Tsukushi Makino, a working-class girl, attends an elite elevator school called Eitoku Academy, populated by children from rich, high-society families. She is the "weed" of the school surrounded by all the rich kids including the "Flower" Four (F4). The F4 leader and son of the wealthiest, most powerful family in Japan, Tsukasa Domyoji, takes an interest in Tsukushi, because she is the only girl at Eitoku who doesn't fawn over him. However, his hot-headed nature and bullying ways are originally a major turn-off for Tsukushi, who has her sights set on someone else.
Volume one contains the oneshot "End of the Century".
Boys Over Flowers has finished publishing and it has 244 Chapters. It is also Known as: 花より男子, HYD, Boys Over Flowers: Jewelry Box, End of the Century
Genres: School Life , Drama , Romance
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Top 10 Manga Like Boys Over Flowers (Hana yori Dango) [2024 List]
- 10. Cutie Boy
- 9. Akuma de Sourou
- 8. Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou
- 7. Hot Gimmick
- 6. Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge♥
- 5. Mars
- 4. Special A
- 3. Imadoki!
- 2. Penguin☆Brothers
- 1. Ouran Koukou Host Club
10. Cutie Boy
Lee Han-Ah used to be bullied in the 2nd grade for having a ''wide and flat'' butt by a boy in her primary school and has hated him ever since. Now, in high school she is the celebrated, legendary captain of Il-Hwa Girls High School and she is seeking out a pretty boy boyfriend. What happens when she meets the mellow and seemingly perfect Yoo-Min?
Cutie Boy has finished publishing and it has 40 Chapters. It is also Known as: 큐티보이, Cutie Boy
9. Akuma de Sourou
High school is hard for Kayano. When she tries to confess her love to the kind but distant Yuichi, the school bully Takeru makes her life hell. But things get worse when Kayano's mother gets engaged to Takeru's father, the school principal!
Soon enough, instead of be in love with Yuichi, she falls in her love with her future brother, Takeru.
What will she do about this forbidden love?
* Volume 5 includes the short story: July
* Contains a short story in vol. 11 called Flying Rabbit:
Sayoko and her best friend Tsukasa don't know what real / true love is. But then Oota from Tokyo appears and there is a dramatic past about him. What will happen to them?
The Devil Does Exist has finished publishing and it has 42 Chapters. It is also Known as: 悪魔で候, The Devil Beside Me, Lovely Devil, Flying Rabbit, July
8. Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou
Yukino Miyazawa is the perfect model student. Pretty, kind, good at sports, always at the top of her class. But she's not all that she seems. It's all an act of deception; she is really the self-confessed 'queen of vanity,' and her only goal in life is winning the praise and admiration of everyone around her.
When she enters high school, she finally meets her match: Souichirou Arima, a handsome, athletic, popular, and very intelligent young boy. Ever since he stole the top seat in the class from her, Yukino has hated him, and has been plotting on how to take back her former place as the object of all other students' admiration.
What she wasn't expecting, however, was that Souichirou, the very boy she hated, would confess his love for her. Or that he would find out about her deception - and use it to blackmail her!
Together, they discover that they have more in common than they knew, and they slowly begin to bring out each other's inner selves.
Also included are the following short stories:
Vol.1: The Tiger and the Chameleon - A Promise for One Week
Vol.4: Ashita Mata Mori de Aou ne (Meet Me Again Tomorrow in the Forest)
Always an outcast because of her black hair the heroine of the story finds a strange man in the forest - a man from Earth - and he has black hair, too!
Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances has finished publishing and it has 103 Chapters. It is also Known as: 彼氏彼女の事情, His and Hers, The Tiger and the Chameleon: A Promise for One Week, Ashita Mata Mori de Aou ne, Meet Me Again Tomorrow in the Forest, KKNJ, Abareru Ousama, The Raging King
7. Hot Gimmick
In company-owned rabbit-hutch apartments live tenants who can't afford to live anywhere else, and the apartment complex in which high-school girl Hatsumi Narita lives is ruled over by the rumor mongering, self-righteous Mrs. Tachibana. Get on Tachibana's bad side, and life becomes hell. When Hatsumi has to buy a pregnancy test because her popular sister Akane is late, Mrs. Tachibana's son, Ryoki, who used to bully Hatsumi as a kid, promises not to tell the world about Hatsumi's secret, only if she becomes his slave. Suddenly Azusa, Hatsumi's protector in their youth, reappears to save her again! He's moving back into the neighborhood! Despite the budding romance between Hatsumi and Azusa, Ryoki has control over her through the secret that could ruin the lives of everyone in Hatsumi's family, and he hasn't forgotten who his slave is!
Hot Gimmick has finished publishing and it has 54 Chapters. It is also Known as: ホットギミック, Hot Gimmick
6. Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge♥
It's a gorgeous, spacious mansion, and four handsome, fifteen-year-old friends are allowed to live in it for free! There's only one condition—that within three years the guys must transform the owner's wallflower niece into a lady befitting the palace in which they all live! How hard can it be?
Enter Sunako Nakahara, the agoraphobic, horror-movie-loving, pockmark-faced, frizzy-haired, fashion-illiterate recluse who tends to break into explosive nosebleeds whenever she sees anyone attractive. This project is going to take more than our four heroes ever expected: it needs a miracle!
The Wallflower: Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge has finished publishing and it has 148 Chapters. It is also Known as: ヤマトナデシコ七変化♥, The Seven Metamorphoses of Yamato Nadeshiko, Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, YamaNade, My Fair Lady, Sunako of Many Forms, Perfect Girl Evolution
5. Mars
Kira, a shy high school student, lives only for her art. Rei, An arrogant, rebellious and violent playboy, wears his delinquency like a badge of honor. They are exact opposites in every way, but when Kira sees Rei kissing a statue of Mars, she overcomes her fears and asks him to model for her. And, to everyone's surprise, Rei agrees.
Mars has finished publishing and it has 90 Chapters. It is also Known as: MARS, Mars
4. Special A
Have you ever known someone who was better than you at everything you did? Hikari does. She's known Kei since they were both six years old and he's surpassed her at everything. Now they are the top two students in an extremely prestigious high school, with Kei holding firmly to that number one position, and Hikari is still determined to beat him, no matter what it takes.
Volume 1 contains one-shot: Incomplete Chorus
Volume 8 contains Special Short - about what Kei was like as a child and when he and Hikari first met.
Volume 9 contains Special Short - about when Yuhiro meets Sakura.
Volume 11 contains one-shot: Food Paradise
Special A has finished publishing and it has 99 Chapters. It is also Known as: S・A スペシャル・エー, Mikansei Chorus, Incomplete Chorus, Shoku no Miyako, Food Paradise
3. Imadoki!
For Tanpopo Yamazaki, life at the elitist Meio Academy seems way out of her league. The daughters of wealthy families snub her, other students make light of the fact that she actually tested into Meio instead of relying on family connections, and the cute boy she saw tending a dandelion the day before wouldn't even acknowledge her existence. Hoping to make friends and have some fun, Tanpopo starts up a gardening committee, but will this help her survive in a school where superficiality and nepotism reign supreme?
Nowadays has finished publishing and it has 26 Chapters. It is also Known as: イマドキ, Zutto ne, Sunde ni Touch
2. Penguin☆Brothers
Hina's new high school is strange to say the least. She moves back to her old home town only to find that the high school is run by two opposing factors, and students identify themselves based on the color of their school uniforms: Black for the followers of the loud, violent Nishizaki, and white for the followers of quiet, clean-freak Isshiki. And then there are the "grays," who wear street clothes. Hina finds herself stuck between the leaders of the two factions, and it seems to be turning violent.
As one might guess from the girly art and the Ribon publisher, the plot develops a romance element pretty early on in the series. There's a love triangle involved among two of the group leaders. Who will Hina choose?
Penguin☆Brothers has finished publishing and it has 24 Chapters. It is also Known as: ペンギン☆ブラザーズ, Penguin☆Brothers
1. Ouran Koukou Host Club
Haruhi sticks out like a sore thumb as a poor, smart girl who got into the hoity-toity Ouran High School on talent alone. When she mistakenly wanders into the meeting room of the host club and breaks a valuable vase, she's recruited to join the club. Realistic and sarcastic, Haruhi isn't used to being around crazy people like the princely Tamaki, scheming Kyouya, silent Mori, immature Hunny, and devilish Hikaru and Kaoru, but she's got no choice if she ever wants to pay earn what she owes. Too bad the club is made for girls to come and be entertained by gorgeous guys -- and Haruhi's been mistaken for a boy!
Includes chapters of the story "Romantic Egoist" in various volumes, starring a pair of twins who play matchmaker with their fellow students, teachers and the like.
Note: The final volume contains a special bonus chapter where the group travels to Spain.
Ouran High School Host Club has finished publishing and it has 87 Chapters. It is also Known as: 桜蘭高校ホスト部, OHSHC, Romantic Egoist
