Manga like Spotted Flower

Otona ni Nattemo

Also known as Even Though We’re Adults.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Ayano, an elementary school teacher in her thirties, stops by a bar one day and meets another woman named Akari. Sparks fly as the two chat, and before the night is over, Ayano even goes in for a kiss. Akari is intrigued but confused...especially when she discovers that Ayano has a husband! Both Ayano and Akari are about to find out that love doesn’t get any easier, even as you grow older.



Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Josei , Teacher , Love Triangle , Bisexual , Work , Cheating , School , Unrequited Love

Hoero Pen

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

The truth about the mangaka: Moyuru Honoo will show how hard and dangerous this job is. But his passion for drawing and for the supreme art of mangas can't be stopped, even by blonde assassins, alien writers, and unhappy editors!

Tags: Drawing , Seinen , Episodic , Primarily Adult Cast , Work

Maya-san no Yofukashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Maya is a witch. At least, that's what she's always telling her friend Mameyama. To Mameyama, she's just an otaku girl that might have a few screws loose. Either way, the two of them spend late nights together on voice chat, talking about whatever random, trifling things come to mind.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Witch

Kuragehime

Also known as Princess Jellyfish.

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

Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She’s loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese dolls. However, a chance meeting at a pet shop has Tsukimi crossing paths with one of the things that the residents of Amamizukan have been desperately trying to avoid—a beautiful and fashionable woman! But there’s much more to this woman than her trendy clothes! This odd encounter is only the beginning of a new and unexpected path for Tsukimi and her friends.



Note: Chapter count includes 10 extra chapters

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Fashion , Crossdressing , Foreign , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Language Barrier , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Found Family , Urban , Makeup , Drawing , Age Gap , Male Harem , Gender Bending , Animals , Coming of Age

Genshiken

Also known as Genshiken.

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

It’s spring of freshman year, and Kanji Sasahara has a difficult dilemma. Should he declare his love for manga and anime fandom by joining an otaku club, like he has always wanted to? Is he prepared to deal with the social stigma attached to being an otaku? Meanwhile, Saki Kasakabe has her own otaku conundrum. How can she turn her boyfriend, anime fanboy Makoto, into a normal guy? Kanji follow his heart as does Saki. When both Kanji and Makoto join Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Saki chases Makoto through the various activities of the club from cosplaying and comic conventions, to video gaming and anime model figures. Saki finds otaku to be more than she imagined, but not necessarily in a good way.



Tags: Otaku Culture , School Club , College , Seinen , Cosplay , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Meta , Parody , School , Video Games , Tragedy

Ohana Holoholo

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Maya, who works as a translator, lives with her bisexual former girlfriend, Michiru, and Michiru's son, Yuuta. Residing in the same apartment building is an actor called Nico, who drops by for a visit almost everyday, and knows about Michiru's past. Somewhat like family, and somewhat not, their lives interweave full of warm days.

Note: Includes five side stories and an extra.

Tags: Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Family Life , Found Family , Bisexual , Yuri , Parenthood , Female Protagonist , Cohabitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Unrequited Love , Acting , Suicide , Transgender

Que Será Será

Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi , Slice of Life

The main character lives more or less a secluded life working as an ero mangaka... Suddently his younger sister Sora arrives at his home, telling him that their father has left a goodbye note and is nowhere to be found.... Their mother is long gone, so being the only relative that can take responsibility for her our hero decides to take care of Sora and provide her with shelter and a shoulder to rely on....

Early on, the main character investigates a little, and realizes that he and Sora have no blood relationship at all... He decides to kept this little tidbit to himself sans Sora would be truly be left without any family left...

Of course, in order to complete the set up, we have that Sora has a massive brother complex, and that she gets obviously jealous whenever her brother seems to get a good mood with his long time love interest.

Of course that they will have to survive some big hurdles that will pop up on the long road... So, will their "brother and sister" relationship truly last forever?

Tags: Seinen

Que Sera, Sera

Also known as Que Sera, Sera!.

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

I slept with my BFF’s brother?!

One night, Hani goes out to drink with her best friend's brother and wakes up... in bed with him? What happens when she becomes pregnant from her one night stand? Watch Hani's trials and tribulations as she tries to hide the truth about the real father.



Tags: Family Life , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Full Color , Found Family , Foreign , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Time Skip

Receptacle

Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi , Romance

A spin-off from Houkago Play, this time it's about two girls who talk about their sex life, boyfriends or being a fujoshi.

Tags: Josei , Yuri , 4-koma