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Koe no Katachi

Also known as A Silent Voice.

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

Based on a one-shot that won the 80th Weekly Shounen Magazine Newbie Best Mangaka Award.

Shouya is a bully. When Shouko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shouya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shouko is forced to leave the school, and Shouya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shouya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?



Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Rehabilitation , Language Barrier , Bullying , Coming of Age , Disability , Time Skip , School , Heterosexual , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Denpa , Ensemble Cast , Filmmaking , Shounen , Kuudere

Komi-san wa, Komyushou desu.

Also known as Komi Can't Communicate.

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

Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. But all that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly realizes she isn’t aloof—she’s just super awkward. Now he’s made it his mission to help her on her quest to make 100 friends!



Notes:
Winner of the 67th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2021.
Includes 37 extra chapters.

Tags: School , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Disability , Slapstick , Heterosexual , Shounen , Meta , Gyaru , Surreal Comedy , Yandere , Agender , Chuunibyou , Crossdressing

Avant-Garde Yumeko

Also known as Avant-Garde Yumeko.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Psychological

I just want to see it! High schooler Yumeko is your ordinary high school girl except she's obsessed with seeing the male body part in real life. Determined, Yumeko decides to join the art club at school.



Note: Includes the one-shot "Super Fly" (スーパーフライ);.

Tags: Nudity , Female Protagonist , School Club , Drawing , School , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Philosophy

Sweet Poolside

Also known as Sweet Poolside.

Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi , Romance , Sports

Oota Toshihiko is a meek 7th grade boy who's teased for having an unnaturally hairless skin. Meanwhile, his female classmate Gotou Ayako suffers from having unnaturally hairy skin which she must shave everyday, despite being terrible at shaving. And by the 2nd law of manga-tropes, Oota accidentally walks in on Gotou shaving one day, and is then roped into helping his hairy classmate shave.

Note: Includes one epilogue and the one-shot "Choujou Eyes Sawada" (超常眼球　沢田).

Tags: Shounen , Coming of Age , School Club , Swimming , School , Bullying , Male Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle

Aku no Hana

Also known as The Flowers of Evil.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

The story opens as middle school student Takao Kasuga receives an F on a math test. But he doesn't even seem to notice because he's too engrossed in surreptitiously reading Beaudelaire's The Flowers of Evil. And the day goes downhill from there. In a moment of weakness, he finds and takes home the gym clothes belonging to sweet, pretty Nanako Saeki on whom he has a major crush. Unfortunately for Takao, there's a witness to the theft: Nakamura, who has a huge chip on her shoulder and a sadistic streak.

As the saga unfolds, we see Takao struggling to decide whether to confess or cover up his misdeeds at the same time that he tries to win over the girl of his dreams, and avoid the blackmail attempts of Nakamura, his new ”BFF.”

Smart, funny, and emotionally engaging, The Flowers of Evil introduces a character who's not a hero, but just an ordinary teenager in search of true love and real friendship.



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Denpa , Philosophy , Love Triangle , Rehabilitation , Classic Literature , School , Tragedy , Time Skip , Sadism , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Suicide , Shounen , Rural , Heterosexual , Writing , Blackmail , Urban , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Crossdressing

Mii-chan to Yamada-san

Also known as Mii-chan and Miss Yamada.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

In the heart of Shinjuku, there are a variety of nightclubs open to customers who seek a night of indulgence alongside gorgeous companions. Yamada is one of those companions, working part-time while attending university. Though lately, Yamada finds it easier to become the model hostess rather than a star pupil. She keeps to herself, follows the written and unwritten rules of hosting, and doesn’t bother getting entangled with anyone if she can help it. That is, until Mii-chan stumbles into her life.

Mii-chan is adorable but useless. She can’t read or write and is incredibly clumsy, always messing something up, which earns her ridicule from staff and customers alike. But something about her endless motivation and bright energy draws Yamada in, creating an unexpected friendship!



Notes:
Ranked 4th in the Men's Division of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2026 guidebook.
Nominated for the 50th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category in 2026.

Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Disability , Shounen , Bar

Jikkyou!! Izumi-kun no Koi Moyou

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

Izumi is a boy who has problems communicating with others and subsequently, he has not held a conversation with anyone for years. Shinohara is a gal-style girl who sits in the front of him, and he admires the way she can quickly write on her smartphone. Then one day, he speaks to her while casually helping her stretch her hand and she responds by saying he has a nice voice and should start interacting with people again. But he might need the help of both Shinohara and her friends if he is ever going to learn how to properly socialize with other people.

Note: The manga was cancelled when the magazine it was published in ceased being published.

Tags: Language Barrier , Heterosexual , Gyaru , Love Triangle , School , Bullying , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen

Koe no Katachi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A story about a grade school class that accepts a girl with impaired hearing.

Winner of the 80th Weekly Shounen Magazine Newbie Best Mangaka Award.

Tags: Bullying , Language Barrier , School , Shounen , Disability , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Time Skip , Suicide , Primarily Child Cast

Yankee-kun to Hakujou Girl

Also known as Love’s in Sight!.

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

An infamous delinquent, Kurokawa Morio meets a partially blind girl, Akaza Yukiko.

Note: Includes 11 extra chapters.

Tags: Disability , Rehabilitation , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Delinquents , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Orphan , Age Gap , Mixed Gender Harem , Heterosexual

Chii-chan

Also known as Toxic Daughter: Chi-chan.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

Yua Hayakawa used to love playing with Chi, a mysterious girl with a murky family life who likes collecting dead insects, but it’s been years since they've spoken. Now, Chi hardly ever even comes to school. One day, Chi shows up to class in beat-up gym clothes with a handful of dead bugs and starts a commotion that gives Yua’s classmate, golden boy Koudai, an idea: he’s going to save Chi, and he needs Yua’s help to do it. But clean-cut exteriors don’t always promise good intentions, and the darkness in Chi may be more dangerous than Yua had ever imagined.



Note: Prequel spin-off of the movie Poison Girl (Doku Musume).

Tags: Tragedy , Revenge , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Heterosexual , School , Estranged Family