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.

Kidou Senshi Gundam ZZ

Tomino, Yoshiyuki 2024
As the continuation of Zeta Gundam, this series once again follows the story of the Anti Earth Union Group (AEUG) battleship Argama after Zeta's final episode. To fight off the Axis Zeon, now called the Neo Zeon, Captain Bright Noa recruits a group of teenage junk collectors led by the loudmouthed but powerful Newtype Judau Ashta to pilot the Argama's mobile suits. Now sporting a line up of the behemoth MSZ-010 Double Zeta Gundam and the returning MSZ-006 Zeta Gundam, RX-178 Gundam Mk-II and Gundam-like MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki, the group is nicknamed the Gundam Team. As such, this became the first of a number of Gundam series where a team of Gundam mobile suits fight alongside each other regularly. The climax takes place at Side 3 in the Battle of Axis.

(Source: Gundam Wikia)
Feb 1986 to Jan 1987 | 12 chp | Publishing

Crimson Empire: Circumstances to Serve a Noble

Futaba, Haduki 2024
Sheila is a housemaid and exclusively serves Edvard, a prince. She also works as his security guard because of her past assassin training. She is all-purpose at work, but awkward when she is off. Although Sheila is competent at battles and operations, but she isn't good at love and establishing friendships. She, however, needs to use the various people around her to have Edvard take over the throne...
Nov 15, 2008 to Jul 16, 2011 | 17 chp | Publishing

Myself ; Yourself Sorezore no Overture

2024
The novel is written as a prologue to the game by Takumi Nakazawa, who has also written scenarios for Ever17, and Memories Off 2nd, and is illustrated by Wadapen. Each chapter centers on one of the six heroines; chapters one through six are arranged as follow: Nanaka, Aoi, Syuri, Yuzuki, Hinako, and Asami.

(Source: Wikipedia)
Mar 30, 2007 to Nov 30, 2007 | 6 chp | Publishing

Saiyuuki IbunSaiyuki the Different

Minekura, Kazuya 2024
Saiyuuki Ibun recounts how a man grew up to become the pivotal character Koumyou, years before the first Saiyuki storyline.

(Source: ANN)
Sep 16, 2009 to ? | chp | Publishing

HeroHero: A man who succeeds dying wishes of Akagi

Fukumoto, Nobuyuki 2024
Set in 2002, three years after the events of Ten: Tenhou-doori no Kaidanji, the story chronicles Hiroyuki's quest to follow Akagi's advice and live life freely even if it means complete failure.

(Source: MU, edited)
Oct 1, 2009 to Jul 1, 2021 | 142 chp | Publishing

Yami no AlexandraAlexandra in Darkness

Hara, Chieko 2024
Venice, 17th century. Safinia lives a simple and happy life with her father, a renowned artisan and his apprentice Angelo. Everything changes when a man named Ricardo Carrá comes looking for her saying the rich Poliziano family wants her as the lady's companion who has "a weak constitution". However there's more to it than it seems and after her refusal, her father is mysteriously accused of robbery and murdered.

(from Baka Updates)
Apr 1995 to Jun 1996 | 20 chp | Publishing

Heart no Diamond

Shinjou, Mayu 2024
Himeno's chest will hurt if any boy touches her because she has the diamond of the heart. However, when she was young, she befriended two boys -- the gentle Mamoru and the blunt Keigo -- who are able to touch her without harming her. Without knowing about the diamond of the heart, both Mamoru and Keigo promised to protect Himeno. When some people threaten to take Himeno's heart, who else will protect her but her knights?
(Source: MU)
Aug 3, 2009 to Apr 30, 2010 | 15 chp | Publishing

Celeste Blue

Sakura, Amyuu 2024
Eishi is one of those popular guys that are smart, good looking, and is good at sports. However, he thinks people and "love" are bothersome and would rather not deal with either of them. When his teacher told him to help this girl, Uta, to study, he dreaded the idea of having to stick with such an annoying girl. Soon, though, his heart starts to lighten up towards her.
(Source: Intercross)
2009 | 1 chp | Publishing

J no SubeteAll about J

Nakamura, Asumiko 2024
The story of J, a beautiful teenager with a twisted past and the face of Marilyn Monroe.
2004 to 2006 | 16 chp | Publishing

Tokyo Daigaku MonogatariTokyo University Story

Egawa, Tatsuya 2024
Murakami Naoki is the most intelligent student at his high school, but he can't stop obsessing over a girl named Mizuno Haruka. He finally asks her out, and to his surprise, she accepts. After several months of a loving yet obviously doomed romance, it comes time for them to take the entrance exams for Tokyo University. What will happen to their relationship if only one of them is accepted?
(from AnimeNewsNetwork)
1992 to 2001 | 375 chp | Publishing

Zero

Matsumoto, Taiyou 2024
Goshima is a boxer who has held the world championship title for years and never once lost a match—thus earning himself the nickname "Zero." His coach, Araki, describes him as "a flower that blooms only within the ring." But with his 30th birthday approaching, everyone begins to question Goshima's worth. Thus he decides to look for the ultimate opponent to give him his final match.

(Source: MU)
1990 to 1991 | 22 chp | Publishing

Kaze no Sylphid

Motoshima, Yukihisa 2024
Sylphid is a horse born on a small horse ranch. Even though he is named for a fairie wind he must overcome the handicap of having been born with tendinitis of the leg, and the loss of his mother in his birth. Hayao the young boy who loves horses is determined to see Silpheed grow up healthy and become a top racer like his mother once was. However, the odds are stacked against the orphaned foal and the young boy.

(Source: MangaFox)
Sep 13, 1989 to Nov 10, 1993 | 203 chp | Publishing

Akatsuki no Fumi

Inui, Miku 2024
1. Akatsuki no Fumi (Daybreak Letters)
2. Shinjitsu no Catharsis (The Catharsis of Truth)
3. Moero! Otousan
4. Rasen no Kioku (Spiral Memories)
5. Asa to Yoru no Tenohira ni
6. Kimi ni Okuru
7. Hi no Matoi (pilot)
Nov 25, 2011 | 7 chp | Publishing

Yumemiru Shoujo

Fuuga 2024
Nami Shinjou is a responsible teacher and is a girl anyone can fall in love for : caring, responsible and sweet. She is supposed to enter the best years of her life, living life as society has stated and marrying her now rich childhood friend.... However, Nami's heart dreams with the idea of someone "sweeping her off", someone that can bring excitement to her life.... Will this brave & ideal man ever come? Even if he is a student? Her true dreams will be set in motion when she confiscates a 'ero' magazine from one of the class most handsome students, along with some other embarrassing encounters between the two.

(Source: MU)
Mar 5, 2004 | 7 chp | Publishing

Men's Love

Fujisaki, Kou 2024
Ninth volume in the Kemono series. Kirishima Kaoru, a representative of the Toudou Group in Japan, is the lover of Daigo Mikihisa, an executive of Mercury, a big corporation in America. One day, Daigo's father, president of Mercury, orders his illegitimate son to be married to build a political alliance. What would the emotionally fragile Kaoru do when he finds out—?

A story of two men fighting for their love in the business world!

(Source: Fantasyshrine)
May 30, 2009 | 6 chp | Publishing

Superior Cross

ichtys 2024
Continues the story from Superior, about a hero who's aim is to defeat the demon queen while being accompanied by the demon queen herself...
Apr 18, 2009 to Jul 18, 2011 | 28 chp | Publishing

Private Opinion: Banana Fish Another Story

Yoshida, Akimi 2024
1. Private Garden
2. Fly Boy, In the Sky
Dec 13, 1995 | 2 chp | Publishing

Wendy

Matsumoto, Jiro 2024
Is this a dream? Reality? Or maybe something else...?
Every night, a mysterious man who styles himself Peter Pan sneaks up in Manami's room. He takes her with him to Neverland, an eerie place created out of human desire. Neither pain nor obligation exist in this place. A fairytale land of freedom, where people live governed only by their own instincts. There, all of reality's troubles and unpleasantness may be forgotten. However... being human may not be quite as bad as it sounds.

(Source: MU)
1996 to 1997 | 13 chp | Publishing

Nonnonbaa to OreNonNonBa

Mizuki, Shigeru 2024
Mizuki takes another chapter from his life to create Nonnonbaa, a story about a boy in the 1930s who is introduced to the world of Japanese folklore by a old neighbor woman.

(Source: ANN)
Aug 1992 to Oct 1992 | 25 chp | Publishing

Angel Beats!: Track Zero

Maeda, Jun 2024
The light novel is the official prequel to the anime series. It tells the story of how Yuri and Hinata meet, how they find out about "Tenshi" and the other characters and how the SSS was founded.
Sep 30, 2009 to Mar 30, 2010 | 9 chp | Publishing

Ability Shop

Tashiro, Tetsuya 2024
Toshiki is a kid who isn't really good at anything. He happens upon the "Ability Shop" where you can buy abilities in exchange for the years of your life. Toshiki rapidly changes his reputation at school, becoming a guy who can do everything well! Despite his successes, he may soon learn that there are some things that can't be gained through power alone.
(Source: tethysdust)
Dec 25, 2008 | 1 chp | Publishing

Kagerou MeikyuuAmnesia Labyrinth

Tanigawa, Nagaru 2024
When high school student Souji Kushiki, an academic achiever and talented athlete from a well-to-do family, returns home from boarding school, he finds that his sisters Harumi, Youko, and Saki have changed. Their strangely clingy behavior borders on the inappropriate and bizarre, yet Souji just brushes off their odd behavior at first.

However, when Souji arrives at school the next day, he learns that, during the summer, one of the students in his class was pushed to his death in front of a subway train. And what's more, two other students were stabbed by an unknown culprit. Are the victims linked, and could Souji's sisters have anything to do with the murders?

(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
This series is on hiatus.
Jun 10, 2008 to Oct 10, 2009 | 9 chp | Publishing

Limit

Suenobu, Keiko 2024
Mizuki Konno is your typical high school junior at Yanno Prefectural High School. Like many teens her age she is studying hard for college and when she has some down time she likes to fuss over fashion and make-up. While she may not be one of the class elites, Mizuki is fortunate to be on the right side of her class's idols. But that might not settle well with those who are in a similar academic status but not so lucky with their social lives.

Mizuki really isn't a bad person. However she understands that she is one of the haves. And even if she only has so a strand to hold on to, that's much more than the introverts or the socially inept.

On the day of the field trip, Mizuki's position with the cool kids cannot be better. But now a good portion of her class are now firmly against her. While this "lower" clique may not be united, their hatred is much stronger than their differences. Unfortunately tragedy strikes in the form of a traffic accident. And now the class is split into two new groups...the living and the dead!

Almost the entire class has been wiped out and the five remaining girls are injured and lost in the wilderness. They also hate each other, and in a mix of Lord of the Flies with Heathers these girls begin to assert their wills against each other to try to survive while enacting a new class structure where looks and style is no longer the definition of influence.

(Source: Vertical)
Oct 13, 2009 to Sep 13, 2011 | 23 chp | Publishing

Macross: My Fair Minmay ~ Dreaming Prelude

2024
Focusing on the character of Lynn Minmay, this a book of scripts covering the period from episode 8 to episode 12 of Super Dimension Fortress Macross.
Apr 30, 1983 | 5 chp | Publishing