Manga like Awajima Hyakkei

Aoi Hana

Also known as Sweet Blue Flowers.

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

Fumi and Akira were best friends when they were little, with Akira always looking after the crybaby Fumi, but that all ended when Fumi's family moved away. Several years later, Fumi's family returned, and she and Akira happened to bump into each other on their way to school. They became friends again, quickly slipping back into old patterns. Shortly after, Fumi began dating a cool, attractive upperclassman who, coincidentally enough, had ties to Akira's current school, the prestigious Fujigaya Girls' Academy.



Note: Includes 10 extra chapters.

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , School , Female Protagonist , Josei , Primarily Teen Cast , Acting , School Club , Time Skip , Asexual , Unrequited Love , Bisexual , Nudity

Ikoku Nikki

Also known as Ikoku Nikki.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The manga centers on 35-year-old novelist Makio Koudai and her 15-year-old niece Asa, who live together under one roof. Makio took Asa in on a sudden impulse after Asa's parents, which included Makio's older sister, passed away. The next day, Makio returns to her senses and remembers that she does not do well in the company of other people. So begins their daily life, as Makio attempts to acclimate to a roommate, while Asa attempts to get used to an adult that never acts like one.



Note: Includes five extra chapters.

Tags: Family Life , Female Protagonist , Josei , Adoption , Coming of Age , Writing , Estranged Family , Primarily Female Cast , Parenthood , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Aromantic , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Transgender , School Club , Disability

Kageki Shoujo!

Also known as Kageki Shojo!! The Curtain Rises.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Like the Takarazuka Revue, the young women who go to the arts academy Kouka Kageki High School play all the parts of musical theater, be they female or male. Narada Ai is a jaded former idol performing female roles—her roommate, playing male roles, is bright-eyed country girl Watanabe Sarasa. From the school to the stage to the rest of their lives, there is no challenge these young women can’t face with their passion for performance.



The series was renamed to Kageki Shoujo!! Season Zero (かげきしょうじょ!! シーズンゼロ) in 2019.

Tags: School , Seinen , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Acting , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Idol , Kuudere , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Musical Theater , Twins , Boarding School , Yuri , Rehabilitation

Otona ni Nattemo

Also known as Even Though We’re Adults.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Ayano, an elementary school teacher in her thirties, stops by a bar one day and meets another woman named Akari. Sparks fly as the two chat, and before the night is over, Ayano even goes in for a kiss. Akari is intrigued but confused...especially when she discovers that Ayano has a husband! Both Ayano and Akari are about to find out that love doesn’t get any easier, even as you grow older.



Tags: Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Josei , Family Life , Cheating , Hikikomori , Teacher , School , Ensemble Cast , Time Skip , Love Triangle , Work , Bisexual , Unrequited Love , Achronological Order , Coming of Age , Filmmaking , Urban , Restaurant

Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

Komichi Akebi lives out in the countryside with her family. She's won entrance to the prestigious Roubai Academy middle-school for girls and now she wants only two things -- to wear the school's sailor uniform and to make a hundred friends!

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , School , Iyashikei , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Seinen , Dancing , Acrobatics , Athletics , Orphan , Acting , Tragedy

Beautiful Everyday

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

The manga centers on Karin, a young woman whose mother is an adult manga creator. When Karin's mother remarries, she gains an older stepbrother who is close to her in age, and a younger stepsister. Her stepbrother Kouichi is handsome but often sexually harasses her. And her stepsister Miki has a brother complex and dislikes her. The manga follows this new family with three stepsiblings in adolescence.



Note: Started as a series of five one-shots, the first of which was titled "Beautiful Monday" and published in Feel Young 2016-07 issue on June 8, 2016. The one-shots are collected in the first volume of the series. Official serialization started under the title "Beautiful Everyday" in Feel Young 2018-07 issue on June 8, 2018.

Tags: Josei , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist

Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight Overture

Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Slice of Life

The story of the nine stage girls from Seisho Music Academy and their daily lives before the TV Anime!

Tags: Musical Theater , Acting , School , Boarding School , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Dancing , Seinen

Haikei, Arishihi ni Saku Hanatachi e

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Kasumi, a serious girl who has just started at an all-girls school, discovers a letter tucked into an old book she found in the library. The letter's writer yearns to have a special relationship with another girl, like how it was described in the book… A romance about the the old-school "S" kind of girls-love.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Yuri , Primarily Teen Cast , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Seinen , Writing , Age Gap , Tragedy , Fake Relationship , Yandere , Age Regression , Suicide , College , Teacher