friends are allowed to live in it for free! There's only one condition—that within three years the guys must transform the owner's wallflower niece into a lady befitting the palace in which they all live! How hard can it be?

Enter Sunako Nakahara, the agoraphobic, horror-movie-loving, pockmark-faced, frizzy-haired, fashion-illiterate recluse who tends to break into explosive nosebleeds whenever she sees anyone attractive. This project is going to take more than our four heroes ever expected: it needs a miracle!

Note: Includes the special chapter "Sunako no Otsukai" (スナコのお使い) contained within Volume 5 of the manga.

Tags: Shoujo , Episodic , Hikikomori , Surreal Comedy , Makeup , Parody , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Chibi , School , Heterosexual , Ojou-sama , Tsundere , Male Harem

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Ouran Koukou Host Club

Also known as Ouran High School Host Club.

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

One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the "Host Club," a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it's there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else.

Note: Includes 14 extra chapters.

Tags: Male Harem , Shoujo , School Club , School , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Gender Bending , Slapstick , Mixed Gender Harem , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Tomboy , Primarily Teen Cast , Twins , LGBTQ+ Themes , Meta , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Parody , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Agender , Cosplay , Tsundere , Chibi , Bisexual , Gyaru , Incest

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KakaoPage

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Kasane to Subaru

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Kasane Shibata, a graphic designer at a toy development company, was feeling troubled. It began when she accidentally touched the buttocks of her colleague, Subaru Enokida. Kasane was intrigued, as Enokida's butt felt like the costume of her favorite character. But at the same time, she couldn't shake the feeling that she might have made Enokida felt uncomfortable. Enokida said that he didn't mind, but his face looked frightened and distressed... "I have to apologize properly!" Kasane thought to herself, not knowing Enokida was hiding something himself...

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , Femboy , Crossdressing , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Gender Bending , Love Triangle , Cosplay , Urban

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Comic Days

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