age gap

Best Recommendations for Shoujo Manga and Josei Manga that include a main couple with an age gap.

Screencap from manga Araki Wont be Tamed. Teen boy gently kisses a teen girls head.

Araki Won’t Be Tamed

Name: Araki Won’t be Tamed
Mangaka: Kapparappara

Volumes: 2 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha (2 Volumes: Digital) – (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Slice of Life
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
A high school girl who lives alone in her parents’ home, away from her sister and mother who are working as actresses in Tokyo. Under such circumstances, my family’s birthday, for a long time, somehow, popular actor Shiraki Araki appears instead of the family! Araki rushed to the confused Yakko, saying, “He became a star to help him find her.” “Keep me”…?! A gift (?!) that arrived at JK who was worried that there was nothing for me. It’s the start of a half-lived love comedy with a superstar!
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Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Screenshot from Takane and Hana. A highschool girls is asleep leaning on an older man who is also asleep.

Takane and Hana

Name: Takane and Hana
Mangaka: Shiwasu, Yuki

Volumes: 18 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (Complete – Digital/Paperback)
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy
Age Group: Everyone

Summary:  
Hana is a high schooler who ends up replacing her big sister at a marriage interview. Little does she expect that the potential groom, a handsome 26-year-old businessman named Takane, immediately insults her and calls her a gold digger! Furious, Hana throws her wig in his face and leaves.

Against all odds the two end up going on dates on a regular basis. Takane is a rich kid who’s much more immature and inexperienced than his good looks and flashy manners suggest, so they find it easy to forget that their ages are ten years apart. But how will these two ever find love when they’re so busy teasing each other?
–Manga Updates

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

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A Girl and Her Guard Dog Manga Screenshot. A man looks up at a high school girl as she holds his head in her hands.

A Girl and Her Guard Dog

Name: A Girl and Her Guard Dog (Ojou to Baken-kun)
Mangaka: Hatsuharu

Volumes: 5 (Ongoing – Feb 2021)
Licensed: Kodansha (1V: Digital – Feb 2021)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
Senagaki Isaku will be a first year high school student starting in spring. Her grandfather is the third head of the Senagaki group, a yakuza organization, so she is feared by those around her. However, starting from spring, she hopes to make normal friends and normally fall in love.

She is admitted into a high school further from her hometown, however, the overprotective young head of the Senagaki group, Utou Keiya, falsifies his age and enters the school with her through a backdoor admission…?! Keiya proclaims that love is too early for her although Isaku is perfectly ready. In truth, she has held an unrequited love for Keiya for quite some time
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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Screenshot from Marika and her Gentle Lover manga: a man in a suit holds a flustered looking woman.

Marika-chan to Yasashii Koi no Dorei

Name: Marika-chan to Yasashii Koi no Dorei (Marika-chan and her Gentle Love Slave)
Mangaka: Toyama, Monaka

Volumes: 3 (Ongoing)
Scanlations: V.03 Ch.10 (Jan 2020)
Type: Manga
Genre: Psychological/Drama
Age Group: Mature

Summary:  “It’s because Yuu-kun is Marika’s slave!” One day, my childhood friend Marika, whom I haven’t met in 4 years suddenly appeared in front of me and said that. What…?! Was her personality always like that? Actually, hold up. Ever since then, I intentionally put some distances between Marika and I… Yes, after she saw me doing that…

A provocative and tantalizing heart-throb! Thus begins the battle for dominance & back-and-forth game of love!
–Manga Updates

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

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Bijin na Jun-kun no Dekiai Shidou manga screengrab. A man holds a womans head as he kisses her.

Bijin na Jun-kun no Dekiai Shidou

Name: Bijin na Jun-kun no Dekiai Shidou
Mangaka: Fudono, Fudou

Volumes: V.3 Ch.18 (Complete)
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.07 (Jan 2021)
Type: Manga
Genre: Smut/Josei
Age Group: Mature

Summary:  
Sachiko, who was ridiculed for her lowness and drank, decided to ask Jun, a boy who is more beautiful than the girl there, to receive guidance on improving women’s power. But as a condition, Jun gave to live together and touch Shoko’s chest … My body will be developed for the too naughty doting guidance of a beautiful younger person.
–Manga Updates

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

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