tomboy

Best Shoujo Manga and Josei Manga Featuring a Tomboy Heroine.

Kingyo Sou

Name: Kingyo Sou
Mangaka: Fujitsuka, Yuki

Volumes: 2 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.08 (Complete)
Scanlator: Esthetique and Aerandria
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary:
In the spring of her second year in high school, Asuka sees Masami playing Japanese drums in a festival, and she falls in love with him. However, Masami is deaf, and he has locked his heart in a world without sound. And thus, the two’s melancholic love miracle quietly begins. This is a pure love story in the middle of summer that will make your heart ache.

-From Mangaupdates


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

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Crimson Hero

Name: Crimson Hero
Mangaka: Takanashi, Mitsuba

Volumes: 20 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (Volume 14 – Incomplete)
Scanlations: V.20 Ch.83 (Complete)
Scanlator: IvyScan, Enchantment Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: Sports/High School
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Nobara just wants to play volleyball. Nobara’s mother just wants her tomboy daughter to take over the family hotel. Nobara specifically goes to a school with an amazing volleyball team. Too bad that male volleyball team is for males only.

Graphics Rating: 4/5
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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Otomen

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Name: Otomen
Manga-ka: Kanno, Aya

Licensed:  Viz (Complete)
Volumes: 18 (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance/School Life/Comedy
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Asuka Masamune is like any other teenage boy, he is strong, good looking… but he also has another side. A side that secretly reads shoujo, loves cooking and sewing. Asuka finds himself falling for the tomboy Ryo, but she says she likes manly guys. What’s Asuka to do?

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

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Kou Kou Debut: Highschool Debut

Name: Kou Kou Debut (Highschool Debut)
Manga-ka: Kawahare, Kazune

Licensed: Viz (Complete)
Volumes: 13 (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Romance/Sports/Comedy
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Haruna is an amazing baseball player, but apparently thats not enough to get the boys coming in. Haruna longs to be cute and girly, like the girls in her favourite manga, but she just can’t seem to get it right. Along comes cool and handsome Yoh, can he turn Haruna into the girl she wants to be? Or is she just a lost cause.

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

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