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Collection of Shoujo Manga and Josei Manga with close family members.

Kiken Jun’ai DNA: Our Dangerous Pure Love DNA

Name: Kiken Jun’ai DNA (Our Dangerous Pure Love DNA)
Manga-ka: Kurumatani, Haruko

Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.03 Ch.17 (Complete)
Scanlator: Shoujo Manga Maniac
Volumes: 3 Volumes (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Gender Bender/ School Life/ Romance/ Forbidden Relationship/ Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Leading lady Ami has always been under the shadow of her younger brother. Not in brains or sports, but in looks. Chihiro is actually a cross dressing female model and takes his role as brother way too seriously. Up to this point all of Ami’s potential suitors have been chased off by Chihiro. Will she ever find her true love, or does Chihiro have his own reasons?

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Vampire Knight

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Name: Vampire Knight
Manga-ka: Hino, Matsuri

Licensed: Viz
Volumes: 19 (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance/Fantasy/Vampires/Triangle
Age Group: Teen

Summary: The prestigious Cross Academy is not your regular school. There are two classes, night class and day class, the only thing that’s odd is that night class is made up of vampires! Story follows Yuki as she tries her best to keep nightclass’ secret with some help from her friends Zero and Kaname. –mangaupdates

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Anta Nante Okotowari!: You? No thanks!

Name: Anta Nante Okotowari! (You? No Thanks!)
Manga-ka: Sugiyama, Miwako

Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.1 Ch.04 (Complete)
Scanlator: Nagareboshi
Volumes: 1 (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance/Comedy/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Yui has a deep love for her “older brother” (they’re not actually siblings, but are related), and she is devastated when he gets married. While at the wedding, Yui meets a sobbing boy, Kaoru. It turns out that his cousin (that he was in love with) is the one Yui’s brother is marrying.

When Yui moves into a boy’s dorm so she can seek out new love, she finds that the head of the dorm is none other than Kaoru!

-Summary from Manga Updates, because I really didn’t know how else to summarize it.

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

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Honey Hunt

Name: Honey Hunt
Manga-ka: Aihara, Miki

Licensed: Licensed By Viz
Volumes: 6 (Discontinued – Hiatus)
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance/Drama/Harem/Film Industry
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Timid Yura has a sad life. Her mother is a huge actress and her father is a famous violinist, so life must be amazing, right? Wrong. Yura is bullied by her mother whose never home and her father is in America. The breaking point is when Yura comes home to find out that not only are her parents getting a divorce; but her mother is having an affair the boy next door. Who just so happens to be Yura’s childhood friend and major crush. Determined to destroy her mother Yura decides to leave home and become an actress. Too bad she’s so shy and awkward. Love interests include her manager, a musician, and the musicians cute twin who will act beside Yura in a drama. Can it get any better?

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

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Fruits Basket

Name: Fruits Basket
Mangaka: Takaya Natsuki

Volumes: 23 (Finished)
Licensed: YenPress
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy/Romance
Age Group: E- For everyone

Summary: Cute and optimistic Tohru ends up living with the Sohma family after her mother dies. Tohru soon realizes that the family has a secret, they turn into animals of the zodiac when hugged by someone of the opposite sex! Story follows the family’s search for a way to break the curse.

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

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