Popular Male Lead

Shoujo Manga and Josei Manga with a Popular Male Lead.

Ao Haru Ride Manga by Io Sakisaka

Ao Haru Ride

Name: Ao Haru Ride
Mangaka: Sakisaka, Io

Volumes: 13 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (13 Volumes: Digital/Physical) – (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Slice of Life
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
Yoshioka Futaba has a few reasons why she wants to “reset” her image and life as a new high-school student. Because she’s cute and had a demure personality she was ostracized by her female friends in junior high, and because of a series of misunderstandings and mishaps, she couldn’t get her feeling across to the one boy she has always liked, Tanaka Kou.

Now in high school, she is determined to be as unladylike as possible so that her friends won’t be jealous of her. While living her life this way contentedly, she meets Tanaka-kun again, but he now goes under the name of Mabuchi Kou. He tells her that he felt the same way as she did when they were younger, but that they cannot go back. Will Futaba be able to continue her love that never even started from three years ago?
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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Screenshot from Netsuai Prince. A teen boy leans on a railing as he kisses a teen girl on her head.

Netsuai Prince: Onii-chan kimi ga suki

Name: Netsuai Prince – Onii-chan Kimi ga Suki
Mangaka: Seizuki Madoka

Volumes: 16 (Ongoing)
Scanlations: V.03 Ch.10 (March 2021)
Type: Manga
Genre: Harem
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
Due to the second marriage of her mother, lively high-school student Amamiya Matsuri becomes the younger sister of the super popular idol group of triplets “Terzetto”! Star celebrities for stepbrothers?! A forbidden secret love with a perfect prince
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Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Screenshot from the Heroine for Hire manga. A Teen boy uses his sleeve to wipe water away from a teen girls face.

Heroine for Hire

Name: Heroine for Hire
Mangaka: Amakura Fuyu

Volumes: 4 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha (Complete: Digital)
Type: Manga
Genre: Slice of Life
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
Shuko Kodakamine is strong—too strong, by the standards of some. She hopes to make a good high school debut, but that plan goes up in smoke almost immediately when she injures the attractive, charismatic Serizawa-kun…and later suplexes him, to boot! But when Serizawa-kun finds himself in hot water with a jealous boyfriend, it’s Shuko who comes to his aid…and he comes up with a ridiculous proposition: If Shuko becomes his bodyguard, he’ll make her the most important girl in his world!
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Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Bijin na Jun-kun no Dekiai Shidou manga screengrab. A man holds a womans head as he kisses her.

Bijin na Jun-kun no Dekiai Shidou

Name: Bijin na Jun-kun no Dekiai Shidou
Mangaka: Fudono, Fudou

Volumes: V.3 Ch.18 (Complete)
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.07 (Jan 2021)
Type: Manga
Genre: Smut/Josei
Age Group: Mature

Summary:  
Sachiko, who was ridiculed for her lowness and drank, decided to ask Jun, a boy who is more beautiful than the girl there, to receive guidance on improving women’s power. But as a condition, Jun gave to live together and touch Shoko’s chest … My body will be developed for the too naughty doting guidance of a beautiful younger person.
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Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki Manga screen cap

In the Clear Moonlit Dusk

Name: Uruwashi no Yoi Tsuki (In the Clear Moonlit Dusk)
Mangaka: Yamamori Mika

Volumes: 8 (Ongoing)
Licensed: Kodansha
Type: Manga
Genre: Slice of Life
Age Group: Teen

Summary:  
Because of her appearance and her behavior, Yoi has been continuously treated as a prince, despite being a girl. One day, when she already accepted being put into the role as a prince in high school, she somehow got entangled with one of her Senpais at school, someone who’s also being called “prince”?
–Manga Updates

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

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