Possessive Lover

Best Shoujo Manga and Josei Manga featuring a Possessive Lover

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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Stepping on Roses: Hadashi de Bara wo Fume

Name: Stepping on Roses (Hadashi de Bara wo Fume)
Mangaka: Ueda, Rinko

Volumes: 9 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Historical/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Poor Sumi Kitamura… Her irresponsible older brother Eisuke keeps bringing home orphans for her to take care of even though they can barely afford their own basic needs! Just when Sumi’s financial problems become dire, wealthy Soichiro Ashida enters her life with a bizarre proposition: he’ll provide her with the money she so desperately needs if she agrees to marry him. But can Sumi fool high society into thinking she’s a proper lady? Moreover, is it worth giving up everything for this sham of a marriage?

-From Viz

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

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Hana ni Arashi: Flower in a Storm

Name: Hana ni Arashi (Flower in a Storm)
Mangaka: Shigeyoshi, Takagi

Volumes: 2 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Action/Drama
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Even though her body has an unusual ability, Kunimi Riko is still (trying to be) a normal high school girl. One day, a guy suddenly comes to see her. He’s Tachibana Ran, the heir of the world-leading super-millionaire Tachibana family! A high tension romance between Ran, who suddenly proposed, and Riko, who turned him down.

-From Manga Updates

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

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Lovenista

Name: Lovenista
Mangaka: Kayono

Volumes: 2 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.09 (Finished)
Scanlator: Shoujo Manga Maniac
Type: Manga
Genre: Smut/Makeup/Comedy
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: This is the story of an ordinary girl who seems to fall for all the wrong guys. When she finds herself falling for the, seemingly, worst guy possible, she sees that maybe he was the best thing she’d ever met.

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

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Black Bird

Name: Black Bird
Mangaka: Sakurakoji, Kanoko

Volumes: 18 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Fantasy/Highschool/Smut
Age Group: Teen

Summary: There is a world of myth and magic that intersects ours, and only a special few can see it. Misao Harada is one such person, and she wants nothing to do with magical realms. She just wants to have a normal high school life and maybe get a boyfriend. All that changes one day when Misao is attacked by a demon. Her childhood friend Kyo suddenly returns to save her and tend to her cuts–with his tongue! It turns out Misao is the bride of prophecy, whose blood gives power to the demon clan who claims her. But most demons want to keep her power for themselves–by eating her! Now Misao is just trying to stay alive…and decide if she likes it when Kyo licks her wounds.

-From Viz

{Note: Is it just me or was that freaking HILARIOUS?! When they ended Shoujo Beat, Viz must have had to lower some standards in other places as well…}

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

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