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Ai no Seikatsu

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

After his live-in girlfriend breaks up with him, Santa Hayashiya runs away from his apartment at night because he can no longer afford the rent. A classmate, Junko Sakurada, invites him to move in with her and her brother, but the relationship between the Sakurada siblings seems... strange.
A story of yearning, a story of people that want to love and be loved.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Urban , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Incest , Ensemble Cast , Nudity , Aromantic , College , Drawing

Gokinjo Monogatari

Also known as Neighborhood Story.

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

Welcome to Happy Berry! No, this isn’t a fruit stand, but the label dreamed up by aspiring fashion designer Mikako Koda. In her quest to make a name for herself in the fashion world, Mikako enters Yazawa Arts Academy, a prestigious art school, alongside her strictly platonic childhood friend Tsutomu. But there's one problem—Tsutomu's uncanny resemblance to a rock star skyrockets him to popularity and leads him to date the prettiest girl in school. Now Mikako can’t help but wonder if what she feels is jealousy.

Tags: Shoujo , Fashion , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Meta , Urban , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , School , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast

pink

Also known as Pink.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

Pink is a manga about a Japanese girl named Yumi, a beautiful girl in her early 20s. During the day, Yumi works as a regular office lady, but by night, she works as a prostitute. Yumi needs her two jobs to make ends meet. She also needs the extra income to feed her unusual pet, a crocodile, which she keeps in her apartment. Working in an office is quite normal for young Japanese women, but keeping a pet crocodile, and being a prostitute makes Yumi stand out. In truth, few girls are like Yumi, however, many readers can empathize with her. Young women love their "something," symbolized by her pet crocodile, and they can also identify with Yumi's "wild at heart" nature.

Tags: Josei , Prostitution , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Animals , Office Lady , Work

Paradise Kiss

Also known as Paradise Kiss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Yukari wants nothing more than to make her parents happy by studying hard and getting into a good college. One afternoon, however, she is kidnapped by a group of self-styled fashionistas calling themselves "Paradise Kiss." Yukari suddenly finds herself flung into the roller-coaster life of the fashion world, guided by George, art-snob extraordinaire. In a glamorous makeover of body, mind and soul, she is turned from a hapless bookworm into her friends 22 own exclusive clothing model.



Tags: Josei , Fashion , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , School , Heterosexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Meta , Bisexual , Love Triangle , Transgender , Ensemble Cast , Time Skip , Nudity

Hot Road

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Kazuki always felt a barrier between her and her mother, because her father, who died when she was still a child, was someone her mother hated. She wasn't a child born out of love. One day, Kazuki is persuaded by a friend to meet Hiroko-san, the girlfriend of the head of the motorcycle gang "NIGHTS". And there, she meets Haruyama...

Tags: Shoujo , Delinquents , Gangs , Motorcycles , Tragedy , Heterosexual , School

River's Edge

Also known as River's Edge.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Haruna Wakakusa and Yamada become friends after she saves him several times from her boyfriend's constant bullying. Through him she gets to know Kozue Yoshikawa, a fellow student who also models professionally. The three emotionally stunted teens' lives briefly yet intensely intertwine for one semester before splintering from the aftereffects of one disastrous night. For both Wakakusa and Yamada, their emotional awakening fosters an unlikely friendship between the two battered souls.

Tags: Coming of Age , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Josei , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Bisexual , Nudity , Drugs , Gore , Heterosexual , Yuri

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 , Age Gap , Drawing , Male Harem , Gender Bending , Animals , Coming of Age

Water.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Flower
Color Color
Ikasu Onna (イカス女)
Drip Words
Polyethylene yori Ai wo Komete (ポリエチレンより愛を込めて)
Yoru to Haru to Love (ヨルとハルとラヴ)
Déjà vu (デジャヴー)
Flame
Aru Hitotsu no Mado no Naka ni (あるヒトツの窓の中に)
Aoiro ga Nokoshita Mono e (青色が遺したものへ)
Kuchizuke (くちづけ)
Kusare Onna (クサレ女)
Paint in Watercolor (ペイント イン ウォーターカラー)
Sugar
Boku no Naka ni Saku Marude Ga no Youna Hana (僕の中に咲くまるで蛾のような花)
Flower
Itaitashii Love II (痛々しいラヴ II)
Liquitex (リキテックス)
Water

Tags: Josei , Anthology , Yuri , Tragedy , Nudity

Aoi Haru

Also known as Blue Spring.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

This dark and intense drama is set in a boy's high school where Kujo becomes the official leader of a gang. Kujo must constantly defend his position by playing a dangerous rooftop game with the other boys vying for his position. This manga has also been made into a film which has shown in various festivals throughout the world.



Tags: Delinquents , Coming of Age , School , Gangs , Seinen , Yakuza , Guns , Anthology , Mahjong

Nappeun Chingu

Also known as Bad Friends .

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Jin-Ju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse abound as the characters enact violence within their power structures: parents beat children, teachers beat students, older students beat younger students. But at each moment the duress verges on bleakness, Ancco pulls back with soft moments of friendship between Jin-Ju and her best friend, Jeong-Ae. What unfolds is a story of female friendship, a Ferrante-esque connection formed through youthful excess, malaise, and struggle that stays with the young women into adulthood.

Served by a dry and precise line, Bad Friends viscerally captures the adolescent years of two young women who want and know they deserve something different, but, ultimately, are unable to follow through. In a culture where young women are at a systemic disadvantage, Ancco creates a testimonial to female friendship as a powerful tool for survival. Jin-Ju forgets her worst adolescent memories, but she cannot ever shake the memory of her friendship with Jeong-Ae during her most tumultuous years.



Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Achronological Order