Rambling

Yuri Comic Recommendations

Methodology

To save space, here is my longer disclaimer about this list I made for myself. You can click each drop down triangle to read more.

Background & Personal Tastes --------------------------------------------------------------------
In 2018 I went through all of Dynasty Scan's series in a rabid quest for Yuri that didn't bore me. This list was born of that, and I've updated it sporadically since then. (For one, I don't really visit Dynasty Scans anymore.)

The following is a list of Yuri I thought was at least passable. For reference on how this is all rated, this is the type of Yuri I enjoy:

Opinions on stuff like scanlations and official releases --------------------------------------------------------------------
I note series' current licensed status. If the series can be found on Dynasty Scans or Manga Dex, I've left a link. This is because Dynasty Scans, like Manga Dex, is not a scraper and removes anything that is licensed. Regardless, you can find most of these by looking up the name and "read online free" or something similar. In the cases where I couldn't find a Dynasty Scans or Manga Dex link, I've provided a link that contains an internet search for the comic for you.

If you enjoy something and have spare cash, you should definitely support the creators. Some people like me are not in the position to comfortably spend money on comics, though, and I don't actually believe that we should paywall all art. If you have a staunch belief that everyone should pay for every single piece of media they consume ever and that scanlations should not exist, you are free to ignore this list.

Here is a short list of comic distributors whose models I've actually checked out:

VIZ β€” for manga. They have an online reader available in your browser, but it's far inferior to the mobile app, and the browser version is lagging behind in multiple chapters (besides Shounen Jump, which is updated consistently). On the app they release chapter by chapter, and it is always ahead of the actual physical graphic novel releases. It costs about $5 a month to be subscribed to their non-Shounen Jump catalog, which gives you access to probably any series listed here that they worked on. It's a good deal, but I don't know how long series stay in their catalog for. My family does pay for a subscription for this.

WEBTOON β€” as titled, for webtoons. Their website allows you to read all currently publishing series for free, though if you subscribe and use their app you can access newer chapters earlier. Using the app also allows you to watch (a limited number of) ads to unlock more chapters. You can also buy coins, which you can use to purchase early access chapters or chapters of series that have finished and thus have become paywalled past the first season. You can also use the coins you have to throw at individual comics, and it'll go directly to their creators β€” or so they claim. Someone else I've spoken to says that they still take a cut and you should find the creators and Ko-Fi/Paypal/etc. them individually. WEBTOON'S website includes comments under every chapter by default, and the commenters have their heads in the right places from the few comics I've read on there. (LGBTQ friendly, etc.)

This list is a product of time --------------------------------------------------------------------
As this list was slowly added to over more than a decade, the ratings provided capture my personal enjoyment from that period of time. I tend to be pretty consistent, so it's unlikely that I would read something that I rated pretty low in the past and add points back to it. (The reverse might happen, though.)

Not all series were finished at the time that I added them to this list. To note this, I've added a year in small text after each entry to indicate when the last time I even checked out this work was. Anything more than 5 years ago I probably don't remember very well now outside of the notes I left.

I've organized this list by my personal score, top to bottom. To be honest, I don't really care much for series that score below 7.5, but they're included because they were passable. Sometimes you're so desperate for Yuri in a world that prioritizes Het and Yaoi that you'll take almost anything that isn't garbage.


Content Warnings --------------------------------------------------------------------
I generally warn for stuff like pointless fanservice/fetishism, sexual assault/rape, and age gap where one of the parties is a minor. Sometimes these themes are discussed seriously and are integral to the work itself (good!!), but most of the time it's something random thrown in that the series would do much better without (-_-). I generally think the rest of the series is still entertaining or thought-provoking, though, or I wouldn't put it on here.

I also mark which series include sex so you can avoid accidentally reading it in public.


Think there's a series that should be here? --------------------------------------------------------------------
If you think there's a series I should check out, you can leave me a note in my guestbook and I will read at least a chapter of it and reply with my opinions. If I like it enough, it will be added here. (You can even recommend me comics that are in Japanese only, though these will take me longer to read.)


FORMAT:
Title [Creators: Full name; Publication year]
β˜… Score/10 (Year I reviewed) βœ”=I completed this series.
β€” [Where to read] ✦ License status
Basic description.


LAST UPDATE: April 18th, 2026 β€” Yuri Espoir



Recommendations

10/10 - GOLD TIER

How Do We Relationship? [Tamifull; 2018-2025]
β˜… 10/10 (2025) βœ” β€” VIZ
Two lesbians in university start dating solely because they both like women, only to have issues relating to each other on a deeper level. A mature look on personal needs, communication, and attraction. Examines and works through toxic codependency and muddied consent. This series has sexual content.

My soapbox about why you should read How Do We Relationship? --------------------------------------------------------------------
This series is currently my favorite manga of all time. Tamifull asked a vital question: Why do romance stories end right as they get together? What about the actual relationship-building part of it?

I've never seen a romance manga (and a gay one, at that) fully display the complexities of relationships and the ways we both hurt and learn from each other in the way this does. This reverses the typical script of "high emotional investment in the process of establishing a relationship, boring fluff afterwards or drama from other characters" to "Holy shit, all the good stuff is in the actual Relationship part."

It's hard to go into much detail without giving spoilers, but this manga takes you through the whole cycle of ups and downs in relationships, and when it heads down, it really dives deep but without dwelling there more than it needs to. As its guiding principle, the characters are presented with such emotional strife not to torture them but to call them out on their unhealthy habits and to give them the chance to work their way up to a better sense of self. It's really great to see such emotional lows really be represented in a way that cuts deeper than simply, "I'm crushed because I don't have the affection of this person," which is like every mid-tier breakup song. It really hones in on the individual ways different people want to feel needed.

It's precisely this type of crash that lets the moments where they work themselves out of it really, really shine because you can see how far the characters have come. My favorite pages of this comic include both moments of toxic desire as well as the glowing moments of breakthrough, trust, and love. The fact that neither of these types of moments last forever is the very journey of life itself, and what you need or want is always developing and changing.

I also just love how these characters are flat out wrong about themselves sometimes in ways that really make the foreshadowing fun to look for in the earlier chapters. Saeko and Miwa, for instance, both have instances where they say something about what they want or need that they end up contradicting. Each of these characters help and hurt each other in ways that are completely human.

Settling is simply not enough. For a relationship to last, trust and communication is crucial, and your differing needs have to align. That kind of respectful love is the kind I ultimately want to see.





Ohana Holoholo [Shino Torino; 2008]

β˜… 10/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Features a woman & her roommate, who has a kid. They were previously romantically involved, but her roommate ran away and left her. They later met again and moved in together, but both are struggling with abandonment fears. Add in a man who’s connected to the roommate’s dead husband, and you have a story about 3 partly emotionally dysfunctional adults trying to connect as a family. Some naked bodies but no actual sex.


Kakeochi Girl [Battan; 2018-2020]

β˜… 10/10 (2021) βœ” β€” Kodansha
Woman meets her first crush again after years. Said crush is now married and pregnant in an abusive relationship. Extremely good art and follow through. The scanlated title was Run Away With Me, Girl.


The Private Report on my Lesbian Experience with Loneliness [Kabi Nagata; 2016]

β˜… 10/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Seven Seas
Autobiographical comic about a woman & her experiences with repressed sexuality, depression, and parental problems. Warnings: Self-harm, eating disorders, mental illness, possible abuse. Includes nudity and sexual themes, including on the cover. This is the first in the series of autobiographical comics of Nagata's. Also worth noting is the fact that Nagata has not given any actual word to her sexuality; the localized title decided she was Lesbian, but a more literal title is "A Report on Being So Lonely That I Went to a Lesbian Brothel."


9/10 - SILVER TIER

She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat [Sakaomi Yuzaki; 2021]
β˜… 9/10 (2025) Might move this to 10/10 after the series completes. β€” Yen Press A woman who loves to cook has a problem: She wants to cook much more than she can eat. Luckily for her, it turns out her next door neighbor is capable of eating a ton. The concept is simple, but it also takes a deeper look at sexism, lesbophobia, and people's different relationships to food.
My (overly personal and not spoiler free) thoughts on the first 3 volumes can be found here.


Still Sick [Akashi; 2018]
β˜… 9/10 (2022) βœ” β€” Tokyopop
An office worker has a secret: she draws yuri doujinshi in her spare time. This is then discovered by her "cheery" coworker. The series has sexual implications at times but no actual sex. Very good character development.


Teppu [Moare Ohta; 2008]
β˜… 9/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Kodansha
Girl who's jaded from being too talented is beaten in the ring by an airhead who is nothing but 100% pure optimism and passion. Naturally, this pisses her off. Though not explicitly a yuri series, it has at least one canonical sapphic character, and the protagonist and her rival are compared to a bride and groom at one point. Nice psychological backings, weird characters, and tons of muscular girls.


Fatale Game [Battan; 2025]
β˜… 9/10 (2026) - K Manga
A struggling mangaka meets what appears to be an inspirational editor but who is actually a femme fatale β€” all of the mangaka she's in charge of fall head-over-heels for her, creating a toxic competitive circle where they compete for her limited affection. Will our protagonist make it through unscathed? I have no idea, but I'm riveted and along for the ride.


Our Journey to Lesbian Motherhood [Koyuki Higashi, Hiroko Masuhara, and Emiko Sugiyama; 2016]
β˜… 9/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Wives decide they want to have children. Autobiographical.


8/10 - BRONZE TIER

Moonlight Flowers [Tsukumo Mutsumi; 1989]
β˜… 8.5/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Classic Yuri manga about women leaving men for their girlfriends, and how men react to it. TW: Rape, lesbophobia, sexist violence.


The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All [Sumiko Arai; 2022]
β˜… 8/10 (2022) β€” Yen Press
Girl falls for a music store employee that she thinks is a boy, but who just so happens to be the girl sitting next to her in class.
Also known as "Green Yuri." For once, I agree with the crowd. It's a good yuri.


Mage and Demon Queen [Color_LES; 2019]
β˜… 8/10 (2021) βœ” β€” WEBTOON
RPG universe where the Hero is only interested in trying to fight the Demon Queen because she’s stupidly in love with her. Has some nice character developments and actually an overarching plot that has properly foreshadowed elements. Otherwise highly comedic.


Her Tale of Shim Chong [Seri and Bi-wan; 2017]
β˜… 8/10 (2025) βœ” β€” Tapas
A beggar meets a woman stuck in an arranged marriage in a historical setting. This veers into near tragedy territory and showcases misogyny in a lot of forms.


REVEAL OUT! [Treasure, Hinahina Gray, Caribo; 2023-2025]
β˜… 8/10 (2025) βœ” β€” WEBTOON
An artist whose life is going extremely poorly gets sent back to her college days and has the chance for some real self-discovery.


Rock it, GIRL!! [Minoru Tanaka; 2011]
β˜… 8/10 (2019) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
A shy, depressed girl who sings on the side of the road is scouted for a debut, but she has to work with a girl who insulted her. Series has an extremely unique vibe.


Lonely Wolf Lonely Sheep [Fuka Mizutani; 2011]
β˜… 8/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Two girls with the same name meet at a hospital after getting injured and hit it off. TW: abuse and self-harm. Doesn’t include a canon confession, but it’s obviously romantic, since one of them is explicitly a lesbian.
This was one of the first yuri works I read and enjoyed, so I have a soft spot for it.


It Would be Great if You Didn’t Exist [Carbonara; 2016]
β˜… 8/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Expired Official License
A woman discovers that her boyfriend has been cheating on her and ends up in a confrontation with the other woman. Other woman is exactly her type, but has a talent of pissing her off. Goes into abuse.
Finished Korean webcomic with meh fan translation; localized title was β€œWish you were gone,” but Tapas's license has expired, which also makes it really hard to find :///


The Star Next Door [Kkamji; 2023]
β˜… 8/10 (2026) β€” Do an internet search ✦ Unlicensed
An idol fan realizes that an idol that she's not particular fond of is living in the apartment above hers. The two of them end up getting closer and muddling through their own individual trauma about relationships β€” but it is precisely this negotiation that lets them figure out a relationship that will work for them.


Comprehensive Tovarich [Iri Arata; 2011]
β˜… 8/10 (2026) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Ultra competitive girl is determined to be recognized as the best student of every subject but is felled by randos who have specialized talents. Funny and refreshing characterization. 3 canon couples. Warning for boob jokes about these teen characters.


Yuri Espoir [Naoimai; 2019]
β˜… 8/10 (2026) β€” Tokyopop
A high schooler who's slotted to be married off to a man upon graduation tries to stave off the despair by imagining strangers around her as lesbian couples with her friend, who happens to be in love with her. Every chapter is split into two parts: one part that focuses on the main story, and then one part that shows the actual lives of the strangers they fantasize about. Note that this has dark undertones; warnings for self-harm and suicide. It's unclear whether this will have a happy ending or not.


7/10 - TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT TIER

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Happiness Rides a Broomstick [Yeongol; 2022]
β˜… 7.5/10 (2026) β€” Do an internet search ✦ Unlicensed
A college freshman runs into a dokkaebi whose only ability seems to be transforming, specifically into a broomstick.


Fox and Elixir [Sannyang; 2021]
β˜… 7.5/10 (2026) β€” Do an internet search ✦ Unlicensed
A fox spirit meets a princess who is confined within a palace.


Clover [Hiyori Otsu; 2008]
β˜… 7.5/10 (2025) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Series of oneshots. Each one focuses on a different sister but centers their story in high school, so the timeline moves backwards every chapter. It starts with the youngest and moves to the oldest. Simple, slightly quirky, and yet very effective.


Indigo Blue [Ebine Yamaji; 2002]
β˜… 7.5/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
A writer has a boyfriend, but finds herself falling in love with one of her readers. Has sex. If this manga is your style, go look up other ones Yamaji Ebine has done.


Mermaid Line [Kindaichi Renjuurou; 2006]
β˜… 7.5/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Series of one shots, with mostly bittersweet endings (except for one, you can figure out which one that is yourself). Has a trans woman lesbian!


Learning Love [Chiaki Hanano; 2025]
β˜… 7.5/10 (2026) β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
A teacher has to navigate the messy relationships of her students. Along the way, we get glimpses into her own gay romance. Mostly putting it here because it tackles some interesting topics I don't really see come up in romance comics much.


Common-Sense Monster [Wanai Warugi; 2023]
β˜… 7.5/10 (2025) β€” Yen Press
A girl who is extremely bad at reading social cues meets a monster who is better at "acting human" than her. Personally, I find this much more interesting than other monster yuri we have around, particularly because it's way weirder and struggles with what it means to be "normal," something I think we don't interrogate nearly enough. Warning for sexual assault attempts from adults (which are brutally foiled).


Akumade Amai Watashi no Kanojo [Haru Yatosaki; 2024]
β˜… 7.5/10 (2025) βœ” β€” Link
A girl who loves parfaits falls in love with a succubus. Cue a lot of parfait-eating.


Cirque Arachne [Nika Saida; 2012]
β˜… 7.5/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
A beautifully drawn story about two girls who are acrobats together.


Collectors [Uko Nishi; 2009]
β˜… 7.5/10 (2018) β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Two women who are dating have very specific, separate interests. 4-koma comedy. Also recommended from this mangaka: Tonari no Robot / Couleur de bijoux d'amour


The Conditions of Paradise [Akiko Morishima; 2007]
β˜… 7.5/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Seven Seas
A collection of short stories. The first covers a woman who travels all the time and a woman who stays in one place.


The Skirt Sings at the Landing [Yuu Utatane; 2020-2025]
β˜… 7.5/10 (2025) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Girl who is insecure about her height but secretly wants to dance the feminine role is propositioned by a girl who is insecure about being called cute but very much wants to dance the masculine role.
(Not spoiler free) blog post thoughts here.


The Wolf Steals the Sun [Yatsae; 2025]
β˜… 7/10 (2026) β€” Do an internet search ✦ Unlicensed
A princess fated to suffer in an unwanted arranged marriage finds her way out when a princess from another country shows up as a potential suitor in disguise. Lots of sexual content.


After Hours [Yuuta Nishio; 2015]
β˜… 7/10 (2019) β€” VIZ
A girl gets picked up at a club and hits it off. Great art.


Girlfriend Manual [saefira (Merlin); 2025]
β˜… 7/10 (2019) β€” WEBTOON
A girl struggling to get a girlfriend falls in love with a standoffish barista.


Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl [Canno; 2013]
β˜… 7/10 (2019) β€” Yen Press
Many high-school romances as they navigate their feelings. Warnings for nonconsensual kisses and almost-assault that is taken kind of lightly (the protag’s love interest fake chokes her in chapter 2) and incest for one pairing (β€œaunt” and β€œniece” that have grown up together and are only a few years apart in age). The pairings have different degrees of success imo but the emotions portrayed at least feel genuine.


An Easy Introduction to Love Triangles (To Pass the Exam!) [Canno; 2020]
β˜… 7/10 (2021) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
A girl is in love with her senpai who’s in love with her classmate, who has trauma about romance because she’s polyamorous.
IMO, this ends a bit too soon to go really in depth.


This Monster Wants to Eat Me [Sai Naekawa; 2020]
β˜… 7/10 (2023) β€” Yen Press β€” Ongoing

A suicidal girl takes solace in the idea that a mermaid monster will soon end her life.


Aoi Hana [Takako Shimura; 2004]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) βœ” β€” VIZ
Features multiple wlw & familiar yuri tropes with a lot of desperate feelings on everyone’s parts. TW: coercive rape / sexual assault / incest, primarily in the beginning regarding Fumi’s relationship with her cousin.
It’s not an easy ride in any manner, and if you’re like me and you read Akira as aroace, the ending might not sit right with you, especially since Fumi has dependency issues. Anime doesn’t reach confession. Has sexual content.


Bloom Into You [Nio Nakatani; 2015]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Seven Seas
A girl has issues turning down an unwanted confession from a boy. While receiving advice from a popular upperclassman, she unwittingly attracts the upperclassman’s attention & affection.
TBH it’s strangely similar to Aoi Hana, with the unintentionally aromantic/asexual-coded orange-pigtailed girl that gets dragged into a relationship with an angsty long black-haired girl who does not have her shit together and forms a unilateral emotional dependence on the pigtailed girl. While it failed to convince me that these two were a good match for each other, this series has made a big impact on the popularity of Yuri in the West (at least I feel like I never heard anyone talking about Yuri before this), so it deserves a note for that at least. Has sexual content near the end.


Ebisu-san and Hotei-san [Akira Kizuki, Nanki Satou; 2010]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Office Lady romance. They get off on the wrong foot, but as they spend more time together they start to find each other admirable.


Come Rain or Shine [Iri Arata; 2019]
β˜… 7/10 (2025) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
A girl from the outskirts joins a boarding school and has difficulties making friends until she runs into the student council secretary. Through the shenanigans of 4 other random characters, they end up forming a hodgepodge club. There are three main couples. Warning: One side couple is unfortunately teacher x student.


Office Romance: Women's Division [Akiko Morishima; 2009]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
About a group of women who all work in the same office and their various romances.


Romance Girls File [Akiko Morishima; 2009]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Short stories. The first covers an adult couple counseling a teenage couple.


Magan & Danai [Ermuzibu; 2015]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Comedic webcomic about a dating couple & their home life. Scans haven’t been updated in years.


Sugar wa Otoshigoro [Hikaru Ninomiya; 2008]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
A girl who can’t read social cues and thinks she wants to become a prostitute becomes friends with a girl that is socially outcast due to prostitution rumors. How much of the rumors are true, and does it actually matter? More of an experimental series that focuses on showing how connections can be deep and yet confusing and opaque. It's a weird series more about reading the bigger truth (what is consistent and felt) rather than about the actual facts; as such, some may find the ending unsatisfactory. Note that it regularly shows the naked bodies of the characters who are teens. TW: depictions of rape, sexual assault.


Their Story [Mosspaca Studio, Tan Jiu; 2014]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed β€” Ongoing
Jokester protagonist meets a girl and falls in love. Now she has to figure out if they can become friends, and how they can meet again. High level of comedy shenanigans.


Dandelion Among Lilies [Serika Yamaguchi; 2012]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Protagonist’s sister shows up out of the blue at her apartment… with a girlfriend. Protag inevitably has to help them work out their relationship insecurities.


Girl Friends [Milk Morinaga; 2006]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Seven Seas
A girl becomes friends with a popular girl at school. Deals with compulsory heterosexuality. Has sexual content.


Girl x Girl x Boy [Kujira; 2008]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
A circular love triangle with 2 girls and 1 boy. Or is it? Sexual connotations but no actual sex.


Girl’s Ride [Tsuyoshi Isomoto; 2011]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Girls and motorcycles. Great art.


Kase-san and... [Hiromi Takashima; 2010]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) β€” Seven Seas
A girl who likes to garden & a girl who’s good at track fall in love. Has sexual content.


Manga no Tsukurikata [Auri Hirao; 2008]
β˜… 7/10 (2018) β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Two girls dating, procrastinating, & making manga. Comedic.


My Husband Who Actually Turned Out to Be My Wife [Tsushima Tsushima; 2020]
β˜… 7/10 (2021) β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
4-koma following a woman whose β€œhusband” comes out as transgender. Essentially free from drama and is trans-affirming.



6/10 - YURI DEFICIENCY DESPERATION TIER

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Bright and Cheery Amnesia [Tamamushi Oku; 2016]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2018) β€” Yen Press
Woman’s girlfriend has gotten into an accident and now has amnesia. Luckily for her though, her girlfriend falls heads-over-heels again immediately. 4-koma comedy. Has sexual implications at times.


Candy [Yufuko Suzuki; 2010]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2018) β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
A sporty girl gets confessed to by a beautiful upperclassman. TW: sexual-assault by a teacher in later chapters.


Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon [Shio Usui; 2019]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2021) β€” Seven Seas
An office lady who has issues expressing what she really wants starts getting involved with a coworker who is competent and blunt.


False Marigold [Sasuke (γ‚΅γ‚Ήγ‚±); 2023]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2025) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
After her brother dies, a girl ends up impersonating him to his blind girlfriend. Set in the Taisho era.


Flower Flower [Shouko Iwami; 2007]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed β€” Canceled
A foreign princess is betrothed to this country’s prince, but when she finds out that the prince loves wearing feminine clothing, she opts to marry the prince’s younger sibling instead (who she mistakes for a boy). Thus these two princesses end up together. Canceled after 13 chapters, as it was getting dramatic.


Graffiti [Kikka Furutsuji; 2010]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
A girl is bored in school and writes on her desk. Surprisingly, she finds that someone else who sits at her desk during the night class has written back.


Hana and Hina After School [Milk Morinaga, 2015]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2018) β€” Seven Seas
Co-workers at a cute character goods-themed store.


Rainbows After Storms [Luka Kobachi; 2017]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2018) β€” VIZ
Two schoolgirls are secretly dating. Cute sequences of their life. Later chapters go into some relationship issues and solving those.


How Do I Turn My Best Friend Into My Girlfriend? [Shuu Yasaka; 2022]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2024) β€” Seven Seas
Childhood friends that are really touchy with each other. One of them realizes she’s in love with the other.


The Summer You Were There [Yuama; 2020]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2021) β€” Seven Seas
A girl with childhood trauma writes a book that she intends to throw away, when it is spotted and read by the girl who sits next to her in class. Her trauma is one that is touched upon in fiction pretty infrequently, so that seems interesting. Meanwhile, love interest seems kind of like a unspecified-sickly perfect girl so I have to say that she’s super uninteresting.


Love and Dreams Don't Mix [Shizuku Torii; 2024]
β˜… 6.5/10 [2025] βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Girl can't focus on school anymore because of her crush, so she tries to confess to that crush to get rejected on purpose. However, her crush finds her hopelessness interesting and instead humors her to see her get worse.


I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day [Nachi Aono; 2018]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2021) β€” Kodansha
Girl lives in a magical school where they have to fight monsters. Her roommate has just died, and her new partner is apparently the living weapon of the academy. Weirdly cute, especially in art, not sure where it’s going storywise.


Nameless Asterism [Kina Kobayashi; 2015]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2019) βœ” β€” Seven Seas
Circular love triangle with 3 girls who are close friends. Each girl has different amounts of knowledge on who likes who. Has a lot of inner monologues. Finished kind of erratically, without really resolving anything. Warning: some crossdressing fetishism


Whispered Words [Takashi Ikeda; 2007]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2018) βœ” β€” One Peace Books
A girl is in love with her best friend, but her best friend crushes all the time on cute girls (the exact opposite of the protagonist). Annoying otaku jokes (esp regarding the β€œcrossdressing” jokes) but the lesbian part is good. Deals with lesbophobia. Anime doesn’t make it to the confession.


Seifuku no Vampiress Lord [Tomoki Matsumoto; 2014]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2019) β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed β€” Canceled
Lesbian is turned into a vampire and the dude who did so is hanging out at her house to teach her how to live a vampire life. Meanwhile, she keeps swooning all the ladies.


Whisper Me a Love Song [Eku Takeshima; 2019]
β˜… 6.5/10 (2021) β€” Kodansha An air-headed girl becomes starry-eyed over another girl after seeing her perform at school, and tries to get that girl to do performances more often. Said girl then falls in love with her.


Aqua Blue Cinema [Hiyori Otsu; 2009]
β˜… 6/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
An actress going through a breakup meets a girl who mistakenly thinks she's about to commit suicide.


Apocalypse [Uso Kurata; 2009]
β˜… 6/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed β€” Canceled
Friends enter an MMORPG to find out that they’ve been given a beta testing item: marriage rings. Unfortunately cancelled after 3 chapters.


Anemone is in Heat [Ren Sakuragi; 2020]
β˜… 6/10 (2023) β€” Yen Press
A girl ended up not being able to take the entrance exam for the school she wanted because she saved a girl who had fallen to the ground. She’s bitter about it, but said girl is now sitting right next to her in class. Honestly the emotional development isn’t very believable and it’s basically pure fluff + infantilized (unnamed) disability. I mostly skipped around reading this because I wasn’t that interested.


I decided to fake a marriage with my junior (♀) to shut my parents up [Naoko Kodama; 2018]
β˜… 6/10 (2019) β€” Seven Seas Exactly as the title says.


If This Wish Comes True [Mera Hakamada; 2007]
β˜… 6/10 (2018) β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Love triangle, where two of them are already dating. Sequel has the last girl falling in love with a woman, but that's minor x adult & not very good, so I won’t recommend it. Has sexual content.


Killing Me! [Akiyama; 2017]
β˜… 6/10 (2018) β€” Yen Press ✦ Unlicensed
Vampire hunter keeps getting outdone by her vampire target.


Legally Married Yuri Couple Book [Hachishiro; 2014]
β˜… 6/10 (2018) β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Animal ears and marriage.


Strange Babies [Yayoi Ohsawa; 2012]
β˜… 6/10 (2018) β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
A girl who is popular online for running occult advice videos runs into another popular web icon in her school. Love Triangle.


The Flower and the Star [Kario Suzukin; 2010]
β˜… 6/10 (2018) β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
Girl runs into the person that made her give up on table tennis. Shenanigans and a love triangle.


I Married My Female Friend [Shio Usui; 2020]
β˜… 6/10 (2021) β€” Seven Seas
Two friends get married to try it out. One of them is secretly in love with the other one.


Happy Picture Diary [Akiko Morishima; 1997]
β˜… 6/10 (2018) βœ” β€” Link ✦ Unlicensed
A short 4-panel comic series about a couple in their twenties.



ONESHOTS

Expand List: Oneshots -------------------------------------------------------------------- These are sorted alphabetically, and I was too lazy to rate most of them. These are all unlicensed unless otherwise specified (because who would license one shots?). To save space, I've condensed my typical format here.


Darling Darling [Shimano Yae; 2010] | β˜… 7/10 (2019)
A woman feels like her lover isn’t giving her enough attention, and wonders how she can fix that.


Demons Harem [Zeniko Sumiya; 2018]
Girl that can see the supernatural has a smitten angel and demon following her, but what will happen when another demon targets her? Warning for physical assault that gets brushed under the rug. Some sexual vibes.


Fuwa Fuwa Feelings [Shimano Yae; 2010]
loosely connected, cute one shots that are mostly about friendship.


Kimiiro-Shoujo [Miman; 2014]
Schoolgirl oneshots.


I Beg of You [Kanmi; 2018] | β˜… 7/10 (2019)
A strange oneshot with interesting characters and a love triangle.


I’ll Send Her Home on the Last Train [Gido Amagakure; 2013]


Laika, Pavlov, Pochihachikou [Furiko Yotsuhara; 2013]
More schoolgirl oneshots. Warning about ch3: stalker apologism by portraying it as a cute and harmless quirk.


Like a Cinderella [Fuka Mizutani; 2010]
β˜… 7/10 (2019)
Simple oneshots by the mangaka who also did Lonely Wolf Lonely Sheep.


Maple Love [Hiyori Otsu; 2009]
A girls happens to be there when a popular girl is turning down someone's confession.


Number With You [Asaka Takishima; 2017]
An anxious girl and a loudmouthed girl who are best friends figure out how to do their class performance test.


Okujou Pikapika Romance [Yayoi Ohsawa; 2014]
Band club romance.


Othello [Hiyori Otsu; 2011]
Two girls who are opposites trying to come to terms with their feelings for each other.


Out of the Blue! [Kumichou; 2013]
Two loner girls fall in love.


Romance Code [Nmi; 2024]
A robot programmed to eternally love a woman finds that said woman is drifting from her. Dark.


Rooftop Miracle [Natsuneko; 2009]
Girl about to commit suicide runs into another girl about to commit suicide.


Shinjuku Liarβ™‘Girls [Rikka Fujisaki; 2022]
Streamers fake a gay relationship for views.


Watch out for Drunks! [Ruruu Minase; 2013]
Simple office-lady oneshot.


Wavering Mind [Peg; 2013]
A girl tries to find out who her friend’s crush is.



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