Top Cheating Manga Recommendations

NANA

Also known as Nana.

Status: Hiatus
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance , Slice of Life

Nana Komatsu is a young woman who's endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, she's hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. She's looking for love and she's hoping to find it in the big city.

Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is cool, confident and focused. She swaggers into town and proceeds to kick down the doors to Tokyo's underground punk scene. She's got a dream and won't give up until she becomes Japan's No. 1 rock'n'roll superstar.

This is the story of two 20-year-old women who share the same name. Even though they come from completely different backgrounds, they somehow meet and become best friends. The world of Nana is a world exploding with sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties.



Note: Winner of the 48th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shoujo Category in 2002.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Shoujo , Band , Pregnancy , Tragedy , Philosophy , Time Skip , Found Family , Bisexual , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Rock Music , Netorare , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cheating , Achronological Order , Urban , Age Gap , Drugs , Nudity , Bar

Jaehon Hwanghu

Also known as The Remarried Empress.

Status: Finished
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: Royal Affairs , Female Protagonist , Marriage , Full Color , Politics , Cheating , Shapeshifting , Ojou-sama , Heterosexual , Long Strip , Primarily Adult Cast , Unrequited Love , Arranged Marriage , Ensemble Cast , Love Triangle , Villainess , Age Regression , Pregnancy , Dissociative Identities , Magic , Kingdom Management , Animals , Family Life , Time Skip , Slavery , Fugitive , Suicide , Tanned Skin , Prison , Twins

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

Baraou no Souretsu

Also known as Requiem of the Rose King.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Supernatural

Richard, the ambitious third son of the House of York, believes he is cursed, damned from birth to eternal darkness. But is it truly fate that sets him on the path to personal destruction? Or his own tormented longings? Based on an early draft of Shakespeare's Richard III, Aya Kanno’s dark fantasy finds the man who could be king standing between worlds, between classes, between good and evil.



Tags: Historical , Classic Literature , Boys' Love , Tragedy , War , Medieval , Shoujo , Foreign , Mixed Gender Harem , Ghost , LGBTQ+ Themes , Philosophy , Royal Affairs , Bisexual , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Politics , Anti-Hero , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Nudity , Witch , Swordplay , Amnesia , Inseki , Incest , Time Skip , Transgender , Assassins , Cheating

Nae Nampyeongwa Gyeolhonhaejwo

Also known as Marry My Husband.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

When Jiwon, a 37-year-old cancer patient, walks in on her husband and best friend, she realizes her whole life has been a lie. What’s worse, she dies a tragic death at the hands of her husband. Would things have been different if she had made different choices? Fortunately for Jiwon, she is given the chance to rewrite her fate when she is reincarnated as her younger self. This time, she vows to live a happy life. But first comes revenge. Her plan? To marry off her now former best friend to her lying, cheating husband.



Note: Includes 10 extra chapters.

Tags: Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Revenge , Female Protagonist , Full Color , Time Manipulation , Work , Office , Cheating , Office Lady , Tragedy , Reincarnation , Marriage , Yandere , Unrequited Love , Long Strip , Age Regression , Family Life , Suicide

Kyou wa Kanojo ga Inai kara

Also known as My Girlfriend’s Not Here Today.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Pent up and tired of her apathetic girlfriend, Asahina Yuni turns to an anonymous online account to let it all out. It’s just another day of doomscrolling after class when Asahina gets swept away in conversation with the beautiful, outgoing Taki. When Taki turns out to be following Asahina’s private account, it’s cute…right? Taki would never blackmail Asahina…right? With every new lie, the web of secrets and erotic desire grows ever-tighter!

Tags: Yuri , Netorare , Love Triangle , Cheating , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Blackmail , Yandere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Nudity , School , Gyaru , Scissoring , Volleyball , Feet

River's Edge

Also known as River's Edge.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Haruna Wakakusa and Yamada become friends after she saves him several times from her boyfriend's constant bullying. Through him she gets to know Kozue Yoshikawa, a fellow student who also models professionally. The three emotionally stunted teens' lives briefly yet intensely intertwine for one semester before splintering from the aftereffects of one disastrous night. For both Wakakusa and Yamada, their emotional awakening fosters an unlikely friendship between the two battered souls.

Tags: Coming of Age , Tragedy , Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Primarily Teen Cast , Nudity , Bisexual , Cheating , Drugs , Gore , Heterosexual , Yuri , Body Image

Kono Koi wo Hoshi ni wa Negawanai

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

A beautiful and delicate love story in which different kinds of "love" intersect. Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Josei , Unrequited Love , Aromantic , Love Triangle , Primarily Adult Cast , Fake Relationship , College , Asexual , Cheating , Marriage , Bisexual , Time Skip , Heterosexual

Kimi wa Pet

Also known as You're My Pet.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Life was good for Sumire Iwaya... until the day she discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her, she gets demoted at work, and her life spirals toward the dumps. Things take a turn for the better when she crosses paths with Momo, a homeless guy with a colorful past who puts a bounce in her step and a shake in her hips. It takes two to tango, but when Sumire's first love reappears in her life, will this be the last waltz?



Note: won the 27th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo (2003).

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Work , Human Pet , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Cohabitation , Age Gap , Unrequited Love , Office Lady , Homeless , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , Dancing , Cheating

Otona ni Nattemo

Also known as Even Though We’re Adults.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Ayano, an elementary school teacher in her thirties, stops by a bar one day and meets another woman named Akari. Sparks fly as the two chat, and before the night is over, Ayano even goes in for a kiss. Akari is intrigued but confused...especially when she discovers that Ayano has a husband! Both Ayano and Akari are about to find out that love doesn’t get any easier, even as you grow older.



Tags: Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Josei , Family Life , Cheating , Hikikomori , Teacher , School , Ensemble Cast , Time Skip , Love Triangle , Work , Bisexual , Unrequited Love , Achronological Order , Coming of Age , Filmmaking , Urban , Restaurant

Nikurashii Hodo Aishiteru

Also known as I Love You So Much, I Hate You.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Saori Fujimura and her boss, Ayako Asano, are an unbeatable duo at work, but after hours their relationship is more than just professional. As tensions mount between Ayako and her husband and Saori’s feelings grow stronger, they’ll have to decide—is it love they seek, or merely pleasure?



Tags: Yuri , Work , Office Lady , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Cheating , Nudity , Female Protagonist , Office , Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes

Uwa-Koi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Romance

This love story follows a young man named Yukiteru who gets caught in a risky love triangle. Yukiteru and his childhood friend Yuno have a history together, but Yukiteru's female friend Rena complicates the relationship. She has strange secrets, and the love triangle may not resolve the way anyone expects.



Tags: Seinen , Female Harem , Nudity , Love Triangle , Yandere , Heterosexual , Hypersexuality , Cheating , Revenge , Tragedy , Primarily Female Cast , School , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , School Club

Hen na Ie

Also known as The Strange House.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

I’ve always had a fascination with the occult; you might even call it my specialty. I’ve been brought in as a consultant on many supernatural and strange mysteries. But nothing could have prepared me for this house. It seemed so ordinary at first, except for that one room. It had no doors, no windows, and was tucked away, leaving anyone to think it was just a wall. I knew that there was something more to it. It shouldn’t be there, it shouldn’t exist, and yet… Just what is this house, and what dark secrets does it hold?

Tags: Detective , Crime , Seinen , Incest , Cheating , Suicide , Twins , Adoption , Revenge , Time Skip , Cult

Watashi no Otto wa Reitouko ni Nemutteiru

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

One fateful day, after enduring months of abuse from her husband Ryou, Nana strangles him to death. She revels in her newfound freedom knowing she won't have to face his abuse again. But her dreams of a peaceful life are destroyed when her husband, the one she killed and stuck in the freezer, comes back from the dead.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Shounen , Twins , Cannibalism , Tragedy , Family Life , Crime , Pregnancy , Primarily Adult Cast , Revenge , Marriage , Cheating

Watashi ga 15-sai dewa Nakunatte mo.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi

Iwashita, a middle-aged salaryman, is living a modest but repressed life, shunned by his daughter and nagged by his wife. Until one day he ran into a girl named Chyna. She offered Iwashita a meal for 20,000 yen - an invitation to become a daddy. This is the beginning of a painful but dazzling story of a 15-year-old girl searching for self-worth and a 40-year-old middle-aged man struggling between reason and desire.



Tags: Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Estranged Family , Psychosexual , Blackmail , Cheating , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Crime , Nudity , Homeless , Tragedy , Pregnancy , Time Skip , Office , Fellatio , Nakadashi

Ori no Naka

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Romance , Thriller

Gomi Jirou, a 29 year old virgin, has spent the past 9 years nerding out with his work colleagues about anime during lunch and drawing erotic doujinshi at night so he can masturbate.

However, one day, this comfort zone of his is thrown into disarray by the introduction of a new colleague, Yumezora Kuroko, a bespectacled beauty with long, dark hair and a massive chest.

It only takes a moment to fall in love, just like how it takes a moment to lose your footing.

This is the story of a weak man's sins and sexual fixations.

Tags: Psychosexual , Cheating , Tragedy , Nudity , Suicide , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Fugitive , Meta , Blackmail , Office Lady , Crime , Office

Blue! Blue! Blue!

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

When Takiya Kippei, the brother of two older sisters, realises that he desperately needs money to buy a birthday present for his lover, he decides to live and work onsite at a ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn). There, he meets the well-educated Honjou Masumi, a man who is neither too strict nor too lenient, and who has a charm which embodies the word ‘mature’. “This is the first time I’ve met someone like Honjou-san” - as Takiya continues working at the ryokan, he starts to become interested in Honjou…



Tags: Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Age Gap , Motorcycles , Work , Rural , Love Triangle , Cheating , Primarily Adult Cast

Kyuuso wa Cheese no Yume wo Miru

Also known as The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Ootomo Kyoichi, a weak-willed salaryman in a troubled marriage, is cheating on his wife. To his surprise, his wife hires a private eye to expose his affair - and the private eye is none other than Imagase, an underclassman Kyoichi knew in college. Imagase explains that he's gay and always had a crush on Kyoichi, so he offers to hide the infidelity in exchange for the make-out session he'd always fantasized about back in college. Kyoichi reluctantly agrees, thinking it will save his marriage, but things with Imagase soon spiral out of control.



Note: Includes two extra chapters, with one first released in the 2009 edition.

Tags: Josei , Boys' Love , Primarily Adult Cast , Cheating , Bisexual , Marriage , Work , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yandere , Blackmail , Time Skip , Love Triangle , Fellatio , Anal Sex , Nudity

Anata ga Shite Kurenakutemo

Also known as Even If You Don't Do It.

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

Yoshino Michi is 32 years old. She's been married for five years, but hasn't had sex for the last two. It's not as if she doesn't get along with her husband, it's just that the sex part is lacking. It was a bit unexpected, but one night when she when drinking with her colleague, Niina Makoto (36), she wound up confessing that her marriage had turned sexless. And then, a shocked Niina responded "My marriage is sexless, too," and smiled with a lonely look in her eyes.



Tags: Marriage , Cheating , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Seinen

Aishita Bundake Aishite Hoshii!

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Mutsurugi Nana, who leads a self-indulgent, unemployed life, is still waiting for her ideal prince to come one day while satisfying her need for approval by uploading doctored selfies on the Internet. Then, Tsukasa, a candidate for the "ideal prince" appears, praising Nana as "cute" and escorting her home gently. Nana is so impressed by Tsukasa's words and acts that she couldn't help herself from falling for Tsukasa.

Tags: Yuri , Unrequited Love , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Cheating , Denpa , Cohabitation , Body Image , Primarily Female Cast , Nudity , Bisexual , Masturbation