Top Cheating Manga Recommendations

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 , Marriage , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Cheating , Bisexual , Unrequited Love , Time Skip , 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 , War , Boys' Love , Tragedy , Mixed Gender Harem , Shoujo , Ghost , Foreign , Royal Affairs , Philosophy , Medieval , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bisexual , Revenge , Politics , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Nudity , Incest , Witch , Swordplay , Amnesia , Inseki , Time Skip , Transgender , Assassins , Cheating

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 , Josei , Teacher , Love Triangle , Work , Bisexual , Unrequited Love , School , Cheating

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 , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , Office , Josei , Female Protagonist , 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

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

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 , Anthology

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

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 , Tragedy , Cult , Prostitution , Incest , Suicide , Rehabilitation , Hikikomori , Cheating

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

Kemutai Ane to Zurui Imouto

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Jun and Toran, two sisters who had been estranged from each other, are reunited after the death of their mother. The reason why they were separated in the first place was because of one man, Ritsu. Ritsu used to be Jun's boyfriend, but now he is Ran's husband. The three of them end up living under the same roof...



Tags: Cheating , Josei , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Family Life

Syrup SECRET: Kindan x Yuri Anthology

Also known as Syrup: A Yuri Anthology Vol. 2.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

This volume contains the following chapters:

Cover illustration: Fly
1. Kagerou no Koe (かげろうの声) by Kawanami Izumi
2. Hishatai Izon (被写体依存) by Goumoto
3. Toshoshitsu no Anoko wa, (図書室のあの子は、) by Tsuji Megumi
4. Sore ga Ano Musume no Hoshii Mono (それがあの娘のほしいもの) by Canno
5. Oshigoto Ganbaru Kimi ga Suki (おしごとがんばるキミがスキ) by Amano Shuninta
6. Hidari no Ashikase (ひだりの足枷) by Itou Hachi
7. Imouto no Ice Cream (妹のアイスクリーム) by Takahashi Mako
8. 4-ninme no Onna (４人目の女) by Matsuzaki Natsumi
9. Ageha, Tobu (揚羽、翔ぶ) by Yoshidamaru Yuu
10. Slit (Slit) by Ikeda Takashi
11. Doko kara to ka Koi ka to ka (どこからとか恋かとか) by Morinaga Milk



Tags: Yuri , Anthology , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Animals , Anthropomorphism , Cheating

Koi Desu ga Koi Janai

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Ujihara-kun is a playboy who doesn't take love too seriously. He often does unfaithful things behind his girlfriend's back and never refuses when a girl comes on to him, until a certain schoolmate catches him in the act. He tries to seduce her into becoming an accomplice, as the two begin a risky relationship, but will it only be just a form of skinship or can it become something more?

Note: Chapter count includes two bonus chapters and four one-shots:
Volume 2: Himitsu to Itta Sono Kuchibiru de, Princess wa Ouji wo Sagasanai
Volume 3: Kare ni wa Ienai Yoru, Kossori Neko wo Nusumu Tabi ni Deta

Tags: Shoujo , School , Nudity , Cheating

Aromatic Bitters

Also known as The Aromatic Bitters.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

When two gal pals go on a road trip, anything can happen! Sayumi and Hide are two friends cursed with the same fate: they're both stuck in dead-end relationships, and neither can find her way out. When they decide to hit the road and go to Hide's country home for the summer, they learn loads about love, life, and each other. 'The Aromatic Bitters' follows the lives of two women with nothing left to lose but their inhibitions.



Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Cheating , Bar , Unrequited Love

Anata no Koto wa Sorehodo

Also known as I Love You Just a Little Bit.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

"I'm sure I'll have to pay for this one day." When Mitsu was a junior high school student, a fortuneteller told her, "You should marry the person you love the second most." Now all grown up, she works at a clinic. One fateful night she runs into her first love, Arishima, and they start having an intimate relationship. But Mitsu is already married to a man who is a wonderful and kind husband?! Mitsu and her husband, Arishima and his wife. Four point of views, two married lives, only one way this can end... right?



Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Love Triangle , Cheating , Marriage

Tonari no Heya kara Aegigoe ga Surun desu kedo...

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

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