Yogoreteru Hima Nanka Nai: No Free Time to get Dirty

Name: Yogoreteru Hima Nanka Nai (No Free Time to get Dirty)
Manga-ka: Ishida, Takumi

Volumes: 3 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.03 Ch.15 (Complete)
Scanlator: JShoujo Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Mature
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Matsumi Sachiko’s always searching for love in the wrong places. She’s made more blunders in the love department than she can count over the years, and things just never seem to go well for her. She’s quick to sleep with others in her search for that special someone only to regret it later. Lately, her luck’s taken an even worse turn for the worst when the guy she’d started to have feelings for asked her if she wanted to become his “sex friend”! Will she ever find “the one”?

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Watashi no Megane-kun

Name: Watashi no Megane-kun
Manga-ka: Sumoto, Amu

Volumes: 7 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.07 Ch.27 (Ongoing)
Scanlator: Hush (Closed), Ochibichan
Type: Manga
Genre: Psychological/Drama/Smut
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Love can be obsessive. Like wanting to rip the wings off a butterfly.

Chokuo has been in love with Taichiro for a long time. Taichiro and Chokuo have known each other since childhood. At one point, Taichiro became very candid and told Chokuo that he hated her so much that he wanted to kill her. Even so, Chokuo’s desire toward him never really changed. One day, a senior in her athletics club confessed to her. Filled with burning jealousy, Taichiro also confessed to Chokuo. Their insecure, but very obsessive love begins.

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Heart no Kuni no Alice: Alice in the Country of Hearts

Name: Heart no Kuni no Alice (Alice in the Country of Hearts)
Artist: Hoshino, Soumei
Story: QuinRose

Volumes: 6 (Complete)
Licensed: Tokyopop
Scanlations: V.06 Ch.35 (Complete)
Scanlator: 3 Different Scanlators
Type: Manga
Genre: Fantasy/Harem/Pyschological/Adventure
Age Group: Teens

Summary: The girly but bloody otome game re-imagining of Lewis Carroll’s classic fantasy novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with bishounen characters and added romance.

A parody of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland where Alice is smart and non-doormatlike.

In this story, Alice is not all what she seems. She is practical, strong, yet darkly cynical. Instead of the traditional story, Alice is kidnapped unwillingly by a mysterious (yet somewhat bishie-looking) man with bunny ears into a place call Heartland. Stuck in Heartland due to a trick by the mysterious bunny eared man, she meets the residents of this world. Along the way, Alice meets Blood, handsome mafia leader; Ace, the psycho yet charming knight and more…What should Alice do in such a world!?

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Mens School

Name: Men’s School
Mangaka: Kaneyoshi, Izumi (I love her)

Volumes: 8 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz
Type: Manga
Genre: School life/Comedy/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary:
5-minute walk to the sea. The closest train station takes 50 minutes by car. Famous private dormitory male high school Seihou is located in that super remote place. What will happen at that place where men are crazy for love?!

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Shouri no Akuma

Name: Shouri no Akuma
Mangaka: Maki, Youko

Volumes: 3 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.03 Ch.15 (Complete – Sudden ending, was cancelled)
Type: Manga
Genre: School Life/Drama/Comedy
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Tanakamori Asami, 16 years old. Because of her father’s debts, she’s forced to transfer from her elite school to her current one… Her new school is entirely full of strange people, in fact it’s kinda like a zoo… But there, she meets the beautiful Akira. Thanks to the charismatic Akira, Asami slowly, slowly she gets used to her new school. However several trials appear to Asami such as her family’s finances, her classmates, and even in love. Her everyday life is bursting open in this romantic comedy!

-From Starry Heaven

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

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