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

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?



Notes:
- The series was published in 3 print volumes and 4 digital volumes in Japan. The official English translation follows the 3-volume print release.
- Chapter count includes 3 extras from the print release.

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

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 , War , Boys' Love , Tragedy , Mixed Gender Harem , Shoujo , Ghost , Foreign , Royal Affairs , Philosophy , Medieval , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bisexual , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Politics , Anti-Hero , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Nudity , Incest , Witch , Swordplay , Amnesia , Inseki , 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: Chapter count includes 10 side stories.

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

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

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 , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Josei , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Bisexual , Nudity , Cheating , Primarily Teen Cast , Drugs , Gore , Heterosexual , Yuri

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: Primarily Adult Cast , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Cheating , Josei , Teacher , Love Triangle , Work , Bisexual , Unrequited Love , School

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

Nikurashii Hodo Aishiteru

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

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

WHAT DO WORK AND LOVE HAVE IN COMMON? THEY CAN BOTH TAKE OVER YOUR LIFE…

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 , LGBTQ+ Themes , Josei

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

Kabocha to Mayonnaise

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

Miho and Sei are living together. She works at a boutique while he tries to make it as a songwriter and musician. Even though Miho still can’t forget about Hagio, her ex-lover, she is happy in her relationship with Sei.

However, all is not well for the young couple. Struggling to make ends meet, Miho decides to take a second job as bar hostess. As she becomes increasingly desperate for money, Miho eventually gives in to one of her client’s sexual advances. When Sei finds out about this he begins to distance himself from her. Things get even more complicated for Miho when Hagio suddenly reappears in her life.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Cheating

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

Toumei na Usui Mizuiro ni

Also known as Transparent Light Blue.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Ritsu is willing to do anything for her best friend Ichika, including the intimate act of cleaning her ears. But when Ichika starts dating a boy, Ritsu realizes that she wants to be more than friends. Will Ichika push her away when Ritsu reveals her innermost feelings?



Note: Chapter count includes 2 extras.

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Love Triangle , Netori , Heterosexual , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Work , Crossdressing , Cheating

Yuria-sensei no Akai Ito

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Fifty-year-old Yuria has a quiet life teaching embroidery classes in her home, where she lives with her writer husband and his mother. Then one day her world is turned upside down when husband has a subarachnoid hemorrhage and upon arriving at the hospital, Yuria is met by a tearful young man who announces that he is her husband's lover.

Tags: Josei , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Bisexual , Boys' Love , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cheating , Age Gap

Seonbae, Geu Lipstick Bareuji Mayo

Also known as She Would Never Know.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Gentle in demeanor yet fiercely independent and competent, Songa is a top assistant brand manager at Klar Cosmetics who gets things done with a smile. Thriving in life, she is suddenly caught off guard by her charming junior colleague’s enigmatic warning, “Don’t put on that lipstick". Then an unexpected revelation changes everything.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Work , Fake Relationship , Office , Cheating , Long Strip , Full Color , Estranged Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Heterosexual , Urban , Makeup

LOVE VIBES

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Shouji has a girlfriend but is seeing Mako on the side. Unable to continue pretending she feels less for him than she does, she breaks it off with him. Shortly before that happens, Mako is hit on by Mika, who tells Mako that she's interested in both men and women. Mika wants to pursue a relationship with Mako, but is Mako's relationship with Shouji really over?

Tags: Yuri , Bisexual , Josei , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cheating

Ai to Noroi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Aiko Yamada lives a cursed life. Her family members are blinded by their religion, her mother beats her, and her father sexually assaults her. On top of that, by no fault of her own, she became part of the 'Sakakibara Generation' - those children born in 1982, who society considers predisposed to murder. As Japan continues restlessly through the nineties and the news of Boy A shocks the country, Aiko begins to wish for a way out of this maddening world. Will she succumb to the fate society prescribes to her?

Tags: Female Protagonist , Seinen , Autobiographical , Rehabilitation , Tragedy , Cult , Prostitution , Incest , Suicide , Hikikomori , Cheating

Ushimitsu Gao

Status: Releasing
Genres: Horror , Romance , Supernatural

The story follows 33-year-old housewife Megumi Sano, who has strong spiritual sensitivity. One night, while having sex with her husband, a ghost suddenly appears in her room. She feels humiliated instead of terrified after the ghost witnesses her boring sex life with her husband. The ghost begins appearing in their bedroom nightly.



Tags: Heterosexual , Cheating , Ghost , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Netori , Cunnilingus

Ori no Naka

Status: Releasing
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 , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Office Lady , Blackmail

Yodaka, Meguru

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Yukako, a housewife tired of the pressure put upon her by the people in her life, has an unexpected reunion with a woman from her past. This meeting makes Yukako yearn for the touch of another woman again as she tries to keep her affair a secret from her husband.

Tags: Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Cheating , Nudity