Manga like Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou

also known as The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior

What is The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior about?

Status: Finished

Thanks to his parents’ job transfer, Usa has to live on his own. The problem is, his new place is full of weird people, and the upperclassman he admires is one of them…? A teenage romance comedy that’s heavier on the humor, not so much on the romance!



Note: Includes 4 extra chapters.

Tags: Seinen , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , School , Male Protagonist , Tomboy , Kuudere , Love Triangle , Time Skip
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Here is a list of Manga similar to Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou

Grand Blue Dreaming

Grand Blue

Also known as Grand Blue Dreaming.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life , Sports

After moving out on his own to a seaside town, Iori Kitahara makes a college debut he never anticipated. A new chapter of his life unfolds, full of diving with beautiful girls and shenanigans with a gaggle of lovable bastards! Idiot-expert Kenji Inoue and au naturel authority Kimitake Yoshioka bring you a glorious college tale filled with booze-fueled antics!



Tags: Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , College , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Coastal , Bar , Scuba Diving , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Kuudere , Meta , Tsundere , Female Harem , Bisexual , Gore , Yandere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gyaru
Maison Ikkoku

Maison Ikkoku

Also known as Maison Ikkoku.

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

Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku, the exam-addled college student; Mrs. Ichinose, the drunken gossip; Kentaro, her bratty son; Akemi, the boozy bar hostess; and the mooching and peeping Mr. Yotsuya. Funny, touching, and a tad off-kilter, Maison Ikkoku is the great Rumiko Takahashi at her very best.



Tags: Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Episodic , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Cohabitation , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Nudity , Found Family , Tsundere
Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo

Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo

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

After being kicked out of the main dorms for bringing in a stray cat, Kanda Sorata is forced to live in the smaller Sakura Halls where problem students are sent to live. Although he doesn’t mind his roommates, Sorata can’t wait to move out of Sakura Halls. But when Shiina Mashiro moves into the dorm, everything changes. Mashiro is an artistic genius who, at a young age, won many awards for her skills, but due to her childhood being so focused on art, she has no common sense and social skills. Forced to take the role of taking care of Mashiro, Sorata learns about himself and begins on a path of self improvement.



Tags: School , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle , Seinen , Boarding School
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Honey and Clover

Hachimitsu to Clover

Also known as Honey and Clover.

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

Takemoto lives in a run down student apartment, where his greatest worry is when he'll next be able to afford to eat meat and whether he'll get to class on time. Although he's away from home and living on his own, Takemoto is far from finished growing up. Along with his crazy cast of friends, Morita, Mayama, Yamada, and Hagumi, Takemoto sets out to discover life and his true self.



Notes:
Won the the 27th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 2003.
Includes 11 extra chapters.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Josei , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Heterosexual , College , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Rehabilitation , Philosophy , Teacher , Drawing , Work , Cycling , School , Male Harem , Tragedy , Bar
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Komi Can't Communicate

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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.
Chapter count includes 37 extra chapters.

Tags: School , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Disability , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Slapstick , Shounen , Meta , Yandere , 4-koma , Gyaru , Agender , Chuunibyou , Surreal Comedy , Crossdressing
Flying Witch

Flying Witch

Also known as Flying Witch.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

Makoto Kowata, a novice witch, packs up her belongings (including her black cat familiar) and moves in with her distant cousins in rural Aomori Prefecture, in the far north reaches of Japan, to complete her training and become a full-fledged witch.



Tags: Iyashikei , Magic , Witch , Urban Fantasy , Rural , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Kemonomimi , Gods
I Want to End This Love Game

Aishiteru Game wo Owarasetai

Also known as I Want to End This Love Game.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The first step to winning the Love Game is saying “I love you.” So how do you lose? By admitting you’re in love!

Let the games begin! Since childhood, Yukiya Asagi and Miku Sakura have played the Love Game, where they try to fluster each other with a simple “I love you.” But after falling in love for real and refusing to admit it, neither of them can afford to lose this battle!

After leaving behind his image as a quiet nerd, Yukiya’s ready to break hearts and take names with the ultimate high school glow-up. Well, he’s really just got one girl in his sights - his best friend, Miku! Using her favorite shojo manga as his weapon, he’s ready to pin her to the wall and gaze at her with a perfect smolder. Will his moves get her heart racing?



Tags: Heterosexual , Tsundere , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Iyashikei , Video Games , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , School , Coming of Age
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. Monologue

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. Monologue

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Hikigaya Hachiman is a high school boy with twisted character. He prefers to go against the trend and refuses to make friends with anybody. In order to get Hachiman back the right track, his school teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka forces him to enter 'Public Service Club'. There he meets other problematic students.

Tags: School , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle
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Slow Motion wo Mou Ichido

Slow Motion wo Mou Ichido

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

Though no one in school aware of it, Ootaki-kun, a first year high school student, is a big fan of 80's songs and idols. One day, he found out that his classmate that sits next to him, Yakushimaru-chan, has the same interests as him...

Note: Includes a prologue.

Tags: Idol , Otaku Culture , Seinen , Hikikomori , School , Educational , Love Triangle
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Kaguya-sama: Love is War

Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensaitachi no Renai Zunousen

Also known as Kaguya-sama: Love is War.

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

As leaders of their prestigious academy’s student council, Kaguya and Miyuki are the elite of the elite! But it’s lonely at the top… Luckily for them, they’ve fallen in love! There’s just one problem—they both have too much pride to admit it. And so begins the daily scheming to get the object of their affection to confess their romantic feelings first… Love is a war you win by losing.



Notes:
The first 10 chapters were published in Monthly Miracle Jump. It switched to Weekly Young Jump starting with Ch. 11, with the chapter count being reset. This entry still includes the first 10 chapters from Miracle Jump.
Winner of the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for "Best General Manga" category in 2019.

Tags: School , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Ojou-sama , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Slapstick , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Parody , Meta , Love Triangle , Episodic , Politics , Conspiracy , Philosophy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bullying , VTuber , Foreign , Crossdressing

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