Popular Male Lead

Shoujo Manga and Josei Manga with a Popular Male Lead.

Marmalade Boy Manga

Marmalade Boy

Name: Marmalade Boy
Mangaka: Yoshizumi, Wataru

Volumes: 8 (Complete)
Licensed: Tokyopop (8V Print)-(Out of Print)
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
All Miki Koishikawa wanted was an ordinary family and that’s exactly what she had until her parents decided to move in with another couple (as in switching spouses!) and turned Miki’s world upside down. Now she lives in a house with four parents and her totally cute stepbrother, Yuu. It’s bad enough being brought into her parents’ strange soap opera, but Miki will star in a soap of her own as she deals with friends having affairs, trying to survive in school and ending up torn between her long-time crush, Ginta, and her new stepbrother!
–Manga Updates

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

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Bring It On by Baek HyeKyung

Bring It On (Blooming)

Name: Bring It On (Blooming)
Mangaka: Baek Hye-Kyung

Volumes: 5 (Complete)
Licensed: Yen Press (Out-of-Print & No Digital Options)
Type: Manwha
Genre: Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
Tomboy Mi-Ha is an extremely active and competitive girl who never likes to lose to anyone. She’s such a tomboy that all boys are scared of her, and that’s exactly what her brother wanted and trained her to be. It took him six long years to train her into a pseudo-military-style girl to protect her from anyone else. Bishonen Sung-Suh is a new transfer student who’s got the looks, the determination, and attitude to sweep her off the feet. Could this male beauty be able to tame the beast? Will Miha’s brother let them be together and happily ever after? If you want it you’ve got to Bring It On!

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

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Sheik in his Harem by MIasa Rin

With the Sheikh in His Harem

Name: With the Sheikh in His Harem
Mangaka: Miasa, Rin

Volumes: 8 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha (2 Volumes: Digital)
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
Sanagi loves nothing more than money—not even love. After all, it’s what keeps her small family going. But when a chance encounter with a stranger leads her to push away his offer of riches, she wonders if she’s gone crazy…and starts to believe she really has when he reveals that he’s a Sheikh, and proposes to her! She rejects him, but soon finds out that a marriage with him might be the only way to keep her family safe…!
–Manga Updates

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

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Ao Haru Ride Manga by Io Sakisaka

Ao Haru Ride

Name: Ao Haru Ride
Mangaka: Sakisaka, Io

Volumes: 13 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (13 Volumes: Digital/Physical) – (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Slice of Life
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
Yoshioka Futaba has a few reasons why she wants to “reset” her image and life as a new high-school student. Because she’s cute and had a demure personality she was ostracized by her female friends in junior high, and because of a series of misunderstandings and mishaps, she couldn’t get her feeling across to the one boy she has always liked, Tanaka Kou.

Now in high school, she is determined to be as unladylike as possible so that her friends won’t be jealous of her. While living her life this way contentedly, she meets Tanaka-kun again, but he now goes under the name of Mabuchi Kou. He tells her that he felt the same way as she did when they were younger, but that they cannot go back. Will Futaba be able to continue her love that never even started from three years ago?
–Manga Updates

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

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Screenshot from Netsuai Prince. A teen boy leans on a railing as he kisses a teen girl on her head.

Netsuai Prince: Onii-chan kimi ga suki

Name: Netsuai Prince – Onii-chan Kimi ga Suki
Mangaka: Seizuki Madoka

Volumes: 16 (Ongoing)
Scanlations: V.03 Ch.10 (March 2021)
Type: Manga
Genre: Harem
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
Due to the second marriage of her mother, lively high-school student Amamiya Matsuri becomes the younger sister of the super popular idol group of triplets “Terzetto”! Star celebrities for stepbrothers?! A forbidden secret love with a perfect prince
–Manga Updates

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

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