Manga like Tonari no Kurokawa-san

Tonari no Neko to Koi Shirazu

Also known as Learning to Love My Cat-like Classmate.

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

Minato Seno’s high school life had just begun when his homeroom teacher requested his help with Nekozane, the cat-like chronic napper who sits next to him in class. Timid and socially anxious, Minato has never talked to her or even seen her face. But when he finally musters up the courage to wake Nekozane, she unexpectedly hugs him on the spot! Thus begins a sweet tale of two teens awkwardly stumbling into a new friendship, unaware that their feelings are slowly turning into something more! Note: Originally self-published on Twitter, it was picked up for commercial publication with two volumes collecting the Twitter comics releasing on 2024-03-25 and 2024-04-25, with subsequent serialization in Big Gangan starting 2024-04-25.

Tags: Heterosexual , Animals , School , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen , Photography , Iyashikei

Komi-san wa, Komyushou desu.

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.
Includes 37 extra chapters.

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

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

Bandai Kaname wa Asobitai

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

Takara Taiyou is a studious high school student who joins the Cultural Research Society due to the fact that there are no active club members and he'd be able to concentrate on his studying. However, his arch enemy, the beautiful and academically gifted Bandai Kaname, also joins for the same reason. Together, they become interested in the old toys in this club room… Girl X Boy X nostalgic toys comedy !!



Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.

Tags: Seinen , School Club , School , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Female Harem , Love Triangle

Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu

Also known as The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan.

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

This spin-off of the bestselling Haruhi Suzumiya series takes place in the world of the "Disappearance" arc of the original novels, focusing on the high school life (and romance!) of a tentative and bashful Yuki Nagato quite unlike the one you've come to know and love through the usual exploits of the SOS Brigade...but no less charming!



Tags: School , Seinen , Female Protagonist

Momose Akira no Hatsukoi Hatan-chuu.

Also known as Akira Failing in Love.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Akira returns to the countryside for high school with a plan to win the heart of her childhood crush! They're both fools in love… because she's too dense to figure out he likes her back!



Tags: Shounen , Heterosexual , School , Kuudere , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Rural , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist

Kesa mo Yuraretemasu

Also known as They Are Still Being Shaken This Morning.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Every morning at 6:58, commuters hurry onto the train at Sakuranomiya Station. For the past few months, a tentative romance has been brewing between two students from different schools. The young man is easily flustered, always stealing a glance at the young woman, but never making a move—much to the disappointment of the other passengers, who have been cheering them on in secret. Will this budding love story ever blossom?



Tags: Trains , Heterosexual , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Cheerleading , Episodic , Parody

Osananananajimi

Also known as We're J-Just Childhood Friends.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Yuichi and Sumi were childhood friends who were always together. However, as they grew up, they drifted apart, but a chance encounter brings them back into each other’s lives…



Tags: Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Chibi , Seinen , Iyashikei , Coming of Age

Futari Bus

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Shunpei lives in a rural town of barely 3,000 people. Every day, he rides the same bus as his classmate An Takayagawa, the only one who went off to a private middle school. The two haven’t really talked since elementary school... until one day, something gives them a reason to.

A soft, sky-blue not-quite-love comedy, born on a bus for two.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Rural , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Heterosexual , Shounen

Kyou kara Hajimeru Osananajimi

Also known as Starting Today, We’re Childhood Friends.

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

“Will you be my childhood friend?”

Kaede always wished for a childhood friend like in the mangas she reads. When she moved next door to her classmate, Kouhei, he said he’d do anything to help her out. So, she asked him to be her childhood friend! The two of them have fun adventures recreating all of the things that childhood friends should do!



Tags: Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , School , Seinen , Primarily Child Cast