age gap

Best Recommendations for Shoujo Manga and Josei Manga that include a main couple with an age gap.

Black Bird

Name: Black Bird
Mangaka: Sakurakoji, Kanoko

Volumes: 18 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Fantasy/Highschool/Smut
Age Group: Teen

Summary: There is a world of myth and magic that intersects ours, and only a special few can see it. Misao Harada is one such person, and she wants nothing to do with magical realms. She just wants to have a normal high school life and maybe get a boyfriend. All that changes one day when Misao is attacked by a demon. Her childhood friend Kyo suddenly returns to save her and tend to her cuts–with his tongue! It turns out Misao is the bride of prophecy, whose blood gives power to the demon clan who claims her. But most demons want to keep her power for themselves–by eating her! Now Misao is just trying to stay alive…and decide if she likes it when Kyo licks her wounds.

-From Viz

{Note: Is it just me or was that freaking HILARIOUS?! When they ended Shoujo Beat, Viz must have had to lower some standards in other places as well…}

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

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The Devil Does Exist: Akuma de Sourou

Name: The Devil Does Exist (Akuma de Sourou)
Mangaka: Takanashi, Mitsuba

Volumes: 11 (complete)
Licensed: CMX Manga (Complete)
Scanlations: V.12 Ch.48 (Ongoing)
Scanlator: IvyScan, Enchantment Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: High School/Drama/Forbidden Relationship
Age Group: Teen

Summary: High school is difficult for most kids. But for Kayano, a shy girl whose single mother seems to work all the time, it’s even worse than usual. She’s so afraid of drawing attention to herself that she can’t tell the handsome Kamijo how much she loves him until one day she finally gets up the courage to write him a letter confessing her feelings.

When she goes to give him the letter all her plans go awry. She’s given the letter to the wrong person!

Accidentally, she’s given her love letter to Takeru Edogawa who just so happens to be the school principal’s son, head of the delinquents and the notorious “Prince of Attraction”! To Kayano he seems like Satan himself. Not only is he devilishly handsome, but he seems to take the utmost pleasure in making her suffer.

Things only get more interesting when Kayano’s mother comes home one day and announces she’s getting married again — To principal Edogawa! What will Kayano do when she has to live with this devil 24/7? How will she cope with her literal “Hell on Earth”?

-Description from Mangaupdates cause it couldn’t be put any other way ;)

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

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Forest of Gray City

Name: Forest of Gray City
Mangaka: Jung Hyun, Uhm

Volumes: 2 (complete)
Licensed: Yen Press
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.10 (Ongoing?)
Scanlator: RedMadness (Inactive), Miracle Manhwa (Inactive), Evil Flowers
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Romance/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: In a last ditch effort to raise enough money for the rent Yun-Ook, a starving artist, decides to rent out the spare room in her apartment. Yun-Ook finds a room mate in Bum-Woo, but will the two get along? Especially with Bum-Woos’ secrets.

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Meru Puri

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Name: Meru Puri
Manga-ka: Hino, Matsuri

Licensed: Viz (Complete)
Scanlations: V.4 (Complete)
Scanlator: Good and Plenty
Volumes: 4 Volumes (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance/Fantasy/Drama/Shota-Con
Age Group: Teen

Summary: High schooler Airi Hosina dreams of that perfect white house, with her perfect husband, and perfect children; Who is bound to scare away any teenage suitors. While running to school one day Airi encounters a strange boy who claims to be a prince from a land beyond a mirror. But when the lights go out Airi finds that this boy is a bigger problem then she had imagined.

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

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Seduction more Beautiful than Love

Name: Seduction more Beautiful than Love|
Manga-ka: Lee, Hyeon-Sook

Licensed: Yes (Tokyopop – Defunct)
Scanlations: V.05 Ch.15 (Complete)
Scanlator: Miracle Manwha (closed), RC Scans, Evil Flowers
Volumes: 5 Volumes (Complete)
Type: Manwha (Korean)
Genre: School/Drama/Romance/Teacher student
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Miss Jung is determined to become a great teacher. The only thing standing in the way is Ryumin, the school prince. Ryumin tells Jung that he would like to kiss her but turns out to be pulling a prank? Is Ryumin serious, or seriously playing Miss Jung?

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

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