Natsuki, an otaku high-school girl who'd much rather spend her money on manga than pretty dresses, accidentally injures a creepy-looking mangaka Kiritani Taichi. To repay him, she agrees to be his character model until he fully heals. Kiritani-san turns out to be popular shoujo mangaka Ichijou Kiriko, who is also Natsuki's favourite author! What will become of these two?
Houkago x Ponytail has finished publishing and it has 6 Chapters. It is also Known as: 放課後×ポニーテール, Houkago x Ponytail
Genres: Comedy , School Life , Romance
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Top 7 Manga Like Houkago x Ponytail [2024 List]
7. Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet
Oono Fumi is a poor second year high school student. Because of her father's debts, she's kicked out of her own home and has to rely on her own connections to survive. Thus begins her life living with and housekeeping for a writer... Note: Includes 6 side stories and two Hirunaka no Ryuusei extras.
This Lonely Planet has finished publishing and it has 85 Chapters. It is also Known as: 椿町ロンリープラネット, كوكب تسوباكي تشو الوحيد
6. Kyou mo Ashita mo.
Chika has always dreamed of becoming a manga artist since childhood. However, she comes from a family that requires every member to become a teacher in the future. Then, she meets Ryou, a manga artist, who also happens to be a friend from her childhood. She gets the chance to work part-time with him as his assistant. So, has her chance of chasing her dreams finally arrived!?
Kyou mo Ashita mo. has finished publishing and it has 63 Chapters. It is also Known as: 今日も明日も。, Kyou mo Ashita mo
5. Living no Matsunaga-san
Miko leaves the house of her parents to live in the house of her uncle who runs a shared house, but her first meeting with Matsunaga-san is not good and then discovers that he is one of her uncle's tenants. Even as a secondary student, she surrounds herself with university students who have a very different life from her own. Can she fit in that shared house?
Living no Matsunaga-san has finished publishing and it has 48 Chapters. It is also Known as: リビングの松永さん, Living no Matsunaga-san
4. Lip Smoke
High school student Setsuna Iwato becomes an erotic fiction novelist's assistant to help him rediscover the feeling of a "Pure Kiss."
Lip Smoke has finished publishing and it has 4 Chapters. It is also Known as: リップ スモーク, Daikyou Enmusubi, Unfortunate Union
3. Moekoi
"The person I love is in love with a 2D object-"
Kokoa, a girl with a romance level of zero, likes the most popular boy in her class, Soushi. However, Soushi is currently a light novel author in high school, and he's a pure, bright, otaku boy...!?
Moekoi has finished publishing and it has 5 Chapters. It is also Known as: もえこい, Moe Koi, Moe-koi
2. Taiyou no Ie
"Back in the day, that place was a house filled with magic—a place where you ended up smiling even if you were crying. Surely, an invisible wizard must have lived there. Or so I thought."
What's a young child to do when her mother leaves her father for another man? Or when her father remarries a woman who brings along a child from a previous marriage? Or when her childhood neighbour friend invites her to live with him?
House of the Sun has finished publishing and it has 53 Chapters. It is also Known as: たいようのいえ, Taiyou no Ie
1. Hirunaka no Ryuusei
Fifteen-year-old country girl Suzume Yosano has to move to Tokyo to live with her uncle due to her father's transfer. She bumps into a mysterious man who ends up taking her to her uncle's place after she gets lost. Turns out, Suzume will be seeing him a lot more often once she starts school because... he's her homeroom teacher?!
Included one-shots:
Volume 5: Cookie Girl Cream Boy
Volume 6: Tsuyu Kaoru
Volume 7: Heroine no Ryuusei (Crossover one-shot with Heroine Shikkaku)
Volume 9: More than Words
Volume 11: Hibi Ryuusei (Crossover one-shot with Hibi Chouchou)
Hirunaka no Ryuusei has finished publishing and it has 86 Chapters. It is also Known as: ひるなかの流星, Hirunaka no Ryusei, Daytime Shooting Star, Cookie Girl Cream Boy, Tsuyu Kaoru, A Love Story in Moist Rainy Days, Heroine no Ryuusei, More than Words
