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Kakuriyo Manga

Kakuriyo

Name: Kakuriyo (Bed & Breakfast for Spirits)
Mangaka: Waco Ioka

Volumes: 8 (Ongoing)
Licensed: Viz
Licensed Volumes: V.08 (Ongoing)
Type: Manga
Genre: Isekai/Supernatural
Age Group: Teen

Summary: 
Female college student Aoi inherited her deceased grandfather’s ability to see ayakashi. One day, while Aoi is feeding some ayakashi, a demon appears! He declares that Aoi’s grandfather owed a great debt, and as compensation, Aoi must marry the demon! Aoi refuses, and decides to pay off the debt by working at the inn of the afterlife, the Tenjin-ya.

–Manga Updates

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

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Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet

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.

–MangaUpdates

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

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Diamond Life

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

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Billion Girl

Name: Billion Girl
Mangaka: Sakai, Miwa

Volumes: 10 (Complete)
Licensed: Not Licensed
Scanlations: V.10 Ch.36 (Complete)
Scanlator: Shoujo Magic, X-Vampire Knight, Operation Boredom, and Willful Muse
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance/Fairytale/Drama/Rich Guy Poor Girl
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Kanoko’s is a very vanilla girl who works in her families confectionery shop. When the shop goes 1 billion dollars into debt, Kanoko’s father promises a homeless man one of his daughters to get rid of the debt. With Kanoko’s two older sisters completely unwilling Kanoko offers herself to save her family from debt. Turns out the homeless man was actually a rich aristocrat! It’s a real life Cinderella story.

Graphics Rating: 2/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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