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.

DoLL

Okado, Tatsuya 2024
Izumi, a young art student goes to visit her old professor who is living out in the country. Izumi is trying to get away from something and wants to take a break at the professor's house for a while. When she stumbles on Sensei's secret sexual fetish, it sets off a tense relationship full of awkward moments and weird demands.

(Source: MangaHelpers)
Jul 25, 2008 to Aug 25, 2009 | 14 chp | Publishing

Vampir

Itsuki, Natsumi 2024
He died, only for a minute. Minakawa Ryo was an ordinary high school student until the day a girl jumped off a building, killing him with her. He miraculously comes back to life but with a new ability to see and hear what ordinary people cannot. Then one day a mysterious girl, Hokuto Shou, appears and tells him that his half has become a resident of the world of the dead. His previous ordinary life has dissipated, and a new life between the "living" and the "dead" begins.
(Source: MU)
Aug 2006 to ? | chp | Publishing

Yakusoku Siren

Yumeka, Sumomo 2024
A heartrending and heartwarming story about two twins: one who hates everything like himself and one who wishes to keep his promise from long ago.
(Source: Psycho Pandas)
Jan 24, 2009 to May 24, 2010 | 6 chp | Publishing

Shibou to Iu Na no Fuku wo KiteIn Clothes Called Fat

Anno, Moyoco 2024
A story that wonderfully depicts the emotions of a overweight woman with low self-esteem surrounded within the harsh environment of slim and good-looking women. She then decides to lose weight after getting dumped by her lover. The consequences and side-effects are explored further after the "achievement." Is it what she really wished for?

(Source: MU)
Nov 1997 | 15 chp | Publishing

Giant Killing

Tsunamoto, Masaya 2024
East Tokyo United has been struggling in Japan's top football league for a few years. In an effort to improve their performance, ETU hires a new coach, the slightly eccentric Tatsumi Takeshi. Tatsumi was once a star player on ETU before abandoning the team, but has proven himself as manager of an English amateur team. The task won't be easy as the teams pitted against ETU have bigger budgets and better players. However, Tatsumi is an expert at Giant Killing.

(Source: Wikipedia)
Jan 11, 2007 to ? | chp | Publishing

Kizu

OtsuichiKiyohara, Hiro 2024
In Keigo's school, all the troubled kids are grouped into one class -- the troublemakers, the abused kids, and the scarred ones. There's a quiet kid in his class named Asato who never talks to anyone, and like Keigo, doesn't want to go home after school. One day after class Keigo cuts himself, and the two of them discover that Asato has the ability to absorb the wounds of others. What wounds will Asato heal, and what scars does he himself carry...?

(Source: Storm in Heaven)
Jul 10, 2007 to Dec 10, 2007 | 4 chp | Publishing

Atashinchi no Danshi

2024
Because of a sudden marriage, Chisato's going to be the mother of six handsome brothers!? What's going to happen to Chisato?
(Source: Houkago)
2009 | chp | Publishing

All Rounder Meguru

Endo, Hiroki 2024
Hiroki Endo's series tells the story of two old friends, Meguru Takayanagi and Takashi Yamabuki, who after a long time meet each other again at an amateur shooto mixed martial arts contest. While Meguru only practices MMA for fun, Takashi is pursuing a serious goal. Even though each of them has their own reason to fight, both are becoming stronger with each match...

Universally praised for its realism and accurate depiction of martial arts, All Rounder Meguru is one of the first manga to provide a glimpse into the energetic and exciting world of modern MMA.

(Source: Kotonoha)
Nov 25, 2008 to Apr 12, 2016 | 178 chp | Publishing

Sojou no Koi wa Nido HaneruThe Carp on the Chopping Block Ju...

Mizushiro, Setona 2024
Kyoichi's always been a lady-killer, so no one is more surprised than him when he falls in love with another man. But even though Kyoichi cares deeply about Imagase, he can't help but have a weakness for women. When a young lady at Kyoichi's work gets a crush on him, it tests the bond between Imagase and Kyoichi. Can the two stay afloat in these troubled waters, or will the current tear them apart?

(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
Oct 20, 2006 to Apr 20, 2009 | 4 chp | Publishing

Urashima Ryuuguu Emaki

Ootani, Noriko 2024
Shiono was swimming in the sea one day, when a strange man grabbed her ankle. This is no ordinary man. He changes into a boy and then a teenager. Just what she needs when she is trying to win the love of her school mate...

(Source: Manga-updates)
2008 | chp | Publishing

Medaka Box

NISIO, ISINAkatsuki, Akira 2024
Kurokami Medaka, a first year, is elected as Student Council President, and the first thing she does is establish a suggestion box, later dubbed by students the "Medaka Box." Medaka encourages students to submit any problem to the box without hesitation and promises to take on any issue from anyone.

Since Medaka won the Student Council elections with a staggering 98% of the vote, she ends up as the Council's only member. She asks her childhood friend, Hitoyoshi Zenkichi, for help and he grudgingly agrees, becoming the Student Council's lowest ranking member. Soon Medaka recruits two more people to the Student Council, the former judo club member Akune Kouki as secretary and the current swim club member Kikaijima Mogana, on loan for 300 yen a day, as treasurer.

Now the Student Council members spend their days solving the problems submitted through the Medaka Box, whether they be hooligans in clubs where they don't belong, girls who need help writing love letters or people who've lost their pets, gradually earning the respect and admiration of the entire school.
May 11, 2009 to Apr 27, 2013 | 194 chp | Publishing

Oyaji

Moriyama, Tsuru 2024
Living in poor neighborhoods of Osaka, Kumada watch over his wife and two young children. He is huge and riddled with scars and he works hard, smokes and drinks of sake as if it were mere water, gruff and scary, he talks little. But Kumada deeply loves his family and will protect it at the peril of his life when members of a yakuza clan set on fire to his house to facilitate a real estate transaction. Jailed for the murder of those who failed to burn his people alive, Kumada was released fifteen years later and found his family. He will have to face the distrust of his children who know nothing of their father except that he had abandoned them. But he is determined to regain control of their education, starting with his son, a urchin abused by the tough guys of the district.
2000 to 2001 | 25 chp | Publishing

Satougashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai: A Lollypop or A Bullet

Sakuraba, KazukiSugimoto, Iqur 2024
Nagisa Yamada is a cold and withdrawn middle schooler living in a rural town in the countryside. Her mother works part-time jobs in her late father's stead to support Nagisa and her brother Tomohiko, who is a "hikikomori"—someone who is also extremely reclusive. Nagisa aspires to be a soldier for the Self Defense Force to finance both her and her family's needs.

One fateful day, a transfer student by the name of Mokuzu Umino transfers into her school. She immediately garners the classes' attention for being the daughter of a renowned singer and her cute appearance. Claiming to be a mermaid, she seeks out Nagisa, the only person who seemingly harbors no interest toward her. Mokuzu declares that a storm is coming, and she wants Nagisa to be her precious friend. Otherwise, when the storm comes, Mokuzu will go back to the sea, turn into foam, and disappear.
Satougashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai: A Lollypop or A Bullet follows Nagisa and Mokuzu, as the pair bond over real-life issues in hopes of a better world.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Jan 9, 2007 to Jan 9, 2008 | 13 chp | Publishing

Godzilla

2024
Something monstrous rises up from the sea and nearly sinks a Japanese fishing boat. The sole survivor tells a tale that no one wants to believe.

But when a Russian nuclear submarine is destroyed in the same waters, the world is forced to face the truth: Godzilla has returned! This manga classic was originally published by Dark Horse in black and white in 1988

(Source: MU)
1985 | 6 chp | Publishing

Godzilla vs. Biollante

2024
After a terrorist bombing takes the life of his only daughter, reknowned bio-geneticist Professor Shinigami merges her cells with those of her favourite rose in life. When the rose is almost destroyed in an earthquake, he also bonds Godzilla cells, which the Japanese government gathered for study after The King Of The Monsters last raid on Japan, to the plant to make it immortal.
The same terrorists want the G-cells, and threaten to unleash Godzilla once more if the Japanese government fails to give in to their demands.
Soon, Godzilla returns and makes his way towards the genetically altered plant, which has now mutated into the colossal horror called Biollante!
1990 | chp | Publishing

Luo Xue Cheng Bai

Zi, TuZi, Gui 2024
The snow mountain is his territory, no one is suppose to live there! Who is this daredevil?! How dare he chop off my favorite gingko tree. To make it worse, he took all the furnitures in my cave! Darn! I won't be a demon fox if I didn't take revenge! But... he's just an idiotic scholar, why can't I get close to him? When the mischievous but innocent snow fox meets a slow yet scheming scholar, the truth isn't what Xue Qiu expected.
(Source: Sherbet Lemon and Covenant of Darkness)
2005 to ? | 11 chp | Publishing

Bloody Monday Season 2: Pandora no Hako

Kibayashi, ShinMegumi, Kouji 2024
Two years after the end of Bloody Monday, a new threat emerges intent on destroying Japan. But what will happen now that "Falcon" has since disappeared? Who will face the deadly "Shooter of the Magic Bullet?"

(Source: MU)
Oct 14, 2009 to Apr 20, 2011 | 68 chp | Publishing

24-jikan Eigyouchuu

Tennouji, Mio 2024
1-2. 24-jikan Eigyouchuu
3-5. 24-jikan Renaichuu
6-8. Extra: 24-jikan Eigyouchuu
Oct 10, 2009 | 8 chp | Publishing

The Guy Who Will Give a Kiss for ₩5000

Hwang, Mi Ri 2024
'Recently, the social evils have not disappeared yet and they are even contagious into the school' is what Soo Yung believes, little does she know that the 'accidental' first kiss on the school roof leaves her running/craving for more!

Source: MangaFox
Not available | chp | Publishing

Yachin Hanbun no Ibasho desu.

Asou, Kai 2024
“Want to come to my place?”. Despite being a little offended by those words, Shiraishi accepted Kanzaki’s kind offer and thus, they began their co-inhabitant and living under the same roof. Shiraishi, a hardworking college student with a smile that never leaves his face was actually worried about his boyfriend’s unfaithfulness. And no one else he could talk to about that matter except his co-worker, Kanzaki. He thought that the co-inhabitant proposal Kanzaki proposed to him was just a friendly offer, but the truth is…

(Source: Shinmakoku Scanlations)
Mar 28, 2009 | 6 chp | Publishing

Orange

Benjamin 2024
Her name is Orange. She's a young girl in high school, coming of age in the heart of the city. And she has decided she has nothing to live for. Not her shallow friends. Not her parents. Not school. Not even the empty promise of love. Her head filled with morbid fantasies of suicide, Orange finds herself standing at the edge of her rooftop when the drunken, enigmatic young man, Dashu, enters her world...changing it forever...

A heartbreaking tale of a young woman desperately trying to understand the bewildering world around her, brought to life by the luscious artwork of manga icon, Benjamin, Orange is a profoundly moving story of loss and redemption.
2006 | chp | Publishing

Love So Life

Kouchi, Kaede 2024
Shiharu Nakamura is a high school girl who loves children, lives in an orphanage, and aspires to run a daycare. She works part-time at a nursery school where the cute two-year-old twins Akane and Aoi Matsunaga attend. One day, a handsome young man named Seiji Matsunaga comes rushing to pick up the twins, but they refuse to go home with him, clinging onto Shiharu instead. Shocked by the children's strong attachment to Shiharu, Seiji urgently requests for her to babysit them, offering to pay twice the amount she currently earns at the daycare. Shiharu realizes the cash will cover her living and schooling expenses while also providing the experience she needs to fulfill her dream.
Love So Life follows the happy days of Shiharu as she finds herself falling in love with her makeshift family, and the twins as they live out their early childhood playing, learning, and growing.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Apr 15, 2008 to Jul 18, 2015 | 111 chp | Publishing

I Am a Hero

Hanazawa, Kengo 2024
Insecure 35-year-old Hideo Suzuki is forced to work as a mangaka's assistant when his own series fails due to low sales. As he struggles through a mundane life plagued by hallucinations, he comes to realize that his relationship with his girlfriend isn't that great, suspecting that she may be cheating on him with her ex-boyfriend. After confronting her about the possible affair, however, Hideo feels bad about his inquisition and decides to visit her house to apologize.

But the world as he knows is about to be overturned. At first, not much seems to have changed, but he soon realizes that society has become a living nightmare, as the horrifying reality of what is taking place around him finally begins to sink in.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Apr 20, 2009 to Feb 27, 2017 | 264 chp | Publishing

Kyoushi to Seito toTeacher and Student

Fuuga 2024
Even though she is a teacher, Mai Morisaki's character is quite...special: self-demanding, impulsive, and selfish. Will she be alright when she moves in with one of her students, Nishimoto Daisuke? They get along perfectly at first, but to be honest a man can stand only "so many times" seeing a woman in underwear and doing nothing... And even with that, Mai is the one who ends up making "the first move."

Will this bold relationship remain hidden from the school students? Or the self righteous vice principal who happens be charmed by Mai?

(Source: MU)
Jan 7, 2005 to Sep 7, 2006 | 7 chp | Publishing