Manga like Akai Hana

also known as Red Flowers

Genres: Slice of Life

What is Red Flowers about?

Status: Finished

A nameless traveler comes across a young girl running an inn. While showing the traveler where the best fishing hole is, a bratty schoolmate reveals the girl must run the business because her alcoholic father is incapable. At the story’s end, the traveler witnesses an unusual act of kindness from the boy...



Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 38 (October 1967).

Tags: Rural , Seinen , Female Protagonist
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Itezuru

Itezuru

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

O-Tsuru (the crane), named because she used to stand on one foot to warm the other, was sold by her parents to become a geisha. She will begin as a shikomikka (apprentice) in an okiya: the house where the geisha live. By doing the commissions of his elders, Tsuru will discover the life of these women. Finally, one day, her turn arrives. She goes to her benefactor's room. Who, by paying the ceremony fees, will bring it into the world of geisha. Tsuru will then take the name of Tsurugiku and become a famous geisha in the world of pleasures.

<i<>Note: It was first collected in a volume in 1992.

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast
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