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Hirunaka no Ryuusei

Also known as Daytime Shooting Star.

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

After arriving in Tokyo to live with her uncle, Suzume collapses in a nearby park where she had once seen a shooting star during the day. A handsome stranger brings her to her new home and tells her they’ll meet again. Suzume starts her first day at her new high school sitting next to a boy who blushes furiously at her touch. And her homeroom teacher is none other than the handsome stranger!



Notes:
Includes 3 extra chapters.
Includes the one-shot "Tsuyu Kaoru (ツユカオル, A Love Story in Moist Rainy Days)"
Includes the one-shot "Heroine no Ryuusei (ヒロインの流星)"
Includes the one-shot "More than Words (モア ザン ワーズ)"
Includes the one-shot "Cookie Girl Cream Boy (クッキーガール クリームボーイ)"
Includes the one-shot "Hibi Ryuusei: Suzume no Parallel Koukou Nikki (日々流星－すずめのパラレル高校日記－, Suzume's Parallel School Diary)"

Tags: Shoujo , Love Triangle , School , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Teacher , Tsundere , Urban , Primarily Teen Cast

Living no Matsunaga-san

Also known as Living-Room Matsunaga-san.

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

After her parents leave to care for her ailing grandmother, high schooler Miko “Meeko” Sonoda moves into her uncle’s boarding house. There, she meets its rather unusual residents, including the oldest of the bunch: the grumpy mother hen, Matsunaga-san. With the help of her housemates, Meeko begins to adjust to her new life away from her parents, but she soon learns that no matter how far away from home she is, she’s still a young girl at heart—especially when she finds herself falling for Matsunaga-san…



Tags: Shoujo , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Love Triangle , Ensemble Cast , Urban

Taiyou no Ie

Also known as House of the Sun.

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

As a child, Mao spent all her time at Hiro’s house across the street. Going to his house always made her feel cheerful. A few years later, Mao’s father gets remarried and Mao finds herself with nowhere to call home. Hiro ends up letting her stay with him in the house he’s been occupying alone since the death of his parents. A love story unfolds, between two childhood friends of different ages.



Note: Includes twenty extra chapters.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Family Life , Love Triangle , Coming of Age , Shoujo , Age Gap , Tsundere , Tragedy , Heterosexual , School , Adoption , Primarily Teen Cast , Orphan , Estranged Family

Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki

Also known as In the Clear Moonlit Dusk.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Yoi Takiguchi has long legs, a deep voice, and a handsome face…in other words, Yoi is such a good-looking guy that most people don’t notice or care that she is, in fact, a girl. Indeed, she’s had the nickname “Prince” as long as she can remember. That is, until she met Ichimura-senpai…the only person who’s really seemed to see her for herself. To her surprise, she’s not sure how to handle this new relationship, especially when her newfound friend is a prince himself (and a guy prince, at that).



Note: Nominated for the 46th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shoujo Category in 2022.

Tags: Tomboy , Shoujo , School , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle

Goma Shio to Purin

Also known as Black Sesame Salt and Custard Pudding.

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

One morning, HARUHI wakes up to find that she's married to an old man she doesn't know!? Haruhi works as a heavy machinery operator at a construction site full of men.One night, Haruhi meets a middle-aged man with grey hair at a pub, and submits a marriage certificate under the influence of alcohol. She had taken him straight into her room! Don't judge a man by the colour of the hair. Love comedy by a silver fox and a girl physical worker.



Note: Chapter count contains 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Age Gap , Josei , Heterosexual , Marriage , Primarily Adult Cast , DILF , Female Protagonist , Calligraphy , Love Triangle , Work , Food

Koi to Yobu ni wa Kimochi Warui

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

Once you fall for someone, you can't stop the love. A strange encounter spurs the meeting of Amakusa Ryou, a high spec businessman who's loose with women, and his high school sister's best friend, Arima Ichika. From there, he falls madly in love. On the one hand, he approaches her with almost too straight-forward methods, while she responds simply disgusted, insulting him without hesitation...and he takes it as her way of showing love. This is a romantic comedy about a twisted elite employee and a normal otaku high school girl.

Note: Chapter count includes 7 extras.

Tags: Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Josei , Love Triangle , Heterosexual

Ao Haru Ride

Also known as Ao Haru Ride.

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

Futaba Yoshioka thought all boys were loud and obnoxious until she met Kou Tanaka in junior high. But as soon as she realized she really liked him, he had already moved away because of family issues. Now, in high school, Kou has reappeared, but is he still the same boy she fell in love with?



Includes two side stories and two oneshots.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Tomboy , Unrequited Love , Coming of Age , Tsundere , Kuudere , Tragedy , Time Skip , Age Gap

My Fair Neighbor

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

Sakura Yuki and his neighbor, Momo were separated during Yuki's third year of high school because of a certain incident. Yuki thought that they weren't really friends considering that there was a 12-year age gap between him and young Momo. But 10 years later, Momo, now a high school student, becomes Yuki's neighbor once again. Momo is eager to be friends again but Yuki feels differently as he remembers things he buried in his heart long ago. Momo and Yuki battle their past and and present and slowly become closer than ever.

Tags: Age Gap , Shoujo , Time Skip , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Delinquents , Suicide

Lip Smoke

Also known as Lip Smoke.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

High-school student Setsuna Iwato works part-time for a publishing agency. When her employer is having trouble with an erotic fiction novelist, she becomes his assistant to help him rediscover the feeling of a "Pure Kiss".

Tags: Teacher , Shoujo , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual

Hiiragi-senpai to Ofutari-sama

Also known as Home Sweet Home.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Tired of having to change schools because of her dad’s job, Moemi, a first-year high school student, is allowed to stay behind at her parents’ home on the condition that she lives with the daughter of her dad’s boss. This girl, however, ends up being…a boy! And not just any boy, but one of the most handsome and popular boys at school! Moemi’s formerly humdrum life becomes anything but as she traverses the excitement of living with a hot upperclassman!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Shoujo , School , Primarily Teen Cast