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Tsukimi Kurashita has wanted to be a princess ever since her youth. However, at 18 years old, she finds herself far from that dream. Instead, she has become a plain and shy girl who spends most of her time and money on her biggest obsession: jellyfish. Tsukimi lives with her fellow niche hobbyists in the all-female Amamizukan apartment complex, where the two most important rules are to avoid stylish people and men. Tsukimi has always abided by these rules until one evening—while rescuing a spotted jellyfish—she encounters a classy, princess-like woman. After allowing the girl to stay the night, Tsukimi is shocked to discover that the person is not a woman at all. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Shinichi Chiaki, the perfectionist son of a famous pianist, is in his fourth year at Momogaoka College of Music, hoping to achieve his secret dream of being a conductor. His admiration for his father led him to pursue a career in music. As much as he wants to return to Europe, his phobia of flying traps him in Japan where he now lives. One night, he passes out, and ends up being taken in by Megumi "Nodame" Noda. Upon first glance, Nodame is a talented pianist, but she is also slobbish and eccentric. What's even worse is that she is his neighbor and he ends up forced to work with her. Though it sounds like a recipe for disaster, Chiaki is drawn to this girl who makes him remember the love for music he once held. Just what does the future hold for this musical duo? [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Fed-up with a life of being under-appreciated and disrespected, Sumire Iwaya decides to change things when she picks up a young boy off the street and brings him into her house. Despite being total opposites, the two seem to complement one another as they try to carve out an ordinary life for themselves. (Source: TokyoPop)

At a business meeting, 26-year-old Tsugumi Kawana faces the biggest surprise in her life: she is reunited with Itsuki Ayukawa, a former high school friend and her first love. She is elated that Ayukawa has been able to achieve his dream of becoming an architect, while she herself has secured a stable job at an interior design company. As they reminisce about the past, Tsugumi is shocked to find out Ayukawa has been disabled following an accident. Unable to walk on his own, he now has to rely on the use of a wheelchair. Tsugumi knows that dating a disabled person is a complex matter; moreso, she does not want to ruin her friendship with Ayukawa, who refuses to be romantically involved with anyone. However, as she begins to interact with him more and learns about his condition, Tsugumi realizes her feelings for him may not have disappeared entirely. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

This is not your everyday manga. It strictly deals with cases of intersexuality. I.S. stands for Inter Sexuality. This manga deals with the struggles of intersex people: the pain they go through, the troubles they confront, and ultimately their inability to reproduce or even find a partner who will accept them as they are. The series broken down into individual cases; each deals with different people, though some cases are much longer and more dramatic than others.

After 33 years, Rinko Kamata's life has come to a standstill. Her once-successful career as a screenwriter has gone downhill, she spends most of her nights getting drunk at bars, and worst of all, she is still unmarried. While younger girls enjoy their love lives, Rinko and her friends—Kaori Yamakawa and Koyuki Torii—wonder what went wrong with theirs. One night, as the three women are drinking at a bar, they come face-to-face with the handsome model, Key, who tells them off for dwelling on "what if" scenarios. Drunk and full of spite, Rinko declares that by the time the Tokyo Olympics arrive in six years, she will not be a bachelorette anymore. Tokyo Tarareba Musume follows Rinko and her friends as they struggle to find love as 30-something-year-olds in a city run by the young, the trendy, and the successful. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

27-year-old Hotaru would rather sleep at home than seek romance, but due to unforeseen circumstances, suddenly she's living with her boss, Takano. What's more is that she now has a budding relationship with Makoto, who's younger than she is. Like a dried fish thrown back into the ocean, can she learn to swim again and rediscover the ways of romance?

Michiru is a happy child who loves to skate. During her childhoood, she meets Leon, a cute innocent boy. They begin to ice dance together. But as she has a conflict with her mom, she plans to run away with Leon. Leon, considering the danger, declines Michiru. Hurt by this, Michiru runs away by herself. Finding out that Michiru has run away, Leon and others search for her, finding her in the skating rink. But the person who was standing in the rink no longer had the smile that old Michiru used to!? (Source: Serenus Dreamers)

Suddenly one day energetic high school girl, Katagiri Hina, time travels into the year 1907. The first person she sees is the sorrowful man by the name of Hongo Takaaki. Who exactly is this Hongo-sama? As fate works its gears, how will their romance unfold? (Source: MU)

Ayano is a teacher with a steady job, a good relationship with her students and their parents, and a seemingly comfortable life - but when she runs into an attractive, charismatic woman at an old favourite bar of hers, they soon find themselves making some very rash decisions... and they may not both be being entirely honest with each other. From acclaimed mangaka Takako Shimura, a story of tangled feelings, secrets, and, frankly, just some awful human beings. (Source: Sexy Akiba Detectives Translations)

25-year-old Moriyama Mikuri has an advanced degree, but has had no luck finding a permanent position. She's been living with her parents and doing temp work, and her latest job is doing housework for a single salaryman, Tsuzaki. Mikuri longs to start a career in her field, and her Aunt Yuri, who has had success in her professional life and who regrets never marrying, also wants Mikuri to find love. When Mikuri learns that her parents are planning to move to the country, she realizes her time is running out. She still has had no luck starting her career, so it seems she will have no option but to move to the country with her parents. She finds another option in moving in with Tsuzaki, who doesn't want to lose his housekeeper. To deal with the scandal of their living together, they get married—though just on paper. Now Mikuri starts her unusual new life, as a woman looking to start her career and as a new 'wife'! (Source: MangaHelpers)

The story follows a girl named Mame, whose family runs a public bath. She has held on to feelings of unrequited love for her childhood friend for twenty years. The title is a pun on "Kuiiji," a word for gluttony. (Source: ANN)

Shizuka Yamauchi, 25, housekeeper. Makiko Mitarai, 46, amateur model and perfect housewife. Though strangers on the outside, the two share a past—one Shizuka feels she needs to set right, to bring her mother justice. But Makiko has secrets of her own, and Shizuka will need to tread carefully if she's to get to the bottom of it all...without getting burned. (Source: Kodansha USA)

Cool and gorgeous Nagisa paired with her perverted and stupid step-father Ryuunosuke makes for a hip-hop story that presents a father and daughter who cannot be honest with each other. (Source: ShoujoMagic)

24-year-old Terada Aki is a part-time worker who's unsuccessful in job hunting. After the boyfriend she had been living with cheated on her, she ends up sharing an apartment with a former junior high school classmate, and her first boyfriend Hongyou Tomoya. About the last two years he has been helpless but by chance reacts to Aki, so he asks her to help to cure him...

Life has been hard on Makoto lately, and she's nowhere close to her wish. She wishes to have a sweet, sweet life. When she's at the lowest of her luck, after her boyfriend took all her money and split, she's rescued by the handsome and rich Aeda CEO. To make things stranger, when she's supposed to get married to the ceo, she fools around with his son, without knowing his identity! Will she be able to find and choose the man that will be able to give her a sweet life? (Source: ShoujoMagic)

Sayaka, a 30-year-old virgin, encounters everything of her first time for the second time?

This is a sweet and heartwarming love story, told from the different viewpoint of the two young lovers, a girl named Chizuru and a boy named Yudai. They mean well but cannot seem to succeed at love. They want their relationship to succeed but a combination of uneasiness and lack of self-confidence keeps them from advancing to the next step. Sometimes, it takes an unexpected third party to intervene in order to make two people realize what is right in front of them. That is exactly what happens in this story. (Source: M-U)

Chitose is a serious young woman, working for the health magazine SASSO. Or at least, she would be, if she wasn't constantly getting distracted by her childhood friend, international figure skating star Kokoro Kijinami! In the public eye and on the ice, Kokoro is a gallant, flawless knight, but behind his glittery costumes and breathtaking spins lies a secret: he's actually a hopeless romantic otaku, who can only land his quad jumps when Chitose is on hand to recite a spell from his favorite magical girl anime! (Source: Kodansha Comics USA)

Hayami is the it-woman at her job—she's cool, confident, and admired by all. But her has-it-all exterior belies a dark secret...her house is a mess, and she's no good at taking care of herself! Enter Yamamoto-kun—her colleague who thinks the world of her, and who refuses to let her slobbish behavior slide. Soon he's over at her house often enough that she asks him to move in with her! Where will this roundabout relationship take them?! (Source: Kodansha USA)

There are so many things she wants, but she still hasn't found out what she's looking for... That's Fu Arisugawa, an office worker too busy with her shopping spoils and whose motto is "Shopping is Living." Meanwhile, for reasons she doesn't understand yet, she's interested in her cool-tempered and reserved boss. And there are her friends, too. Rio, who keeps her feelings towards Fu a secret; Mizuho, who always ends up dating losers; and Enjoji, who keeps interviewing University of Tokyo grads for an arranged marriage... Each are lost in their own way while searching for happiness. These four Alices wander through their lives of love... and shopping!! (Source: Kodansha Comics USA)

Ayako, a normal high school girl caught up in the experiment of an enigmatic genius, is divided in two. Except other people doesn't know she's the real one! In the midst of the confusion of sharing her life, she remembers her sister who had died suddenly. What lies beyond the feelings she remembers and the feelings she’s forgotten... (Source: Overload Scans)

An autobiographical manga about Paru Itagaki, her two older sisters, mother, and father. (Source: MU)

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A story set in a pawnshop in Shitamachi about two people who are attracted to jewelry, Shinobu and Aki.

Yuka, a novelist specialising in platonic love stories, received a request to write a sexual love story. Despite being unfamiliar with this genre, the words from her mouth started flowing naturally when Hasegawa, a dentist, began dictating her story in response to her injured hands. Yuka eventually becomes confused of her own emotions towards Hasegawa—was she enjoying the pleasure of creating a story with Hasegawa or was it the beginning of a new love story between the two? [Written by Sun]

Yurika is 27-years-old and single. When she was 22, she broke up with her boyfriend, Makoto. She is not good at having romantic relationships due to her inability to get over him. She's insanely obsessed with him: she searches for his name online, daydreams about talking to him and worships him like a god! On top of all this, Yurika finds out that one of the co-workers at the real estate company she's beginning to work at is her ex-boyfriend! This is a non-stop, love comedy series! (Source: Kodansha, translated)

A series of short stories centered around a different woman in every chapter.

A cute and touching story of a single mother, Sumireko, and her daughter, Nozomi. The manga starts off with Nozomi being sixteen years old in the first chapter, then hops back to before she was born. Finally with the third chapter starts the "real" story, when Non-Non (Nozomi) is three years old. (Source: Dragon Voice)

Wako is on a camping trip with friends in the countryside. At the riverside she meets a young farmer, who asks her to carry a basket to his house. For Wako it's love at first sight. From now on she tries to win his heart and to manage the hard life on a farm.

Matsuoka is addicted to the high he gets when he's showered with stares of men when he walks the streets at night, dressed in the clothes of his ex-girlfriend. One night, his gloomy superior from work, Hirosue, rescues him after he's sexually assaulted by a man who'd been passing by. Though Hirosue was infamous for his awkwardness and dullness, Matsuoka found himself attracted to the former's sincere affections towards him. Dressed as a woman, he meets up with Hirosue and ends up receiving a confession of love. "I won't see you again. I can't see you again." When Matsuoka realises his feelings, he...?! (Source: Kodansha, translated)

Daisy Luck follows the lives of four long-time girl friends, one who is now a housewife, one who is a baker, one who is an executive, and one who is not working. They're all about to turn 30. (Source: Animeraider)

The manga begins in 2004 with the late Apple company co-founder Steve Jobs traveling to Colorado to surprise author Walter Isaacson with a request: to pen his life story. Isaacson muses if Jobs is comparing himself with Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, the subjects of two Isaacson biographies. The author puts off writing Jobs' story until he receives a call from Jobs' wife Laurene with shocking news: Jobs has cancer.

"See you at the Forest Bookshop"... A bookshop that brings joy to any booklover's heart. What if there's also both a kind, knowledgeable guy who wears glasses and the cool prince of glasses there? Read on and watch as the story of Akari and the bookstore clerks start to intertwine.

"If I re-do my life, I want to return this work back to Yukishima-senpai." Haruta Mahoro who became a successful mangaka after publishing "Revive line" from her dead senpai's notes. What if a fateful encounter brings her back to the past? (Source: Cheesecake Scans)

Talk about meet-cutes... Misaki doesn't recognize her cute new neighbor when he comes to formally introduce herself...until he reminds her that they went to school together for years! But Midori Tachibana is no longer the awkward kid she remembers—he's the leader of Japan's hottest new idol group! But their fated meeting is cut short when he finds out she's an adult film actress...and he can't be seen with her if he's to preserve his squeaky-clean idol image! But can the chemistry between them be so easily erased? (Source: Kodansha USA)

Rinko, Kaori and Koyuki swore they would get married by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics... Now they're about to step into a new chapter of romance... but will they, should they, finally get married? (Source: Kodansha Comics USA)

A love story between a graduate student with little confidence in herself, and her college professor.

Hikaru is a firm believer in fate--always describing soul mates as two halves of one apple--and she dreams of the day she will meet her true love. One day Hikaru is reunited with a man, Shindou, whom she went to school with 10 years before, and believes fate has brought them back together. Natsuko, one of Hikaru's co-workers, refuses to lose to Hikaru in love, and pulls out all the stops in order to capture the man she desires. But who is the unsociable, austere stranger named Amano, and what part will he play in this exhilarating story of life and love? (Source: MU)

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Kanna was ugly, and she had been treated badly from everyone aside from a man called Kousuke. Therefore, she decided to have plastic surgery on her whole body to win his heart and the rest of the world. Will Kanna overcome her insecurity and lack of confidence after this?

The story revolves around "himono woman" ("dried-fish woman," a young woman who has abandoned romance) Hotaru Amamiya, who has safely escaped the life of a himono and married her boss Takano. However, she finds that married life is not so easy, as she begins to have doubts about Takano's loyalty. (Source: ANN)

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The plot revolves around a woman with a broken heart called Nanami who meets two handsome men in Mt. Fuji while they are looking for whales. A story about love and sea life.

Disconnected sisters Jun and Ran meet again for the first time in 8 years at their mother's funeral. The reason they were disconnected was Ritsu, Jun's ex-boyfriend and now Ran's husband. Jun decides to take over her mother's house, but Ran and Ritsu came over there before... (Source: Kodansha, translated)

After the death of her father caused by illness, Mitsuko has moved into her uncle's house. She discovers a very weird family, obsessed with their health. First reticent, Mitsuko learns from them that eating well and having a good life hygiene is essential to be happier.

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Yoshirouta Mayumi is an assistant to the mangaka Ogawa Yayoi. While working hard at her job, Mayumi discovers Ogawa-sensei’s big secret—she’s actually the solider of love, comic demon buster Yayoi! (Source: shinkeikaku)

A forbidden romantic comedy between mangaka and her editor.

Alice Kinari is a fifth-grade student leading an ordinary but pleasant life with her loving parents. While Alice's parents had an unconventional beginning, they now have a picture-perfect romance that Alice admires immensely. She also has many friends at school and even a budding crush on her classmate Riichi Akanazaka. Nothing seems to be amiss until one day, Alice's father leaves for a business trip in Kansai and never returns. Instead of Alice's father, loan sharks appear, searching for her father and demanding payment for the debt he had acquired. Confused and afraid, Alice's mother forces them to escape from the sharks. As her mother files for divorce and transitions into working multiple jobs to keep the two of them afloat, Alice transfers to a new school and starts her life over as Alice Azamino. Being unable to say goodbye to her old friends and getting ostracized by her new classmates makes Alice feel lonelier than ever. But when another unexpected surprise comes her way, Alice wonders if she will ever be able to return to the average life she once knew. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

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Gin Shimochiai is an expert babysitter, who's willing to make every child in the world happy. But actually, he's a man disguising as a woman. Inspired by his nanny in childhood and the story of Mary Poppins, he build Poppins Shimochiai Club, a babysitter agent. With his "poppins magic," he can solve every family problem and bring happiness to the children. (Source: MU)

Momiji Akiyama, 27 years old. One day, she was suddenly bothered by a drunkard who was then driven off once she broke out in her dialect. The policeman who witnessed this came to realise his fetish for dialects and became emotionally attached to her?! Now, Momiji has found herself in a bewildering but heart-throbbing situation thanks to this clumsy policeman's single-minded displays of love! (Source: Kodansha, translated)

Makoto Miki, an ordinary 30-year-old mother whose peaceful life suddenly changes when she learns of her husband's affair. At this turning point in her life she's determined to reaffirm her own beauty, and decides to enter the world of fashion modeling. (Source: MU)

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Otaku culture has finally become mainstream, and Megumi can't quite get used to it. Divorced, with a teen daughter, Megumi thinks fondly back to her days as an anime and manga otaku—in 1995. That year, she transferred to a new school and decided to start fresh by hiding her otaku interests. She found herself taken under the wing of a basketball ace named Masamune, who's got a kind heart and looks just like one of her favorite characters. But, though Megumi catches a whiff of destiny in the air, she's crushed to learn that Masamune detests otaku... (Source: Kodansha USA)

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Our average heroine, Himukai Tamako, fell for the handsome Kishikawa Meguru, the very first time she set her eyes on him during the inauguration ceremony of her University. She tried to confess to him many times, but she had failed with flying colors every single time. And now, three years have already passed since she fell for him! One day, Tamako noticed one of the most beautiful women in her University approaching Kishikawa! Tamako didn't think twice before finding herself spying on them as her instincts told her it was confession time! "Will he accept? Will he reject?" Just when Tamako's mind was about to go blank, Kishikawa surprised her by saying he had no plans to go out with anyone. As she tried to make a sense out of what she had just heard, Kishikawa caught her spying on him! Her instincts took her over yet again as she ran away from the scene. Before she could properly apologize, the summer vacation has already started. If this couldn't have been any worse, in her first day after the vacation, she comes to know that Kishikawa has dropped out from the University. But she didn't even get the chance to confess to him once! This time she is determined to find Kishikawa and let him know about her feelings no matter what!

Yoru went to the orphanage at the age of 10 after suffering domestic violence from her mother. Tenjaku, who was the same age, took care of Yoru at the orphanage. Several years have passed, and now Yoru is a second-year high school student who still has feelings for Tenjaku. (Source: Anime News Network)

The story follows the life of a plain woman named Noda (Noriko Eguchi) with eyeglasses and braided hair. Noda goes through most days with jeans and sweatshirts and with no makeup as a freshman studying Russian literature in the fictional Tokyo Heisei University. (Source: ANN)

A slice of life comedy centered around a young female Shinto priest working at a shrine in Tokyo.

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Rina-chan is a small talking doll and she was abandoned in a flat. She was always alone...until a boy moves to her flat. Will Rina be able to befriend a human? (Source: MU)

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26-years-old Mitsu's first boyfriend is a high school boy! Falling deeply in love with younger guy in both heart and body. A refreshing love story that can't be missed! (Source: MU)

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Monica has finally gotten her dream job as a reporter. However her boss is the devil and the company feels like hell—working life is indeed different! For her first assignment, she has to disguise as an old lady. By disguising her 21 years to 85... who exactly does she have to interview? Turning around in circles in work and love, Monica's undercover assignment is about to begin! (Source: MU)

Miki and her older sister Sakana are the owners of the Japanese pub "Poan," where the cooking is delicious and so is the alcohol. They meet many different types of people coming into their pub, all with different kinds of troubles. The sisters do their best to make Poan a place where people can find good food, drink, and peace, and where they may be able to resolve some of the things that are troubling them. (Source: MangaHelpers)

The story of four girls living together in a sisterhood sharing their secrets and their daily life. Welcome to the Maiden´s quartet!

This is the story of the Ma Belle cosmetics counter! Takagi Reiko is the most experienced worker, and she wants to use her skills with makeup to help all of the women in the world to become beautiful. Matsura Anzu is still in her first year of work, but she's dedicated to becoming a great cosmetics expert, just like Reiko. Then there is the clueless male worker, Hiroka Yukihiro, who chose to work at the Ma Belle counter due to his crush on Reiko. They also have competition in the form of their neighboring counter, Julia Beauty, run by a flashy guy who goes by the name "Julian Okuda." As Reiko, Anzu, and Yukihiro teach their customers about cosmetics and beauty, they also become embroiled in the complicated dramas of their lives. The series starts with two best friends, cosmetically lovely Ayaka and plain but kind-hearted Minori. Their relationship shatters when Minori's fiance leaves her for Ayaka. Now Ayaka wants the Ma Belle counter to do her wedding make-up, while Minori begins taking cosmetics lessons at the same counter in order to become more beautiful than her former friend. How will the girls of Ma Belle be able to handle this mess, and will they be able to help both girls move forward with their lives? (Source: MU) Included one-shot: Volume 3: Cinderella no Gosan

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Loved by men and despised by women, University student Otonashi Karen is a major "burikko" (two-faced, usually nicer to boys) whose love for Takeda Gunji can't be denied. This two-book series shows how far Karen is willing to go, to get Gunji to fall in love with her.

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Hagino Hana is a first year University student. She plans on enjoying her campus life in Tokyo to the fullest. However, soon after enrolling, she bumps into somebody she is fated to; her older sister's ex-boyfriend, Kashiki Mutsuhiro...

Julie is an office lady who has been feeling very lonely. She becomes aware of the mysterious handsome guy that is her neighbor. He is very mean but a feast for the eyes. One day, she finds out a surprising connection between them... (Source: Kodansha, translated)

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