5/5 Perfect Score

My favourite and most highest rated shoujo and josei manga series.

Screenshot from josei manga Nounai Poison Berry

Nounai Poison Berry

Name: Nounai Poison Berry
Mangaka: Mizushiro, Setona

Volumes: 5 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.09 (Hiatus)
Scanlator: Forbidden Garden
Type: Manga
Genre: Josei/Comedy/Romance
Age Group: Mature

Summary: Sakurai Ichiko is a 29-year-old woman whose head contains council members (each with differing personalities) that dictate her every thought and decision. While waiting at the train station one day, she encounters Saotome, a man whom she met and made short conversation with at a drinking party with friends. Although she’s interested in him, being a much a older woman, Ichiko hesitates over whether or not she should approach him, causing a wave of uproar between her intracranial council members.

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Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 5/5

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Orokamono no Koi

Name: Orokamono no Koi
Mangaka: Nanao, Mio

Volumes: 1 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.04 (Complete)
Scanlator: Intercross
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: It exists.
Someone who would tell you “anyone but him,” or “he may be cool, but it can’t be him.” “You may think he’s a good person, but it can’t be him.” “You can’t be alone together,” “You can’t fall for him,” “You can’t look at him without his glasses on.”
A fool like me can only do what she is told.

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Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Jiu Jiu

Name: Jiu Jiu
Mangaka: Tobina, Touya

Volumes: 5 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Comedy/Supernatural
Age Group: Teen

Summary: The Hachiouji family hunts demons in the darkness. The heiress of the Hachiouji family, Takamichi, lost her older brother at a very young age. She isolates herself, but, one evening, two werewolf pups are given to her. After just a few years, they have grown quickly, and they even go to the same senior high school that she does!

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Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 5/5

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Sarashi Asobi

Name: Sarashi Asobi
Manga-ka: Tobina, Touya

Volumes: 2 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.07 (Complete)
Scanlator: Fallen Syndicate
Type: Manga
Genre: Supernatural
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Shinigami Ai is bored with his job and to seek enjoyment he has an interest in high-school girl Ren who only has days left to live. She is the student council president at her school and really a good-hearted girl, but she is feared by the whole school because of her harsh way of speaking. Ai possesses her body and exposes her kind, true nature and so enjoys his “Sarashi Asobi (Exposing Game)”. But gradually he is starting to feel and interest in being with Ren…

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Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 5/5

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Suppli

Name: Suppli
Manga-ka: Okazaki, Mari

Volumes: 10 (Complete)
Licensed: Yes (Tokyopop – 5 Volumes Cancelled)
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.01 (Discontinued)
Scanlator: Shoujo Manga Maniac
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Slice of Life/Josei
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Minami Fujii is an employee at a high-powered advertising firm. She’s good at her job but finds herself torn between the pressure and expectations of her career and her attraction to two of her coworkers: the younger, arty Ishida, and the classy, put-together Ogiwara!

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Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 5/5

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