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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Love Me Love Me Not

Name: Love Me Love Me Not (Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare)
Mangaka: Sakisaka, Io

Volumes: 12 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: The story centers around Yuna and Akari who have two very different views of love: Yuna is someone who sees love as a dream and Akari is someone who is very realistic about her romance choices. Meanwhile, there are two boys, Kazuomi and Rio, who also have different views of love: Kazuomi’s an airhead and doesn’t understand the concept of love while Rio grabs the opportunity when confessed to as long as the girl looks cute.

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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.

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

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Shoujo, Shoujo, Shoujo Na No

Name: Shoujo, Shoujo, Shoujo na No
Mangaka: Satou, Zakuri

Volumes: 1 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.05 (Complete)
Scanlator: Summer Rain
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Suspense
Age Group: Teen

Summary:
1. Shoujo, Shoujo, Shoujo na no
Hirako Bell, a pretty middle schooler had moved to the country. She currently dislikes the country due to her love for the city life. She also aspires to be a model, and therefore applied with an agency. She had also made a certain friend. Will Bell pass the audition? What about her new friend?

2. Solitary Girl
A strange disease has forced most mankind to extinction, leaving only a recently awakened girl Kana, and a robot teddy bear. Kana remembers a certain boy during her slumber, so searches for him and anyone in general throughout the now empty world. Will she find anyone?

3. Under Heaven
Miyata Chikami is a very popular girl at school that wishes to live a simple life. When she gets home, she is suddenly in debt situation, and one man had taken her to his place, as what her dad had arranged. He was a strange one, but she was quickly attached to him. Will Chikami ever have her simple debt free life, or will destiny run to another course?

4. Half is made out of love
Wataya Himari is currently dating the super popular Hosikawa Atari, her senpai. There’s just one big problem: he is a sadist! Himari still wants to be lovey dovey with despite his nature, but one can only take so much. Can Himari ever be in a lovely relationship with her beloved senpai?
This story was released as a oneshot in the He Loves You anthology volume.

5. On The Bed
Mirai is a plain, and will always think that she would never have a boyfriend. Whereas, Kouki Koyomizu, a popular boy in her class stands out and is in a completely world to her. Due to certain circumstances, she ended up visiting his house and he kissed her? Just what is going on?

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

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Houkago x Ponytail

Name: Houkago x Ponytail
Mangaka: Tanaka, Teko

Volumes: 1 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.06 (Complete)
Scanlator: Dazzling Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Natsuki, an otaku high-school girl who’d rather spend her money on manga than pretty dresses, accidentally injures a creepy-looking mangaka named Kiritani Taichi. To repay him, she agrees to be his character model until he fully heals. Kiritani turns out to be a popular shoujo mangaka under the name Ichijou Kiriko, who is also Natsuki’s favorite author! Plus, underneath that disheveled hair Kiritani is actually a good-looking man! What will become of these two?

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

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