Manga like Ruri no Houseki

Housekishou no Maid

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy

People choose jewelry, and jewelry chooses people. The jewelry store "Rohstein" has an unusual way of "maids selling jewelry". The store, located off the main street, is frequented by gentlemen, aristocrats, actresses, poor students, and all sorts of people who have heard the rumors. When they come across a sparkling jewel, their lives begin to shine brightly. A tale spun between gems and the people who desire them - a series of jewel-like short stories, delicately illustrated.

Tags: Historical , Foreign , Seinen , Philosophy , Educational , Female Protagonist , Maids , Episodic

Houseki no Kuni

Also known as Land of the Lustrous.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

In a world inhabited by crystalline lifeforms called The Lustrous, every unique gem must fight for their way of life against the threat of lunarians who would turn them into decorations. Phosphophyllite, the most fragile and brittle of gems, longs to join the battle. When Phos is instead assigned to complete a natural history of their world, it sounds like a dull and pointless task. But this new job brings Phos into contact with Cinnabar, a gem forced to live in isolation. Can Phos’s seemingly mundane assignment lead both Phos and Cinnabar to the fulfillment they desire?



Note: Nominated for the 8th Manga Taisho in 2015.

Tags: Philosophy , Tragedy , Anthropomorphism , Seinen , Religion , Anti-Hero , Cosmic Horror , Body Horror , Shapeshifting , Post-Apocalyptic , Time Skip , Revenge , War , Amnesia , Agender , Reincarnation , Dissociative Identities , Ensemble Cast , Space , Asexual , Aliens , Swordplay , Suicide , LGBTQ+ Themes , Politics , Robots , Gods , Work , Nudity

Dai Kagaku Shoujo

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Due to decreases in their memberships, the Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Geology clubs are merged to form the "Grand Sciences Club." The club members, who have different interests and specialties, begin their days full of questions and exploration! Q. How to best pull off the "blackboard eraser drop" prank? Q. "Nitrate" can be used as an explosive. Is it true that it can be made from something close at hand? Q. What shape of paper airplane will fly the farthest? A scientific comedy full of interesting trivia, authored by a licensed science teacher! Note: Originally serialized in Monthly Action magazine and published by Futabasha, it was re-issued by Kadokawa under the Harta Comix label in 2022.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Educational , Seinen

Aragane no Ko

Also known as Diamond in the Rough.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy

A world where "stone" is at the center. Akaboshi, an ore craftsman visits an underground village and meets a boy whose left foot is petrified. The boy's goal is to find the man with a three-line piercing but he holds a secret...?! The two of them set off on a journey to save his family!



Tags: Magic , Foreign , Found Family , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Travel , Disability , Politics , Urban Fantasy , Body Horror , Time Skip , Full Color , Adoption , Food , Terrorism , Anachronism , Ensemble Cast , Mermaid

Cuprum no Hanayome

Also known as The Coppersmith's Bride.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Shiina, a freshman in college, is enjoying a cozy life in Niigata Prefecture dating her coppersmith boyfriend, Shuu. She’s grown used to the rhythmic sound of his hammer, inwardly dubbing him the “smithing nut” for his obsession with hunkering down in the workshop, even on his days off. What she’s not ready for is a sudden proposal out of nowhere! Barely out of high school, is she ready for the next step? And more importantly, can she really hack marrying into a prestigious smithing family?



Tags: Seinen , Gyaru , Primarily Adult Cast , Kuudere , Educational , Heterosexual

6-Oku-nen no Hakubutsu Tabi

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Sci-Fi

"A Journey Through 600 Million Years of Natural History" is set in a time when time machines have been developed, allowing access to ancient times. Inochi and Akari, a pair of university students, travel through various eras and encounter undescribed species of ancient life. The story depicts their "600 million year journey through natural history" from ancient times to the present day, gazing up at the giant dinosaur Diplodocus in the Jurassic period, having a barbecue on the beach in the Cretaceous period and eating ammonites.



Tags: Educational , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Time Manipulation , Dinosaurs , Historical , Animals , Female Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , College , Travel

Ikoku Meiro no Croisée

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

The story takes place in the second half of the 19th century, as Japanese culture gains popularity in the West. A young Japanese girl, Yune, accompanies a French traveller, Oscar, on his journey back to France, and offers to help at the family's ironwork shop in Paris. Oscar's nephew and shopowner Claude reluctantly accepts to take care of Yune, and we learn how those two, who have so little in common, get to understand each other and live together in the Paris of the 1800s.

Tags: Historical , Iyashikei , Foreign , Ojou-sama , Seinen

Taishou Otome Otogibanashi

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

In this story set in the early 1920s, Tamahiko is the son of a wealthy family, but his life is changed forever when an accident cripples his right arm. No longer considered by his father as an heir, he is shuffled off into the country, to live out of sight. The teenage Tamahiko shuts himself in his new home, bitterly thinking of it as the place where he will die. One day, he learns that his father has 'bought' him a bride to take care of him, when the young teen girl named Yuzuki arrives at his door. She comes into his life like an innocent ray of sunshine, and Tamahiko's view of the world and his life starts changing bit-by-bit.

Note: Includes 4 extra chapters.

Tags: Historical , Family Life , Marriage , Coming of Age , Shounen , Heterosexual , Rural , Disability , Rehabilitation , Male Protagonist , Arranged Marriage , Tragedy , Hikikomori , Ojou-sama , Age Gap , Adoption

Koisuru Asteroid

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Astronomy and geology are fun…!
Mira, who promised to “find an asteroid” with the boy she found at the campsite as a child.
She tried to join the astronomy club, but from this year the “astronomy club” and the “geology research society” merged into the “earth sciences club”!?
Let’s go search for the asteroid that we promised to look for that day.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Astronomy , Iyashikei , Coming of Age , Outdoor Activities , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Seinen , 4-koma , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School Club

Housekishou Richard-shi no Nazo Kantei

Also known as The Case Files of Jeweler Richard.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Slice of Life

When Japanese college student Seigi Nakata rescues a handsome young jewelry appraiser from a group of drunken assailants, he gets more than he bargains for! The appraiser is Richard Ranashinha de Vulpian, a brilliant and mysterious British jewelry expert. Seigi hires Richard to appraise a ring left to Seigi by his grandmother…and the adventures are just beginning. Together, they unlock the secret messages hidden in the hearts of jewels—and those who possess them.



Tags: Josei , Educational , LGBTQ+ Themes , Urban , Male Protagonist , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Coming of Age , College , Asexual , Bisexual