Manga like Ohayou, Ibarahime

Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai

Also known as A Condition Called Love.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Hotaru is a 16-year-old high school first-year who has always been ambivalent about love, preferring instead to have a lively life with her family and friends. So when she sees her schoolmate, Hananoi-kun, sitting in the snow after a messy, public breakup, she thinks nothing of offering to share her umbrella. But when he asks her out in the middle of her classroom the next day, she can’t help but feel that her life is about to change in a big way...



Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Yandere , School , Rehabilitation , Love Triangle , Bullying , Basketball , Primarily Teen Cast

Mata, Onaji Yume wo Miteita

Also known as I Had That Same Dream Again.

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

An unhappy girl who engages in self-harm, a woman ostracized by society, and an old woman looking to live out her twilight years in peace–what could three such different people have in common? That’s what grade schooler Nanoka Koyanagi is trying to find out. Assigned by her teacher to define what “happiness” means to her, Nanoka tries to find her place in the world by exploring her relationships with these three strangers, and through them, comes to know herself.



Tags: Educational , Female Protagonist , Philosophy , Bullying , Time Manipulation , School , Seinen , Drawing , Tragedy , Suicide , Time Skip

Yamase wa doko e Itta?

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Yamase, the mischievous joker of the class, suddenly confessed love to Kidou Aina in front of everyone. When she refused, Yamase reeled in shock and fell down the stairs! When Aina visited him in the hospital out of sympathy, what does she see there…?



Tags: Shoujo , School , Dissociative Identities , Heterosexual , Tsundere

Senken Shounen Syndrome: Sora Tanhenshuu

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Mizuki Sora's first compilation of one-shots. Includes 5 short stories:

1. Chinmoku Girl no Little Cry (Silent Girl's Little Cry) Kohane is a high school student who has bad pronunciation since she was young. She refuses to talk since she's been teased by others because of her accent, and chooses not to, rather than being laughed at. One day, when Kohane was going to the teacher's lounge, she meets a senpai who had wounds from a fight and gives him bandages since there was no nurse in the office. Igarashi (the senpai) confesses to Kohane and helps out for her English pronunciation contest. The story is about Kohane accepting herself and finding someone who accepts herself with her awkward accent.

2. Senken Shounen Syndrome (Apprehensive Boy Syndrome)

3. Yankee Shoujo to Hinekure Danshi (Delinquent Girl and Contrary Boy)

4. Miren Boy Miren Girl (Lingering Boy, Lingering Girl)

5. Tsuiraku JK to Haijin Kyoushi Bangaihen

Tags: Shoujo , Anthology , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , School

Koe no Katachi

Also known as A Silent Voice.

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

Based on a one-shot that won the 80th Weekly Shounen Magazine Newbie Best Mangaka Award.

Shouya is a bully. When Shouko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shouya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shouko is forced to leave the school, and Shouya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shouya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?



Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Rehabilitation , Language Barrier , Bullying , Coming of Age , Disability , Time Skip , Denpa , School , Heterosexual , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Kuudere , Shounen , Tomboy , Tragedy , Filmmaking

Fruits Basket

Also known as Fruits Basket.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out...into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own--when touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac!



Note: Volume 9 includes the bonus chapter "Rain Shelter of Terror".

Tags: Animals , Shoujo , Mythology , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Philosophy , Shapeshifting , Reincarnation , Rehabilitation , Heterosexual , School , Female Protagonist , Found Family , Urban Fantasy , Family Life , Tsundere , Primarily Teen Cast , Age Gap , Coming of Age , Disability , Unrequited Love , Estranged Family , Youkai , Curses , Primarily Male Cast , Love Triangle , Orphan , Crossdressing , Memory Manipulation , Incest , Henshin , Delinquents , Revenge , Dissociative Identities , Teacher , Transgender

Natsume Yuujinchou

Also known as Natsume's Book of Friends.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

When Reiko was Takashi's age, she bound the names of demons and spirits in her Book of Friends, enslaving them to her capricious whim. Now Takashi is the owner of the book, and the creatures will do anything to get their names back.



Tags: Youkai , Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , Rural , Shoujo , Episodic , Adoption , Outdoor , Estranged Family , Primarily Teen Cast , Found Family , Primarily Male Cast , School , Rehabilitation , Exorcism , Shapeshifting , Orphan , Gender Bending

Isshuukan Friends.

Also known as One Week Friends.

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

Yuuki Hase desperately wants to be friends with Kaori Fujimiya, the girl in class who seems to always be alone. Just when he thinks they've hit it off, she tells him her secret: Every week, her memories reset. Yuuki resolves to befriend her as many times as it takes, but is he prepared for how much it will hurt to be one-week friends...?



Note: Includes the prologue and 2 extra chapters.

Tags: School , Amnesia , 4-koma , Shounen

Watashi no Tadashii Onii-chan

Also known as Searching for My Perfect Brother.

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

Rize, who’s a university student, met Kairi at her part-time job at the supermarket. While lending her shoulder to Kairi who has trouble sleeping, she is reminded of her older brother who left her when she was young, and Rize starts to feel affection towards him. However, she was shocked when she saw Kairi’s diary in his apartment saying that he had killed someone. What is the truth behind the person she likes? As the truth slowly comes to light, Rize starts chasing after her love for Kairi! This is Morie Satoshi’s roller coaster work that has crime, mystery and love!!

Tags: Josei , Crime , Tragedy , Detective , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Police , Delinquents , Suicide , College , Work , Urban , Fugitive

Sakura wa Watashi wo Sukisugiru

Also known as Sakura's Dedication.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Sawa just got out of a relationship with her cheating boyfriend, and is on the lookout for an honest guy. But when her classmate Sakura confesses, she rejects him, as he's not her type. But then he confesses again, and again, and again?! What's a girl to do in the face of such honest dedication?

Note: Chapter count includes an uncollected bonus chapter published in Betsufure 2023 Nov. issue.

Tags: School , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist