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L-DK

Name: L-DK
Manga-ka: Watanabe, Ayu

Volumes: 24 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha Comics (Digital and Print)
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Shuusei Kugayama is the “prince” of his high school, but he always turns down confessions–including one from Aoi Nishimori’s best friend. Although she initially hates him for this, when Shuusei moves in next door to Aoi, who lives alone, she starts thinking that he might not be such a bad guy after all…

–Mangaupdates

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

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Yogoreteru Hima Nanka Nai: No Free Time to get Dirty

Name: Yogoreteru Hima Nanka Nai (No Free Time to get Dirty)
Manga-ka: Ishida, Takumi

Volumes: 3 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.03 Ch.15 (Complete)
Scanlator: JShoujo Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Mature
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Matsumi Sachiko’s always searching for love in the wrong places. She’s made more blunders in the love department than she can count over the years, and things just never seem to go well for her. She’s quick to sleep with others in her search for that special someone only to regret it later. Lately, her luck’s taken an even worse turn for the worst when the guy she’d started to have feelings for asked her if she wanted to become his “sex friend”! Will she ever find “the one”?

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Sorairo Kaigan: Sky Blue Beach

Name: Sorairo Kaigan
Manga-ka: Yamada, Nanpei

Volumes: 6 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.03 Ch.08 (Hiatus – March 2021)
Scanlator: Serenus Dreamers (Closed) and Lovers Dream
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary:
Sakurai Tomo is a highschool girl who lives in a town close to a beach. One day as she was getting molested on the bus, she gets rescued by a classmate(?!). However, the key holder dropped by her rescuer held the same Agate that she has gotten from a boy in her past?! Is he the same person?!

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Shibou to Iu Na no Fuku o Kite: In the Clothes Named Fat

Name: Shibou to Iu Na no Fuku o Kite (In the Clothes Named Fat)
Manga-ka: Anno, Moyoko

Volumes: 1 (Complete) *Oneshot
Licensed: Vertical
Type: Manga
Genre: Psychological/Drama/Josei
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: A story that wonderfully depicts the emotions of an overweight woman with low self-esteem surrounded within the harsh environment of slim and good-looking women. She then decides to lose weight after getting dumped by her lover. The consequences and side-effects are explored further after the ‘achievement’..is it what she really wished for?

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Piece of Cake

Name: Piece of Cake
Manga-ka: George, Asakura

Volumes: 5 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.05 Ch.31 (Complete)
Scanlator: Shoujo Manga Maniac
Type: Manga
Genre: Slice of Life/Drama/Josei
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: How a young woman, romantically and professionally broken, will once again get a taste for life when she leaves the city to live in the countryside…

Shino feels totally lost in her life. She goes out with a past work colleague, Masaki, quite macho… and troubles at her work make her leave it. She moves out, takes her independence, moves away from Masaki and settles in a tiny room in an old building of suburbs. On her arrival, she finds a little garden she shares with her neighbours, a couple her own age. And little by little, she feels more and more attracted to the mysterious man who lives next door.

-From Mangaupdates

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

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