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Hirunaka no Ryuusei

Also known as Daytime Shooting Star.

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

After arriving in Tokyo to live with her uncle, Suzume collapses in a nearby park where she had once seen a shooting star during the day. A handsome stranger brings her to her new home and tells her they’ll meet again. Suzume starts her first day at her new high school sitting next to a boy who blushes furiously at her touch. And her homeroom teacher is none other than the handsome stranger!



Notes:
Includes three extra chapters.
Includes the one-shot "Cookie Girl Cream Boy (クッキーガール クリームボーイ)".
Includes the one-shot "Tsuyu Kaoru (ツユカオル, A Love Story in Moist Rainy Days)".
Includes the one-shot "Heroine no Ryuusei (ヒロインの流星, Heroine's Shooting Star)".
Includes the one-shot "More than Words (モア ザン ワーズ)"
Includes the one-shot "Hibi Ryuusei: Suzume no Parallel Koukou Nikki (日々流星－すずめのパラレル高校日記－, Daily Shooting Star: Suzume's Parallel School Diary)".

Tags: Shoujo , Love Triangle , School , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Teacher , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Urban , Primarily Teen Cast , Fake Relationship

Tsuiraku JK to Haijin Kyoushi

Also known as Crashout Schoolgirl and Degen Teacher.

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

"The ultimate suspension bridge effect love story!"

High school girl Mikoto was about to take her life over her recent heartbreak until physics teacher Jin Haiba (Better known as Dejin the Degenerate) interrupts.

Flustered and confused by her teacher's sudden confession — "Before you die, how about falling in love with me?" Soon, she finds her teacher popping up wherever she turns… Even showing up at her house! A risqué love story between student and teacher!



Note: Includes 20 extra chapters.

Tags: Teacher , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Episodic , Rehabilitation , Shoujo , Denpa , Heterosexual , School , Meta , Tragedy , Love Triangle

Sensei Datte Kareshi Desu

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

This spring, Io Yumabuki will start her second year of high school. At the opening ceremony, Wataru Naruchika, a childhood friend of hers, shows up as the new art teacher. Io and Wataru were next door neighbors and have been close family friends since childhood. But... they actually became a couple 3 months ago! Friends, lovers... and teacher! It's a heart-pounding relationship with "Naruchika-san"! A fearless adolescent love comedy!

Tags: Shoujo , Teacher , School , Heterosexual , Age Gap

Ao Haru Ride

Also known as Ao Haru Ride.

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

Futaba Yoshioka thought all boys were loud and obnoxious until she met Kou Tanaka in junior high. But as soon as she realized she really liked him, he had already moved away because of family issues. Now, in high school, Kou has reappeared, but is he still the same boy she fell in love with?



Note: Includes two extra chapters and two one-shots.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Unrequited Love , Tomboy , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Tsundere , Tragedy , Time Skip , Age Gap

Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet

Also known as Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet.

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

Fumi Oono, second-year high-school student. Stuck with the debts of her father, she needs a job—fast. While she did indeed manage to find one as a housekeeper for THE Akatsuki Kibikino, it leaves much to be desired. After all, the novelist has a mean glare and an even worse attitude...And on top of that, she has to live with him?!



Note: Includes 8 extra chapters (from which two are Hirunaka no Ryuusei extras, released with this series).


Tags: Shoujo , Coming of Age , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Adoption , Writing , School , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Tragedy , Time Skip , Work , Cohabitation

Takane to Hana

Also known as Takane & Hana.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The meeting between Takane and Hana ends in an explosive manner, and Hana is convinced that she’ll never have to see that awful Takane again. But Takane actually seems interested in Hana! Exasperated by Takane’s immature attitude, yet amused and intrigued despite herself, Hana wonders if her hilarious rivalry with Takane just might lead to love!



Note: Includes 23 extra chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Age Gap , Work , School , Love Triangle , Crossdressing , Transgender , Chibi , LGBTQ+ Themes , Arranged Marriage , Heterosexual , Time Skip

Koi wa Ameagari no You ni

Also known as After the Rain.

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

Akira Tachibana. 17 years old, high school junior. Akira, awkward when it comes to expressing her feelings, finds herself secretly falling for the manager of the family restaurant where she works, one Masami Kondo, age 45. The curtain rises on the small love story that begins to unfold between Akira, stuck standing on the crossroads of adolescence, and Kondo, at the turning point of his own life…



Notes:
Includes one extra chapter.
Won the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Award in the General Category.
The publishing rights of the manga got acquired by Shueisha on 2025, and the first volume of its Shinsouban got published on April 17th, 2025.

Tags: Age Gap , Work , Athletics , Rehabilitation , Coming of Age , Writing , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Unrequited Love , School Club , Heterosexual , Restaurant , School , Tragedy , Classic Literature

Living no Matsunaga-san

Also known as Living-Room Matsunaga-san.

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

After her parents leave to care for her ailing grandmother, high schooler Miko “Meeko” Sonoda moves into her uncle’s boarding house. There, she meets its rather unusual residents, including the oldest of the bunch: the grumpy mother hen, Matsunaga-san. With the help of her housemates, Meeko begins to adjust to her new life away from her parents, but she soon learns that no matter how far away from home she is, she’s still a young girl at heart—especially when she finds herself falling for Matsunaga-san…



Tags: Shoujo , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Cohabitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Love Triangle , Ensemble Cast , Urban , School

Taiyou no Ie

Also known as House of the Sun.

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

As a child, Mao spent all her time at Hiro’s house across the street. Going to his house always made her feel cheerful. A few years later, Mao’s father gets remarried and Mao finds herself with nowhere to call home. Hiro ends up letting her stay with him in the house he’s been occupying alone since the death of his parents. A love story unfolds, between two childhood friends of different ages.



Note: Includes 20 extra chapters.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Family Life , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Shoujo , Age Gap , Tsundere , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Iyashikei , Cohabitation , School , Adoption , Orphan , Estranged Family , Primarily Teen Cast

Goma Shio to Purin

Also known as Black Sesame Salt and Custard Pudding.

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

One morning, HARUHI wakes up to find that she's married to an old man she doesn't know!? Haruhi works as a heavy machinery operator at a construction site full of men.One night, Haruhi meets a middle-aged man with grey hair at a pub, and submits a marriage certificate under the influence of alcohol. She had taken him straight into her room! Don't judge a man by the colour of the hair. Love comedy by a silver fox and a girl physical worker.



Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Age Gap , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Marriage , DILF , Female Protagonist , Calligraphy , Love Triangle , Work , Food , Pregnancy , Cohabitation