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- 80 chaps
- strong female lead
-apocalyptic

"In the distant future, a new life form called Houseki (gems) are born. The 28 Houseki must fight against the moon dwellers who want to attack them and turn them into decorations, thus each gem is assigned a role such as a fighter or a medic. Though she hopes to fight the moon dwellers, Phos is a gem who is given no assignment until the gems' master Adamantine asks her to edit a natural history magazine."

- Has an anime
- wonderful world-building along with storytelling
- 107 ch

"After recently moving to Onomichi, Hiroshima, high school student Tasuku Kaname is thrown into despair at the possibility that he may have been outed for being gay. Convinced his life is over, his despair turns into shock when he sees a woman jump out of a window of a nearby house. Tasuku races to the house in a panic only to discover that it's a public meeting lounge owned by the woman he saw before. Tasuku comes face to face with the woman as she walks past him unharmed."

-24

"Somei Yoshino is a high school girl, born and bred in a yakuza family, but that hasn't stopped her from living a peaceful life - that is, until meeting her fiancÃ, Miyama Kirishima! The newest work from Konishi Asuka, the author debuting with Curses of Spring (ranked #2 in This Manga is Great! Women's Edition), a yakuza flick promising to thrill and entertain the readers!"

-drama
-strong female lead
-romance
-arranged marriage
- yakuza
- 86 chaps

HIGHLY REC

"Conor, a Korean-American, lives in a city where same-sex marriage has been legalized, but where racist and homophobic hate crimes are still frequent. He joins a band with the blonde hair, blue-eyed Simon and the two go on to create their own “dark heaven” in an abandoned church. Feelings develop between the pair, but light cannot dwell with dark, and their time together will soon come to an end..."

-drama
-romance (BL)
-dark
-85 chaps

“Please cut me some slack, okay? People who live need to live. You’re going to die anyway.….”
In front of me, who was sentenced to a time limit, my only friend cried sadly.
I died in my husband’s hands without even meeting the time limit.
“Jiwon, lunch time is over!”
Ten years ago, I woke up from my company.
Another life given after death.
To change fate, someone has to enter my destiny instead.
I chose ‘someone’ as my friend."
- 114 ch

At a hanshake event for the Pure Idol club, popular idol Karen Amemiya is cut by a male fan with a knife. Half a year later, high school student Nina Kamiyama is the only girl at school who wears the uniform pants instead of a skirt, and is disconnected from her classmates. A teacher then announces that a suspicious person has been going after high school girls recently, and female students should head home in groups.

(angie rec)

"Makoto is referred to as a "deviant" because of his abnormal inclinations and has always suffered alone. One day, he half-heartedly used a "book for summoning a demon" and did a summoning ceremony, successfully summoning the Archduke of the Demon World, J, who has a majestic and beautiful appearance and could speak well. In exchange for his life, Makoto made a deal with J in order to make his hidden desires granted. Then, he was suddenly reborn as a demon?!"

23 ch

"A girl goes to the seaside on her class field trip and accidentally meets a mysterious handsome boy, after talking, she hears a dramatic story about a bird and fish, finally the kind girl decides to help the bird fulfill its last wish."

-oneshot (gl)
-addresses social anxiety

(ignore tragedy tag :) )

"Due to a misuse of a word joke on live TV broadcast, girl group otaku, 'Jin-Kyung' ended up becoming doxxed and labeled as a "child predator", and ended up getting Social Anxiety Disorder. 3 years later, because of his past incident from the 3D world, his love for only the 2D world manifested, and ended up becoming a "Shut-In Otaku"! Then one day, as Jin-Kyung was no-lifing as usual, he was summoned to ‘Another World’, and came face-to-face with a