Maria is a highschooler during the 70's in Japan. She feels that she doesn't fit into society and leaves her home to travel across Japan. During her travel, she will meet many people, some of which she will love. These people will help her decide which place is truly her place to be.
Maria has finished publishing and it has 20 Chapters. It is also Known as: マリア, Maria
Genres: Shoujo Ai , Drama , Romance , Motorsport
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Top 5 Manga Like Maria [2024 List]
5. Cotton
One rainy day, the young woman Natsuki encounters a high school student in the street. Acting on an impulse, she gives the girl her umbrella and walks away. It turns out later that the girl, Michiko, is the younger sister of Natsuki’s sister’s newly-married husband. Even though Michiko has a difficult personality and doesn’t open herself to others easily, she seems to be attracted to Natsuki. Thus begins an unusual friendship between two unlikely characters who need each other more than they first realize…
Cotton has finished publishing and it has 4 Chapters. It is also Known as: Cotton
4. Renai Joshi File
I've admired my sempai ever since I can remember, but when I finally worked up the courage to confess my love to her, she said...
"You want to go out with me? But we're both girls!"
"Isn't that... a little strange?"
I wanted to die, but then I met an awesome couple, Hiiro and Miyako, who helped me and gave me encouragement.
Okay, I'll give it another shot!
Starting with "Koi Hana Double," a bittersweet depiction of the love between two classmates at a girls-only high school and an adult couple, Renai Joshi File is a story collection filled with the love between young women. Two new stories about the couples of "Koi Hana Double" are included in this volume!
Renai Joshi File has finished publishing and it has 7 Chapters. It is also Known as: レンアイ女子ファイル, Renai Jyoshi File
3. Tsuitemasu ka
Momoko considers Anna, a famous actress as her love rival and so she always curse Anna to die whenever she sees Anna news in the media. At the same time, Momoko's sister sent Momoko an application for the TV audition without telling her before and now Momoko has to go there.
Thinking that going there will let her meet her favorite actor, Momoko agrees to go there with her friend. She got lost and without knowing it, ended up wanders around Anna's apartment. Hopeless to find the way, she decided to ask a girl who's happen to be there for the direction and surprisingly, that girl is Anna. Momoko is however, despite disliking Anna, got starstrucked and askes Anna to take pictures with her, causing her friend to think that she's practice acting. Why her friend thinks like that? Her friend sees no one there. What Momoko and her friend doesn't know at that time is that Anna has already died since last night, on the same night Momoko curses her.
Momoko is freaked out when she knows the truth after she talked with her friend later and learned about Anna's dead. The fact that she died on the same night Momoko curses her make Momoko scared of the vengeful spirit. Indeed, Anna does hold a grudge over this. She uses her spirit power to make Momoko passed the audition, possess Momoko on and off and tries to take over Momoko's body. Witness the rocky relationship between Momoko and Anna and how story ended up to be. Will Momoko's life return to normal after this? Can they be friend or she's deem to be harassed by Anna's spirit forever?
Tsuitemasu ka has finished publishing and it has Chapters. It is also Known as: 憑いてますか, Tsuitemasuka
2. Four Shoujo Stories
A shoujo manga anthology containing four oneshots by three mangaka, meant to showcase the many possibilities of the genre.
- Promise (by Keiko Nishi)
Reiko's mother hasn't been herself since Reiko's twin brother died. Reiko meets a mysterious boy about her age, and he fills the emptiness in her life -- but who is he?
- They Were Eleven (by Moto Hagio)
A group of potential students to an elite interstellar academy are split into groups of ten and sent to various satellites to take their final test: last together for one orbit. One group, however, finds that there are not ten of them there, but eleven, and it's a mystery how the eleventh got there or what they hope to gain.
- The Changeling (by Shio Sato)
Two astronauts meet an outsider on a planet that they land on.
- Since You've Been Gone by (Keiko Nishi)
A married man is cheating on his wife with a college student. While he stays at his mistress' house, he wonders just why he got married and how important each woman really is to him.
Four Shōjo Stories has finished publishing and it has 4 Chapters. It is also Known as: Four Shoujo Stories
1. A Drunken Dream and Other Stories
A Drunken Dream is a collection of literary short stories by Hagio falling into multiple genres, created between 1971-2007. This tome travels through several of Hagio's most revolutionary and poignant tales that span over the years of her lush career. Published by Fantagraphics Books.
“Bianca” (1970, 16 pages)
“Girl on Porch with Puppy” (1971, 12 pages)
“Autumn Journey” (1971, 24 pages)
“Marié, Ten Years Later” (1977, 16 pages)
“A Drunken Dream” (1980, 21 pages)
“Hanshin” (1984, 16 pages)
“Angel Mimic” (1984, 50 pages)
“Iguana Girl” (1991, 50 pages)
“The Child Who Comes Home” (1998, 24 pages)
“The Willow Tree” (2007, 20 pages)
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories is currently publishing and has 10 Chapters. It is also Known as: A Drunken Dream and Other Stories
