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Nobody Knows

Name: Nobody Knows
Mangaka: Lee, Hyeon-Sook

Volumes: 4 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.04 Ch.28 (Complete)
Scanlator: Suras Place
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Josei/Supernatural/Mystery
Age Group: Teen

Summary: The “self bully” Ban has a normal enough life, and where divorced parents aren’t that uncommon, her life becomes shadowed in mystery when her mother, Eun-Joo, suddenly brings their “distant relative” Jin-Whan home to live with them. Ban’s mother would always avoid the topic of her family, so who is this strange boy? Are they really relatives? What torturous secrets does her mother’s past hold? And what do the sudden strange happens that follow in Jin-Whan’s wake mean? Would a better question not be who is he, but what?

–Mangaupdates

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

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Mars

Name: Mars
Manga-ka: Souryo, Furumi
Volumes: 15 (Complete)
Licensed: Yes (Tokyopop – 15 Volumes Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Psychological
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Kira believes that Rei and all other men in the world are dirty. She stays away from her classmates, hiding in her art. What happens when the delinquent motorcyclist and playboy, Rei, gets ahold of one of her drawings, and actually wants to keep it?

–Mangaupdates

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

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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….

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Hoshi no Oujo

Name: Hoshi no Oujo
Author: Mirai
Artist: Momokawa, Haruhiko

Volumes: 2 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.04 (Stopped)
Scanlator: Which Scanlations
Type: Manga
Genre: Fantasy/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Ever since she lost both her parents in a car accident, Mirai has depended on her adopted brother, Kazuki, for mental and physical support. Even as another tragedy strikes, Kazuki’s promise to never leave her side is kept, albeit in a different way than Mirai had imagined.

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Snow Drop

Name: Snow Drop
Mangaka: Choi, Kyung-ah

Volumes: 12 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz
Scanlations: V.12 (Complete)
Scanlator: Cat Chan Scans (Inactive)
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: So-Na has problems. Lots of them. When she finally decides to go back to highschool she meets Hae-Gi. This meeting will change both their lives forever, for better or for worse.

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

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