Manga like The Tale of Genji: Dreams At Dawn

What is The Tale of Genji: Dreams At Dawn about?

Status: Finished

Prince Genji falls in love with his stepmother, and so begins a forbidden love that will make him suffer his whole life. Genji’s love story involves him falling for many women and begins with his love for Princess Fujitsubo—his father’s wife, and his stepmother. And Genji will cross that line which he should never cross.

Tags: Historical , Philosophy , Classic Literature , Shoujo , Male Protagonist

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INKR

Pocket Magazine

Oooku

Also known as Ōoku: The Inner Chambers.

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

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the shogun's Inner Chamber...

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Won an Excellence Prize at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival
Won a special prize at The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy's fifth annual Sense of Gender Awards in 2005.
Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural the Grand Prize in 2009 and the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award in Girls' Category in 2011.
Nominated for the first annual Manga Taishou in 2008.

Tags: Matriarchy , Tragedy , Historical , Pandemic , Heterosexual , Politics , Shoujo , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Harem , Suicide , Royal Affairs , Samurai , LGBTQ+ Themes , Incest , Bisexual , Espionage , Religion , Military , Swordplay , Boys' Love

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VIZ

Manga Park

Naver Series

Comico

KakaoPage

Piccoma

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Itihasa

Also known as Itihasa.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Ancient Japan, 12,000 years ago. At that time, people were still close to gods. One day, Takano, a village boy who believed in invisible gods, picked up an abandoned child. He named the child Tojiko and raised her as his little sister. Seven years later, Takano and his family's village is attacked by an invisible and evil god, Ijin. Takano, Tojiko, and Aohiko, who is like an elder brother to Takano and his friends, are saved by the followers of the visible god, Yagami, and the three of them join forces to confront Ijin. A science fiction epic depicting the battle between gods, deities, and their followers.

Tags: Gods , Mythology , Philosophy , Shoujo , War , Lost Civilization , Ensemble Cast , Magic , Historical

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Sukima

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Torikae Baya

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

A masculine princess and a feminine young prince. So, why don't we switch sides? A trans-sexual story leaping lightly across the gap between men and women.

Tags: Twins , Josei , Gender Bending , Crossdressing , Classic Literature , Historical

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