Items15The creator’s order
  1. 1Maison Ikkoku (Collector’s Edition) (2020)Maison Ikkoku (Collector’s Edition) (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020The slow burn that taught a generation of manga readers patience. Godai, a broke student, falls for Kyoko, the young widowed manager of his rundown boarding house, and Rumiko Takahashi spent more than six years of serialization letting them circle each other through misunderstandings, rival suitors…0
  2. 2Nana 25th Anniversary Edition (2025)Nana 25th Anniversary Edition (2025)Published Jan 1, 2025Two young women named Nana, one with a punk background and one a romantic who falls in love too fast, find each other in Tokyo and build a friendship that outlasts every boyfriend. Ai Yazawa writes desire, jealousy and bad decisions with a frankness most romance never risks, and the relationships…0
  3. 3Honey and Clover (2008)Honey and Clover (2008)Published Jan 1, 2008Romance as an ensemble piece. Takemoto, an art college student, shares a house with two older classmates, and Chica Umino follows a whole circle of friends through unrequited love, career doubt and the end of their student years. Nobody here gets the tidy pairing a genre reader might expect, and…0
  4. 4Nodame Cantabile (2005)Nodame Cantabile (2005)Published Jan 1, 2005Chiaki, an arrogant piano star at a top music academy, gets demoted to the reject class and finds himself living next door to Nodame, a brilliant, chaotic pianist who has decided she is his girlfriend. The romance moves slowly and the comedy is broad, but music is the real love language here: two…0
  5. 5Emma (2006)Emma (2006)Published Jan 1, 2006The pick for anyone who reads historical romance. Emma, a reserved maid in Victorian London, and William Jones, a young man from the class she serves, fall for each other across a social line their world will not forgive. Kaoru Mori draws the period with obsessive care, from dress to drawing rooms,…0
  6. 6Tramps Like Us (2004)Tramps Like Us (2004)Published Jan 1, 2004The premise sounds absurd, and it is: after being harassed by her boss, demoted and dumped by her fiancé for his pregnant mistress, Sumire takes in a homeless young man as her pet. What follows is a sharp, funny study of a woman expected to be flawless at work and in love, for whom the strange…0
  7. 7はぴまり~Happy Marriage!?~ [Happy Marriage] (2009)はぴまり~Happy Marriage!?~ [Happy Marriage] (2009)Published Jan 1, 2009The marriage-of-convenience trope, played straight. To help her father, Chiwa agrees to an arranged marriage with Hokuto Mamiya, a company president she has never met, and assumes the arrangement isn't binding. He sees it differently. Hokuto is a domineering hero who will not suit every reader, but…0
  8. 8Princess Jellyfish (2016)Princess Jellyfish (2016)Published Jan 1, 2016A comedy first and a romance second, which is exactly why the romance works. A group of socially awkward otaku women fight to save their beloved women-only apartment building in Tokyo from demolition, with help from a glamorous new friend who pulls them out into the wider world. Akiko Higashimura…0
  9. 9Tokyo Tarareba Girls (2018)Tokyo Tarareba Girls (2018)Published Jan 1, 2018Rinko and her best friends Kaori and Koyuki are 33, single and spend their nights drinking in Koyuki's family's pub, asking what if. Then a much younger stranger tells them to keep it down, and Rinko's luck starts to slide. Akiko Higashimura is merciless about dating after 30, and some scenes are…0
  10. 10Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku (2018)Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku (2018)Published Jan 1, 2018The easiest way into manga romance for anyone who has never read one. Narumi is an office worker who hides her fujoshi hobby from coworkers; Hirotaka is a handsome, capable colleague who happens to be a devoted gaming otaku. Their pleasure is figuring out how two nerds make a relationship work…0