Manga like Arakure

Kaichou wa Maid-sama!

Also known as Maid-sama!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The class president has a little secret she's keeping from everyone in her high school... As President of the Student Council, the overachieving feminist Misaki really socks it to the guys in an attempt to make the former all-boys' school attract a more female student body. But what will she do when the most awesome boy in class finds out Misaki's part-time job is in a maid café?! It's love at first fight in this shojo romantic comedy—with a whole new look at the battle between the genres!



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Toumei na Sekai (A Transparent World)
Volume 4: Tsuide ni 3 Baka mo Maid-sama! (And While We're at It, the Idiot Trio as Maids!)
Volume 4: Soshite Momotaro mo Maid-sama (Peach Boy Is a Maid Too!)
Volume 6: Aoi Haru (Blue Spring)
Volume 6: Fukukaichou wa Ouji-sama!? (The Vice-President Is a Prince?!)
Volume 7: Aoi to to Yukai na Nakama-tachi (Aoi with Fun Friends)
Volume 8: Baka to Furyou to Hero to (An Idiot, a Delinquent and a Hero)
Volume 8: Toaru Asa no Seitokaishitsu (A Particular Morning in the Student Council Office)
Volume 11: Kaichou wa Shisuji-sama! (The President Is a Butler!)
Volume 11: Konnichiwa Imouto desu (Hello, I'm the Little Sister)
Volume 12: Sentimental Ikkun (Sentimental Ikkun)
Volume 13: Maid Latte Hikaeshitsu (Maid Latte Back Room)
Volume 15: Baka to Furyou to Madonna to (An Idiot, a Delinquent and a Madonna)
Volume 17: Comics Kakioroshi Short Story (Exclusive Short Comic)


Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Tsundere , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Maids , Tomboy , Work , Crossdressing , Butler , Male Harem , Love Triangle , Bar , Restaurant

Raise wa Tanin ga Ii

Also known as Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Yoshino grew up as the yakuza princess of the Osaka Somei crime family. Everyone left her alone due to her sharp gaze and mobster ties. But when her grandfather signs a truce with the Tokyo-based Miyama crime family, she’s offered for betrothal to the Miyama leader’s grandson, Kirishima. At first, Kirishima seems amiable and polite–but when he shows his dark side, he proves to be more disturbing than any gangster Yoshino has ever met. This engagement is sure to be a wild ride for a tough yakuza princess and her twisted yakuza prince!



Note:
Winner of the 4th Next Manga Award in the Print Manga Category in 2018.
Nominated for the 46th Kodansha Manga Award in the General Category in 2022.

Tags: Yakuza , Crime , Urban , Mafia , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Gore , Heterosexual , Yandere , Arranged Marriage , Ojou-sama , Criminal Organization , Male Protagonist , Feet , School

Ojou to Banken-kun

Also known as A Girl & Her Guard Dog.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Isaku never asked to be the daughter of a yakuza boss, but when her parents died in a car accident when she was 5, her gangster grandfather took her in and raised her as part of the clan. After years of being avoided by her schoolmates because of her family ties, Isaku is finally ready to make her high-school debut, live a normal life, and maybe even find love...until loyal family servant and Isaku's dedicated guardian, 26-year-old Keiya, enters high school right alongside her and vows to protect her from all of the above! Now she's got a chain-smoking, pistol-wielding knight-in-shining(?)-armor to deal with, and navigating high school besides? What's a young lady to do?!



Tags: Yakuza , Shoujo , Age Gap , Gangs , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Adult Cast , Guns , Volleyball , Assassins , Urban , Criminal Organization

Gokutsuma Days: Gokudou Sankyoudai ni Semaretemasu

Also known as Boss Bride Days.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Self-proclaimed otaku and shut-in Sakura Kisaragi would prefer to spend her days alone in her room, playing her favorite yakuza-themed dating simulator. But when she saves the life of an old man who turns out to be the head of the Amou-gumi crime family, she inadvertently earns a spot in the yakuza's succession plans-moved by her courage, the old man declares that whoever among his three ambitious grandsons can win her hand in marriage will be the next boss. Now kind but ailing Shusuke, brash hothead Reo, and cool and calculating Ryusei are all vying to make her their boss wife-but will she be anything more to them than a means to an end? Meanwhile, not everyone in the Amou-gumi organization is happy to have her there...

A high-stakes romcom from the author of A Springtime with Ninjas.



Tags: Shoujo , Heterosexual , Crossdressing , Yakuza , Male Harem , Female Protagonist , Criminal Organization , Crime , Otaku Culture , Delinquents , Orphan , Tsundere

Ouran Koukou Host Club

Also known as Ouran High School Host Club.

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

One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the "Host Club," a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it's there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else.



Note: Includes 14 extra chapters.

Tags: Male Harem , Shoujo , School Club , School , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Gender Bending , Slapstick , Mixed Gender Harem , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Tomboy , Primarily Teen Cast , Twins , LGBTQ+ Themes , Meta , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Parody , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Agender , Cosplay , Tsundere , Chibi , Bisexual , Gyaru , Incest

Vampire Knight

Also known as Vampire Knight.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students, the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the academy’s dark secret—the Night Class is full of vampires!



Note: The chapter count includes 15 extra chapters.

Tags: Vampire , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Tragedy , Tsundere , Twins , Kuudere , Urban Fantasy , Incest , School , Male Harem , Adoption , Amnesia , Memory Manipulation , Ojou-sama , Gore , Boarding School , Time Skip , Conspiracy , Suicide

Uchi no Futeki na Gangster

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Romance

Tags: Shoujo , Yakuza , Heterosexual

Dekiai Yakuza ni wa Amayakasarenai

Also known as I Won't Fall For the Infatuated Yakuza's Affections!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Riko, the granddaughter of a family of Japanese yakuza, has a one-sided crush on Iori, the overprotective caretaker of the family. Iori has always spoiled, Riko; Iori's main focus has always been Riko and she's at the center of everything he does. When Riko finds out that Iori has a girlfriend, Riko decides to "leave Iori" in order to give up on her unrequited love! Riko tries her best to gradually increase the things she can do on her own, but Iori is still not satisfied?!



Tags: Family Life , Ojou-sama , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Yakuza , Shoujo , Work , Mafia , Martial Arts , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Yandere , School , Heterosexual , Primarily Female Cast

Kyuukyoku Venus

Also known as Ultimate Venus.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Yuzu was afraid she'd be completely on her own after her mother died… but when she finds out she's not, she doesn't know whether to be relieved or annoyed! A sudden meeting with her long-lost grandmother reveals her status as heiress to a wealthy estate, but Yuzu isn't at all sure she wants anything to do with it.

Naughty Honey (Vol 3)
"The boyfriend I made in college cheated on me." When she caught her boyfriend sleeping with another woman, Kayako Ueno broke his front teeth... and it will cost her a hundred-thousand yen to repair them. So she takes a part-time job as a home tutor-- for playboy Haru-kun.

Tags: Shoujo