Manga like Ribbon no Kishi

Versailles no Bara

Also known as The Rose of Versailles.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Oscar François de Jarjeyes is a young noblewoman raised as a son by her father. As commander of Marie Antoinette's palace guard, Oscar is brought face-to-face with the luxury of King Louis XVI’s court at Versailles. Joined by her servant André, Oscar is privy to the intrigue and deceit of France's last great royal regime.



Tags: Shoujo , Class Struggle , Foreign , Historical , Politics , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Gender Bending , Love Triangle , Philosophy , Royal Affairs , Military , Swordplay , LGBTQ+ Themes , War , Bisexual , Suicide , Arranged Marriage , Kingdom Management , Unrequited Love

Shoujo Kakumei Utena

Also known as Revolutionary Girl Utena.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

Utena Tenjou had a tragic childhood - her parents died when she was young, and she almost drowned, had it not been for her prince who came and rescued her. Because of the impact this prince had on her life, Utena strives to be just like him - to grow up to be a prince, not a princess, and to spread nobility, ultimately finding her prince and bringing revolution.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Magic , School , Shoujo , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tomboy , Gender Bending , Swordplay , Twins , Fencing , Boarding School , Heterosexual , Age Gap

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Also known as Sailor Moon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

Usagi Tsukino is a normal girl until she meets up with Luna, a talking cat, who tells her that she is Sailor Moon. As Sailor Moon, Usagi must fight evils and enforce justice, in the name of the Moon and the mysterious Moon Princess. She meets other girls destined to be Sailor Senshi (Sailor Scouts), and together, they fight the forces of evil!



Notes:
The tankoubon release contains 52 Acts and 9 bonus chapters across 18 volumes; chapter/volume counts follow the tankoubon release.
The shinsouban release contains the original 52 Acts plus 8 new Acts across 12 volumes, but no bonus chapters as all 9 were released separately in Sailor Moon Short Stories alongside another bonus chapter that was previously released in an artbook.
The kanzenban release contains both the 60 Acts and the 10 bonus chapters from the short story shinsoubans across 10 volumes.


Tags: Shoujo , Primarily Female Cast , Reincarnation , Magic , Female Protagonist , Lost Civilization , Henshin , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Mythology , Philosophy , War , Cosmic Horror , Space Opera , Parenthood , Demons , Space , Super Power , Astronomy , School , Aliens , LGBTQ+ Themes , Fairy Tale , Bisexual , Body Horror , Rehabilitation , Nudity , Bullying , Revenge , Time Skip , Tokusatsu , Dissociative Identities , Age Gap , Urban , Unrequited Love , Found Family , Yuri , Superhero , Circus , Gender Bending , Shrine Maiden , Love Triangle , Animals , Kemonomimi , Age Regression , Twins , School Club

Baraou no Souretsu

Also known as Requiem of the Rose King.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Supernatural

Richard, the ambitious third son of the House of York, believes he is cursed, damned from birth to eternal darkness. But is it truly fate that sets him on the path to personal destruction? Or his own tormented longings? Based on an early draft of Shakespeare's Richard III, Aya Kanno’s dark fantasy finds the man who could be king standing between worlds, between classes, between good and evil.



Tags: Historical , Classic Literature , War , Tragedy , Boys' Love , Mixed Gender Harem , Shoujo , LGBTQ+ Themes , Ghost , Revenge , Foreign , Royal Affairs , Politics , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Bisexual , Incest , Anti-Hero , Witch , Nudity , Amnesia , Inseki , Philosophy , Time Skip , Swordplay , Transgender , Male Protagonist , Assassins

Arashi no Yousei

Also known as The Storm Fairy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

Storm Fairy is a collection of three short stories by legendary mangaka Osamu Tezuka.

In Storm Fairy, an empress flees her burning castle to the nearby forest where she encounters a mischievous forest fairy who grants her wish, for a seemingly small price. It’s not until much later, after she’s given birth to her daughter Ruri, that the empress realizes the true weight of her deal with the fairy. Now the princess, with a face as ugly as sin, must live the rest of her life from behind a mask. When a malcontent discovers Princess Ruri's curse, he plots to overthrow the emperor by masquerading his own daughter as the princess, mask and all. Ruri also meets a lowly ronin and a beautiful fairy who make it their mission to return her to her rightful place on the throne.

In “Kokeshi Detective Agency,” fearless little Pako goes around solving spooky mysteries while her dog Moll does his best to protect her. Oddly enough, Taro, Pako’s scaredy-cat older brother, is forced to accompany Pako on all these scary adventures.

In “Pink Angel,” a sunset cloud named Pink spends an awfully lot of time on the surface helping those who are unhappy or in need. Unfortunately, the rainclouds Sir Brown and Sepia don’t take kindly to Pink’s meddling.



Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Conspiracy , Elf , Mermaid , Time Manipulation , Fairy , Anthology

Itsuwari no Freja

Also known as Prince Freya.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Romance

Freya thinks of herself as a simple village girl, but her idyllic life is shattered when she is caught up in the aftermath of a treacherous Sigurdian plot. She bears a striking resemblance to her country’s beloved Prince Edvard, who lays dying from poison. Without its ruler, all of Tyr will quickly be engulfed by Sigurdian violence. Now Freya must take Prince Edvard’s place and lead his valiant knights in defending the realm!



Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Crossdressing , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Gender Bending , Nudity , Politics , Tragedy , Male Harem , Swordplay , Foreign , Royal Affairs , Heterosexual

Princess Prince

Also known as Princess Prince.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

A king in mourning of the loss of his precious wife is warned by a fairy to raise one of his twin sons as a girl and the other as a boy in order to protect his kingdom's secret. Now as they reach adulthood, they find the very secret that they were raised to keep and must protect it from the evil that seeks to abuse it.



Tags: Shoujo , Anthology , Angels , Fairy Tale , Gender Bending , Twins

Shiroi Troika

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Romance

In the end of the 18th century in Russia, Count Lef Fyodor and his wife, Anna, great opera singer, were shot to death because Count Fyodor protested against the tzar. Their daughter Rosalinda grows up as a farmer couple's daughter.

Rosalinda is discovered as the daughter of count Fyodor by the cossack Adrian and she eventually departs for Saint Petersburg, where the tzar is being threatened by a group whose leader is called "Black Hawk".

Tags: Shoujo , Historical , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Fugitive , Slavery , Heterosexual , Politics , Travel

Faust

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

This is a caricature of Goethe's "Faust," and reflects the dreamy quality of animation of the time.

Confident of his power, the devil Mephist wreaks acts of violence on the world, such as sending angels down to the earth. God then orders Mephist to send the scholar Faust to hell.
While giving the order, God had already given new life to the angel who has fallen to the earth as Princess Margarete.
In the meantime, Faust experiences a sense of futility in his studies, thinking that however hard he may study he will never accomplish his goals. Just then, the devil Mephisto appears in front of him. Faust carelessly signs a contract, in which he promises he will go to hell if Mephisto satisfies his desires.
Mephisto turns Faust into a young man by magic. Faust goes to the town, meets the beautiful Princess Margarete, and falls in love with her.

Meanwhile, Faust is forced to accept the unreasonable demand of the King, father of Margarete, to find the most beautiful goddess in the world, known by the name of Helen.

Together with Mephisto, Faust starts for the mountains of Hartz, where devils are said to gather on the night of Walpurgis.

Tags: Historical , Classic Literature

Nonbiri-jou no Chokomakahime

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Tags: Royal Affairs , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Foreign