Manga like Shitsuren Chocolatier

Sono Otoko, Amatou ni Tsuki

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

A sensational chocolate overload. Flooding taste with a pinch of romance.
A different kind of love story, revolving around a certain esteemed chocolate aficionado.

Jean-Louis, an extraordinarily talented Parisian attorney. Above all else on earth, his lifelong love has been... Chocolate. Troubled people cross his path in every direction he travels. As one might expect, might chocolate become Jean-Louis' method of salvation for these grieving souls? Furthermore, what mysteries of his past shall surface?

Tags: Episodic , Seinen , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Foreign

Ane no Kekkon

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Iwatani Yori is a 39-year-old woman who leads a quiet life while working at the library. She thinks things like love and marriage are too troublesome. A handsome, but suspicious man approaches her, claiming to be an old childhood friend. Maki has cared for Yori since he was a boy, but now he’s a married man–married to a woman who looks exactly like Yori. This apparently doesn’t stop him from chasing down Yori who desperately tries to push him away. What kind of future could this love (?) have?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Rural , Unrequited Love , Love Triangle , Cheating

Love Order 200X

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

27 year old office workers Utako and Sayata had been living together for 2 years. Just as Utako began feeling unsatisfied, she started a relationship with a married man at work, and their relationship...!?

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Josei

Yesterday wo Utatte

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

After college, Rikuo Uozumi, a boy without much ambition in life, takes on a job at a convenience store. The days pass by uneventfully for Rikuo until he meets his former girlfriend and classmate, but especially thanks to the unusual Haru Nonaka, and her pet raven… Readers of Toume Kei’s other works- Hitsuji no Uta, Luno, Kurogane- will enjoy her unique style.

Tags: Love Triangle , Urban , Rehabilitation , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Teacher , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Konbini , Photography , Drawing , Philosophy

Seiyou Kottou Yougashiten

Also known as Antique Bakery.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

A high school crush, a world-class pastry chef, a former middle-weight boxing champion...and a whole lot of cake! Ono has come a long way since the agonizing day in high school when he confessed his love to handsome Tachibana. Now, some 14 years later Ono, a world-class pastry chef and gay playboy has it all. No man can resist Ono's charms (or his cooking skills!) but he has just found a new position under a man named Tachibana. Can this be the only man who resisted his charms, and if so, will the man who once snubbed the "magically gay" Ono get his just desserts? And how in the heck did a former middleweight boxing champion wind up as Ono's cake boy?



Note: Recipient of 26th Kodansha Manga Award in the shoujo manga category for 2002.

Tags: Food , Shoujo , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes