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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 , Tsundere , Love Triangle , Time Skip , Software Development

Yawao to Katako

Also known as A Queen and an Old Maid.

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

Campy queen vs. Miss forever-alone: this defeat-your-insecurities (romantic?) comedy goes out to all you folks full of self-loathing!! Unpopular with men, unattractive, and unsure of herself...... At a mixer one night, insecure and forever-alone Fujiko found her soulmate- No, wait, it was a femme guy playing mother hen?! Fujiko has never been confident in herself as a woman, but with help from prettyboy queen Koyanagi, now she's going to give femininity another shot...!

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Heterosexual , Bisexual , Fashion , Body Image , Love Triangle

Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Michiko is an unemployed 30-year-old. She has just broken up with a younger boyfriend whom she supported financially until she drained all of her savings. Michiko then has a chance meeting with a former boss she used to dislike.

Note: Includes four bonus chapters.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Office Lady , Restaurant , Work , Food , Love Triangle , Estranged Family , Urban , Matchmaking , Marriage , Gangs , Unrequited Love

Umi ga Hashiru End Roll

Also known as The Credits Roll into the Sea.

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

Umiko, a grandma, realizes that she has the same desire to make movies as university student Kai—and soon she enrolls in Kai's film school!

"It's not the movies you like…you like watching the people watching the movies."

Just what are you going to do with the rest of your life? It's the question you'll always have to answer, no matter your age. Umiko Chino is a 65-year-old retired woman in mourning for her late husband. Remembering how they used to watch films together, Umiko goes to the movie theater for the first time in years, where she meets Kai, an attractive, ambiguous young man who studies filmmaking at a nearby art school.

They would seem to have nothing in common, except for this—both of them sometimes like to look more at the way the audience reacts to a movie than the movie itself. Kai believes Umiko has the same deep desire he possesses to experience how people respond to something they made… and challenges her to stake the rest of her life discovering that thrill.

Soon Umiko surprises herself by enrolling in the same film school as Kai. But sailing into this new sea, she's suddenly inside the currents of her fellow students' lives, a much younger generation that she struggles to understand, driven by their own passions and their own relationships. Who's really experienced at life, and is it old age or observation that brings wisdom? And does what you're looking for change when you look with your eyes instead of through a camera lens…?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Elderly Protagonist , Filmmaking , Photography , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Shoujo , Iyashikei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Asexual , Aromantic

Bread & Butter

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

Life isn't going too well for Yuzuki. She's a 34-years-old and without a boyfriend. The elementary school she works at is close to firing her, and to top it off she doesn't know what to do with her life at all. But even when she quits her job and tries to have an arranged marriage things don't work out. Only the bread she eats at the small stationery store around the corner gives her comfort. So one day, she asks the store owner to marry her on a whim and to her surprise, he agrees...?

Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Work , Marriage , Josei , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Drawing , Age Gap

Ashita Shinu ni wa,

Also known as Since I Could Die Tomorrow.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Sawako Honna, 42, single; she works hard at a film promotion company. One night, all of a sudden, her heart palpitates, and her body goes cold... Could it be that she's going through menopause!?

Not as hard-working as in your 20s. Not as flippant as in your 30s. The mental and physical changes, and the obstacles you face in your 40s. Sudden illness, menopause, fatigue you can't get rid of, changes in working patterns, money worries, life plans for the future...

"What will happen to me tomorrow?"



Notes:
Winner of the Excellence Award in 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival.
Nominated for the 2020 Manga Taisho Award.

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Filmmaking , Office Lady , Office , Urban