Makeover

The best Shoujo and Josei Manga featuring a Makeover.

Mishounen Produce

Name: Mishounen Produce
Manga-ka: Ichinose, Kaoru

Volumes: 4 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.04 Ch.18 (Complete)
Scanlator: Aerandria
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: It’s the start of high school, and Kako decides to “produce” her bookworm of a childhood friend, Kousei, so that he can become a good-looking and popular school idol. She models him after Lawrence, a character in a manga she likes, but as Kousei’s transformation becomes a huge success and he extends his new character beyond what she asks for, what will Kako do? Will she find herself left behind in the wake of his newly found popularity?

–Mangaupdates

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

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Kirei no Tamago: Beautiful Egg

Name: Kirei no Tamago (Beautiful Egg)
Manga-ka: Kaori

Volumes: 1 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.03 (Complete)
Scanlator: Shinnen
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Never being clean or neat, Asami wanted to change herself and so entered a hair salon school. However, as soon as she enters, troubles follow and she is immediately depressed… She meets a boy named Nii Raito who is the type to talk without reserve. She is told, “It doesn’t suit you”, and all of a sudden her hair is cut…?!. She must show him that she can be a good hair stylist!

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Lovey Dovey

Name: Lovey Dovey
Manga-ka: Oda, Aya

Volumes: 5 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.05 Ch.29 (Complete)
Scanlator: Midnight Scanlations and Covenant of Darkness
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Smut
Age Group: Teen

Summary: For 10 years Saika has done everything she can to get close to her love Keishi. She followed him to the same high school, joined the same committees, and even changed her outward personality to become the right match for Keishi. One day, looking for Keishi in the special section of the school, she runs into the school’s trouble-maker Kirisaki Shin. As he begins to bully her, her true personality comes out: loud-mouthed and violent. To her dismay, Kirisaki decides that he likes that kind of girl. Lovey Dovey is the story of Saika’s trials and tribulations in a love triangle at a school where “Love is Prohibited.”

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Oresama, Teacher

Name: Oresama Teacher
Manga-ka: Tsubaki, Izumi

Volumes: 29 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (28 Ongoing – Digitial/Print)
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Action
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Kurosaki Mafuyu was a juvenile delinquent and head of her gang before her subsequent arrest got her expelled from high school. Now that she’s transferred to a new high school, she’s determined to become an “ultra-shiny, super feminine high school student.” But with a new friend like Hayasaka-kun and a homeroom teacher like Saeki Takaomi (who may be more than he seems), will Mafuyu really be able to live a girly-girl high school life!?

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Cyboy

Name: Cyboy
Manga-ka: Nishikata, Mai

Volumes: 2 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.11 (Complete)
Scanlator: Taciturnity Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary: When he was younger, Kujou Kiyosumi was incredibly awkward and nerdy. One day in elementary school, he courageously confessed his love to a girl, but she told him in front of the whole classroom that he was “disgusting” to be around. Shocked, Kiyosumi asked the coolest guy in the class, Sagiya Maki, to help him become more likable, too. Thus, began the days of training and now in high school, he had finally achieved most popular status alongside Maki. Everything seemed to be going along smoothly until…
-From Mangaupdates

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

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