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Kimi wa Nazotoki no Ma Cherie

Also known as My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Mystery , Romance

Hoshino Mitsuko is a determined and hard-working woman living in the 1930s, where career women are a rarity and looked down upon. Despite rampant sexism and pressure to “stay home,” she’s determined to prove herself as a successful detective no matter what. One day, she’s approached by the handsome waiter Yoshida Saku, who presents Mitsuko with her very first solo case. Together, the two work closely to solve the mystery, and Mitsuko finds Saku quite capable—but very curious—and takes him on as her new assistant. Can this duo tackle cases and the turbulent atmosphere of the Showa era?



Tags: Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Detective , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Episodic , Work , Police , Yuri , Transgender

Taishou Otome Otogibanashi

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

In this story set in the early 1920s, Tamahiko is the son of a wealthy family, but his life is changed forever when an accident cripples his right arm. No longer considered by his father as an heir, he is shuffled off into the country, to live out of sight. The teenage Tamahiko shuts himself in his new home, bitterly thinking of it as the place where he will die. One day, he learns that his father has 'bought' him a bride to take care of him, when the young teen girl named Yuzuki arrives at his door. She comes into his life like an innocent ray of sunshine, and Tamahiko's view of the world and his life starts changing bit-by-bit.

Note: Includes 4 extra chapters.

Tags: Historical , Family Life , Coming of Age , Disability , Marriage , Arranged Marriage , Heterosexual , Rural , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Tragedy , Netorare , Ojou-sama , Hikikomori , Age Gap , Adoption , Nudity ,

Mystery to Iunakare

Also known as Don't Call it Mystery.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Totonou is a young man who stands out—partly for his bushy hair, partly for his finely honed abilities of observation and deduction. When Totonou is accused of murder, he puts his skills to work delving into the lives of the cops investigating him and uses his insights to find the real murderer. After clearing his name, all Totonou wants to do is return to his laidback, mundane life, but he can’t help but be drawn into one mystery after another. In his own blunt but gentle way, Totonou is just trying to make sense of a chaotic world.



Tags: Crime , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Detective , Josei , Philosophy , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , College

Meitantei Conan

Also known as Case Closed.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Mystery , Romance

Precocious high school student Jimmy Kudo uses his keen powers of observation and astute intuition to solve mysteries that have left law enforcement officials baffled. Hot on the trail of a suspect, Jimmy is accosted from behind and fed a strange chemical which physically transforms him into a grade schooler! Taking on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa, he attempts to track down the people who did this to him. But until he finds a cure for his bizarre condition, Jimmy continues to help the police solve their toughest cases. Can you crack the case before Conan does?



Note: Won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category in 2001.

Tags: Detective , Crime , Age Regression , Police , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Shounen , Episodic , Heterosexual , Educational , Ensemble Cast , School , Guns , School Club , Magic , Mahjong

Kimi ga Uso wo Tsuita

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Supernatural

Saki has always hated liars, ever since her father left her family when she was young. Now a student in high school, Saki nearly dies in a car crash, and wakes up to find that she has a new ability...the ability to see when people are lying. Saki comes to realize that there are liars all around her...



Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist

Kotoura-san

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

A school love comedy. Kotoura Haruka is a 15-year-old girl who can read people's minds. She has been suffering from troubles caused by her mind-reading ability, and her parents got divorced as a result. She moves to a new high school but tries to keep away from her classmates. Manabe Yoshihisa, one of her classmates, accepts and appreciates her ability and she begins to interact with her friends with his help.

Tags: Seinen , School , Bullying , School Club , 4-koma , Super Power

Couturiere to Akai Ito

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

In 1830, a 14-year-old girl named Lottie begins working with Ollivier, Paris' greatest young tailor. Ollivier, while handsome, is a chronic womanizer with a sadistic streak. Despite the troubles that Ollivier causes for her, Lottie tries her best to solve various clients' problems through her skills at sewing. What will happen? Will Lottie survive in the industry under Ollivier?



Tags: Tsundere , Age Gap , Fashion , Foreign , Historical , Shoujo

Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon

Also known as My Happy Marriage.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

A "Cinderella"-inspired slow-burn historical romance with a paranormal twist set in Meiji-era Japan!
A browbeaten and mistreated daughter is cast out of her family home and sent to audition as a bridal candidate for the heir to one of the most powerful families in the land… Considered nigh worthless for having failed to inherit the superhuman powers of the bloodlines into which she was born, Miyo Saimori lives her days unwanted and unloved. She is treated as a servant by her half-sister who, unlike Miyo, is blessed with unusual powers, while her step-mother and very own father have little time or love for their eldest daughter. Ultimately seen as nothing more than a nuisance and a drain on the family wealth, Miyo is packed off to the Kudo house as a bridal candidate for its heir, Kyoka Kudo. But whispers abound about the Kudo clan, the most powerful in all the land. Still, will the allegedly cold and cruel house into which Miyo aims to marry prove much warmer than the family she left behind?

Eighth place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category

Tags: Historical , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Marriage , Heterosexual , Super Power , Rehabilitation , Royal Affairs , Arranged Marriage

Meitantei Kouko wa Yuutsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Slice of Life

During the Showa era, there was a law in Japan that granted a detective diploma only to those who solved three difficult cases. Kouko, an aspiring detective, receives a request to find out who's threatening to murder Inukami-kun, the son of a prestigious family, who is staying at Shunjukan, a boarding house in Tokyo.

Kouko infiltrates Shunjukan as a cook who takes care of the lodgers, and starts to investigate. However, she's not good at cooking, or reasoning, so she's very busy! What's more, the four lodgers who live there are all crazy...?!



Note: Chapter count includes a prologue and one extra.

Tags: Shoujo , Historical , Female Protagonist , Detective

Genkaku Picasso

Also known as Genkaku Picasso.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Psychological

Hikari Hamura, nicknamed Picasso because of his natural artistic abilities, survived a horrible accident, but his friend Chiaki wasn't so lucky. Suddenly, Chiaki appears in front of him and tells him in order to keep living he must help the people around him. Can Hikari save people with his sketchbook and a 2B pencil?



Tags: Shounen , Drawing , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Tragedy , Episodic , LGBTQ+ Themes , Transgender