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

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 , Primarily Male Cast , Shoujo , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes

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

Yesterday wo Utatte

Also known as Sing “Yesterday” For Me.

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

Half stuck in the past, but still facing forward...
After graduating from university, Uozumi spends his days working at a dead-end convenience store job. But one day, a strange girl with a crow, Haru, appears in front of him. Awkward yet sincere, their hearts flutter and sway like the falling petals of a cherry blossom...



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

Tora to Ookami

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

The series started as a 60 page one-shot in the December 2009 issue of Betsuma, but was later serialized starting on February 13, 2010.

Mii is a BL (Boys Love) fanatic who helps her grandmother run a family restaurant. Her monotonous life is turned around when two beautiful college boys come to eat! One is the kind Tora, and the other is the snotty Ookami, who refuses to eat the restaurant’s food.

More than boy troubles, Mii needs to save the restaurant from corporate big-shots who want to renovate the area!? And what role will the boys play in this!?



Tags: Shoujo , Restaurant , Food , Work , Female Protagonist , Age Gap , Teacher , School , School Club , Love Triangle