5/5 Perfect Score

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

Cat Street

Name: Cat Street
Mangaka: Kamio, Youko

Volumes: 8 (Complete)
Licensed: No (No idea why it hasn’t)
Scanlations: V.08 Ch.35 (Complete)
Scanlator: Condensation (closed) and Willful Muse
Type: Manga
Genre: Life/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: The story centers around Keito Aoyama, a former famous child actor. Due to a childhood incident, she retired from her career early and withdrew from normal society. Now 16, she passes her days in boredom and without purpose. But one day she runs into a stranger who takes her to El Liston–a free school for high school students like herself, who don’t have a place where they belong. Though hesitant at first, Keito decides to enter El Liston and subsequently, she begins a new stage in her life. With the help of her only remaining childhood friend, Taiyou, and her new classmates Rei, Momiji, and Kouichi, Keito slowly finds the courage to open up to others and to accept their support. Will Keito return to acting? Will she find true friends? Love?

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Kingyo Sou

Name: Kingyo Sou
Mangaka: Fujitsuka, Yuki

Volumes: 2 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.08 (Complete)
Scanlator: Esthetique and Aerandria
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary:
In the spring of her second year in high school, Asuka sees Masami playing Japanese drums in a festival, and she falls in love with him. However, Masami is deaf, and he has locked his heart in a world without sound. And thus, the two’s melancholic love miracle quietly begins. This is a pure love story in the middle of summer that will make your heart ache.

-From Mangaupdates


Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 5/5

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Hana ni Arashi: Flower in a Storm

Name: Hana ni Arashi (Flower in a Storm)
Mangaka: Shigeyoshi, Takagi

Volumes: 2 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Action/Drama
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Even though her body has an unusual ability, Kunimi Riko is still (trying to be) a normal high school girl. One day, a guy suddenly comes to see her. He’s Tachibana Ran, the heir of the world-leading super-millionaire Tachibana family! A high tension romance between Ran, who suddenly proposed, and Riko, who turned him down.

-From Manga Updates

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

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Sonan Jyanaiyo

Name: Sonan Jyanaiyo (It’s not Like that!)
Mangaka: Izumi, Kaneyoshi

Volumes: 9 (complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.09 Ch.38 (Complete)
Scanlator: Noir, Anime Waves
Type: Manga
Genre: High School/Forbidden Relationship/Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Shizuka is really plain. Her twin brothers who are a year older then her are drop dead gorgeous, as is her mother. The twins are in love with their sister, and someone is adopted. But who?

**I know I suck, leave me alone :P

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

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The Tarot Cafe

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Name: The Tarot Cafe
Manga-ka: Park, Sang-Sun

Licensed: Yes (Tokyopop)
Volumes: 7 Volumes (Complete)
Type: Manwha (Korean)
Genre: Fantasy/Drama/Mystery/Romance/Shounen-Ai
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Pamela is the owner of a Tarot cafe. People come for cakes and a fortune telling. At night though, the cafe gets some interesting guests like Vampires, Fairies, and Spirits. Follow the lives of the super natural in this enthralling mystery filled with pain, love, and danger.

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

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