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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.
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

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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 , Work , Female Protagonist , Medicine , Heterosexual , Nudity , Office , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Time Skip , Software Development

Lip Smoke

Also known as Lip Smoke.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

High-school student Setsuna Iwato works part-time for a publishing agency. When her employer is having trouble with an erotic fiction novelist, she becomes his assistant to help him rediscover the feeling of a "Pure Kiss".

Tags: Shoujo , Teacher , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual

Haru no Noroi

Also known as Haru’s Curse.

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

After Natsumi's younger sister and best friend Haru dies at the age of 19, she begins dating Haru's fiancee Tougo - on the condition that he take her only to places he had taken her sister. Their relationship deepens as the seasons pass, but Haru's Curse lies between them... Will there be happiness after Haru's Curse is broken?



Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Urban , Tragedy , Suicide , Unrequited Love , Yuri

Inu x Boku SS

Also known as Inu x Boku SS.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

In search of independence and solitude, the sharp-tongued Ririchiyo Shirakiin moves to the Maison de Ayakashi, an apartment building full of wealthy tenants, which has its own Secret Service. Ririchiyo is eager to be alone, but upon her arrival, she is greeted by Soushi, an SS agent arranged for her by her parents. Ririchiyo tries to turn away, but Soushi's dogged devotion to his new mistress will not be deterred. The threats against the residents of the Maison de Ayakashi are not to be taken lightly, after all. And despite his puppylike demeanor, Soushi is not to be trifled with...



Note: Includes 12 extra chapters.

Tags: Reincarnation , Youkai , Tsundere , Yandere , Shounen , Age Gap , Henshin , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Time Skip

My Home Hero

Also known as My Home Hero.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Thriller

Tetsuo Tosu is a typical father whose biggest worries are his job and his rebellious daughter, Reika. That is, until he finds a bruise on her face. His worst fears come true when he finds out she has a secret boyfriend...and he's part of a crime ring that's using her to steal her grandparent's wealth. If that wasn't bad enough, the thug catches Tetsuo snooping around and threatens to kill Reika as soon as she gets home. Fueled by fatherly instincts, Tetsuo murders the man...only for his wife to walk in and witness what he's done. Now with a corpse to hide and a crime ring hot on his tail, Tetsuo must resort to his love of detective novels and his wits to stay one step ahead of a grim fate...



Tags: Crime , Seinen , Yakuza , Primarily Adult Cast , Mafia , Guns , Family Life , Tragedy , Cult , Detective , Male Protagonist , Police , Nudity , Delinquents , Revenge , Suicide

Raise wa Tanin ga Ii

Also known as Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Yoshino grew up as the yakuza princess of the Osaka Somei crime family. Everyone left her alone due to her sharp gaze and mobster ties. But when her grandfather signs a truce with the Tokyo-based Miyama crime family, she’s offered for betrothal to the Miyama leader’s grandson, Kirishima. At first, Kirishima seems amiable and polite–but when he shows his dark side, he proves to be more disturbing than any gangster Yoshino has ever met. This engagement is sure to be a wild ride for a tough yakuza princess and her twisted yakuza prince!



Note:
Winner of the 4th Next Manga Award in the Print Manga Category in 2018.
Nominated for the 46th Kodansha Manga Award in the General Category in 2022.

Tags: Yakuza , Crime , Urban , Mafia , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Criminal Organization , Heterosexual , Arranged Marriage , Male Protagonist , Yandere , Gore , Ojou-sama , School , Feet , Bisexual

Darenimo Ienai

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

A series of disparate but interwoven stories.

A woman struggles with her attraction to her adult male cousin, haunted by the games they played as a child.

Her sister finds love where she least expects it, and views her surroundings through different eyes.

Two women find their secret lesbian relationship threatened by the world around them.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Female Cast , Yuri

Ojikoi

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Sanjou Arashi is a high school girl who works part-time for a company that does odd jobs. She’s quite serious and has a strong sense of responsibility that offsets her boss–a man who is seemingly more interested in goofing off and smoking than running the place.



Tags: Shoujo , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Detective , Work

Ojou to Banken-kun

Also known as A Girl & Her Guard Dog.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Isaku never asked to be the daughter of a yakuza boss, but when her parents died in a car accident when she was 5, her gangster grandfather took her in and raised her as part of the clan. After years of being avoided by her schoolmates because of her family ties, Isaku is finally ready to make her high-school debut, live a normal life, and maybe even find love...until loyal family servant and Isaku's dedicated guardian, 26-year-old Keiya, enters high school right alongside her and vows to protect her from all of the above! Now she's got a chain-smoking, pistol-wielding knight-in-shining(?)-armor to deal with, and navigating high school besides? What's a young lady to do?!



Tags: Yakuza , Shoujo , Age Gap , Gangs , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Adult Cast , Guns , Volleyball , Assassins , Urban , Criminal Organization , Cohabitation , Slapstick , Ojou-sama