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Usodoki Rhetoric

Author: Miyako Ritsu Description: Kanako is a fifteen year old with a very special ability; she can hear when a person is lying! But when her ability causes the people in her village to distance themselves from her she decides to leave home and start anew where nobody knows her, determined to keep her power a secret. Things are tough and she finds herself with no place to stay until an eccentric private detective with superb powers of observation immediately uncovers her ability and offers her a job. Kanako enters the hectic, exciting world of a detective's assistant and finds her ability might be of some good use after all.

Chapters: 50 Read on MangaDex

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Usemono Yado

Author: Toshihide Hozumi 

Description:  (English: The Inn of Lost Things) There is a mysterious inn where the guests are those who are searching for something they have lost. Many of these guests are guided here by a strange man who cannot enter but is somehow connected to this place. The inn’s proprietress is a young girl with no memory of her past who treats this man coldly yet feels drawn to him for reasons she can’t understand. A bittersweet story about love, grief and the connection between past and present.

Chapters: 18 Read on MangaDex

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Chikutaku Bonbon

Author: Katsuta Bun Description: (from MangaDex) Taking her grandfather’s advice, Iwa, who is in Tokyo for work, strives to do good deeds wherever she goes. Whether it be rescuing an injured bat on the sidewalk or helping out a sickly young man, the city is turning out to be a very interesting place.

Chapters: 15 Read on MangaDex

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Stand Up!

Author: Yamakawa Aiji Description: (from MangaDex) Furuya Utako is shy and reserved, but because of her height (172cm), she sticks out like a sore thumb. Her mind is constantly plagued by thoughts of Harada Naoyuki, the popular boy who sits next to her in homeroom and claims that he'd like to be friends. She is a bit surprised at his straightforward attitude, but slowly the distance between them is starting to close…

Chapters: 17 Read on MangaDex

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Kuragehime (Princess Jellyfish)

Author: Higashimura Akiko Description: (from MangaDex) Kurashita Tsukimi is an 18 year old 'kurage fujoshi'. She lives in Tokyo in an all-female apartment complex full of various types of fujoshi. They fear and despise beautiful, fashionable people while existing happily in their no-man, no make-up world. That all changes when a 'hipster' saves the life of a jellyfish and intrudes upon Tsukimi's isolated existence. Things are made even more complicated when it turns out that the beautiful woman is actually a man in drag.

Chapters: 84 Read on MangaDex

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Nodame Cantabile

Author: Ninomiya Tomoko Description: (From MangaDex) The son of a famous pianist, music student Shinichi Chiaki dreams of studying abroad and becoming a conductor like his mentor. Unfortunately, his fear of flying grounds his lofty plans! As he watches other classmates achieve what he has always wanted, Shinichi wonders if he should quit music altogether. Then one day he meets fellow student Megumi Noda, also known as Nodame. This oddball girl cannot cook, clean, or even read a music score, but she can play the piano in incomparable cantabile style. She teaches Chiaki something that he has forgotten: to enjoy his music, no matter where he is. It received the 2004 Kodansha Manga Award for best shoujo manga. 

Chapters: 78 Read on MangaDex

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Mikako-san

Author: Kyou Machiko Description: (From MangaDex) The future, romance… everything is "undecided," yet the remaining days of high school seem as if they'll be over in the blink of an eye. Ichimura Mikako, 17 years old. Midorikawa, the strange guy who now sits next to her after a seating change and oddly prefers red pencils. At first, Mikako didn't think much of it, but after learning that they both love the same band, their relationship begins to change bit by bit…The day-to-day life of a 17-year-old girl woven together in a soft literary style.

Chapters: 215 Read on MangaDex

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Lovely Complex

Author: Nakahara Aya Description: Risa Koizumi is the tallest girl in class, and the last thing she wants is the humiliation of standing next to Atsushi Otani, the shortest guy. Fate and the whole school have other ideas, and the two find themselves cast as the unwilling stars of a bizarre romantic comedy duo.

Chapters: 66 Read on MangaDex

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Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai

Author: Nakahara Aya Description: (english: Please Love the Useless Me) Nearing thirty, suddenly unemployed, and broke after spending her savings on a younger man who saw her as no more than a pet dog, Shibata Michiko is at the end of her rope. That’s when she bumps into Kurosawa, her domineering ex boss who now runs a cafe owned by his grandmother. Taking pity on her, he cooks her a meal and offers her part time work until she gets back on her feet. Shibata wonders if she’ll ever catch a break while working for a man she used to call the “dark demon”. 

Chapters: 40 Read on MangaDex

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Koi-iji: Love Glutton

Author: Shimura Takako Description: The story follows a girl named Mame, whose family runs a public bath in Tokyo. She has held on to feelings of unrequited love for her childhood friend for twenty years.

Chapters:50 Read on MangaDex

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Tsukikage Baby

Author: Kodama Yuki Description: (english: Moonlight Baby) When Hotaruko, a stand-offish girl from Tokyo, arrives in Yatsuo-machi local boy Hikaru is immediately drawn to her. When told about the town’s traditional dance ‘owara’ and the Kaze No Bon festival she makes it clear that she has no interest in participating. One day Hikaru is amazed to find her alone in the classroom dancing owara beautifully. As he gets to know Hotaruko and helps her open up to others he learns that her connection to this town and its tradition is much deeper than he first thought.  

Chapters: 45 Read on MangaDex