Shoujo and Josei Manga reviews of series featuring a playboy male lead. What series you should be reading and where to read them.
Name: Hatsu Haru
Mangaka: Fujisawa, Suzuki
Volumes: 13 (Complete)
Licensed: Yen Press
Licensed Volumes: V.13 (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Age Group: Everyone
Summary:
Too far, it’s hard to be seen. Too close, it’s also hard to be seen. It hurts and makes you feel like crying. Too sad, until it makes you laugh. That’s right, this is what you call first love…the most popular guy in school falls in love for the first time in his life!
Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 3/5
Name: Suki Kirai Suki
Mangaka: Tsukishima, Haru
Volumes: 3 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.03 Ch.12 (Complete)
Scanlator: Evil Flowers
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy
Age Group: Teen
Summary:
Inoue Azusa’s classmate, Saito, is extremely good looking, but he has the worst personality ever. For some reason, he started noticing Azusa and gets her in a lot of trouble. Although he’s very annoying, Azusa gradually becomes attracted to him. However, Azusa’s classmate, Hikaru, is not only handsome and is the president, but towards Azusa he is…?!
Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 4/5
Name: Piece
Mangaka: Asihara, Hinako
Volumes: 10 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.010 Ch.21 (Complete)
Scanlator: Forbidden Garden
Type: Manga
Genre: Mystery/Drama/Romance
Age Group: Teen
Summary: One day, Mizuho, a university student, receive news that her classmate in high school, Origuchi Haruka, passed away. Mizuho doesn’t remember being best friends with Origuchi, but apparently, Origuchi told her mother that Mizuho was her best friend. And now, her mother wants Mizuho to help her find the boy Origuchi dated during high school. Mizuho told Origuchi’s mother that Origuchi was a very plain girl, and she was never seen with a guy, but her mother told Mizuho that Origuchi got pregnant and had an abortion when she was in high school. Mizuho was shocked, but she still starts asking her other classmates in high school and following the traces Origuchi left behind.
Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5
Name: Miss
Manga-ka: Tokiyama, Hajime
Volumes: 3 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.02 (Complete)
Scanlator: Jshoujo and Haruhime
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Teen
Summary: Falling in love with him was her biggest mistake… After being badly bullied in junior high, Kazu’s sworn off getting deeply involved with other people. One day though, the resident class playboy, Kirishima, comes and tears down the walls she’s built around her heart. She finds herself falling quick and hard…but is she only setting herself up for heartbreak?!
Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 3/5
Name: Stroke Material (My Fucking Lover)
Manga-ka: Atsuta, Kotobuki
Volumes: 1 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.05 (Complete)
Scanlator: Shoujo Magic (Closed)
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Smut
Age Group: Teen
Summary: People have gone so far as to call Kaname-kun a “sex machine” and “a man who exists solely for obscenity and sin.” But now he’s fallen in love for the first time with the super cool beauty Yumi-sama. Even when his only reward is her cold gaze, he persists in his desire to win her love–but he’s struggling and suffering because his wooing technique gets incredibly clumsy when he actually cares about the result!
-From Mangaupdates
Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 3/5