A Side Character's Love Story
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Nobuko "Mobuko" Tanaka is not the type of girl to stand out in a crowd. Shy and often overthinking every situation, she has led a life with as little social interaction as possible. As a result, it seems like an impossible task for Nobuko to confess her feelings to her coworker Hiroki Irie, a reserved young man who helped her when she first started her new job at the supermarket.
However, after witnessing her junior colleague Abe exchange contact information with him, she finally summons up the courage to ask Hiroki for his number. Despite her timid nature, this one act of determination sets Nobuko on the path to becoming the protagonist she has always wanted to be while her budding romance slowly begins to blossom.
You will wake up in the spring
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Ito and Chiharu, though seven years apart, both share a very deep friendship in which Ito has an unrequited love for Chiharu. In a turn of events, Chiharu is inflicted with a terminal illness and is put into an induced comatose state in hopes that a cure will be developed while he is sleeping. After seven years, Chiharu wakes up, and finds that Ito is now the same age as him, and that his then-classmate has become his homeroom teacher. (Source: MU)
What an average way Koiko goes!
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Koiko Natsume has always strived to be average. She is neither particularly pretty nor ugly, aims for the middle of her class in grades, and makes little to no waves in her interactions. She has an ordinary boyfriend to match her ordinary face, and they share countless ordinary kisses; this is what Koiko believes to be "happiness." Given Koiko's endeavors toward ordinariness, there is no reason for her to associate with Tsurugi Ninomiya. Tall, handsome, athletic, and smart, he is the antithesis of her credo. That is, until Tsurugi reveals that Koiko's boyfriend has been cheating on her, and discloses one more shocking detail: in all the time he has seen her, she has never once looked happy. With Koiko's "ordinary" world thrown into imbalance, is there any way for an average girl like her to find happiness? [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Discommunication
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Arika Togawa doesn't understand why she has fallen in love with her classmate, Takamori Matsubue. She hardly knows him. Together they decide to find out how two strangers can fall in love. "Why do people fall in love?" Several wonderful but strange love stories based on this eternal mystery are told in this "Truly Mysterious Love Manga." (Source: Kodan Club)
Auto Focus
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A girl with a strange mother who brings home a new father and step brother. She loves photography, and her new step father is a photographer. She suddenly has a boyfriend but her heart belongs to someone else. (Source: MU)
Ciguatera
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The story of Ciguatera follows Ogino, who is bullied in high school along with his friend Takai. The two rely on their passion towards motorcycles and desire to get one to add some hope and vigor to their otherwise bleak lives. The two are learning to drive in secret at a driving school, and it is there that Ogino's life begins to change forever. The manga follows a variety of characters through their high school and working lives, through their struggles, their triumphs, their dreams, their futures, their love, life and loss. Ciguatera is a mature manga from Minoru Furuya, author of Ping Pong Club and Himizu.
The Testament of Sister New Devil
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"Hey, you said you wanted an little sister, right?" First year high school student, Toujo Basara, was suddenly asked by his farther and fell into a state of panic. On top of that, the eccentric father told him he will be getting remarried. He then departed overseas after bringing Basara two beautiful step-sisters. But Mio and Maria's true forms are actually the newbie Demon Lord and a succubus!? Basara was almost entered into a master and servant contract with Mio, but a "reversed" contract was formed by mistake, and Basara is now the master!? Moreover, Basara is being hit by ecchi situation one after another due to the contract, but Mio's life is being pursued by other demon tribes and hero tribes!! The most powerful contractor's desire action drama begins! (Source: MU)
Kijima-san and Yamada-san
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Kijima-san, who can hear people's inner voices, and Yamada-san, whose inner voice is very loud. Kijima-san happened to hear Yamada-san's inner voice gushing about her love everyday at work. As time passed, he was charmed by her bright and warm personality. He can hear her heart, but he can't proceed. However, he can't hold back his feelings! A blossoming romance can be heard! (Source: Square Enix, translated)
Boys Over Flowers Season 2
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Eitoku Academy has a legacy of being a school for the ultimate elite, the best of the best. And the most rich and powerful students there have formed the Correct 5 clique to maintain the integrity of their school. Unfortunately, new student Oto Edogawa doesn't have the pedigreed background of her peers and has to work part-time jobs to help make ends meet. Will a chance encounter with Haruto Kaguragi, the leader of the Correct 5, put everything at risk? (Source: VIZ Manga)
Geten No Hana
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Hotaru Kunoichi of the Iga Village accepted a request to infiltrate Oda Nobunaga's castle, Aduchi Castle. The one waiting for her there was Nobunaga's confidant, Akechi Mitsuhide. Under the lie that she is Mitsuhide's young sister, she stays in the castle and decides to investigate the internal conditions of the Oda army to see if there are any who would harm Nobunaga. Hotaru deepens her relations with great military commanders, from Nobunaga to Hashiba Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. However, it will all be over if they figure out who she truly is... (Source: Starry Heaven)
Part-time job is "evil organization"!?
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Arihisa Aokura needs money. He needs money in order to support his family of orphans and earn a living at the same time. Looking online for potential employees, he finds a posting for a part time job in an "evil organization." Seeing that the pay and benefits were fairly substantial, he took the chance and took the interview. He was somehow hired and now has to work as a henchman inside the evil organization "Antares." Will he be able to survive the onslaught of missions against heroes while providing for his orphan brothers and sisters? (Source: MangaHelpers)
The Girl from Class
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Have you ever fallen in love with a girl sitting next to you? His love has begun just like that.
Even If You Slit My Mouth
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Miroku is a slit-mouthed woman whose ear-to-ear smile strikes fear into the superstitious, but who would have thought she had a fiancé? Once an infamous urban legend, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Folklore" has found her existence threatened by the public's declining belief in her. She is also roped into a contractual marriage with 17-year-old Kouichi Sano, a member of a family responsible for the continued existence of the supernatural. Miroku is unenthused by the arrangement and wishes to regain her notoriety through her own means. For this reason, Sano makes his fiancée a deal: if she can scare him once before he turns 18, he will end the engagement. Miroku concedes to these terms but is unsettled by Sano's proposed condition—where he must make her fall in love with him. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
My Girlfriend Is the Best!
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After a guy is dumped by his girlfriend, his friend suggests that he go out with her instead! And thus begins the hilarious story of a relationship between a guy and his new headstrong and stubborn girlfriend! (Source: Manga Rock)
Cherry Juice
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In this awkward love-triangle between two step- siblings, -Otome and Minami- and a best friend, Amane, the three are trapped in a web of love. After getting along for five years, Otome and Minami's peaceful relationship takes a turn in the wrong direction when Amane confesses his love to Otome. What will Otome do? (Source: TokyoPop)
Sayoko-san's Romantic Ghost Story
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Sayoko is an incredibly kind, but solitary, young kimono-clad lady who has certain supernatural abilities. She can see ghosts, and she frees them from their places of death by agreeing to let them haunt her instead. As a result, everywhere she goes, she is followed by an army of well-meaning spirits that only she can see. Her weirdness tends to throw any normal people who would have otherwise possibly become her friends. Inaba is a poor college student who accidentally ran over her with his bicycle, before learning that the store where he had worked had gone out of business and his boss had vanished. Sayoko was not only very understanding about the accident, she even gave him money that would help him out until he found another job! Though Inaba's no fan of the supernatural, he was so grateful that he managed to pretend Sayoko wasn't weird at all, even when she started talking to ghosts. Sayoko, unused to this sort of treatment from others, fell in love instantly. Now she's become his next door neighbor, and, with a little help from her ghosts, she's determined to try her best to win his heart! (Source: Mangahelpers)
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