During the Bakumatsu revolution which marked the end of the Tokugawa era and the beginning of the Meiji era,a young girl named Sei Tominaga,seeking to avenge the deaths of her father and brother,disguises herself as a young boy named Seizaburo Kamiya to join the Shinsengumi.
Kaze Hikaru It is also Known as: 風光る, The Wind Shines
Genres: Historical , Samurai , Shoujo Ai , Romance , Action
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Top 10 Manga Like Kaze Hikaru [2024 List]
10. Basara
Sarasa grew up knowing that her twin brother Tatara was prophesied to be the "boy of destiny," the one who would overthrow the oppressive government and unite the people. When Tatara dies in battle, however, Sarasa realizes that it's up to her to secretly take on her brother's identity. On the way, Sarasa meets and falls in love with the mysterious Shuri, who may also have something up his sleeve. Together, she and her group of ragtag fighters journey across the land, attacking the many rulers and hoping to someday reach the leader of them all, the Red King.
Basara has finished publishing and it has 107 Chapters. It is also Known as: BASARA, Legend of Basara
9. Versailles no Bara
Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble spirit make her a shining figure in the eyes of both men and women but she is torn between her chosen life of service and duty to class and country and her own heart and desires. She lives as a noble amidst the opulence of Versailles but her keen senses and compassion are not blinded to the poverty of the French people.
Source: ANN
Rose of Versailles has finished publishing and it has 82 Chapters. It is also Known as: ベルサイユのばら, Berusaiyu no Bara, Lady Oscar
8. 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
7. Qi Shi Gong Zhu
Yashi has wandered with her father for fourteen years, and only now has she discovered that her own mother is actually Bocinia’s current queen. To see her mother, from whom she was separated when she was just an infant, she and her father enter the palace, but she never thought she would accidentally run into the Princess of Bocinia, and then become her bodyguard by mistake...
Knight Princess has finished publishing and it has 19 Chapters. It is also Known as: 骑士公主, Cavalier Princess
6. Toshokan Sensou: Love & War
Based off the Toshokan Sensou light novel series.
Library Wars: Love & War has finished publishing and it has 90 Chapters. It is also Known as: 図書館戦争 LOVE＆WAR, Toshokan Sensou: Love & War
5. Hajime-chan ga Ichiban!
Okano Hajime is an ordinary - or maybe below ordinary - girl who was forced to take care everything in the family since she was young because the Okanos were very poor. Hajime had five younger brothers, who were quintuplets, and they were scouted by a music company. Thus, the realistic yet dreamy (!) older sister had to try harder to watch over her restless brothers and to pursue her own idol, who was in the very same company.
Taken from M-U
Hajime is No. 1 has finished publishing and it has Chapters. It is also Known as: はじめちゃんが一番！, Hajime-chan is No. 1, Hajime is No. 1, Born to be an Idol
4. Bakumatsu Koi Hana Shinsengumi
Based on the PS2/DS dating sim of the same name, it follows the story of Sakuraba Suzuka as she joins the Shinsengumi.
Bakumatsu Koi Hana Shinsengumi has finished publishing and it has 4 Chapters. It is also Known as: 幕末恋華・新撰組, Bakumatsu Renka Shinsengumi
3. Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori
A seemingly ordinary modern day teenager, Yuri, is suddenly whisked away to the Hittite empire in ancient Anatolia, where an ambitious queen wants the girl for a blood sacrifice in order to murder all heirs but her son, thus seizing control of the throne. Luckily, the timely intervention of Prince Kail saves Yuri from the queen's grasp. Kail promises to send Yuri back to her home, but the queen's persistent schemes to kill them both, plus their growing feelings for each other, keep those plans delayed.
Included one-shot:
Volume 28: Orontes Renka
Red River has finished publishing and it has 96 Chapters. It is also Known as: 天は赤い河のほとり, Anatolia Story, Heaven by the Red River, Orontes Renka, Orontes Love Song, Where the Sky and the Red River meet
2. Hakuouki
Based originally on the famous otome game, this series is Ninomiya Sachi's version of Yukimura Chizuru's story as she arrives in Kyo from Edo to search for her missing father and accidentally meets the members of the Shinsengumi, who harbor an awful secret. Unique from other versions, this series unfolds a bit out of order, starting already at the Ikedaya-jiken and then progressing with flashbacks.
Hakuouki has finished publishing and it has 23 Chapters. It is also Known as: 薄桜鬼, Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan
1. Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan
The story of Rurouni Kenshin takes place during the early Meiji period in Japan. It tells the story of a peaceful wanderer named Himura Kenshin, formerly known as the assassin Hitokiri Battōsai. After participating during the Bakumatsu war, Kenshin wanders the countryside of Japan offering protection and aid to those in need as atonement for the murders he once committed as an assassin. When arriving in Tokyo, he meets a young woman named Kamiya Kaoru, who was in the middle of a fight with a murderer who claims to be the Hitokiri Battōsai from her swordmanship school. Kenshin decides to help her and defeats the fake Battōsai. After discovering that Kenshin is the real Battōsai, she offers him a place stay at her dojo as she notes Kenshin is a gentle person instead. Kenshin accepts and begins to establish lifelong relationships with many people, including ex-enemies, while dealing with his fair share of enemies, new and old. (Wikipedia)
Also includes the one-shot: Crescent Moon Over A Country At War (Vol.6)
Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story has finished publishing and it has 259 Chapters. It is also Known as: るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-, Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan
