Name: Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet
Mangaka: Yammamori, Mika
Volumes: 14 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.14 Ch.77 (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Teen
Summary: Ohno Fumi is a poor 2nd year high school student. Because of her father’s debts, she’s kicked out of her own home and has to rely on her own connections to survive. Thus begins her life as a live-in housekeeper for a reclusive writer.
Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5
Name: M.A.X (Money Ace X)
Drawn by: Bak, Kyung Lan
Story by: Huh, Gook Hwa
Volumes: 4 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.04 Ch.20 (Complete)
Scanlator: Eclipse
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Comedy
Age Group: Everyone
Summary: A school where the students make their own riches. From Models to Computer Geniuses, These students get rich on their own. Namu goes to a school where all the elite get idolized by the non-elite. Never making it easy to get to school on time, Namu is soon helped by a new transfer student. Who gets categorized as an elite almost immediately?
-From Mangaupdates
Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5
Name: Diamond Life
Manga-ka: Fujiwara, Akira
Volumes: 3 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.03 Ch.14 (Complete)
Scanlator: Riri Manga Scans (Closed) Romance Alley (Closed)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Josei
Age Group: Older Teen
Summary: Kanae dropped out of high school, because her father is a gambler while her mother ran away with her boyfriend. Kanae is twenty-two years old, and very poor working for a cleaning shop. She comes to have something to do with Haruki Oda quite by chance. Haruki is an IT millionaire and called “money-mad man,” or “the god of death.” Then Kanae’s life makes a sudden development. Money cannot be made by love alone, though love cannot be bought with money. People of today want to have both love and money. This get-happy-story is a must read for the present-day people.
-From Mangaupdates
Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 3/5
Name: Honey X Honey Drops
Mangaka: Minami, Kanan (AKA Queen of Smut)
Volumes: 8 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.08 Ch.47 (Complete)
Scanlator: Three Different Scanlators
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/High School/Smut/Prince and Pauper
Age Group: Older Teen
Summary: Yuzuru is a fifteen year old girl who is attending her first year in Houjou Academy. At her summer job, she met a troublesome rich boy, Renge Kai, who is attending the same school as her. Kai is part of the Kugeka, a class opened only to the rich students of Houjou.
At the end of the summer break she finds out that she has become Kai’s “Honey”. This nickname is given to all the students from the regular class choosen by the Kugeka to become their assistants, so that the rich boys can be successful without any problem. The up side to being a Honey is that all their school fees will be taken care of.
Although Yuzuru’s family has some financial problems, she doesn’t want to accept her role of being Kai’s honey. But the only way to quit is to leave the school… What is she to do?
-From Manga Updates
Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 4/5
Name: Ouran High: Host Club
Mangaka: Bisco, Hatori
Volumes: 18 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz
Scanlations: V.18 Ch.83 (Complete)
Scanlator: Too many
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Cross dressing/Romance/Harem
Age Group: Everyone
Summary: In this screwball romantic comedy, Haruhi, a poor girl at a rich kids’ school, is forced to repay an $80,000 debt by working for the school’s swankiest, all-male club–as a boy! There, she discovers just how wealthy the six members are and how different the rich are from everybody else…
-From Viz
Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5