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Status: Finished

As a budding poet and lyricist, Aine is on her way to an audition one fateful afternoon. Absentmindedly stepping into the street, she barely avoids getting struck by an oncoming vehicle. Not only is the cute teenager lucky to be alive, but her brush with death turns out to be a date with destiny. The driver of the car just happens to be Sakuya, the charismatic and fabulously handsome lead singer for a band called Lucifer. In short order, Sakuya and his crew compose a song using Aine's lyrics. The tune proves popular with the band's fans and Sakuya decides he wants a relationship, both professional and personal, with Aine. There's only one small requirement: The lyrics Aine writes must be erotically charged. And guess what? Sakuya fully intends to introduce the young and inexperienced girl into the world of sensual delights. Does Sakuya actually care for Aine, or is she just another sexual conquest for him? Will Aine fulfill her dreams and become a professional lyricist, or has she simply sold her soul to Lucifer?

Tags: Shoujo , Band , Nudity , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Work , Writing , Heterosexual , Rock Music

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Given

Also known as Given.

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

Ritsuka Uenoyama is bored with it all—with school, with his basketball club, and even with his one true passion: playing guitar. That is, until the day he finds his favorite hidden napping spot occupied by a strange boy cradling a broken-stringed guitar. At first, Uenoyama is nonplussed by Mafuyu Sato and his slightly odd behavior, but when, on a whim, he asks Mafuyu to sing, the power of that song pierces him to the core.

Tags: Boys' Love , Band , LGBTQ+ Themes , Rehabilitation , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Bisexual , Unrequited Love , Suicide , School , Love Triangle , Urban , Tsundere , Kuudere

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NANA

Also known as Nana.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance , Slice of Life

Nana Komatsu is a young woman who's endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, she's hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. She's looking for love and she's hoping to find it in the big city.

Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is cool, confident and focused. She swaggers into town and proceeds to kick down the doors to Tokyo's underground punk scene. She's got a dream and won't give up until she becomes Japan's No. 1 rock'n'roll superstar.

This is the story of two 20-year-old women who share the same name. Even though they come from completely different backgrounds, they somehow meet and become best friends. The world of Nana is a world exploding with sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties.

Note: Winner of the 48th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shoujo Category in 2002.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Shoujo , Band , Tragedy , Philosophy , Pregnancy , Time Skip , Found Family , Netorare , Heterosexual , Bisexual , Love Triangle , Rock Music , Cheating , Achronological Order , LGBTQ+ Themes , Urban , Age Gap , Nudity , Drugs , Bar

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Shonen Jump Plus

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Himekei♥Doll

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Ayumu is absolutely in love with the young fashion designer Renji. She even enrolls in the same high school as him! After a certain incident, Renji finds out just how much Ayumu loves him, and that she's determined to help him with his clothing line, [BanDit]. He agrees to let her help him, but finds out that she could also be a talented designer (although she can't sew at all) herself!

Tags: School , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Gyaru , Fashion

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Hana ni Nare

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

Momo Yamada wanted to be a flower when she grew up, but she's blossomed into nothing more than a rather homely teenager. When her grandmother passes away, Momo becomes a live-in maid for the two sons of a elegant fashion designer. After the eccentric eldest son, Ranmaru, gives Momo the makeover of her life, she discovers that her mother was a legendary Hanabito, a beautiful woman with a divinely intoxicating scent that draws men to her like bees to nectar. What's more, Momo learns that she, too, gives off that same irresistable aroma. Although she and Ranmaru have fallen in love, their relationship now must withstand constant assault from handsome boys and men who desire to abduct and seduce Momo.

Tags: School , Shoujo

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Gravitation

Also known as Gravitation.

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

Shindou Shuichi is a young, energetic, and optimistic rockstar wannabe. He’s in a band with his best friend and is determined to top the charts. When a romance novelist named Eiri Yuki criticizes his lyrics, Shuichi takes it badly and wants to make Yuki eat his words…but as he starts to follow Yuki around, Shuichi falls hard for him. Yuki, despite his cold and prickly demeanor, even seems to like Shuichi back! Still, Yuki has a past full of trauma that he’s never fully faced, and Shuichi discovers that succeeding in the music biz might cost him his soul. Can these two very different men support each other and make this relationship work?

Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Slapstick , Male Protagonist , Boys' Love , Shoujo , Primarily Male Cast , Band , Primarily Adult Cast , Age Gap , Bisexual , Idol , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yandere , Super Robot , Love Triangle , Guns

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Haou Airen

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Romance

One day while walking home from her job, Kurumi Akino finds a wounded young man, and saves his life. He mysteriously disappears after that, and leaves only the name “Hakuron.” Next thing she knows she’s been kidnapped from her school, and is on a private jet with that man, heading to China. It turns out she saved the life of the most infamous mobster in Hong Kong, and he wants her to stay with him.

Note: Includes one extra chapter

Tags: Nudity , School , Shoujo , Mafia , Female Protagonist , Amnesia , Criminal Organization , Heterosexual , Tragedy

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Ai wo Utau Yori Ore ni Oborero!

Also known as Ai Ore! Love Me!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Mizuki is the female “prince” of her all-girls school and the lead guitarist in an all-girl rock band. Akira is the male “princess” of his all-boys school and wants to join her band. Love may be on his mind, but romance is difficult when everyone keeps mistaking Mizuki for a boy and Akira for a girl!

When the lead singer of Blaue Rosen announces she is moving overseas, Akira does all he can to convince Mizuki and her bandmates to let him join. But will a resistant Mizuki allow him into her band, much less her heart?

Tags: Shoujo , Gender Bending , School , Crossdressing , Band

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Tokyo Juliet

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

Ayase Minori is a new student entering Houjou Designer's College. She has had her design "Daisy" stolen by a top-class designer Hinagata Eiji when she was 5 years old, and Minori had sworn to the fact that "I will not fall in love before I can beat Hinagata Eiji!" However, her meeting with Himemiya Akira almost made her forget her old vow...while Akira is Hinagata Eiji's only-son!

Tags: Shoujo

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Fukumenkei Noise

Also known as Anonymous Noise.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance

Nino Arisugawa, a girl who loves to sing, experiences her first heart-wrenching goodbye when her beloved childhood friend, Momo, moves away. And after Nino befriends Yuzu, a music composer, she experiences another sad parting! Both boys promised Nino that they would find her one day through her singing, so she holds on to that hope and continues to reach out with her voice. Now in high school, Nino serendipitously reunites with Yuzu, but she yearns to see Momo again…

Tags: Shoujo , Musical Theater , Love Triangle , Band , Rock Music , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Tsundere , School Club

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