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.

Kitchen no Ohimesama: Tenshi no Cake wo Sagase!Kitchen Princ...

Kobayashi, MiyukiAndo, Natsumi 2024
Najika Kazami is passionate about food and the connections people can make by sharing their favorite dishes. She possesses an absolute sense of taste and can easily discern the ingredients and method of preparation of anything she eats. Anju Takanashi, a classmate of Najika, comes to her and asks if she can recreate a certain dessert her grandmother once enjoyed. With nothing more than a "fluffy and heavenly" taste and a connection to her deceased parents to help her achieve her goal, Najika wonders if she will ever figure out what the mysterious confection is.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Mar 18, 2008 | 4 chp | Publishing

Mashiro-iro Symphony

Minazuki, Futago 2024
This is the official comic based on the game of the same name. An all-girl's school is preparing to consolidate with another nearby school, which will make them co-ed. Uryuu Shingo is chosen to be a male 'test student' at the girl's school before they officially merge in the following year. On Shingo's first day, he learns that many of the girls are not happy about the coming merger. Specifically, Seno Airi is staunchly opposed and refuses to welcome him to the school. Some of the other girls are friendly, but Airi has a lot of power over public opinion. The truth is, though, that Shingo has met Airi before. When she and Shingo's little sister got lost, he helped them find their way. Airi seemed to like him then, back when she didn't know he was going to be her new male classmate. Maybe he'll be able to win over Airi, as well as all his other interesting female classmates!

(Source: MangaHelpers)
Sep 26, 2009 to Aug 26, 2010 | 12 chp | Publishing

Umibe no OnnanokoA Girl on the Shore

Asano, Inio 2024
In a seaside town where very little happens, middle school students Keisuke Isobe and Koume Satou live a rather dull life. But when Koume's crush breaks her heart, their situation becomes quite unordinary. She starts a "no-strings-attached" relationship with Keisuke, whom she had previously rejected, both finding solace in the other in order to fill the emotional voids in their lives. However, being "friends with benefits" becomes complicated when real feelings begin to develop, as the consequences of their relationship start to take their toll on those around them and themselves.
Umibe no Onnanoko takes a harsh look at love, relationships, and the emotional price that will be paid as the result of a decision made between two teenagers.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Jul 7, 2009 to Jan 8, 2013 | 20 chp | Publishing

Muv-Luv Alternative

Mashima, Azusa 2024
In Muv-Luv Alternative, Takeru wakes up three years after the end of Muv-Luv Unlimited to find himself back in his room. Although he first thinks that everything that had happened to him was a dream, he soon feels that something is wrong, and leaves the house to find that he has been sent back in time to the beginning of the events in Unlimited. Unwilling to accept something like Alternative V, he decides to help professor Kouzuki to complete Alternative IV and save mankind.

(Source: Wikipedia)
Aug 21, 2007 to Apr 27, 2017 | 101 chp | Publishing

Katsubou no Manazashi

Takarai, Saki 2024
After his mother deserted them, senior high school student, Reo was living together with his mother's stern ex-lover, the very imposing uncle Shuuji. But 2 months ago, as he dropped by his home on his way with a friend one evening, an event occurred that changed their relationship forever.
His senses were suddenly muddled and when he came to, he was being held by his uncle. Since that day, his uncle demands his body for pleasure and Reo who has been suffering ever since seeks his close friend Kenta’s advice but…

Also included in this volume is a cute story of mutual love between a kouhai and senpai!

(Source: MangaUpdates)
Feb 2009 to Dec 19, 2009 | 5 chp | Publishing

Tenshi no Marshmallow

Pon, Takahanada 2024
For salary man Kotaro Takami, heaven is a gravure model named Misaki Hoshino. Now his dream may be coming true; the TV station he works for wants to use Hoshino for their new promotion--and Takami is in charge of PR for the station! But the perfect day seems to go very wrong when he accidentally walks in a girl changing her costume. With her glasses, braided pony-tails (and hot bod) Takami finds himself falling in love. But just who is she...?
Jan 8, 2006 to Nov 10, 2010 | 32 chp | Publishing

Kamen Rider Black

Ishinomori, Shoutarou 2024
A lose adaptation of the Kamen Rider Black TV series featuring more carnal and insect like designs and a darker plot.
Sep 9, 1987 to Nov 9, 1988 | 23 chp | Publishing

Omoide Emanon (Emanon: Memories of Emanon)

Tsuruta, Kenji 2024
In the winter of 1967, a 20-year-old man returns home from his travels aboard a ferry, where a chance encounter forever alters his perception of the world around him. While relaxing in the cabin, he is approached by a beautiful yet enigmatic girl who introduces herself as Emanon; later that evening, the pair accompany each other to dinner.

After seeing the man read a science fiction novel, Emanon offers to tell him her life story, saying that he doesn't have to believe it unless he wants to. And much to the man's surprise, she proceeds to inform him that her memory dates back over three billion years, to the very moment when life first appeared on Earth.
Omoide Emanon tells the extraordinary tale of a girl who serves as the planet's witness—an inheritor of genetic memory that has been passed down her maternal line since the beginning of life itself.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Sep 19, 2006 to Jan 19, 2008 | 9 chp | Publishing

Steins;Gate

Nitroplus 2024
The story of Steins;Gate takes place in Akihabara and is about a group of friends who have managed to customize their microwave into a device that can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

(Source: Wikipedia)
Sep 26, 2009 to Jul 27, 2013 | 23 chp | Publishing

Shinigami-sama ni Saigo no Onegai wo

2024
Aida Shizuka is three days from being executed for cruelly murdering his family when a shinigami comes to visit him. It's his little sister Hibiki, who has come to make sure his soul goes to hell! Hibiki has another job on this trip as well, granting the final wish of a girl with heart disease, and she drags her condemned brother along with her. Soon, it becomes apparent that people are not as simple as they may seem, and even Shizuka's guilt is uncertain. Hibiki and Shizuka promise to search together for the truth about their family's death, and they won't let life, death, or trouble in the afterlife get in their way!

(Source: MangaHelpers)
Oct 22, 2009 to Mar 22, 2011 | 18 chp | Publishing

Hidan no AriaAria the Scarlet Ammo

Akamatsu, Chuugaku 2024
Tokyo Butei High School is a place where teenagers are trained to be "Butei," combat detectives. Tokyou Butei student Touyama Kinji, who is otherwise ordinary, has a special ability to go into "Hysteria Mode" that can trigger without his control when he is in close proximity to girls. In his Hysteria Mode, which he is trying to keep something of a secret, he becomes super powerful and very concerned with protecting women. One day Kinji is targeted by a Butei killer, who rigs his bicycle to explode, and is rescued by assault expert transfer student Aria H. Kanzaki. But after witnessing his Hysteria Mode, Aria will not leave him alone...

(Source: MU)
Sep 26, 2009 to ? | chp | Publishing

Film Girl

Takagi, Shigeyoshi 2024
Nakamura Mei is a very simple high school girl. While at a cafe with her friends, they bump in to -none other than- the model Shirou's table. Mei apologizes and that's when Shirou notices something. Grabbing her he takes her outside with him and reveals that Mei was once a kids model—and that he's her idol-otaku!?
(Source: CoyoMoose)
Included one-shots:
Volume 2: Wonderful Cafe ni Youkoso, Anya Kouro
Mar 24, 2009 to Dec 10, 2010 | 10 chp | Publishing

Kichiku Megane Official Comic Anthology

2024
Official comic anthology for Kichiku Megane that includes an illustration and comments from the main artist Misasagi Fuhri.
Feb 2009 | 15 chp | Publishing

Castle Mango

Konohara, NariseOgura, Muku 2024
Yorozu lives at Castle Mango, a "love hotel" where couples pay for a few hours to themselves. But his quiet life is violated when Togame arrives to shoot an adult film! Soon Yorozu's being "mistaken" for an actor, having his pants suddenly removed and watching his little brother get hit on. Togame eventually agrees to stay away from Yorozu's brother, but there's a catch - and it's not something Yorozu's going to like!

(Source: Juné)
Apr 2009 to 2012 | 12 chp | Publishing

1 Litre no Namida

Konno, Kita 2024
The manga is based on a dramatic tragedy diary written by Aya Kito, published shortly before her death. The diary, a true story based on her own life, was originally written in first person. It is about a girl coping with her teenage life along with a degenerative disease. She keeps a diary of not only what she does but how she feels and the hardships she must endure. Initially, the diary's purpose was for Kito to chronicle impressions she had about how the disease was affecting her daily life. As the disease progressed, however, the diary became Kito's outlet for describing the intense personal struggles she underwent in coping, adapting, and ultimately trying to survive her disease. As she notes in one entry, "I write because writing is evidence that I am still alive."

(Source: Wikipedia)
Sep 24, 2005 | 4 chp | Publishing

Koujitsusei no Tobira

SHOOWA 2024
Cys Buegette learns of the sudden death of his brother he didn't see for 10 years. His only legacy: a disk and a son, Kai. Kai now lives with Cys and every night, comes to his bed.

(Source: MU)
Mar 29, 2008 to Nov 29, 2008 | 6 chp | Publishing

Self

2024
Youichi is a very serious, stoic young man with a girlfriend and a regular sex life. However, he has never experienced sexual self-gratification.

Recently, he's become aware of a book called "Masturbation" at the library he works at—an educated discourse into the history of the sin of Onan and related practices. Finding himself increasingly intrigued by the concepts within, he begins to conduct a series of experiments... Join him as he embarks into a whole new world!

(Source: MU)
Aug 4, 2008 to May 10, 2010 | 45 chp | Publishing

Blue

Chiba, Kozue 2024
A painful love story of four childhood friends on a island.

Mimi comes back from Tokyo to visit and meet her childhood friends. Seems like they are worried about Mimi for the sudden visit. Seems like she's heartbroken when her boyfriend broke up with her. To lift her spirits her friends try to find the legendary blue cat that has a bell attached to its tail. Legend says it will grant your wish, but will this cat even help what Mimi is going through...?

(Source: JShoujo Scans)
2009 to Sep 20, 2011 | 47 chp | Publishing

Super Lovers

Abe, Miyuki 2024
While spending summer with his mother, Haru meets Ren, a boy newly adopted by his mother. Getting along with Ren isn't easy as Haru's goal is to "civilize" him by the time summer ends. Their relationship slowly improves as Haru spends more time with Ren and in return Ren steadily warms up to him. Can they really become a "family" at the end of summer!?

(Source: Bliss)
Oct 30, 2009 to ? | chp | Publishing

Chocolate

Fukushima, Haruka 2024
Chii-chan is an elementary school student who is really unexperienced with love. When the new transfer student Rei-kun arrives at her school, her life makes big changes. Is he the one for whom she had looked for these past years... ?
(Source: Divine Sanctuary)
Jun 3, 2009 to Apr 30, 2010 | 12 chp | Publishing

5-ji kara 9-ji madeFrom five to nine

Aihara, Miki 2024
Sakuraba Junko is an English teacher at an English Language School in Tokyo. Her dream is to live a fancy and dramatic life abroad, but the reality is that she is 27 years old and still single. Her family forces her into an omiai with Hoshikawa Takane, but Hoshikawa turns out to be a monk at a Buddhist temple, who fully expects his future wife to quit any outside jobs and lead a quiet, proper life, becoming of a monk's wife. Junko is horrified and refuses immediately, but it seems he is not one to back down so easily...
Jul 24, 2009 to Mar 24, 2020 | 106 chp | Publishing

Mizuiro Cinema

Otsu, Hiyori 2024
Aqua Blue Cinema is about an actress and a girl she meets through unusual circumstances.
Sep 6, 2009 to May 18, 2010 | 7 chp | Publishing

Uminari

Takao, HiroiKamuro, Akira 2024
Uminari is a collection of four short, unrelated stories featuring a variety of adult men in relationships.
1. The Sound of the Sea
Shougo is your average high school student living in a humble seaside port town. His world is flipped upside down when the new art teacher, Asano-sensei, moves into Shougo's house! During Asono's stay, Shougo grows a strange yet strong longing for him. Emotions unstable as the waves in a storm, the characters' feelings are almost dangerous.
2. Moon on the 16th Night
Shuu is a well-aged man settling down in life. Kazui, on the other hand, is a young man partying his life away. Shuu and Kazui are lovers. All seems well until newcomer Kohei squeezes into the story and Shuu suspects ill will between this Kohei and his beloved. Maintaining their relationship reveals struggling to solidify honesty as well as trust.
3. Shared Key
Arisawa and Yuki thought that by living together they can do much "more" things. It's easier said and done when their stressful jobs and wonky schedules adds bricks to the wall between them!
4. Last Kiss
Two matured fathers, Kouichi and Mamoru, go for a trip to the beach with their families. What first seems to be a simple fun-in-the-sun plot twists to the reminiscences between the lives of the two men. Having first met as new neighbors during their grade school years, Kouichi and Mamoru have been the best of friends for over thirty-five years. The retreat questions their relationships between their families... and themselves.
5. 3:00 AM
A short ending to the first story.
(Source: Alipio)
2007 | 5 chp | Publishing

Kure-nai

Katayama, KentarouYamamoto, Ya 2024
Kure-nai is about the adventures and misadventures of 16-year-old Kurenai Shinkurou. Shinkurou is an authority in settling disputes between people, and finds his life turned upside down one day when he is assigned as a bodyguard for Kuhouin Murasaki, the daughter of a powerful plutocratic family.

(Source: ANN)
Dec 20, 2005 to ? | chp | Publishing