Slice of Life

Slice of life shoujo and josei manga that take a slower pace that’s more realistic.

Oboreru Knife: Drowning Love

Name: Oboreru Knife (The Knife that Dropped in Water)
Manga-ka: George, Asakura

Volumes: 17 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha Comics (Drowning Love)
Type: Manga
Genre: Slice of Life/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: A beautiful and mature sixth grade girl from Tokyo suddenly has to move out to the country side of Japan with her family. The girl, Natsumi, then meets a boy and from then on she begins to feel ‘something’ in her body, like a surging wave….

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

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Love So Life Shoujo Manga

Love so Life

Name: Love So Life
Manga-ka: Kouchi, Kaede

Volumes: 17 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.17 Ch.106 (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Shiharu is a high school student who loves kids, lives in an orphanage, and works at a daycare… Until the handsome uncle of two-year-old twins offers her a raise if she’ll be their babysitter. Often relying on memories of her mother’s actions for guidance, Shiharu quickly finds herself falling in love with her new makeshift family.

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Paradise Kiss

Name: Paradise Kiss
Mangaka: Yazawa, Ai

Volumes: 5 (Complete)
Licensed: Tokyopop
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Fashion/Psychological/Josei
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Yukari wants nothing more than to make her parents happy by studying hard and getting into a good college. One afternoon, however, she is kidnapped by a group of self-styled fashion-obsessed artists who call themselves “Paradise Kiss.” Yukari suddenly finds herself flung into the roller-coaster life of the fashion world, guided by George, art-snob extraordinaire. In a glamorous makeover of body, mind and soul, she is turned from a hapless bookworm into her friends own exclusive clothing model.

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Cousin

Name: Cousin
Mangaka: Ikuemi, Ryou

Volumes: 3 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.15 (Complete)
Scanlator: J-Sis
Type: Manga
Genre: Life/Josei
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: 18 year old Tsubomi has a bit of a weight complex. After graduation from high school, she takes up a part-time job at a video rental store where she is introduced to another male employee, 19 year old Shiro, whose shifts always seem to coincide with hers. Shiro casually mentions that she reminds him of someone familiar. A few days later, while on duty, she bumps into a customer in one of the aisles. He leaves, but not without dropping his membership card, and Tsubomi finds out that his name is Nasukawa, and that he is an acquaintance of Shiro’s. Meanwhile, after a song for a commercial comes on, Shiro realizes that Tsubomi reminds him of a famous model in a commercial (her “eyes”, at least), who turns out to be none other than Tsubomi’s cousin…?!

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Mademoiselle Butterfly

Name: Mademoiselle Butterfly
Mangaka: Ogura, Akane

Volumes: 2 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.09 (Complete)
Scanlator: Joint between Aerandria and Shoujo Manga Maniac
Type: Manga
Genre: Historical/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Our heroine is a girl who lives as a geisha in Japan. She has a male childhood friend who’s always been kind to her and is her favorite. He’s a painter, only he paints on human body parts, and she loves it when he paints beautiful butterflies on her arms. She goes to visit him one day and finds a naked woman lying in his room. Immediately after, she gets a customer who’s rich and very interested in her. The thought of being away from her friend pains her, but is everything really too late?

-From Mangaupdates

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

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