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Yotsuba to!

Also known as Yotsuba&!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai...um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving's fun 'cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made friends to play with (one of 'em acted like one of those bad strangers Daddy told Yotsuba not to go with, but it was okay in the end). I hope we get to play a lot. And eat ice cream! And-and-and...oh yeah! You should come play with Yotsuba too!



Notes:
Includes an interlude.
Won the Excellence Award for Manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006 and the Grand Prize of the 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2016.
Was nominated for the Manga Taishō award in 2008 and for the 12th and 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2008 and 2016.
Was nominated for the Eisner Award in the "Best Publication for Kids" category.

Tags: Family Life , Iyashikei , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Parenthood , Slapstick , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Rural , Adoption , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Fishing

Lucky☆Star

Also known as Lucky☆Star.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Lucky Star's story portrays the lives of several school girls attending a Japanese high school with a very loose humor tone. The setting is based on the town Kasukabe in Saitama Prefecture. The main heroine is Konata Izumi, an athletic and intelligent girl who, despite these attributes, is not in a sports club, and has low grades. Her laziness at school is due to her love for anime and video games and lack of interest in anything else. The serialization began with the four main characters in their first year of high school: Konata Izumi, Kagami Hiiragi, Tsukasa Hiiragi, and Miyuki Takara. As the story progresses, they move onto their second and third year.

Tags: 4-koma , Otaku Culture , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Tsundere , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Primarily Female Cast , Shounen , Ojou-sama

Azumanga Daiou

Also known as Azumanga Daioh.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

It's not manga, it's Azumanga! − smart, fun and totally addictive. Created by the iconoclastic Kiyohiko Azuma, Azumanga Daiou is strongly character driven, taking the reader through the daily tribulations of Miss Kurosawa, Miss Yukari, the wild Tomo, hair-triggered Yomi, ditzy Osaka, brash Kagura, cute Chiyo-chan and athletic (but girly) Sakaki.



Notes:
A great number of chapters are divided into several parts that have been included in the final chapter count.
The chapter count includes 5 extra chapters.

Tags: School , 4-koma , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Teacher , Shounen , Coming of Age , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Tomboy , Ojou-sama

Hidamari Sketch

Also known as Sunshine Sketch.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Accepted to a high school specializing in the arts, Yuno moves into a nearby apartment complex to make her commute easier. Just a few days into her new routine, she quickly discovers that creativity doesn't end with the art school bell! Her neighbors - Sae, Hiro, and Miya -are all fellow students, and each has her own hilarious quirks. And eccentricity clearly rules this school; Yuno's homeroom teach is a cosplay otaku and the principal is just...weird. Will the quiet Yuno be able to handle this creatively kooky cast of characters?



Tags: 4-koma , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Drawing , Primarily Female Cast , Iyashikei , School , Seinen , Yuri

Senryuu Shoujo

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

Yukishiro Nanako is a cute, cheerful high school girl with one peculiar trait – instead of verbal communication, she writes senryu (a type of haiku) poems to relay her thoughts. Together with ex-delinquent Busujima Eiji, they are budding freshmen of the school’s Literature Club.

Even though Nanako doesn’t talk, with the power of senryu, the adorable pair has no problem enjoying their fun school-life through the tune of 5-7-5 syllables.

Note: Includes 15 extra chapters.

Tags: School Club , 4-koma , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , School , Language Barrier , Episodic , Primarily Teen Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Love Triangle , Delinquents

Mustard Chocolate

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Tsugumi Rinko can’t wait to escape the tedium of high school for the challenges and rewards that accompany life at a fine arts college. She only has two problems:
1) She has few social skills and fewer friends.
2) With less than nine months remaining before her crucial admissions test, she has no practical art experience.

Note: Won the New Face Award at the 2011 Japan Media Arts Festival Awards.

Tags: 4-koma , School , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Drawing