Tsundere

Best recommendations for Shoujo Manga and Josei Manga featuring Tsundere leads.

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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Kaichou wa Maid-sama!: Maid-sama!

Name: Kaichou wa Maid-sama! (Maid-sama)
Mangaka: Fujiwara, Hiro

Volumes: 18 (Complete)
Licensed: Tokyopop(Closed) Shojo Beat (Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/High School
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Ayuzawa Misaki is the student council president of the former all-boy school, Seika High School. In order to protect the girls, she battles the boys everyday. On the other hand, she secretly works at a “Maid Cafe”. But a popular boy from school, Usui Takumi, found out! Living in between the double identity of a Maid and a student council president.

-From Manga Updates

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

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Kinkyori Renai, Loves Reach, Manga

Kinkyori Renai: Love’s Reach

Name: Kinkyori Renai (Love’s Reach)
Mangaka: Mikimoto, Rin

Volumes: 10 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha Comics
Type: Manga
Genre: Teacher Student/High school/Comedy/Tsundere
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Uni is a prodigy with a cool reserve who is accomplished in everything except for English. One day, she insults her temporary English teacher and he overhears her. He asks her to come to his office after school and, somehow, she starts receiving private tutoring from him?!
-Osuwari Team (Manga Updates)

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

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Goong

Name: Goong
Mangaka: Park, So-Hee

Volumes: 27 (Complete)
Licensed: Yen Press
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Drama/Historical/Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary:
Monarchy ended long ago in Korea, but there are still other countries with kings, queens, princes, and princesses. What if Korea had continued monarchism? What if all the beautiful palaces which are now only historical relics were actually filled with people?! What if the glamorous royal family still maintained the palace customs?! Welcome to a world where Korea still has the royal family living their lives! Only for this one high school girl, Che-Kyung, this is a tragedy, since she has to marry the prince, who apparently is a total bastard!

From Ice Kunion (Original License holders, but they died. Too bad)

**Because I’m pressed for time.

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

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The Devil Does Exist: Akuma de Sourou

Name: The Devil Does Exist (Akuma de Sourou)
Mangaka: Takanashi, Mitsuba

Volumes: 11 (complete)
Licensed: CMX Manga (Complete)
Scanlations: V.12 Ch.48 (Ongoing)
Scanlator: IvyScan, Enchantment Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: High School/Drama/Forbidden Relationship
Age Group: Teen

Summary: High school is difficult for most kids. But for Kayano, a shy girl whose single mother seems to work all the time, it’s even worse than usual. She’s so afraid of drawing attention to herself that she can’t tell the handsome Kamijo how much she loves him until one day she finally gets up the courage to write him a letter confessing her feelings.

When she goes to give him the letter all her plans go awry. She’s given the letter to the wrong person!

Accidentally, she’s given her love letter to Takeru Edogawa who just so happens to be the school principal’s son, head of the delinquents and the notorious “Prince of Attraction”! To Kayano he seems like Satan himself. Not only is he devilishly handsome, but he seems to take the utmost pleasure in making her suffer.

Things only get more interesting when Kayano’s mother comes home one day and announces she’s getting married again — To principal Edogawa! What will Kayano do when she has to live with this devil 24/7? How will she cope with her literal “Hell on Earth”?

-Description from Mangaupdates cause it couldn’t be put any other way ;)

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

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