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Diamond Life

Name: Diamond Life
Manga-ka: Fujiwara, Akira

Volumes: 3 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.03 Ch.14 (Complete)
Scanlator: Riri Manga Scans (Closed) Romance Alley (Closed)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Josei
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Kanae dropped out of high school, because her father is a gambler while her mother ran away with her boyfriend. Kanae is twenty-two years old, and very poor working for a cleaning shop. She comes to have something to do with Haruki Oda quite by chance. Haruki is an IT millionaire and called “money-mad man,” or “the god of death.” Then Kanae’s life makes a sudden development. Money cannot be made by love alone, though love cannot be bought with money. People of today want to have both love and money. This get-happy-story is a must read for the present-day people.

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Honey X Honey Drops

Name: Honey X Honey Drops
Mangaka: Minami, Kanan (AKA Queen of Smut)

Volumes: 8 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.08 Ch.47 (Complete)
Scanlator: Three Different Scanlators
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/High School/Smut/Prince and Pauper
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Yuzuru is a fifteen year old girl who is attending her first year in Houjou Academy. At her summer job, she met a troublesome rich boy, Renge Kai, who is attending the same school as her. Kai is part of the Kugeka, a class opened only to the rich students of Houjou.

At the end of the summer break she finds out that she has become Kai’s “Honey”. This nickname is given to all the students from the regular class choosen by the Kugeka to become their assistants, so that the rich boys can be successful without any problem. The up side to being a Honey is that all their school fees will be taken care of.

Although Yuzuru’s family has some financial problems, she doesn’t want to accept her role of being Kai’s honey. But the only way to quit is to leave the school… What is she to do?

-From Manga Updates

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

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Ouran High: Host Club

Name: Ouran High: Host Club
Mangaka: Bisco, Hatori

Volumes: 18 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz
Scanlations: V.18 Ch.83 (Complete)
Scanlator: Too many
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Cross dressing/Romance/Harem
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: In this screwball romantic comedy, Haruhi, a poor girl at a rich kids’ school, is forced to repay an $80,000 debt by working for the school’s swankiest, all-male club–as a boy! There, she discovers just how wealthy the six members are and how different the rich are from everybody else…
-From Viz

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

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Can’t Lose You

Name: Can’t Lose You
Mangaka: Wann

Volumes: 6 (Finished)
Licensed: Net Comics (Complete)
Scanlations: V.6 (Complete)
Scanlator: M.I.A?
Type: Manhwa (Korean)
Genre: Romance/Drama/Suspense
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Yooi is a dirt poor girl, left on her own to take on her fathers debts. Lida comes from one of the richest family’s in Korea and has everything she could ever want. When the two meet, they realize they have the same face. As much as they hate each other, Lida decides to pay Yooi to be her double when threats are made against her. Yooi finds herself unadjusted to the new lifestyle, but smitten with Lida’s fiancee Gaon.

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

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