Manga like Yume no Hashibashi

My Broken Mariko

Also known as My Broken Mariko.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Tomoyo Shiino has stood by her friend Mariko through years of abuse, abandonment, and depression. However horrific her circumstances, their friendship has been the one reassuring constant in Mariko's life-and Tomoyo's too. That is, until Tomoyo is utterly blindsided by news of Mariko's death. In life, Tomoyo felt powerless to help her best friend out of the darkness that ultimately drove her over the edge. Now, Tomoyo is determined to liberate Mariko's ashes for one final journey together... to set free her dear, broken Mariko.



Notes:
Includes the one-shot "YISKA".
includes the extra "Home Sweet Home!".

Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Coastal , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Rehabilitation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Philosophy , Yuri , Denpa

Kakeochi Girl

Also known as Run Away With Me, Girl.

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

Maki's first love was her high school classmate, a girl named Midori. But Midori broke up with Maki at graduation, saying they were now "too old to be fooling around dating girls." Ten years later, Maki still can’t get Midori off her mind, and when the two women reconnect after a chance encounter, Maki realizes that, while her feelings haven’t changed, Midori has long moved on—in fact, she's engaged. Yet the more Maki hears Midori talk about her soon-to-be-husband, the more red flags she notices. And Midori has another secret, one she hasn’t yet shared with Maki. Will it be the last blow to Maki's hopes that their romance might be rekindled? Or will it be the push that sets them on a new path—one they'll travel together?



Note: Includes three extra chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Marriage , Primarily Adult Cast , Bisexual , Cheating , Time Skip , Pregnancy , Unrequited Love , Nudity

Haru Tsuzuru, Sakura Saku Kono Heya de

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

On her first day of university, Haruki had a fateful encounter with Sakura in the lecture hall. They were attracted to each other and lived together after graduation, but suddenly they had to part ways. Sakura had disappeared from this world. Five years have passed since then, and it is the fifth cherry blossom season. Haruki, who was still in a state of grief, happened to find a diary. It was the unfinished diary written by Sakura.

Tags: Yuri , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation , LGBTQ+ Themes , College , Time Skip , Ghost , Gyaru , Office Lady

Pietà

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

A story about two classmates who become friends, Sahoko and Rio. Rio is depressed and self-abusive and isn't loved by her "family" (which consists of her father, stepmother, and stepbrother), but Sahoko seems to be the bright spot in her life. Sahoko also seems to have a mysterious past and doesn't seem to have a good relationship with her parents; she lives with her aunt. It's also hinted at that Sahoko and Rio have met once before, when they were much younger...



Note: includes 1 extra chapter

Tags: Yuri , Suicide , Josei , Rehabilitation , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Female Cast , Family Life , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Estranged Family , Tomboy

Moonlight flowers: Gekka Bijin

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

A classic yuri manga about a woman who leaves her husband for an old friend from school. There are two stories in this manga--one (Moonlight Flowers) is the main story, and the other (Midnight Flowers) is about the love interest's past.



Tags: Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Josei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Nudity , Crime , Unrequited Love , Marriage

Haruka Tooki Ie

Also known as A Home Far Away.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In the winter of 1990, a young man named Alain finds himself lost and searching for direction. He currently cannot find it at home nor through the church. But when he meets Hayden, a free-spirited cook, he at least finds someone he can relate with. He may not know where his life is going but at least he has someone to lean on. But Alain's new life, filled with new feelings and many new challenging experiences, may force him to find his path on the road...



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Travel , Boys' Love , Tragedy , Fugitive , Religion , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Crime , Foreign , Prostitution , Nudity

Hana Monogatari

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

The manga centers on Hanayo, an elderly woman whose husband of many years has only recently died. After finishing a Buddhist service for her husband, she finds herself walking out in town alone for the first time in a long time. She stumbles onto a cosmetics store, and meets a beautiful woman named Yoshiko Doujima, and falls in love at first sight. Hanayo had long given up on makeup after her husband nagged her about it, but putting some on with Yoshiko's help brightens her heart.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Elderly Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Bisexual , Makeup , Classic Literature , Fashion , Seinen , Iyashikei , Work , College

Senjou no Hito

Also known as On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

After Japan lost the War, the country was thrown into devastation. And no one felt this devastation as much as its women, who were forced into menial jobs, fell into sex work, and pawned off as war brides to American G.I.s. In their affecting graphic novel debut, Marina Lisa Komiya follows the lives of two Japanese women and the American soldiers they marry in this tumultuous time period.

Best friends (and possibly more) before the War, Haru and Yoriko are separated in the evacuation of their town during the air raids. As they search for each other afterward, Haru gets by as a waitress, while Yoriko sells her body at a brothel. Their fortunes change when they each meet respectful American soldiers, who take their hand. Arthur, a Japanese American, grapples with the inner conflict of his dual identity, while Scott is at once fascinated by Japanese culture and wracked with guilt over the destruction American forces have wrought.

Amidst the postwar desolation, love finds a way, in this powerful work of manga that explores sexuality, identity, and unlikely cross-cultural connection.



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Historical , War , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Achronological Order , Time Skip ,

Haikei, Arishihi ni Saku Hanatachi e

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Kasumi, a serious girl who has just started at an all-girls school, discovers a letter tucked into an old book she found in the library. The letter's writer yearns to have a special relationship with another girl, like how it was described in the book… A romance about the the old-school "S" kind of girls-love.

Tags: Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , School , Seinen , Age Regression , Age Gap , Writing , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Suicide , Yandere

Walk Wit Me

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Romance

The relationship of two girls in a closed off coal mining town.

Note: Published in Tsubomi vol. 14 & 15.

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Historical , Foreign , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Female Cast , Religion , School