Manga like Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru.

Also known as My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected.

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

Hikigaya Hachiman is a high school boy with twisted character. He prefers to go against the trend and refuses to make friends with anybody. In order to get Hachiman back the right track, his school teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka forces him to enter 'Public Service Club'. There he meets other problematic students.

Includes volumes 6.5, 7.5, 10.5, and 14.5.

Tags: School Club , School , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Satire , Rehabilitation , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Harem , Meta

Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari: Monster Tale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

The first part of the Monogatari Series.

There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humour.



Note: The English release and the JP ebook edition have Bakemonogatari split across three volumes, instead of the original two volumes.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Vampire , Philosophy , Achronological Order , Meta , Gods , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Ghost , Primarily Female Cast , Denpa , Heterosexual , School , Dissociative Identities , Ensemble Cast , Tomboy , Nekomimi , Shounen

Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo

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

Kanda Sorata is a second year high school art student who was recently kicked out of the school's dorm because he was found keeping a cat in his room. Sorata begins to live in the apartment house "Sakurasou", infamous for its eccentric residents. Here, Sorata is asked to take care of one of his classmates, Shiina Mashiro. Although she is a brilliant, world-class painter, she is extremely clumsy and lacking in common sense. And thus begins the story of the master and his pet.

Tags: Coming of Age , Drawing , Kuudere , Female Harem , Boarding School

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu

Also known as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Kyon, your typical high school student, has long given up his belief in the supernatural. However, upon meeting Haruhi Suzumiya, he quickly finds out that it is the supernatural that she is interested in; aliens, time travelers and espers among other things. When Haruhi laments about the lack of intriguing clubs around school, Kyon inspires Haruhi to form her own club. As a result, the SOS Brigade is formed, a club which specializes in all that is the supernatural.

Much to his chagrin, Kyon, along with the silent bookworm, Yuki Nagato, the shy and timid Mikuru Asahina, and the perpetually smiling Itsuki Koizumi, are recruited as members. The story follows the crazy adventures that these four endure under their whimsical leader, Haruhi.

Note: Includes a prologue and epilogue.

Tags: Philosophy , School Club , School , Urban Fantasy , Tsundere , Aliens , Parody , Gods , Achronological Order , Time Manipulation , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Chuunibyou , Maids , Memory Manipulation , Conspiracy , Otaku Culture

Kokoro Connect

Also known as Kokoro Connect.

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

5 boys and girls full-shuffled! 5-way love pentagon comedy! At clubhouse room 401, there gathers "anything goes" members of the culture study society. Pro-wrestling otaku Taichi Yaegashi, mysterious beauty Iori Nagase, cool Himeko Inaba, the clown Yoshifumi Aoki and fancy-loving Yui Kiriyama found the noisy but calm days suddenly come to a halt. The personality switched among the members--. The unnatural days of changinging into "someone" by getting back to "themselves" by becoming "someone else" has started!

Tags: School , Love Triangle , Urban Fantasy , School Club , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Ensemble Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Body Swapping , Heterosexual , Bullying , Amnesia , Memory Manipulation , Dissociative Identities , Gender Bending , Tsundere , Age Regression , Male Protagonist

Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!

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

Yuuta Togashi suffered from chuunibyou while he was in middle school. When he graduated, he put that dark history behind him and forgot about it... or he was supposed to. High school was smooth sailing and full of enjoyment - until the unavoidable, sad event occurs. The event that locks Yuuta into a contract with Rikka Takanashi and disrupts his desperately ordinary life.

Note: Chapter count includes three extras.

Tags: Chuunibyou , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist

Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka

Also known as Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle.

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

Being popular isn’t easy. It’s hard to beat Saku Chitose. The most popular kid in his high school? Check. An ironclad reputation that can weather even vicious online attacks? Check. A group of friends as attractive on the outside as they are inside? Check. But when a teacher asks for his help bringing back a student who has been shut away in his room for months, Saku’s perfect world will never be the same. What is this, some kind of normie harem story...?



Note: The series won the Award of Excellence in the 13th installment of the Shogakukan Light Novel Award in 2018 under the title "Ramune no Bin ni Shizunda Biidama no Tsuki" (ラムネの瓶に沈んだビー玉の月). It was later renamed to "Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka" for the official publication.

Tags: Female Harem , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Rural , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Baseball , Basketball

Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e: 2-nensei-hen

Also known as Classroom of the Elite: Year 2.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom–if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks! Ayanokouji Kiyotaka started at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he met Horikita Suzune, who was determined to rise up the ladder to Class A. Who can beat the system in a school where cutthroat competition is the name of the game? The second year of this intense school drama begins now!



Includes Volumes: 4.5, 9.5, 12.5
Included Chapters: 15 Prologues and 15 Epilogues.

Tags: School , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Ensemble Cast , Boarding School , Philosophy , Conspiracy , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Survival , Primarily Teen Cast , Battle Royale , Politics , Fugitive , Bullying , Revenge , Classic Literature , Delinquents , Card Battle , Orphan , Seinen , Torture , Martial Arts , Disability , Dissociative Identities , School Club , Athletics , Tsundere , Calligraphy , Love Triangle , Kuudere , Female Harem , Suicide , Yandere , Maids , Tragedy

Hyouka

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Slice of Life

Oreki Houtarou is a self-proclaimed "energy-saver" - that is, he will not actively waste energy doing things that aren't necessary. Though he had no interest whatsoever in joining any clubs upon entering Kamiyama High School, he was commanded by his older sister Tomoe to enter the school's Classics Club, which was in danger of getting abolished as all previous members have graduated. Together with his old friends Fukube Satoshi and Ibara Mayaka, as well as the elegantly ladylike and curiously inquisitive Chitanda Eru, the newly reformed Classics Club find themselves involved in all sorts of mystery-solving escapades. Houtarou soon finds out that the Classics Club, as Tomoe has promised, is actually "quite interesting".

Note: Book one of the Koten-bu Series.

Tags: School Club , Coming of Age , School , Detective , Classic Literature , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist

Mikkakan no Koufuku

Also known as Three Days of Happiness.

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

HOW MUCH IS LIFE TRULY WORTH?
Kusunoki used to believe he was destined for great things. Ostracized as a child, he held on to a belief that a good life was waiting for him in the years ahead. Now approaching the age of twenty, he's a completely mediocre college student with no motivation, no dreams, and no money. After learning he can sell his remaining years-and just how little they're worth-he chooses to divest himself of all but his last three months. Has Kusunoki truly destroyed his last chance to find happiness...or has he somehow found it?



Tags: Tragedy , Philosophy , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Urban , Seinen , Hikikomori , Heterosexual , Writing , Suicide , Photography , Drawing , College , Mopeds , Autobiographical , Amnesia