Top Arranged Marriage Manga Recommendations

Jigokuraku

Also known as Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mystery , Supernatural

Gabimaru the Hollow is one of the most vicious assassins ever to come out of the ninja village of Iwagakure. He’s ruthlessly efficient, but a betrayal results in him being handed a death sentence. He has only one hope—in order to earn his freedom, he must travel to a long-hidden island and recover an elixir that will make the shogun immortal. Failure is not an option. On this island, heaven and hell are just a hair’s breadth away.



Tags: Survival , Samurai , Philosophy , Ninja , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Mythology , Gore , Tragedy , Historical , Gods , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Eco-Horror , Swordplay , Battle Royale , Body Horror , Gender Bending , Shounen , Nudity , Arranged Marriage , Heterosexual , Super Power , Travel , Amnesia , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crime , Yandere

Nisekoi

Also known as Nisekoi: False Love.

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

As a child, Raku Ichijou made a secret promise with his childhood sweetheart, keeping a pendant as a memento while his love took the key. He dreams of one day meeting his past love, but years later, reality smashes his hopes when Chitoge Kirisaki accidentally knees him in the face...

Though Raku’s a normal high schooler, his family heads the notorious yakuza gang the Shuei-Gumi faction! And he’s dragged into family affairs when he’s forced into a relationship with Chitoge, the daughter of a rival gang’s boss!

Despite their constant spats, the two somehow fool everyone with their false relationship. Raku then discovers that Chitoge has a mysterious key from her past, which she can’t remember... Plus, two other girls appear with keys as well—Kosaki Onodera and Marika Tachibana!

Caught in the midst of this love maelstrom, even more complications arise for Raku when his class decides on Romeo and Juliet as the class’s play for the school festival. Can the two false lovebirds pull off the impossible and make the play a success?



Note: Chapter count includes 229 regular chapters and 11 extras.

Tags: Love Triangle , Female Harem , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Tsundere , School , Coming of Age , Fake Relationship , Yakuza , Gangs , Time Skip , Chibi , Nudity , Arranged Marriage , Animals , Crossdressing , Police , Amnesia , Marriage , Gender Bending

citrus

Also known as Citrus.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Yuzuko Aihara, a high school girl whose main interests are fashion, friends and having fun, is about to get a reality check. Due to her mom’s remarriage, Yuzu has transferred to a new, all-girls school that is extremely strict. Her real education is about to begin.

From Day One, happy-go-lucky Yuzu makes enemies, namely the beautiful yet stern Student Council President Mei. So what happens when a dejected Yuzu returns home and discovers the shock of her life: that Mei is actually her new step-sister who has come to live with her? Even more surprising, when Mei catches Yuzu off-guard and kisses her out of the blue, what does it all mean?



Note: Includes 9 bonus chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Inseki , Primarily Female Cast , School , Family Life , Gyaru , Work , Time Skip , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Arranged Marriage

Otoyomegatari

Also known as A Bride's Story.

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

A Bride’s Story tells the tale of a beautiful young bride in nineteenth-century Asia. At the age of twenty, Amir is sent to a neighboring town to be wed. But her surprise at learning her new husband, Karluk, is eight years younger than her is quickly replaced by a deep affection for the boy and his family. Though she hails from just beyond the mountains, Amir’s clan had very different customs, foods, and clothes from what Karluk is used to. As the two of them learn more about each other through their day-to-day lives, the bond of respect and love grows stronger.



Note: Won the Prix Intergénérations ("Intergenerational Award") at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2012 and the 7th Manga Taishou award in 2014.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Historical , Marriage , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Heterosexual , Iyashikei , Travel , Age Gap , Family Life , Arranged Marriage , Educational , Food , Twins , War , Archery , Nudity , Language Barrier , LGBTQ+ Themes , Animals

Kakkou no Iinazuke

Also known as A Couple of Cuckoos.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

16-year-old super-studier Nagi Umino, second-year student at the Meguro River Academy high school, was switched at birth. On his way to a dinner to meet his birth parents, he accidentally meets the brash, outspoken, Erika Amano, who is determined to make Nagi her fake boyfriend as she never wants to actually marry. But once Nagi makes it to dinner, he finds his parents have decided to resolve the hospital switch by conveniently having him marry the daughter his birth parents raised...who turns out to be none other than Erika herself!



Note: Fourteenth place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category

Tags: Female Harem , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Inseki , Tsundere , Family Life , School , Shounen , Twins , Cosplay , Idol , Meta , Arranged Marriage

Jaehon Hwanghu

Also known as The Remarried Empress.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Navier Ellie Trovi was an empress perfect in every way -- intelligent, courageous, and socially adept. She was kind to her subjects and devoted to her husband. Navier was perfectly content to live the rest of her days as the wise empress of the Eastern Empire. That is, until her husband brought home a mistress and demanded a divorce. “I accept this divorce… And I request an approval of my remarriage.” In a shocking twist, Navier remarries another emperor and retains her title and childhood dream as empress. But just how did everything unfold?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Full Color , Ojou-sama , Politics , Marriage , Royal Affairs , Primarily Adult Cast , Shapeshifting , Heterosexual , Historical , Ensemble Cast , Villainess , Unrequited Love , Love Triangle , Magic , Animals , Family Life , Time Skip , Slavery , Kingdom Management , Prison , Fugitive , Suicide , Arranged Marriage , Josei

Raise wa Tanin ga Ii

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

Status: Hiatus
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 , Bisexual

Koi to Uso

Also known as Love & Lies.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Yukari is dull. He doesn’t even stand out enough to be bullied—he’s just a generally lower-middle-class kid. One day, on the eve of his sixteenth birthday, he confesses to his childhood crush Misaki Takasaki. There’s just one problem: He was 15, few minutes away from receiving his government-assigned marriage partner. He normally wouldn’t have the courage to defy the law, but his assigned wife Ririna still believes in love, and won’t stop goading him into confessing his feelings!



Notes:
- Volume count includes two different versions of the 12th volume featuring Ririna and Misaki routes respectively.
- Chapter count is primarily based on the Manga Box serialization. It include 280 chapters from the main story (compiled into 44 chapters in volumes 1-11), two sets 7 chapters for the Ririna and Misaki versions (6 chapters in their volume 12) and 7 extra/bonuses from the series.

Tags: Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Dystopian , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Mixed Gender Harem , Female Harem , School , Shounen , Tragedy , Denpa , Arranged Marriage

Sangsurinamu Arae

Also known as Under the Oak Tree.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

A flawless love story of the flawed. Stuttering lady Maximilian is forced into a marriage with Sir Riftan, but he leaves on a campaign after their wedding night. 3 years later, he triumphantly returns, ready to cherish her. As life with her husband finally begins, she only has one question — does she deserve this love and happiness?



Tags: Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Marriage , Disability , Arranged Marriage , Magic , Full Color , Swordplay , Bullying , Royal Affairs , Estranged Family

Nampyeoneul Nae Pyeoneuro Mandeuneun Bangbeop

Also known as How to Win My Husband Over.

Status: Hiatus
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

I thought I’d finally escaped my hellish life when I died in an airplane crash, but I fell into another nightmare when I awoke as Rudbeckia de Borgia, a minor villain from a historical novel destined to die at the hands of her husband, Iske van Omerta. Surviving with the dysfunctional Borgia family is hard enough, but now I have to marry the man who will kill me! Still, it’s okay, I just have to convince Iske, his family, and all his countrymen that I’m completely harmless! How hard can that be?



Tags: Full Color , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Isekai , Primarily Adult Cast , Marriage , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Villainess , Demons , Royal Affairs , Suicide , Arranged Marriage , Love Triangle , Yandere , Nudity , Dragons

Appa, Na I Gyeolhon An Hallaeyo!

Also known as Father, I Don't Want this Marriage.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Juvelian is a villainess so hated by everyone that even her lover and father leave her to die a pitiful death. Just as she’s about to face her fate, she gets the chance to change the course of her story. In order to avoid the tragic end she knows awaits her, she breaks up with her lover and gives up trying to win her father’s love. Instead, she focuses on using his wealth to enjoy her new life to its fullest! But while she prepares for her extravagant life as a lady, her father begins looking for her new suitor. Afraid that he’ll marry her off to the infamously unpredictable and stormy prince, she lands on a desperate solution: a dating contract. And the best candidate is none other than her father’s student.



Tags: Reincarnation , Isekai , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Time Manipulation , Royal Affairs , Fake Relationship , Full Color , Magic , Yandere , Villainess , Ojou-sama , Tsundere , Suicide , Kuudere , Politics , Amnesia , Arranged Marriage

Ranma 1/2

Also known as Ranma ½.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

Years ago, Genma promised his old friend Soun Tendo that Ranma would marry one of Soun’s three daughters and carry on the family’s martial arts school. Except that the girl picked to be Ranma’s bride doesn’t seem to like him, Ranma keeps getting into fights…and did we mention that whole changing into a girl thing?



Tags: Gender Bending , Love Triangle , Martial Arts , Henshin , Ensemble Cast , Mixed Gender Harem , Episodic , Shapeshifting , Female Harem , Femboy , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , School , Shounen , Nudity , Tomboy , Ghost , Demons , Arranged Marriage , Magic

Yangpanso Juingongui Anaero Saranamgi

Also known as This Villainess Wants a Divorce!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

We all hate the greedy villains hell-bent on sabotage. Enter Carnelia Easter, the awful secondary villainess of the romance I’m reading, who trapped the prince in marriage at the behest of the evil empress. I didn’t shed a tear when her head’s lopped off, but now I’m Carnelia! I gotta play this smart and convince him to divorce me instead! Still, between the prince, the empress, the heroine, the second prince, my terrible health... this story’s getting unpredictable. Will I survive after all?



Tags: Full Color , Isekai , Politics , Reincarnation , Primarily Adult Cast , Royal Affairs , Marriage , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Villainess , Historical , Foreign , Arranged Marriage , War

Nampyeoni Mimoreul Sumgim

Also known as My Secretly Hot Husband.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

Another lifetime, another hard life—Letitia’s misery continues as her uncle sends her off to the “Monster Lord” to fulfill an old pledge. Imp attacks! The three witches! A hideous masked devil hunter husband! Terrifying is an understatement. But as she becomes the lady of Halstead, the rumors fall apart. Lord Erden is caring, he likes bunnies, and that *gasp* perfect face under the mask! How can he not know he’s HOT? Can she help protect the castle from devils and help Erden see his true self?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Demons , Full Color , Heterosexual , Historical , Reincarnation , Isekai , Time Skip , Dragons , Angels , Conspiracy , Arranged Marriage

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 , Hikikomori , Ojou-sama , Netorare , Age Gap , Adoption , Nudity ,

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 , Rehabilitation , Super Power , Royal Affairs , Arranged Marriage

Ben Jian Xian Jue Bu Chi Ruan Fan

Also known as Sword King In A Women's World.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Ecchi , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

After rebirth, how can this sexy smoking girl told me to be her toy-boy? I'm a master in cultivation! How can I succumb to this world of women? Look at how I fight my own way in this world of women!



Tags: Female Harem , Cultivation , Martial Arts , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Full Color , Urban , Wuxia , Nudity , School , Heterosexual , Swordplay , Gore , Basketball , Guns , Reincarnation , Drugs , Crossdressing , Transgender , Cars , Love Triangle , Revenge , Marriage , Dragons , Arranged Marriage , Assassins , Time Skip , Military , Tsundere

Geunyeoui Simcheong

Also known as Her Tale of Shim Chong.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Based on a Korean folktale, two very different women find themselves making the same wish - to leave this world behind. One is Shim Chong, a young beggar living off the kindness of others to support herself and her blind father. The other is the bride-to-be of old Chancellor Jang, sold off to him for the sake of her family. When Shim Chong rescues this new bride from the river, their relationship triggers both love and hidden intentions. But will these two women be able to find their way forth in a world that favors men?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Full Color , Yuri , Historical , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Class Struggle , Arranged Marriage , Primarily Female Cast , Politics , Coastal , Tragedy , Fairy Tale , Youkai , Foreign

Versailles no Bara

Also known as The Rose of Versailles.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Oscar François de Jarjeyes is a young noblewoman raised as a son by her father. As commander of Marie Antoinette's palace guard, Oscar is brought face-to-face with the luxury of King Louis XVI’s court at Versailles. Joined by her servant André, Oscar is privy to the intrigue and deceit of France's last great royal regime.



Tags: Shoujo , Class Struggle , Foreign , Historical , Politics , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Gender Bending , Love Triangle , Philosophy , Royal Affairs , Military , Swordplay , LGBTQ+ Themes , War , Bisexual , Arranged Marriage , Kingdom Management , Unrequited Love , Suicide

Takane to Hana

Also known as Takane & Hana.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The meeting between Takane and Hana ends in an explosive manner, and Hana is convinced that she’ll never have to see that awful Takane again. But Takane actually seems interested in Hana! Exasperated by Takane’s immature attitude, yet amused and intrigued despite herself, Hana wonders if her hilarious rivalry with Takane just might lead to love!



Note: Includes 23 extra chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Age Gap , Work , School , Love Triangle , Transgender , Chibi , Crossdressing , LGBTQ+ Themes , Arranged Marriage , Heterosexual , Time Skip