Strong Heroine

Best Shoujo Manga and Josei Manga featuring a Strong Heroine and Strong Female Lead.

Venus ni Arazu: I’m no Venus

Name: Venus ni Arazu (I’m no Venus)
Mangaka: Yoshihara, Yuki

Volumes: 2 (complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.07 (Complete)
Scanlator: Aerandria
Type: Manga
Genre: Josei/Art/Models/Comedy
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Miyoshi Yoshiko just wants to be a famous model, but realizes she has to start at the bottom. Unfortunately after punching a groping sculptor, she finds herself dropped from her modeling company. The man who got her fired offers a form of apology in a job that pays three times what she was making. Yoshiko decides to buckle down and work with him but will she start falling for him? Duh. It’s a romance.

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

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Millennium Snow: Sennen no Yuki

Name: Millennium Snow (Sennen no Yuki)
Mangaka: Bisco, Hatori

Volumes: 4 Volumes (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (Print/Digital – Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy (Vampires)/Drama
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Chiyuki Matsuoka was born with heart problems, and her doctors say she won’t live to see the next snow. Touya is an 18-year-old vampire who hates blood and refuses to make the traditional partnership with a human, whose life-giving blood would keep them both alive for a thousand years.

-From Viz

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

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Crimson Hero

Name: Crimson Hero
Mangaka: Takanashi, Mitsuba

Volumes: 20 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (Volume 14 – Incomplete)
Scanlations: V.20 Ch.83 (Complete)
Scanlator: IvyScan, Enchantment Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: Sports/High School
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Nobara just wants to play volleyball. Nobara’s mother just wants her tomboy daughter to take over the family hotel. Nobara specifically goes to a school with an amazing volleyball team. Too bad that male volleyball team is for males only.

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

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Akuma to Love Song

Name: Akuma to Love Song
Mangaka: Toumori, Myoshi

Volumes: 13 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Psychological/School/Drama
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Touzuka High School is a public school with a pretty low grade point average. One day, a girl who has been expelled from the state’s top school, St. Katria Girls’ School, transfers in…her name is Kawai Maria. The reason for her expulsion was “violence against the teacher.” Because of her non-adorned, straight comments, Maria starts to become isolated from her class… What is hidden in her past and what will happen to her?

**From Manga-Updates because I have to write an assignment :)

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

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Forest of Gray City

Name: Forest of Gray City
Mangaka: Jung Hyun, Uhm

Volumes: 2 (complete)
Licensed: Yen Press
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.10 (Ongoing?)
Scanlator: RedMadness (Inactive), Miracle Manhwa (Inactive), Evil Flowers
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Romance/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: In a last ditch effort to raise enough money for the rent Yun-Ook, a starving artist, decides to rent out the spare room in her apartment. Yun-Ook finds a room mate in Bum-Woo, but will the two get along? Especially with Bum-Woos’ secrets.

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