Chihaya is a girl in the sixth grade, still not old enough to even know the meaning of the word zeal. But one day, she meets Arata, a transfer student from rural Fukui prefecture. Though docile and quiet, he has an unexpected skill: his ability to play competitive karuta, a traditional Japanese card game.
Chihaya is struck by his obsession with the game, along with his ability to pick out the right card and swipe it away before any of his opponents. However, Arata is transfixed by her as well, all because of her unbelievable natural talent for the game. Don't miss this story of adolescent lives and emotions playing out in the most dramatic of ways!
(Source: Kodansha Comics USA)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Dec 28, 2007
20,975
8.55
It's the middle of the Meiji Era and our heroine, the little Suzu, is sold to the red lights district. However, the rich heir of a dry-goods store Tsugaru buys her freedom for no apparent reason. She is deeply grateful for being saved, but she doesn't understand why he paid so much money for her and the only explanation he offers is "we have a bond." She tries to unravel the mystery of his feelings and gradually grows from a little girl to a young woman, always by his side. A gentle and slow-paced love story set in the Meiji Era.
(Source: Aerandria)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Mar 1, 2011
2,206
7.72
A collection of one-shots by Suetsugu Yuki.
Haru Koi:
Non-chan, a day-care worker, and Ryouko-san, an old married woman, are good friends despite their 25 year age difference. One day, Non-chan tells Ryouko-san that she may have a new love interest. Overjoyed, Ryouko-san helps Non-chan try to get closer to the guy, but...??
Yubiwa no Kataomoi:
Ayuko works as a wedding coordinator at a fancy hotel. Unmarried still at the age of 30 herself, she often overhears her younger co-workers snicker that her job is ironic. She didn't used to mind this until she began to fear that her once-divorced boyfriend might not to be taking their relationship seriously...
Bisai Shokudou:
Misa moved to Tokyo to work in anything but the restaurant business b/c it reminded her too much of her own home growing up. Despite her best efforts, though, she finds herself pulled back in...
Nanatsu no Yakusoku:
Nana is a young girl who lives with her single mom, a translator. Although she is quite small, she tries very hard to be well-behaved and useful, but sometimes the results are not as expected...
Serialization:
Be-Love
?? ??, 2007
1,057
7.35
Sequel to Peach Girl set 10 years after the original story.
Serialization:
Be-Love
Aug 12, 2016
376
7.33
A collection of short glimpses into the peaceful daily life of an old woman and her cat Fukufuku as a kitten.
Serialization:
Be-Love
May 1, 2013
231
7.31
The manga centers on 80-year-old veteran novelist Mariko Kouda, who lives with the families of both her son and her grandson in one house. Feeling like she no longer has any place in her home, she decides to leave the house and strike out on her own, beginning with living in a manga cafe in the city.
(Source: ANN)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Jun 1, 2016
221
7.61
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Aug 12, 2014
187
N/A
A story featuring the everyday life of a domestic cat owned by an old lady who runs a local provision shop.
(Source: The Cat Mummy)
Serialization:
Be-Love
?? ??, 1986
179
7.28
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Dec 28, 2012
147
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
May 1, 2013
129
7.04
Couverture, a specialty store run by a pair of handsome brothers dealing in fine chocolates,
For the times when you are swaying in between career and love.
For the times you are troubled awaiting a spring romance.
For the times when you feel like you have forgotten how to smile or be gentle.
If you take one step into the shop, you will understand the flavor of happiness they want to share with everyone.
(Source: Stiletto Heels)
Serialization:
Be-Love
?? ??, 2009
126
N/A
The manga centers on Nao and Tsubaki, who met when they were children when their mothers worked at a traditional Japanese confectionery shop. But due to a certain incident, they were separated. 15 years later, Nao and Tsubaki are each working at other Japanese confectionery stores, and are reunited.
(Source: ANN)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Dec 1, 2016
116
N/A
Ayase Chihaya is a cheerful tomboy without any ambitious aspirations in life. At school one day, she meets a boy named Wataya Arata who is an outcast at school. Feeling pity despite peer pressure, Chihaya befriends Arata as he reveals to her his aptitude in karuta which institutes Chihaya's dream to become a karuta queen.
Serialization:
Be-Love
Oct 13, 2017
111
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Aug 12, 2013
98
N/A
Baku is an illustrator. One day he buys a little rabbit, while he is drunk. First, he can't handle him, but after a certain accident, he notices, that he grows fond of it.
This manga tells the story of Baku and Sentarou's everyday life.
Serialization:
Be-Love
Jun 1, 1993
89
7.65
Poor Momo - this cute puppy is always getting his nose into trouble! If he's not bothering his owners with his overwhelming and pathetic cuteness, he's cosplaying and roleplaying in any number of adventures.
Serialization:
Be-Love
Sep 13, 2005
87
N/A
The manga centers on a woman named Haiji, whose eccentric grandfather has just passed away, and left her his mountain cabin. Her grandfather worked with a man named Kirishima, who didn't fit Haiji's image of mountaineers at all. Haiji plans to visit the mountain cabin, but finds difficulty with the unforgiving climb. Once she makes it, the sight she sees changes her, and she makes a decision.
(Source: ANN)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Dec 27, 2014
69
N/A
Transferred from an elite bank in Tokyo to a branch in Yamatokoriyama, he happens upon the town's loved game of goldfish scooping.
Serialization:
Be-Love
May 1, 2014
58
N/A
Yoshida Tamako was the youngest of 11 children. When she turned 3, she was taken to the Gion district of Kyoto by the Okami of a traditional Maiko/Geiko house. It is there that Tamako changes her name to Sakiko and begins her long journey to become one of the top maiko in Gion history, "Sakuya". Another wonderful work by Yamato Waki-sensei that details the beauty of Kyoto and traditional Japan and let's us also see into the often secret world of Kyoto's maikos and geikos.
Serialization:
Be-Love
?? ??, 2004
57
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Mar 31, 2012
57
N/A
During the Edo period, not all samurai were considered wealthy, high class war heroes who answered directly to the shogun. In fact, many of them were of low rank and remained nameless throughout their careers while living economically with their small families just to make ends meet. Nakamura Hanshirou and Yukie with their baby son Tarou is one such family, and through their lives, Yamato Waki offers eye-opening glimpses of the less talked about aspects of living in Japan's capital during this famous era.
Note: Vol. 2 contains a 3-chapter long side story titled "Aoba Shigereru" that involve the same set of main characters.
Serialization:
Be-Love
?? ??, 1997
54
N/A
Mown as wheat and without family, Minori has more than once escaped death in the heart of winter. Saved by the professor Minamoto who stood on her way, she will become his secretary and his guinea pig...!
The latter, great man of science with an IQ of 200, leads indeed brain research trying to prove that it can contribute to happiness. Minori begins a new life in a laboratory full of crazy scientists! But the teacher will experience something new, less logical and scientific than expected: an attraction to his new guinea pig...
(Source: MU)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Jan 31, 2009
52
N/A
This is the story of the daily adventures of a beloved cat and his owner, owner of a family business.
Serialization:
Be-Love
Jul 1, 2004
47
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Apr 15, 2013
46
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Mar 15, 2012
45
N/A
Mio Ninagawa is a member of a yankee biker gang, who one day crashes into an expensive car on accident. So she can repay him, the owner of the car demands that Mio compete in the idol audition TV program that he produces—and to find out who's behind a letter threatening to kill the winner of the audition.
Serialization:
Be-Love
Aug 1, 2011
44
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Dec 28, 2013
39
N/A
Hajime Inukai is a student at the H University medical school, and she dreams of becoming a clinical doctor. However, for some reason, she's been assigned to work in a forensic medical science lab, under a weird, but incredibly skilled, associate professor called Kiriyama Yuki. Hajime hadn't expected her 'patients' to be corpses undergoing an autopsy, and she most certainly didn't expect the first case she attended to with Kiriyama would be the apparent suicide of a girl she knew. During their investigation of the case, Hajime also began to see flashes of the dead girl, as if she had come back to life for mere moments. Will Hajime be able to handle her time in forensic medicine, and work her way back to having living patients?
(Source: MangaHelpers)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Jan 15, 2010
39
N/A
Mizuki Ikuta goes back to her hometown after struggling to find a job and place to live. She runs into her childhood friend Asahi, and is then taken in as an apprentice at his fathers studio and begins her new life as a gargoyle maker while living in the apartment next to Asahi.
Included one-shot:
Volume 2: Houkago Ryokou
Serialization:
Be-Love
Apr 15, 2015
38
N/A
Stories about office ladies, their life and hexes.
1. Akuryousama Oteyawaraka ni
2. Motto Warui Onna
3. Cruel Sea - Doku wo Motsu Onna
4. Mafuyu no Hakuchuumu
5. Watashi no Jusatsu Keikaku
Serialization:
Be-Love
Feb 13, 1993
36
N/A
Included one-shot:
Volume 4: Sayonara Nostalgia
Serialization:
Be-Love
Feb 15, 2013
36
N/A
"Being a carpenter is about perfection," young boy Izuru told his little sister while making her a chair. The chair is indeed a perfection in Aoi's heart. Just like her brother, she too wanted to become the best carpenter, and while to her disappointment her brother chose another direction of life after he graduated from highschool, grown-up Aoi is now a carpenter who makes the best, perfect chairs.
For some reasons Izuru over the years has detached himself from Aoi, and there's nothing Aoi could do about it. But it doesn't stop her from wanting to be close again to her brother like they used to, especially when now there's a mystery and danger looming over her beloved family...
(Source: M-U)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Aug ??, 2004
35
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Sep 1, 2009
35
N/A
Yuzu, a 23-year-old mentally disabled woman with the mind of an 8-year-old, falls in love with Sousuke, a man with a similar disability. After Sousuke is involved in a fatal accident, Yuzu's family discovers she is 5 months pregnant with his child. Though Yuzu is intent on having the child, her mother, Miyoko, is immediately against it. After her family comes to terms with her pregnancy, Yuzu eventually gives birth to her daughter, Himawari. With many odds against her, Yuzu does her best to care for the daughter she so dearly loves.
(Source: MU)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Feb 15, 2005
34
N/A
Consist of 5 short stories about a man who like to broke anything he deemed beautiful, a woman who have a heroine complex, a girl who always made mistakes, a model who is targeted by someone, and a woman whose boyfriend always died.
Serialization:
Be-Love
Dec ??, 1989
32
N/A
Nagiko has a spur of the moment affair with a young man she literally finds thrown away in a box and they fall for each other almost instantly – leading to stories about a group of friends and their pasts and present lives and loves…
(Source: MU)
Serialization:
Be-Love
?? ??, 1999
31
N/A
Jounouchi, Satou, and Maeda are three women who work as researchers but have turned their back on femininity based on various excuses. However, they begin a special research project on "beauty."
So begins the comedy-filled life of three women who try and fail at being feminine in a quest for self-evaluation.
(Source: ANN)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Dec 14, 2013
31
N/A
Included one-shot:
Volume 25: Maria Theresia (two parts)
Serialization:
Be-Love
?? ??, 2003
31
N/A
The sequel to Daisuki!! which follows Yuzu's daughter Himawari when she's older.
Serialization:
Be-Love
Apr 14, 2012
28
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Sep 1, 2011
28
N/A
Stories about office ladies, their romance and hexes.
Serialization:
Be-Love
Apr 13, 1993
28
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Apr 1, 2011
28
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Jan 15, 2011
25
N/A
Koharu is a shoujo manga editor on a mission to get the manga artist she's in charge of to write a big love story, and to that end, she begins a pseudo-romance with a pharmacist, Sawaki! She struggles to make any progress using her skills as a shoujo manga editor, but for the sake of gathering material, she has an "adult kiss" with Sawaki.
(Source: Tokyo Otaku Mode)
Serialization:
Be-Love
May 1, 2017
20
N/A
Serialization:
Be-Love
?? ??, 1994
19
N/A
Included one-shot:
Volume 4: Tamagawa nite
Serialization:
Be-Love
Sep 15, 2015
18
N/A
"I thought if I became beautiful, I would find happiness..."
Even though she was the opposite of "cute," Akiko was having fun. But when she woke up the morning after a drinking party with her beautiful friend Mana, something incredible had happened...!
Serialization:
Be-Love
Aug 12, 2015
16
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Jun 1, 2017
15
N/A
A young girl named Sayoko fascinates people with her brilliant singing voice in the early days of the Showa era. In an effort to make people recognize her, she starts wanting to sing in talkie films. It's then that she happens to meet a piano prodigy, Asami, who disregards her singing as bad!!
The curtains rise on the birth of the story of a songstress that glitters with the dreams and love of a young girl in this historical tale.
(Source: Tokyo Otaku Mode)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Jun 30, 2017
15
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Feb 15, 2018
15
N/A
(No synopsis yet.)
Serialization:
Be-Love
Jul 15, 2014
10
N/A