drama
Drama manga heavily emphasize their characters' emotional development. Whether by experiencing the protagonist's emotional turmoil, viewing heated character interactions, or exploring a passionate romance, any manga that humanizes its characters through emphasizing their flaws qualifies as a Drama.
Ningen Kousaten
Status: Completed
The manga is about a series of unrelated short stories of people's lives and their lessons in life.
Note: Received the 1985 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.
Note: Received the 1985 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.
Tasogare Ryuuseigun
Status: Ongoing
How about this, a manga for adults – and not young adults either. This is a series of stories about love and romance amongst the older generations. As the manga itself says, “In the later years of their lives, men and women sometimes find themselves in... Show more
Seed
Status: Completed
[i]Let's keep this seed a secret between us. We won't tell anyone.
Hide it inside your body, give it warmth and absorb it, and it will sprout, like our love.[/i]
Hide it inside your body, give it warmth and absorb it, and it will sprout, like our love.[/i]
Sensational Love Lesson Ensnaring Melody
Status: Completed
Nana is a slave to her piano teacher, Satsuki. Satsuki has a split personality and only Nana sees the dark abusive side. Trapped in this relationship, can newcomer Tsukamoto help her break free?
Remon no Himegoto
Status: Completed
From Ochibichan:
How does love go to your side? Is it like sunlight shining, is it like petals falling, or is it a reply to my prayer– Love. While Happiness shines rays of light, it slowly leaves the sky, picking up huge feathers, shrouding the ... Show more
How does love go to your side? Is it like sunlight shining, is it like petals falling, or is it a reply to my prayer– Love. While Happiness shines rays of light, it slowly leaves the sky, picking up huge feathers, shrouding the ... Show more
Onna Tomodachi (ICHIJO Yukari)
Status: Completed
Story of four female friends, all around love and life-choices. Sensei's drawings are a bit shaky between the messy Eighties and her current mature style, but the story is already going much further than the regular Ribon manga.
Tea Time
Status: Completed
Two Seventies dramas, the first having tortured pretty boys and the second still having traces from the more heavy sixties shoujo style.
Dokyouboshi
Status: Completed
For the search of the Mars Exploration Corps, astronaut selection test begins.
Orgel Garden
Status: Completed
Mary, who doesn't feel she's happy in life in spite of being rich. Sakura, who worries over her being considerably slow. For Mary, it's expressing her love through a music box, and for Sakura, it's gaining the courage to be herself...
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Doubt (TONOGAI Yoshiki)
Status: Completed
From Yen Press:
A Japanese cell phone game called Rabbit Doubt has gone viral in Tokyo. In it, players are rabbits who must do everything in their power to uncover the wolf in rabbit’s clothing before it kills them off. The wolf, a randomly sele... Show more
A Japanese cell phone game called Rabbit Doubt has gone viral in Tokyo. In it, players are rabbits who must do everything in their power to uncover the wolf in rabbit’s clothing before it kills them off. The wolf, a randomly sele... Show more
Yogoreteru Hima Nanka Nai
Status: Completed
Matsumi Sachiko's always searching for love in the wrong places. She's made more blunders in the love department than she can count over the years, and things just never seem to go well for her. She's quick to sleep with others in her search for that speci... Show more
Hatsukoi ni Oboreta
Status: Completed
Compilation of short stories:
1-3) Hatsukoi ni Oboreta
4) Sweet Cool
Suzu's boyfriend suddenly broke up with her at the end of summer vacation. She pretended that it was alright while he was there, but as soon as he left she began to ... Show more
1-3) Hatsukoi ni Oboreta
4) Sweet Cool
Suzu's boyfriend suddenly broke up with her at the end of summer vacation. She pretended that it was alright while he was there, but as soon as he left she began to ... Show more
Ren'ai Daabii
Status: Completed
From Shoujo Crusade:
Miki always loves to be the first in everything. She now aims to be the Seiryou Miss of the school Christmas party. She plans to confess to the school's prince, Suga-senpai, when she's chosen and be his first girlfriend. However, h... Show more
Miki always loves to be the first in everything. She now aims to be the Seiryou Miss of the school Christmas party. She plans to confess to the school's prince, Suga-senpai, when she's chosen and be his first girlfriend. However, h... Show more
Kimi no Uta ga Aru
Status: Completed
After a very public (and humiliating) break-up with her last boyfriend, things couldn't get any worse for 18 year old Emiko. Things start looking up however, when a good-looking guy stops her in the middle of the street to offer her tickets to an upcoming ... Show more
Kare no Ondo
Status: Completed
Ito, a girl who is physically abused by her father, nonetheless hides it from the people around her. But when things spiral out of control only Ibuki is willing to reach out his hand to try and save her. As the two are drawn together, however, he is simult... Show more
Dakara Botan ga Suki Yanen
Status: Completed
Botan, an elementary student, lived with her ill mother, Sakura. Botan's father passed away in a car accident. One day a strange man named Miyuki appeared in their lives and her mother married him. Even though Botan hated Miyuki for ending her time alone w... Show more
Usotsuki Voice
Status: Completed
The story follows two orphaned sisters, Kisugi Nami and Mina. Nami possesses the talent to mimic voices and on their uncle's suggestion, voices a character in a game called "Female Detective Omega," using "Minami" as an alias.
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L.A. wa Kimagure ni
Status: Completed
Karumi likes L.A. and has met a boy there. They get on well together until a beautiful blonde appears on the scene.
Includes two other stories.
Includes two other stories.
Kami-sama ni Misutereta 20 Hiai
Status: Completed
From Midnight Scans:
It was the night of Christmas Eve, when Haruka and Kyouichi were supposed to have spent their first night together. However, by coincidence, they became the witnesses to a convenience store robbery, and their future made a dra... Show more
It was the night of Christmas Eve, when Haruka and Kyouichi were supposed to have spent their first night together. However, by coincidence, they became the witnesses to a convenience store robbery, and their future made a dra... Show more
Love Song (NISHI Keiko)
Status: Completed
Love Song is a collection of four short stories by shoujo artist Keiko Nishi. The first story, "Love Song", is about a girl who knows only physical violence as a way of expressing her love. The second story, "Jewels of the Seaside", is ... Show more
Magic Love Child
Status: Completed
7 years ago on Christmas Eve, at a night club called Myosotis, Diana Pearlton, the lead singer left the club without telling anyone. Jane, a magician who performed the magic show at the club there and was dating her at that time woke up and saw only her go... Show more