forbidden relationship

Best Shoujo Manga and Josei Manga featuring a forbidden or taboo relationship.

A Girl and Her Guard Dog Manga Screenshot. A man looks up at a high school girl as she holds his head in her hands.

A Girl and Her Guard Dog

Name: A Girl and Her Guard Dog (Ojou to Baken-kun)
Mangaka: Hatsuharu

Volumes: 5 (Ongoing – Feb 2021)
Licensed: Kodansha (1V: Digital – Feb 2021)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
Senagaki Isaku will be a first year high school student starting in spring. Her grandfather is the third head of the Senagaki group, a yakuza organization, so she is feared by those around her. However, starting from spring, she hopes to make normal friends and normally fall in love.

She is admitted into a high school further from her hometown, however, the overprotective young head of the Senagaki group, Utou Keiya, falsifies his age and enters the school with her through a backdoor admission…?! Keiya proclaims that love is too early for her although Isaku is perfectly ready. In truth, she has held an unrequited love for Keiya for quite some time
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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Cap from I Will Make you Feel my Love for You

I Will Make You Feel My Love for You

Name: I Will Make You Feel my Love for You
Mangaka: Inozaki Hinata

Volumes: V.?? Ch.21 (Ongoing)
Scanlations: V.?? Ch.21 (Mar 2021)
Type: Manga
Genre: Smut/Josei
Age Group: Mature

Summary:  
My childhood friend – normally so cold and uncaring – caressed me sweetly. I couldn’t stop myself from moaning or my body from getting hotter and hotter. Why do I feel this way when we don’t even like each other?
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Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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High Teen Boogie Manga

High Teen Boogie

Name: High Teen Boogie
Mangaka: Gotou Yukio

Volumes: 26 (Complete)
Scanlations: V.03 Ch.25 (Jan 2020)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Josei
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary:  
Momoko is one of the brightest students at school, but the school is a bit overrun by delinquents from a motorcycle gang. In fact, the person who has the next desk has never come to class. Then one day she gets the upper hand on one of these bikers and they actually strike up a bit of a friendship, with the potential for more. Of course, it turns out that he’s the leader of the bike gang, and the student in the next seat who has been missing this entire year.
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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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A man and a woman with a butterfly, snippit from Seirou Opera Manga

Seirou Opera

Name: Seirou Opera
Mangaka: Sakurakoji Kanoko

Volumes: 12 (Complete)
Scanlations: V03, Ch12
Type: Manga
Genre: Mystery, Historical, Drama
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary:  
The story unfolds in the Edo era in the Yoshiwara red-light district of Tokyo. Akane, a girl whose family is from Samurai, is sold to a brothel to be orphaned. To be the “little sister” of the “lady” No 1 spot. This will bring a client ask, then she meets a stranger very peculiar man. What will happen after that meeting?
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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Sweet Punishment Manga Aki Myojin and 3077

Amai Choubatsu – Sweet Punishment

Name: Amai Choubatsu – Watashi wa Kanshu Sen’you Pet (The Wardens Relentless Patdown / Sweet Punishment)
Mangaka: Izumi Show

Volumes: 20 (Ongoing)
Licensed: E-Renta
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Hentai
Age Group: Mature (18+)

Summary:  Hina is locked up in prison after being framed for a crime she didn’t commit. There, she meets the cold and cruel warden Aki Myojin. She’s at the mercy of his delicate touch and ravishing tongue everywhere: in the examination room, her cell, and even in the visiting room with her lover watching! Bit by bit, her body is disciplined to give in to Aki Myojin!

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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 2/5

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