Kobayashi ga Kawai Sugite Tsurai!!

Name: So Cute it Hurts!! (Kobayashi ga Kawai Sugite Tsurai!!)
Mangaka: Ikeyamada, Go

Volumes: 15 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz  (Complete) (Print and Digital)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Gender Bender
Age Group: Teen

Summary: The comedy starts when the cross-dressing begins! The Kobayashi twins, Mego and Mitsuru, were named after historical figures, but only Mego has grown up with a taste for history. So when Mitsuru is in danger of losing his weekends to extra history classes, he convinces his sister to swap clothes with him and ace his tests! After all, how hard can it be for them to play each other?

But Mego can’t rely on just her book smarts in Mitsuru’s all-boys, delinquents’ paradise of a high school. And Mitsuru finds life as a high school girl to be much more complicated than he expected!

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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Migawari Hakushaku no Bouken

Migawari Hakushaku no Bouken

Name: Migawari Hakushaku no Bouken
Mangaka: Seiki, Mimori

Volumes: 6 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.06 Ch.28 (Complete)
Scanlator: Crystallis Translations and Transcendence
Type: Manga
Genre: Historical/Drama/Comedy/Gender Bend
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Mireille is the daughter of a bakery owner and her twin brother Fred was adopted into another family when they were kids. One day a letter from her brother arrived, saying he was in love with another man’s woman. She replied, challenging him to be a man and claim the woman as his.

Two months later, a beautiful young man named Richard, claiming to be a messenger from Fred, visits and tells her “I’ve come for you.” When the bewildered Mireille resists, he proceeds to kidnap her! It turns out that Fred has eloped with the crown prince’s fiance, and it is now her responsibility to impersonate Fred – the former Count of Bernhardt!

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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Mars

Name: Mars
Manga-ka: Souryo, Furumi
Volumes: 15 (Complete)
Licensed: Yes (Tokyopop – 15 Volumes Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Psychological
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Kira believes that Rei and all other men in the world are dirty. She stays away from her classmates, hiding in her art. What happens when the delinquent motorcyclist and playboy, Rei, gets ahold of one of her drawings, and actually wants to keep it?

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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 5/5

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Renai Shinjuu

Name: Renai Shinjuu
Manga-ka: Sasaki, Yuna

Volumes: 4 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.03 (Hiatus)
Scanlator: Sound of Jewels and Otome Cafe
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Psychological
Age Group: Teen

Summary: When they were 12 years old, Runa and Ren were very much in love, but Runa’s mother was against it – they were far too young. Ren did the unthinkable, tried to have the two of them commit suicide together rather than be apart. The suicide was a failure but both kids were hospitalized with serious injuries. It didn’t break them apart but eventually Runa’s parents were able to separate them.

Several years pass and Runa has moved on with a new boyfriend named Shou when Ren suddenly shows up attending the same high school, very sexy and still in love with her, and suddenly her life is very complicated…

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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 2/5

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Futago

Name: Futago
Manga-ka: Iketani, Rikako

Volumes: 5 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.05 Ch.24 (Ongoing – Hiatus)
Scanlator: Stiletto Heels
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Josei/Life
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Yukari was enjoying her single life when her elder twin sister, Ayaka, suddenly pays her a visit to ask her for some strange advice, and brings along a guy she met in Hong Kong with her! This is a story about a set of mismatched twins.

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Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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