Manga like Sensei Datte Kareshi Desu

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

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

Tsuiraku JK to Haijin Kyoushi

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

Mikoto Ochiai is ready to jump off the rooftop of her high school's building after she got rejected by the boy she loves. However, her physics and home room teacher Jin Haiba suddenly appears on the rooftop for a smoke, talked to her and saved her from falling down. He even asked her to go out with him which made her confused. How will things go between the smart and calm Mikoto and her seemingly carefree teacher Jin? Note: Includes 20 extra chapters.

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

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.
Volume 5 includes the one-shot "Cookie Girl Cream Boy (クッキーガール クリームボーイ)"
Volume 6 includes the one-shot "Tsuyu Kaoru (ツユカオル, A Love Story in Moist Rainy Days)"
Volume 7 includes the one-shot "Heroine no Ryuusei (ヒロインの流星, Heroine's Shooting Star)"
Volume 9 includes the one-shot "More than Words (モア ザン ワーズ)"
Volume 11 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

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: Chapter count contains 2 extra chapters.

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

Ao ni, Fureru.

Also known as Seeing Blue.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Ruriko Aoyama, a second-year in high school, was born with a large, blue birthmark on her face. She has lived her life trying not to make a big deal of it, trying to avoid overly conscientious treatment by those around her. One day, Ruriko gets her hands on a notebook belonging to her new homeroom teacher, Kanda. He had written all of her classmates' names in the book, and next to their names: distinguishing physical features. However, Ruriko notices that the space next to her own name is inexplicably blank. When she confronts her homeroom teacher, Ruriko finds that Kanda lives with prosopagnosia – a disorder which prevents him from being able to make sense of and distinguish the human face...



Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the manga category.

Tags: Seinen , School , Age Gap , Teacher , Disability

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

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

Sensei Kunshu

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The story revolved around Ayu, who constantly gets rejected by the person she confessed to. She then met someone whom she madly fell in love with but turns out to be her Teacher (the older brother of Hiromitsu from Heroine Shikkaku). A hilarious rom-com about the struggles of being in a student-teacher relationship.

Tags: School , Shoujo , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Heterosexual