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Best Shoujo Manga and Josei Manga that are sweet and light hearted reads.

Bitou Lollipop

Name: Bitou Lollipop
Manga-ka: Iketani, Rikako

Volumes: 7 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.07 Ch.34 (Complete)
Scanlator: Stiletto Heels
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Madoka is surprised to discover that her parents have won a 100,000,000 yen (one million dollar) lottery. To make things worse, they inform her of their decision to pursue their lifelong dream of becoming doctors. What will happen to Madoka who, when deciding to stay behind, is left to fend for herself in a family acquaintance’s (the Asagi’s) guest house?

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Sukitte Ii na yo: Say I Love You

Name: Sukitte Ii na yo (Say I Love You)
Manga-ka: Hazuki, Kanae

Volumes: 18 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha Comics (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/School Life
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Mei Tachibana has spent her 16 years without making either boyfriend or friends. One day, she injures a popular boy in school, Yamato Kurosawa, because of a misunderstanding but for some reason it seems that he takes a liking to her and one-sidedly claims that they’re friends. Furthermore, he not only protects Mei from a stalker, he does it with a kiss…?!!

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Rensou no Aria: My Destiny

*Easter correlation? Um… Nuns… and …. uh…. Church. o_o

Name: Rensou no Aria (My Destiny)
Manga-ka: Mitsuki, Miko

Volumes: 1 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.05 (Complete)
Scanlator: Nagareboshi
Type: Manga
Genre: Action/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Aria’s parents have been gone since she was very young. Thus, she’s had to grow up in a “foster home” of sorts, and was raised by nuns. On her 16th birthday, Aria recieves a present in the mail– a ring from her “Daddy-long-legs” (a man who protects someone from afar while they’re growing up)! All of a sudden Aria’s life is thrown into chaos. Men try to run her over with cars, shoot her, and kidnap her. Relief comes in the form of Canon, who claims he’s her bodyguard. But can he keep Aria safe forever?

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteru: She Loves Lying too Much

Name: Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteru (She Loves Lying too Much)
Manga-ka: Aoki, Kotomi

Volumes: 22 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.15 Ch.60 (Ongoing? – Feb 2021)
Scanlator: Manga Abyss and Nagareboshi (Joint)
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Him (Aki, age 25): The super-successful sound creator who does all of the composing for the super-popular band Crude Play. His girlfriend is a singer in the limelight? A high-school age girl with glasses!? And as it so happens, he’s in love with a high school student who doesn’t know his true identity at all…?

Her (Riko, age 16): The poster girl of the Koeda Greengrocer. She started a band with her childhood friend because she’s a big fan of Crude Play’s Shinya…? But her boyfriend’s in the band…?

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Oboreru Knife: Drowning Love

Name: Oboreru Knife (The Knife that Dropped in Water)
Manga-ka: George, Asakura

Volumes: 17 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha Comics (Drowning Love)
Type: Manga
Genre: Slice of Life/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: A beautiful and mature sixth grade girl from Tokyo suddenly has to move out to the country side of Japan with her family. The girl, Natsumi, then meets a boy and from then on she begins to feel ‘something’ in her body, like a surging wave….

-From Mangaupdates

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

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