Manga like Namida Ame to Serenade

Tendou-ke Monogatari

Also known as Tales of the Tendo Family.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Masato, a son of the Tendo family, is meant to marry Hojo Ran, the daughter of a baron. There’s just one problem: she’s a fake. The real Ran has fled after hearing that few make it out of the Tendo family alive. In her place is a young woman who says she will die if it means saving someone else’s life.



Tags: Historical , Shoujo , Revenge , Crime , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Arranged Marriage , Yandere , Fake Relationship , Martial Arts , Twins , Crossdressing

Emma

Also known as Emma.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Calling upon his former governess, William Jones, gentleman, is startled when his knock is answered by an uncommonly beautiful servant, the soft-spoken Emma. Throughout his visit, William's eyes drift to the maid whenever she enters the room, and he contrives to meet Emma socially as she goes about her errands. But London society is a web of strict codes and divisions. For the son of a wealthy merchant, seeking out a working-class girl is simply not done! William's father plans for his son to marry into the peerage and elevate the Jones family to greater heights, but although William says and does what is expected of him, he longs only for Emma's company...



Tags: Foreign , Historical , Maids , Work , Educational , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Adoption , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Ojou-sama , Orphan , Travel , Time Skip , Butler , Teacher , Nudity , Cars , Trains , Ships , Marriage

Ashi-Girl

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

Hayakawa Yui is totally a unmotivated, lazy girl who loves sleeping and eating. She's 16 but looks like a boy from elementary school; her one and only talent is to run really fast. After accidentally switching on the time machine which her younger brother made she travels to the Sengoku period, where luckily she joins retreating foot soldiers using the name Yuinosuke. Then she eats some amanitas and meets the man of her dreams.

Note: Includes 6 extra chapters.

Tags: Josei , Historical , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Time Skip , War

Sekine-kun no Koi

Also known as Sekine's Love.

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

Keiichiro Sekine, age 30, is an exceptionally "unfortunate" man. Though he's a hot, elite businessman who's popular with both women and men alike, he's cursed with a "triple handicap" of being insensitive, passive and a jack-of-all-trades, but master of none. Having lived a life that's been somewhat out-of-focus, Sekine resolves to make a change and heads for a small knitting and handicrafts store. While knitting and counting the stitches, Sekine finds himself recalling horrible memories in his past and the feel of his previous upperclassman, Kazune's, bone-thin body! But after meeting the store owner's granddaughter, Sara, Sekine's love life might finally begin... or not.



Tags: Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation , Work , Nudity , Age Gap , Heterosexual , Urban , Table Tennis

Kaze Hikaru

Also known as Kaze Hikaru.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance

In the year 1863, a time fraught with violent social upheaval, samurai of all walks of life flock to Kyoto in the hope of joining the Mibu-Roshi—a band of warriors united around their undying loyalty to the Shogunate system. In time, this group would become one of the greatest (and most famous) movements in Japanese history... the Shinsengumi!

Into this fierce milieu steps Kamiya Seizaburo, a young would-be warrior who, though lacking in combat experience, possesses a fiery enthusiasm to both aid the Mibu-Roshi in their mission and to avenge his wrongfully murdered family. One of the Mibu-Roshi's most gifted (and immature) swordsmen, the legendary Okita Soji, agrees to take Seizaburo under his wing. What no one suspects, least of all Soji, is that Seizaburo is actually a girl named Tominaga Sei in disguise!



Note: Volume 45 includes the one-shot "Oo-Edo Shinsengumi! Kaze Hikaru Another World".

Tags: Samurai , Swordplay , Shoujo , Historical , Coming of Age , Primarily Male Cast , Episodic , Gender Bending , Female Protagonist , Crime , Crossdressing , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Revenge , Assassins , Suicide

Veil

Also known as Veil.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

A chance encounter. A handsome soldier. A beautiful woman. A tentative love affair smolders on the snowy cobblestone streets, out of sight of those that might keep them apart.

Veil is a beautifully illustrated full-color romance manga, told in stylish short vignettes, beautiful illustrations, and secret moments.



Tags: Heterosexual , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Disability , Episodic , Full Color , Fashion , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Police

Kimi wa Nazotoki no Ma Cherie

Also known as My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Romance

Hoshino Mitsuko is a determined and hard-working woman living in the 1930s, where career women are a rarity and looked down upon. Despite rampant sexism and pressure to “stay home,” she’s determined to prove herself as a successful detective no matter what. One day, she’s approached by the handsome waiter Yoshida Saku, who presents Mitsuko with her very first solo case. Together, the two work closely to solve the mystery, and Mitsuko finds Saku quite capable—but very curious—and takes him on as her new assistant. Can this duo tackle cases and the turbulent atmosphere of the Showa era?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Historical , Detective , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Work , LGBTQ+ Themes , Episodic , Police , Yuri , Transgender

BASARA

Also known as Basara.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Basara is a post-apocalyptic fantasy adventure series and one of the most popular shoujo manga of the 90s in Japan. It is the story of how a young girl becomes "the child of destiny" and finds the strength to free her people and seek revenge for the death of her brother.



Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shoujo category in 1992.

Tags: War , Twins , Shoujo , Politics , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Coming of Age , Revenge , Fugitive , Slavery , Class Struggle , Royal Affairs , Conspiracy , Heterosexual , Travel , Tragedy , Swordplay , Military , Philosophy , Kingdom Management , Lost Civilization , Archery , Pirates , Disability , Desert , Tomboy , Animals , Espionage , Ships , Prison , LGBTQ+ Themes , Astronomy , Bisexual , Boys' Love , Suicide , Martial Arts

Koi Tsukiyo no Himegoto

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

At that time, it was a crime for young girls to love...Set in the Taisho era, this is a story about the forbidden love between a young girl and a student. Tamaki is the only daughter of a wealthy family, but she's been lonely since she was small, because her parents do not care about her at all. One day, Kuroda Kageaki came to her house as a student. Gradually, Tamaki started to harbor a love for him. And yet her mother, Satoko, caused harm to Kageaki...!? Hidden there is a dreadful past! This is a sad and painful love story set in the Taisho era.

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Time Skip , Historical

Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon

Also known as My Happy Marriage.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

A "Cinderella"-inspired slow-burn historical romance with a paranormal twist set in Meiji-era Japan!
A browbeaten and mistreated daughter is cast out of her family home and sent to audition as a bridal candidate for the heir to one of the most powerful families in the land… Considered nigh worthless for having failed to inherit the superhuman powers of the bloodlines into which she was born, Miyo Saimori lives her days unwanted and unloved. She is treated as a servant by her half-sister who, unlike Miyo, is blessed with unusual powers, while her step-mother and very own father have little time or love for their eldest daughter. Ultimately seen as nothing more than a nuisance and a drain on the family wealth, Miyo is packed off to the Kudo house as a bridal candidate for its heir, Kyoka Kudo. But whispers abound about the Kudo clan, the most powerful in all the land. Still, will the allegedly cold and cruel house into which Miyo aims to marry prove much warmer than the family she left behind?

Eighth place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category

Tags: Historical , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Marriage , Heterosexual , Rehabilitation , Super Power , Arranged Marriage , Tragedy , Magic , Royal Affairs , Cult , Demons , Ghost , Curses