Top Netori Manga Recommendations

Aitsu no Kanojo

Also known as Someone's Girlfriend.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Riku can’t get Shizuku out of his head to the point where she’s invaded his dreams. Then, one day, she stops by his house and comes on to him hard: “Do whatever you want to me.” The catch? She’s his best friend’s girlfriend. In their last year of high school, a dangerous romance brews!



Tags: Netori , School , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Nudity

Tsumetakute Yawaraka

Also known as Pink Candy Kiss.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Can Takara find happiness with the girl she loved in middle school? Or is she 20 years too late?

After 20 years apart, Takara reconnects with Ema, the girl she nearly kissed in middle school—who’s now a beautiful, married woman.

Takara’s world turns upside down when her best friend from middle school reenters her life. She’s bewildered by how the shy, quiet girl she once knew has grown into a charming woman with an air of mystique. Despite Ema being married, Takara can’t help but think there’s something special about Ema’s cool, soft hands against her skin...

Tags: Yuri , Josei , Netori , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes

Akai Ringo

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Psychological

Japan in the Reiwa XX era, where sexual activity is illegal. Hikaru Inuta, an honor student whose father is the director of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's Sexual Enforcement Division, witnesses something shocking at a club he visits for the first time with her friend. There are a lot of people who enjoy sex with a great deal of alcohol and music! And among them is Inuta's favorite idol, Misora. In front of this unusual sight, an impulse that he's never felt runs around Inuta's body!!

Tags: Nudity , Male Protagonist , Crime , Netori , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Fellatio , MILF

Usotsuki Paradox

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Youkadou, a young man working at a certain office is in love with Seiyuu, an extremely beautiful coworker of his. She is in a long distance relationship with her boyfriend, but she agrees to go out with him with one condition: they'll never have sex.

Tags: Netori , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Office Lady , Nudity , Love Triangle

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

Girlfriend

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

Girlfriend features charming and sexy short stories involving romantic relationships between high-schoolers in contemporary Japan.

Tags: School , Primarily Female Cast , Netori , Seinen

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

Hitozuma Medusa-san to no NTR Seikatsu

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy

The person I like isn't human... and she's married!?

Tags: Netori , Monster Girl , Nudity , Large Breasts , Male Protagonist

Tou Xiang

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Two women hidden away deep in a mansion, who save each other through their roller coaster of a relationship! Bai Yuetao, the wife of a rich businessman, blames herself for her husband's skirt-chasing. After getting all dressed up, only to spend another night alone in their lavish residence, she sees a graceful woman appear in her new mirror. This woman calls herself "Mengdie" and says that she can teach Bai Yuetao how to "hook" her husband's heart, but the price will be— Bai Yuetao's body.

Tags: Yuri , Netori , Full Color , LGBTQ+ Themes , Ghost , Primarily Adult Cast , Bisexual , Curses , Historical , Revenge , Crime , Parenthood , Photography

Inu to Sandbag

Also known as Dogs and Punching Bags.

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

After leaving her isolating life in Tokyo, 34-year-old Nichiko returns to her remote island hometown for her estranged alcoholic father's final days. There she meets Chimaki, an eccentric young man who stirs up old memories and feelings Nichiko had all but decided she no longer deserved. But despite his puppy-like enthusiasm for life, Chimaki's almost obsessive need to rescue people and animals seems to be compensating for an unspeakable past.



Tags: Seinen , Rural , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Netori

Hakuba no Ouji-sama

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Ozu Kotarou (25) recently changed his career from a white collar worker to a high school teacher. His new workplace is at Odawara High School, a girls only school. He starts off his first day by leaving a significant impression on the entire school by announcing that he has no interest in younger girls, especially underage girls.

Kotarou is assigned to assist Hara Takako, a fellow teacher, until he gets experience teaching. Hara is a beautiful 32 year old woman but is insecure about being single and is worried about her future. How will the relationship between these two people develop as they start working closely together? Hakuba no Oujisama is a must read for any romance genre lover.

Tags: Teacher , Male Protagonist , Seinen , School , Primarily Adult Cast , Age Gap , Netori

Tefure.

Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi , Psychological , Romance

Kagura already has a girlfriend. But Hosoya, the girl who sits next to Kagura, offers him a "tefure" relationship. What kind of relationship is this?



Tags: Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , School , Shounen , Netori , Yuri

Koibito Swap

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

"I'm going to take revenge on them."

Yuusuke Midorikawa, a high school boy, has a girlfriend named Kayo Yoshioka, who was his childhood friend. After many years, he confessed his long-standing feelings for her and they officially became lovers; but it seems she's becoming estranged from him lately.

One day, while he worried over these age-appropriate problems, he witnesses Kayo and another boy who seems to have hit it off with her, leaving a karaoke place by themselves. Yuusuke, unable to put his feelings in order, is met the next day by a pretty classmate named Kotone Shiraki, who introduces herself as the girlfriend of Iketani, the boy he saw with Kayo.

The colors of youth will change with the meeting of these two!
This is a bittersweet — but more sweet than bitter — youth romantic comedy!



Tags: Revenge , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Netorare , Netori

Lovers High: Shinyuu no Kareshi to Matching Shite Shimatta

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Hikaru is a fourth-year university student with no romantic prospects and having trouble finding a job. When her best friend found her first boyfriend, Hikaru became impatient and started playing with a dating app. She met Kento, a handsome working man, thru the app, and they hit it off and spent the night together. Hikaru thought she was finally going to have a happy relationship, but it turned out Kento was actually her friend's boyfriend...?



Tags: Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Josei , Netori , Primarily Adult Cast

Gokuri

Status: Releasing
Genres: Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Taku, a high school boy has a crush on his childhood friend Riko. But unfortunately for him, Riko holds feelings for her other childhood friend, Naoki which causes Taku to be in pain everyday. One day, after learning the existence of a shrine named "Love wishes come true," Taku immediately went there and prayed for it's guidance. What will happen to his life from that point on?!

Note : the original run of the series lasted from 2015 to 2016. A sequel is releasing since 2024, with a continuation in the chapter & volume numbering

Tags: Seinen , Fellatio , Cheating , Handjob , Netori , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Unrequited Love , Masturbation , Coming of Age , School

Kanojo no Kanojo to Fujun na Hatsukoi

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

"In exchange for my help with your studies, you must stay let me stay at your house until summer vacation." If I get a failing mark again, my chance to live by myself will be over. So I'm forced to go along with the proposal from Tsukasa, the smartest and most beautiful girl in school. But then I saw them. I saw Tsukasa kissing a girl in the park. Tsukasa, who often annoys me with her abnormal invasions of my personal space, has a “girlfriend." Her yuri friend is against this arrangement because she thinks it's “cheating” even if it's between two girls, but Tsukasa is having none of it. After a while, my grades are improving and I'm beginning to enjoy living with Tsukasa. I know that “it's not cheating if you're not in love with them,” but… I'm okay with it. If I don't think about love, we can all get along and be happy, right?

Tags: Yuri , Netori , School

Second

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Sora is still scarred from a relationship that ended in a second. She spends a night with her best friend Yeojin's boyfriend and from there, a dangerous and thrilling love story begins.

Tags: Love Triangle , Primarily Adult Cast , Netori , Female Protagonist , Cunnilingus , Foreign

Senpai no Kanojo ga Moto Kano datta

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Senpai's girlfriend is my ex.

Tags: Seinen , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Netori

Replica: Mototsuma no Fukushuu

Also known as Replica: Revenge of the Ex-Wife.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Aoi grew up constantly being made fun of and bullied for her appearance. After going through one bad experience after the other in school, she finally gets to marry the man of her dreams who loves her for who she is. However, he too eventually seeks out someone better-looking and cheats on her, resulting in their divorce. Oddly enough though... the woman he cheated on Aoi with is the same girl who bullied her throughout their school years...! Now Aoi's on a mission to get revenge on the man who cheated on her who is now married to the woman who made her life miserable. She has her face reshaped, her name changed to Sumire, and slowly begins to find her way into their lives...

Tags: Female Protagonist , Revenge , Netori

Itsuwarino Ouno Omoibana

Also known as The King's Forbidden Flower.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Peony Marshall, a noble-born girl with nothing to her name but the memory of her childhood friend and first love "Zach," prepares for nunhood. Every day, she prays to see Zach one last time... until one day, Zach, whose real identity is King Ernest Edward, finds Peony and takes her away as his imperial concubine. In the palace, Peony realizes how erratic Ernest's behavior is and begins to fear for her life. Will Peony survive long enough to figure out the cause behind his strangely split personality, or is she doomed to wilt in Ernest's clutches?

Tags: Full Color , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Netori , Dissociative Identities