Takashima, Rica

The adventures of college student Rica, as she attends university in Tokyo and visits the gay and lesbian district looking for friendship and love. Rica's story is sweet and funny, realistic and a little wacky with a refreshing lack of self-hatred and doubt, but with no lack of real emotions.

(Source: MU)

Rica tte Kanji!?

Tokyo Love: Rica'tte Kanji!?

リカって感じ!?

Amamiya, Sae

Plica-chan is the bittersweet, realistic story of Plica, a young lesbian looking for love in modern Japan.

The manga, which is written in 4-panel strip style, originally ran in Anise magazine, and now runs in the LOUD News, the newsletter for the LOUD organization. It can also be found online. Plica's comments are often on the nature of sexuality, the relationships between men and women, and between women and women.

The whole strip starts on a low note, as Plica returns from an ex-lover's wedding. But not too long into it, Plica meets Mari, for whom she starts to have feelings pretty soon.

(Source: okazu.blogspot.com)

Plica-chan

プリカちゃん

Fukai, Youki

A young man lives in a small town where he owns a small grocery shop and struggles through life alone with his small son. His childhood friend moved away after graduation and appears suddenly years after at the threshold of his shop , without money or occupation and puts his life to utter chaos.
(from M-U)

Kimi ga Iru Basho

The Place Where You Are

きみが居る場所

Shiina, Ayumi

Takasaki Tomoka is a young girl seeking love. She had finally found her prince and slowly began to think of a way to speak to him. Tomoka met up with her childhood classmate from piano lessons, Miyazawa Arata and was invited to a performance by his band. There, she met the prince she had been admiring for many days. After becoming drunk, Tomoka confessed her love to her prince but problems arise with Tomoka having to take her love down through a dangerous path. (Source: M-U)

Anata to Scandal

You & Scandal

(あなたとスキャンダル

Kakinouchi, Narumi

Utahime Fight is a collection of three short stories, all of which are about magical, mysteriously attractive girls and they effect they have on the people around them. 

In the first story, a girl and her two friends (one male, one female) are really magical fighters for something - probably love and justice. 

The second story follows two girls who are magically drawn into the plot of a movie, in which a prince strives to save his mother and his land. After being threatened with their lives, they wake up in the library in school. They have a final scene in which they admit that they love each other and story ends.  

The third story is about a magical creature that enchants a young man and brings love into his life. (description from http://okazu.blogspot.com/2005/03/obscure-yuri-manga_23.html)

Utahime Fight!

歌姫Fight!

Ogiura, Tomoko

In Junpaku no Toiki, by Ogiura Tomoko, two broken-hearted women turn to each other for comfort.

(Source: Lililicious)

Junpaku no Toiki

純白の吐息

Aoki, Mitsue

Onnanoko ga Suki

女の子が好き

Shimizu, Yuki

Mistaken identities, bizarre accidents and pratfalls, tragic pasts and plenty of broken hearts, and that is just for starters! Love Mode tells the story of the lives of the men involved with the classy male escort service, Blue Boy. Love lines intertwine and cross, friendships are made and broken in this boy's love classic!

Sakashita Izumi, your typical straight high school student, gets into a sticky situation with a gay translator, Takamiya Katsura, when he gets mistaken for Izumi - an escort from B&amp;B (Blue Boy)! The two go on a date, Takamiya goes all the way with the young Izumi, and now the older man's in love with him. Tiny Problem: Izumi is slightly homophobe. Will he eventually convert in that which he fears?

Reiji, owner of B&amp;B and other sleazy clubs (and seemingly not gay) finds out his girlfriend had been cheating on him - just after dumping her. He bumps into a young, family-less, money-less, trustless high school named Naoya who at that moment gets knocked out by a pot that Reiji's vengeful ex-lover drops on his head. Reiji accompanies the young boy, feeling bad that this is partly his doing, only to find that now Naoya is homeless since his apartment burned down and finally ends up taking in this "stray cat".

(Source: MU)

Including one-shot:
Volume 10: The Reason I Touched Teacher

Love Mode

ラブモード

Koide, Mieko

Akizuki, Koh

Fujimoto Hiroya is at the top of his class. He's the Student Council Vice-President, spends all his time studying and is the idol of all the "good girls".  But the truth is, he'd trade it all just for the chance to be someone else... someone popular, outgoing and carefree... Someone like Masaki.

Masaki's what Fujimoto's friends would call an "idiot".  He'd rather play soccer than study, almost never cracks a book, and is popular with all the "normal" kids.  He's got flashy clothes, bleached hair and a reputation just a lousy as Fujimoto's is good.

In the summer of Fujimoto's freshman year of high school, he resolves to change his image and his life... all to make friends with Masaki.  But can dyed hair, new clothes and a piercing really change a person inside? 

Classic BL by the "dream-team" of novelist Koh Akizuki and mangaka Meiko Koide. 

Please note that this title deals very frankly with some rather "heavy" issues including, but not limited to homophobia, gay bashing, coming out, HIV/AIDS, promiscuous sex, rape, and suicide.
(Source: DokiDoki)

Yatteranneeze!

I Can't Take it Anymore!

やってらんねェぜ!

Hamada, Shoko

Youji Takashima is a high schooler that lives with his beloved older sister. One day she tells him she's leaving to work New York and leaves him with her friend, Ren Akishima, whom Yohji dislikes. Things aren't easy at first, but slowly their relationship grows closer. Yohji realizes he's fallen in love, but Ren has demons from his past to overcome.... but maybe Yohji is just the cure he needs.

Yume no Kodomo

夢の子供

Tsukumo, Mutsumi

A classic yuri manga about a woman who leaves her husband for an old friend from school. There are two stories in this manga--one (Moonlight Flowers) is the main story, and the other (Midnight Flowers) is about the protagonist's friend's past.
Note: this manga contains rape.
(Source: Lililicious)

Also includes another unrelated story.

Moonlight Flowers

月下美人

Mizushiro, Setona

This plot takes a new twist to Romeo and Juliet's forbidden love. It's July 7th, 1999 in Shanghai and there are two gangs fighting for control. Only in the ceasefire zone do people live in peace. In a chance meeting Xiaoxue, who is part of the Toulon's gang, and Dawu, from the Xianglongji's gang meet by chance and without knowing they are enemies. In the heat of the moment Dawu takes him to a place he has the keys to in hopes Xiaoxue will join him, but is turned down. With a simple kiss he leaves Dawu not knowing they will meet again, but in very different circumstances

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