Top 5 Manga Like She is (not) a cool girl (in high school) (Kusunoki-san wa Koukou Debut ni Shippai shite Iru) [2026 List]

Kusunoki-san wa Koukou Debut ni Shippai shite Iru

Former Shigetsu Keisuke made his high school debut after being traumatized in junior high school.
No one knows who they were in the past in a new environment.
Except for Shizuka Kusunoki, the only girl from the same junior high school who made her high school debut like Shigetsu.

Kusunoki, who has been transformed to the point where she is rumored to be the most beautiful woman in the school year, seems to have taken over the country in the school caste.
For some reason, Shigetsu asks for help.Even though she was confused, listening to her story reveals her unexpected reality.
Kusunoki makes even more surprising suggestions to Shigetsu, who encourages him to be more confident.
"Shigetsu-kun, will you be my friend?"

A limited time friendship between high school debutants.
How can you have any other feelings!?

She is (not) a cool girl (in high school) It is also Known as: 楠木さんは高校デビューに失敗している, Kusunoki-san wa Koukou Debut ni Shippai shite Iru

Genres: Comedy , Romance

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Top 5 Manga Like She is (not) a cool girl (in high school) (Kusunoki-san wa Koukou Debut ni Shippai shite Iru) [2026 List]

5. Kamisama Hajimemashita

Kamisama Hajimemashita

Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity. But it turns out that his place is a shrine, and Nanami has unwittingly taken over his job as a local deity!

Nanami has all kinda of new responsibilities she doesn't understand, dangers she's unaware of, and a cranky ex-familiar who's...actually pretty hot. What's a new-fledged godling to do?

Kamisama Kiss has finished publishing and it has 154 Chapters. It is also Known as: 神様はじめました, Divine Nanami

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4. Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen

Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen

As leaders of their prestigious academy’s student council, Kaguya and Miyuki are the elite of the elite! But it’s lonely at the top… Luckily for them, they’ve fallen in love! There’s just one problem—they both have too much pride to admit it. And so begins the daily scheming to get the object of their affection to confess their romantic feelings first… Love is a war you win by losing.



Notes:
- The first 10 chapters were published in Monthly Miracle Jump. It switched to Weekly Young Jump starting with Ch. 11, with the chapter count being reset. This entry still includes the first 10 chapters from Miracle Jump.
- Winner of the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for "Best General Manga" category in 2019.

Kaguya-sama: Love is War has finished publishing and it has 281 Chapters. It is also Known as: かぐや様は告らせたい~天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦~, Kaguya Wants to be Confessed To: The Geniuses' War of Love and Brains

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3. Something About Us

Something About Us

They consider themselves the best of friends. Others seem to think otherwise. There's something about their relationship that's hard to describe. What will become of these two "friends"?



Note: Chapter count includes the prologue, epilogue and side story chapters.

Something About Us has finished publishing and it has 117 Chapters. It is also Known as: 우리사이느은, Our Relationship Is..., Woori, Our Relationship Is

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2. Kaichou wa Maid-sama!

Kaichou wa Maid-sama!

As if being student council president of a predominantly male high school isn’t hard enough, Misaki Ayuzawa has a major secret—she works at a maid café after school! How is she supposed to keep her image of being ultrasmart, strong and overachieving intact once school heartthrob Takumi Usui discovers her double life?!



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Toumei na Sekai (A Transparent World)
Volume 4: Tsuide ni 3 Baka mo Maid-sama! (And While We're at It, the Idiot Trio as Maids!)
Volume 4: Soshite Momotaro mo Maid-sama (Peach Boy Is a Maid Too!)
Volume 6: Aoi Haru (Blue Spring)
Volume 6: Fukukaichou wa Ouji-sama!? (The Vice-President Is a Prince?!)
Volume 7: Aoi to to Yukai na Nakama-tachi (Aoi with Fun Friends)
Volume 8: Baka to Furyou to Hero to (An Idiot, a Delinquent and a Hero)
Volume 8: Toaru Asa no Seitokaishitsu (A Particular Morning in the Student Council Office)
Volume 11: Kaichou wa Shisuji-sama! (The President Is a Butler!)
Volume 11: Konnichiwa Imouto desu (Hello, I'm the Little Sister)
Volume 12: Sentimental Ikkun (Sentimental Ikkun)
Volume 13: Maid Latte Hikaeshitsu (Maid Latte Back Room)
Volume 15: Baka to Furyou to Madonna to (An Idiot, a Delinquent and a Madonna)
Volume 17: Comics Kakioroshi Short Story (Exclusive Short Comic)

Maid-Sama! has finished publishing and it has 99 Chapters. It is also Known as: 会長はメイド様!, Class President is a Maid!, Kaichou wa Maidsama, Toumei na Sekai, Transparent World, Służąca Przewodnicząca, Староста-горничная, Maid Sama!, My Sweet Kaicho, 學生會長是女僕!, 會長是女僕大人!, 非常女會長, 회장님은 메이드 사마

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1. Horimiya

Horimiya

At school, Kyouko Hori is known for being smart, attractive, and popular. On the other hand, her classmate, the boring, gloomy Izumi Miyamura tends to get painted as a "loser fanboy." But when a liberally pierced and tattooed (not to mention downright gorgeous) Miyamura appears unexpectedly on the doorstep of secretly plain-Jane homebody Hori, these two similarly dissimilar teenagers discover that there are multiple sides to every story...and person!



Notes:
-Includes 20 extra chapters.
-The 17th volume got released on July 18, 2023. This was 2 years after its original ending. This new volume included 10 extra chapters.

Note: Chapter count includes 20 extra chapters.

Horimiya has finished publishing and it has 152 Chapters. It is also Known as: ホリミヤ, Horimiya

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