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Otaku Vampires Love Bite screencap the male lead glances over hesistantly at the female lead who is smiling contentedly

Otaku Vampires Love Bite

Name: Otaku Vampires Love Bite
Mangaka: Suzuki Julietta

Volumes: 7 (Ongoing)
Licensed: Viz (3 Volumes: Digital (App) / Paperback)
Type: Manga
Genre: Supernatural/Fantasy/Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
Modern vampire Hina sets out from Romania to live out her otaku dreams in Japan! Her new neighbor, Kyuta, looks just like her anime crush. Can she convince him to be friends?

– Mangaupdates

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

Opinion: Julietta Suzuki does such a great job great fun comedic series with excellent world building. I love the world she has made for Vampires, it’s always great to see a new twist on the supernatural genre.

The art is great. Very bouncy shoujo. I’ll admit her characters tend to look the same especially her leads but she has some cool designs for the side characters.

The plot is just fun about a nerdy otaku vampire woman. She’s just trying to live her best life but under the surface she’s a super powerful vampire. It does seem formulaic a bit in the pacing but I love it, it’s such a comfy read.

I do see this series becoming a classic like Kamisama Kiss. If you enjoyed Kamisama Kiss you’ll love this.

Final Rating: 4/5

Extra: From the mangaka of Kamisama Kiss

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Kobayashi ga Kawai Sugite Tsurai!!

Name: So Cute it Hurts!! (Kobayashi ga Kawai Sugite Tsurai!!)
Mangaka: Ikeyamada, Go

Volumes: 15 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz  (Complete) (Print and Digital)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Gender Bender
Age Group: Teen

Summary: The comedy starts when the cross-dressing begins! The Kobayashi twins, Mego and Mitsuru, were named after historical figures, but only Mego has grown up with a taste for history. So when Mitsuru is in danger of losing his weekends to extra history classes, he convinces his sister to swap clothes with him and ace his tests! After all, how hard can it be for them to play each other?

But Mego can’t rely on just her book smarts in Mitsuru’s all-boys, delinquents’ paradise of a high school. And Mitsuru finds life as a high school girl to be much more complicated than he expected!

–Manga Updates

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

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Houkago x Ponytail

Name: Houkago x Ponytail
Mangaka: Tanaka, Teko

Volumes: 1 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.06 (Complete)
Scanlator: Dazzling Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Natsuki, an otaku high-school girl who’d rather spend her money on manga than pretty dresses, accidentally injures a creepy-looking mangaka named Kiritani Taichi. To repay him, she agrees to be his character model until he fully heals. Kiritani turns out to be a popular shoujo mangaka under the name Ichijou Kiriko, who is also Natsuki’s favorite author! Plus, underneath that disheveled hair Kiritani is actually a good-looking man! What will become of these two?

–Mangaupdates

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

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Kuragehime

Name: Kuragehime (Jellyfish Princess)
Manga-ka: Higshimura, Akiko (D’aww she’s so cute!)

Volumes: 17 (Complete)
Licensed: YenPress
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Josei/Gender Bender
Age Group: Mature

Summary: Kurashita Tsukimi is a “kurage (jelly fish) otaku” girl who wants to be an illustrator. She went to Tokyo and started to live in a girl-only apartment Amamizukan. One day she met a fashionable lady, who saved a jelly fish. But she turns out to be a man in drag.

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Kimi ni Moete Ii desu ka?

Name: Kimi ni Moete Ii Desu ka?
Manga-ka: Sakurada, Hina

Volumes: 1 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.03 (Complete)
Scanlator: Aerandria
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Smut
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Kyoko, who was not interested in real men at all, thought that she would be happy only if “Haruki,” an anime character, stayed with her. However, she was unexpectedly kissed by Aki, a flashy classmate. Moreover, he wanted to date her.

-From Mangaupdates

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

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