Drama (1560)

Plot-driven stories focused on realistic characters experiencing human struggle. Because drama stories ask the question of what it means to be human, the conflict and emotions will be relatable, even if the settings or characters themselves are not. Here, you will see humanity at its worst, its best, and everything in between. Simply having a serious tone, dramatic moments, or evoking tears does not equal Drama. If the narrative focuses on eliciting emotional reactions rather than on characterization, then it is melodrama and not Drama. Slice of Life and Drama are incompatible by definition.

Benkyou Shinasai!

Nakahara, Aya 2024
Misora had amazingly managed to get into a prestigious school which has 80% of its students managing to get into Tokyo University. However, because of that, everyday ever since school started, she’s always been forced by her grandfather who runs a tuition center to just study, study, study…

(Source: Ochibichan)
1997 to ? | 8 chp | Publishing

Togainu no Chi

Chayamachi, SuguroNitroplus 2024
The Igura: a deadly battle game where players stake their lives in the ruined city of Toshima. In a post-apocalyptic Japan where the underworld rules the day, Akira is placed in jail for murder. He's given a chance at freedom if he can win the game. Whether he finds victory, death, or even love, he will be in for the fight of his life! Based on the ground-breaking bishonen game!

(Source: Tokyopop)
Mar 2006 to Jul 1, 2013 | chp | Publishing

Endless World

Jaryuu, Dokuro 2024
Ikki, an optimist who isn't afraid of anything, begins working at a small restaurant when he finds himself charmed by the owner. It's there that he runs into Ryuu, and from Ryuu, he hears a familiar name: Toshimitsu.
Neither Ikki nor Ryuu seem able to get away from Toshimitsu, and now their mysterious, shared past will lead to an unknown future.
(Source: Vices and Devices)
2008 to ? | 8 chp | Publishing

Hoshi no Furu Machi

Hara, Hidenori 2024
"The stars that don't shine in Tokyo surely do shine in a different town..."

Tsutsumi Koutarou, who couldn't be a senior at a college-oriented high school in Tokyo, moves into Himi City, Toyama Prefecture with his distant relatives and spends one school year there.

"I wouldn't be able to shine for the rest of my life..."

He's hurt, and depressed.
However, his encounter with a girl named Nagisa changes his "tomorrow" little by little.

Now, Hara Hidenori begins "the sweetest 'starting-over' love story in the world"...

(Source: MU)
Jan 5, 2006 to May 15, 2008 | 70 chp | Publishing

Crimson-Shell

Mochizuki, Jun 2024
A genius mad scientist once bred a special flower in his quest for eternal youth and immortality, implanting the seeds of this "Premier Rose" in human beings. Housing roses inside their bodies granted the human hosts not only various benefits, but also various side effects, including the need for the roses to feed off of victims. The majority of the test subjects, "Black Roses," were used as living weapons and kept under control by their creator. One subject of the experiment was dubbed a "defective failure" and hidden away.

Claudia the "Rose Witch," also called a "Crimson Rose," normally does not need to feed on humans and only does so if she loses her self-control. When the Roses' creator disappeared five years ago, the organization conducting research swiftly rebranded as "Red Rose." Brought out of the shadows, Claudia became Red Roses' primary means to eliminate the suddenly untamable Black Roses.

Guarded by the "Thorn," Wilhelm, who shares a blood covenant with her—and working with a special division of Red Rose named "Crimson-Shell"—Claudia must survive betrayal by a suspected traitor within the organization, as well as discover the truth behind a "Jet Rose" who may be leading the Black Roses.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Aug 18, 2005 to Jan 18, 2006 | 6 chp | Publishing

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Kokoroiyashi-hen

Kagesaki, YunaRyukishi07 2024
In the aftermath of Matsuribayashi-hen, Rika Furude and her friends start their summer break. Wanting to make it memorable, each of them has their own idea of the best summer vacation. However, Rika finds herself despondent after all the suffering she has endured in the past. Hanyuu, not wanting her best friend to spend the summer sulking in Hinamizawa, decides to try and help Rika.

However, Rika's help comes not from Hanyuu, but an old friend named Mamoru Akasaka, who invites Rika to spend time with him and his family in Tokyo. As luck would have it, her friends decide to join her, and together they set off for the city without telling their parents, which causes a panic in the village. But their journey ends up being more fun than the destination, as they camp in woods and remember all the things they have been through, while looking forward to a brighter future.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Aug 26, 2008 to Feb 26, 2009 | 7 chp | Publishing

Hidan no AriaAria the Scarlet Ammo

Akamatsu, ChuugakuKobuichi 2024
Tokyo Butei High school—It was a special school where armed detectives, also known as "Butei" are being brought up. Tooyama Kinji is a sophomore student who has the unique body which activates a "super mode" when it was stimulated by "something." He tries to hide it to others in order to live a peaceful life. But trouble came to find him when he became a victim of a bombing incident, where he met the Butei high "Assault" department elite, Aria H. Kanzaki.

(Source: Baka-Tsuki)
Aug 25, 2008 to ? | chp | Publishing

Arisa

Ando, Natsumi 2024
Tsubasa Uehara and Arisa Sonoda are identical twin sisters separated by their parents' divorce three years prior. Having only been able to communicate through secret letters, the two arrange to meet up with each other at a park in which they used to play. Nicknamed the "Demon Princess" of her middle school, the tomboyish Tsubasa struggles to get along with the other students in her class. In contrast, the feminine Arisa is the perfect class representative who achieves good grades and has many friends. Learning of her twin sister’s envy, Arisa proposes to Tsubasa that she attend school in her place.

Upon returning from school that day, Tsubasa recounts how amazing her experience was to Arisa, who is horrified to learn that she is still jealous of her life. Telling her sister that she knows nothing about her classmates' secrets nor her own, Arisa attempts suicide in front of Tsubasa's eyes. Determined to uncover the truth behind Arisa's suffering, Tsubasa decides to go undercover to find out.

Now posing as Arisa, Tsubasa witnesses her very first "King Time"—an event that takes place every Friday during fourth period where a wish of Arisa's classmates is randomly granted. Believing the occasion to be a strange joke, Tsubasa does not take it seriously until someone is hurt in the process. Seeing the extent to which the "King" will go to fulfill these requests, Tsubasa must uncover the King's identity and how all of this involves her beloved twin sister.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Dec 29, 2008 to Aug 3, 2012 | 48 chp | Publishing

The X Files

Mochizuki, MikiyaInoue, SenKak 2024
Contains adaptations of various episodes of "The X Files" series created by Chris Carter.

Volume 1:
-File #00: Pilot
-File #07: Ice

Volume 2:
-File #2: Squeeze
-File #12: Beyond the Sea

Volume 3:
-File #11: Fire
-File #05: Shadows
Mar 1, 1996 to May 25, 1996 | chp | Publishing

Sugar wa Otoshigoro

Ninomiya, Hikaru 2024
Hatanaka Keiko's an odd girl with odd aspirations(I mean, REALLY weird), but she tries her best to fit in with the other girls in her class... she still sucks at it, though.
One day, she meets Asami, a girl who's even more of an outcast than she is... but unlike Keiko, Asami's own "outsider" status doesn't seem to bother her in the slightest.
As they grow closer, what's going to happen to Keiko's standing among the other girls? And what about Asami's own issues?
(Source: MangaHelpers)
Apr 28, 2008 to Aug 10, 2009 | 18 chp | Publishing

Fuyu no Hana

Yumeka, Sumomo 2024
The flower in Itadori will bloom in the summer, taking his life as it took his sister's but giving others longer lives, but how can he leave his childhood friend Rakka behind...?
(Source: Psycho Pandas)
Sep 8, 2008 | 1 chp | Publishing

Tsuyoshi Motto Shikkari Shinasai

Nagamatsu, Kiyoshi 2024
The further adventures of Tsuyoshi.
Not available | chp | Publishing

Alexandrite

Narita, Minako 2024
This story is a spinoff from Narita Minako-sensei's own series "Cipher" where Siva's friend Alex Levine is now the main character. Ever since Alex was young, he has harbored a complex about his extremely pretty face. People are always comparing him to a girl, so to combat this image, he has thrown himself into practicing martial arts. One day, though, he is scouted by someone to become a fashion model and thus begins Alex's tale of growth and romance!

As a sidenote, for the "Cipher" fans out there, Siva, Cipher, and Anise also make cameos in the series, so you can find out a little bit about what happened to them as well!
Apr 1991 to Nov 1994 | 35 chp | Publishing

Ristorante Paradiso

Ono, Natsume 2024
21-year-old Nicoletta leaves her grandparents' home in the countryside to work in Rome at a restaurant owned by her estranged mother's lover. But something sets the popular and elegant Casetta Dell'orso apart from its rivals: the entire restaurant is staffed by older gentlemen wearing glasses (as per her mother's preference). Thrown into this adult world, Nicoletta must try to find personal and professional stability—things that become increasingly difficult to achieve as she falls under the spell of Casetta Dell'orso.
May 7, 2005 to Mar 7, 2006 | 7 chp | Publishing

Midori no OuVerdant Lord

Takashige, HiroshiSoga, Atsush 2024
Set in the near future where Mother Nature has decided to fight back against all of the human encroachment.

It has your standard apocalyptic scenario, but we're right in the middle of the apocalypse actually happening, rather than the aftermath. Vines and foliage entangle cities, as large wooden mech-like creatures called Arethusa (named after one of the mythical Greek Hesperides that tended the gardens in a remote corner of the world) rampage through cities.

Our main character is Souma Shin, a punk kid out of Japan. We start off with him coming to visit his twin (?) brother Ken. All hell breaks loose as Shin finds a group of small kids being used for military purposes, and tries to save them in the confusion created by an Arethusa invading the compound.

(Source: MangaHelpers)
Sep 26, 2003 to Jan 26, 2009 | 62 chp | Publishing

Canaria Child

Tsuzuki, Setsuri 2024
Kayuu, a doll-maker who was murdered six years ago made living dolls at the request of clients. Mitsuki, his daughter who is still finding out the mystery to her father, together with her favorite student Yue, are faced with countless ordeals. What is Kayuu's hidden secret?
(Source: Aerandria Scans)
2007 | 4 chp | Publishing

Gente: Ristorante no HitobitoGente

Ono, Natsume 2024
Buona sera! Welcome to Casetta dell'Orso, a quaint little restaurant in the heart of Rome. The food's delicious, but the handsome staff of bespectacled gentlemen is the real draw. Follow these dashing men home and witness their romances, heartaches, hopes and dreams in this delightfully whimsical continuation of Natsume Ono's beloved Ristorante Paradiso.

Go back to the beginning, when the owner Lorenzo was just opening Casetta dell'Orso. His wife Olga's particular preference for a certain bartender inspires Lorenzo to hire an entire staff of gentlemen in glasses. Watch the cranky-but-kind Luciano juggle babysitting duty and the advances of an amorous customer. Witness handsome playboy Vito meet a healthy young college student who will eventually become his wife. All this and more awaits you, just beyond that discreet restaurant door...

(Source: VIZ Media)
Sep 5, 2006 to Jan 7, 2009 | 18 chp | Publishing

Besharigurashi

Morita, Masanori 2024
A story about a stand-up comedian to-be.

The manga's story centers around Agatsuma Keisuke, a high school student with a great sense of comedy. A student named Tsujimoto Jun transfers to his school. Both share ideas and form a plan to make a stand-up comedian duo. They aim to become pro together, despite the many hardships they will face.

(Source: ANN)
Oct 3, 2005 to Sep 12, 2019 | 198 chp | Publishing

Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteru

Aoki, Kotomi 2024
Ogasawara Aki (25) is the reclusive, idealistic composer of the popular band Crude Play. Discontented with his life and with no drive to succeed, he meets Riko, the 16-year-old grocer's daughter in a band consisting of her childhood friends, and asks her to be his girlfriend on a whim. Riko, young and innocent, agrees immediately, but worries about her new boyfriend, whom she suspects has just broken up with a woman he cared very much for.

(Source: Nagareboshi Manga, Manga Abyss)
Mar 24, 2009 to Feb 24, 2017 | 94 chp | Publishing

Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae

Ishinomori, Shoutarou 2024
The series follows the adventures of Sabu, a young Edo bakufu investigator traveling with the blind master swordsman Ichi. In their travels, they assist the common people in solving mysteries and righting wrongs (usually committed by bandits or corrupt officials). Sabu is engaged to Midori, the daughter of his boss, who works as a police officer for the Tokugawa shogunate.

(Source: Wikipedia)
1966 to Mar 1972 | 83 chp | Publishing

Nononono

Okamoto, Lynn 2024
Nonomiya Yuuta, a Skii Jumper aiming for Olympic Gold, bursts onto stage with his exceptional skills. However, his biggest problem is that he is not really a "HE"... This Yuuta is actually Nonomiya Yuuta's twin sister, Nonomiya Nono... And with Women's Skii Jump not being an Olympic catagory, hiding her true identity is the only way for her to achieve the dreams of her father and brother.

(Source: MangaHelpers)
Oct 25, 2007 to Dec 9, 2010 | 142 chp | Publishing

Wolf Guy: Ookami no Monshou

Tabata, YoshiakiYugo, Yuuki 2024
Akira Inugami just transfered into his new school. The principal and teachers fear what may happen because Inugami was placed in the same homeroom as the school's biggest problem and gang leader.

His homeroom teacher Aoshika is going out of her mind trying to figure out what happened the night before, where she could have sworn she saw this same Inugami beaten alive and then hit by a car by a large group of thugs in a park. But somehow, Inugami, who denies everything, of course, is alive and without a scratch attending his first day at his new school.

What the teacher Aoshika did not witness was a crazy werewolf-like beast destroy the thugs that attacked Inugami in the park.

(Source: MangaTraders)
Feb 27, 2007 to Feb 14, 2012 | 117 chp | Publishing

Ar Tonelico: Arpeggio

Aya, Megumu 2024
A mysterious disease is spreading amongst the reyvateils causing them to go berserk, the key to stopping them lies in the hands of Espada reid, the only problem is he hates reyvateils, will he be able to stop the reveris illness?
Sep 30, 2005 to Aug 30, 2006 | 12 chp | Publishing

Aisubeki MusumetachiAll My Darling Daughters

Yoshinaga, Fumi 2024
Yukiko, a salarywoman in her thirties, still lives with her mother Mari. But their relationship suffers a sudden change when Mari announces that she's getting married—to an ex-host and aspiring actor who's younger than Yukiko. Yukiko, convinced he's out to fleece her mom, can't stand to stay in the house and decides to move in with her boyfriend.

(Source: VIZ Media)
May 28, 2002 to Aug 28, 2003 | 6 chp | Publishing