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Best Shoujo Manga and Josei Manga Featuring a Tomboy Heroine.

Ouran High: Host Club

Name: Ouran High: Host Club
Mangaka: Bisco, Hatori

Volumes: 18 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz
Scanlations: V.18 Ch.83 (Complete)
Scanlator: Too many
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Cross dressing/Romance/Harem
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: In this screwball romantic comedy, Haruhi, a poor girl at a rich kids’ school, is forced to repay an $80,000 debt by working for the school’s swankiest, all-male club–as a boy! There, she discovers just how wealthy the six members are and how different the rich are from everybody else…
-From Viz

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

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Otomen

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Name: Otomen
Manga-ka: Kanno, Aya

Licensed:  Viz (Complete)
Volumes: 18 (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance/School Life/Comedy
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Asuka Masamune is like any other teenage boy, he is strong, good looking… but he also has another side. A side that secretly reads shoujo, loves cooking and sewing. Asuka finds himself falling for the tomboy Ryo, but she says she likes manly guys. What’s Asuka to do?

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

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Kou Kou Debut: Highschool Debut

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Name: Kou Kou Debut (Highschool Debut)
Manga-ka: Kawahare, Kazune

Licensed: Viz (Complete)
Volumes: 13 (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance/Sports/Comedy
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Haruna is an amazing baseball player, but apparently thats not enough to get the boys coming in. Haruna longs to be cute and girly, like the girls in her favourite manga, but she just can’t seem to get it right. Along comes cool and handsome Yoh, can he turn Haruna into the girl she wants to be? Or is she just a lost cause.

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

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Pheromomania Syndrome

Name: Pheromomania Syndrome
Manga-ka: Ichiha

Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.06 Ch.25 (stopped?)
Scanlator: Shoujomagic and Willful Muse
Volumes: 10 (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance/Cross-Dressing/Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Following the relationship of a pair of mismatched childhood friends. Hatori is a woman who loves men, but looks like one too. Keishi is a man who loves Hatori, but is commonly mistaken for a woman. How can these two ever have a normal relationship?

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

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