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What is Sekine's Love about?

Status: Finished

Keiichiro Sekine, age 30, is an exceptionally "unfortunate" man. Though he's a hot, elite businessman who's popular with both women and men alike, he's cursed with a "triple handicap" of being insensitive, passive and a jack-of-all-trades, but master of none. Having lived a life that's been somewhat out-of-focus, Sekine resolves to make a change and heads for a small knitting and handicrafts store. While knitting and counting the stitches, Sekine finds himself recalling horrible memories in his past and the feel of his previous upperclassman, Kazune's, bone-thin body! But after meeting the store owner's granddaughter, Sara, Sekine's love life might finally begin... or not.

Tags: Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation , Work , Nudity , Age Gap , Heterosexual , Urban , Table Tennis

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Machida-kun no Sekai

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

Machida-kun seems like the perfect brother, son, and student because he loves people. Helpful when he needs to be, but puts himself down when he feels like a total failure. However, the people that surround his daily life are there as a reminder as why Machida-kun needs no improvements because the people love Machida.

Notes:
Winner of the New Creator Prize of the 20th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
Included one-shot: Kimi wa Ai

Tags: Episodic , Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , Shoujo , Family Life , Philosophy , School , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Bullying , Acting , Time Skip

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Manga Mee

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Namida Ame to Serenade

Also known as Rainy Day Serenade.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Supernatural

On rainy days, Hina has dreams about her younger self playing with a mysterious boy in a garden she's never seen before—until, by chance, she stumbles upon the place. There's a young man there, Takaaki, who mistakes Hina for his fiancée Hinako. He whisks her back to what he thinks is her home, where Hina's doppelganger is waiting, and Hina realizes this isn't the Tokyo she left behind but Japan in the year 1907! Is this all a dream or something much stranger?

Tags: Josei , Historical , Time Manipulation , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Love Triangle , Suicide , Torture , Circus , Arranged Marriage

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Comic Days

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Gozen 3-ji no Muhouchitai

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

Momoko, who dreams of becoming an illustrator, finds employment in an ultra fast-paced office that specializes in designing pachinko parlors!! With the office running a yazuka-like business and employing a designer, who has a habit of suddenly stripping in the middle of the night, Momoko believes that the company employees are a bit... no, definitely eccentric!! She continues pulling all-nighters, unable even to return home... And in the midst of cigarette-filled fumes, where women's authority takes a step back, she asks herself, "What am I doing here?"

Tags: Work , Josei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing , Heterosexual , Office , Urban

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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.
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 , Writing , Female Protagonist , Seinen , School Club , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Restaurant , School , Tragedy

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Nodoka no Niwa

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

This is a love story between 23 year old grad student Asahina Motoko and her 64 year old professor Sakaki Ikuo. Motoko is a very mature and serious girl with poor social skills and is often called dark and gloomy by her classmates. However she finds Professor Sakaki to be kind and easy to talk to, despite his reputation as a strict and scary teacher. Although Professor Sakaki tells Motoko that her feelings for him are not love, something is developing between the two of them, and it might change them both into better people.

Tags: Josei , Tragedy , Age Gap , College , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Love Triangle , Teacher

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Ao no Hana: Utsuwa no Mori

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

Aoko is a young woman who works in a pottery workshop in the town of Hasami. Rather jovial by nature, she gets along very well with her colleagues, except for Tatsuki, the newcomer who doesn't seem to want to fit in.

Despite their differences, Aoko and Tatsuki will have to learn to work together. But even though Tatsuki's gradually opening up, Aoko feels there's something he wants to keep secret... Note: Chapter count includes two bonus chapters.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Rural , Female Protagonist , Work , Rehabilitation

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Flower Comics

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Sensei no Shiroi Uso

Also known as Sensei's Pious Lie.

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

Misuzu Hara is a quiet, reserved 24-year-old high school teacher whose world is turned upside down after her friend’s fiancé rapes her. Her attempt to connect with one of her students, himself a victim of sexual trauma, results in an unlikely romance, and the repercussions of these events affect everyone around them in often unpredictable ways.

Notes: Nominated to the 22nd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Tags: Teacher , Female Protagonist , Blackmail , Fake Relationship , Love Triangle , Non-fiction , Seinen , School , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Nudity , Psychosexual , Work , Polyamorous , Suicide , Unrequited Love , Time Skip

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

Aoki Kaoru is a 26-year-old woman who has never had a boyfriend. Normally unattached and unmotivated in her own life, Kaoru decides to start up a nail salon as a side business in addition to her regular job as a medical clerk. Although having a severe adversity to physical touch, she is forced to confront that fear when she meets a man who can’t help but touch others.

Tags: Age Gap , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Work , Medicine , Heterosexual , Nudity , Office , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Time Skip , Software Development

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Pixiv Comic

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Uchi no Joushi wa Mitame ga Ii

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

The “good-looking” Director Hayami is an absent-minded boss, the complete opposite of his smart appearance. Thankfully, he has help from his brilliant and talented subordinate, Aoyama-san. Their interaction is sometimes like father and daughter, sometimes like brother and sister, and sometimes… Along with their colleagues, they live exciting, fast-paced lives, but what will happen with their relationship?

Tags: Josei , Work , Heterosexual

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Pixiv Comic

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Seshuusei Triangle

Also known as Hereditary Triangle.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Childhood friends Koutarou Fujiki, Kajiwara, and Fuyuko thought they would always be together. They spent their youth in a strange love triangle, the two boys fighting over who would date Fuyuko. But suddenly one day, that life ends. Kajiwara goes missing, and Koutarou takes his sweetheart's hand in marriage. Now middle-aged, Koutarou is left to wonder—would his wife have chosen differently if Kajiwara were still around? On a visit to his hometown, the memories come rushing back…

Tags: Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Photography

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