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Top 19 Josei manga you should read right now. [2024 List]
- 19. Helmut (Kim Nan Sae)
- 18. Hwangjewa Hamkke Tarakagetseumnida
- 17. Tricked into Becoming the Heroine's Stepmother
- 16. Age of Arrogance
- 15. Eonni, Ibeon Saengen Naega Wangbiya
- 14. The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway
- 13. Angnyeoui Mungujeome Oji Maseyo!
- 12. My Mom Got a Contract Marriage
- 11. How to Hide the Emperor's Child
- 10. Marry My Husband
- 9. The Guy Upstairs
- 8. Disobey the Duke if You Dare
- 7. Dangsinui Mabeopsa Imnida
- 6. Eojjeodaboni Cheonsaengyeonbun
- 5. Hot Mother
- 4. Cheating Men Must Die
- 3. I Became the Tyrant's Servant
- 2. A Bittersweet Couple
- 1. My Fair Maid
19. Helmut (Kim Nan Sae)
Helmut was a child who had been abandoned in the Demonic Beast Forest at birth.
Raised by Demonic Beasts, the first human that he met was the Sword Saint Darien.
Little did Helmut know that the chance encounter would soon shake the foundation of his fate…
“Grow stronger If you want to get out of here.”
The boy who’d lived like a beast was thrown into the human world!
He possessed overwhelming swordsmanship, outstanding looks and sharp intelligence, but there was one thing he lacked: humanity.
I am no longer a prey. I am now a predator!
Helmut (Kim Nan Sae) is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Helmut (Honyo), Helmut: The Forsaken Child
18. Hwangjewa Hamkke Tarakagetseumnida
“You, too, will be corrupted. Then I will make it all come true.”
If I had only joined hands with him and agreed to become his mistress then, could I have lived a little longer?
At least I would not have know the pain of my eyes being gouged out. But instead I shouted: “I refuse. I will not betray my country”, not realizing that my country, my family, had betrayed me long ago.
Sacrificed, used, abandoned, and finally executed by my own family... I only realized after returning to 10 years in the past that the reason why you wanted me to stand by your side is because you and I were so much alike.
Let us fall together this time.
I Will Fall With the Emperor is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Впасти разом з імператором, お求め頂いた暴君陛下の悪女です
17. Tricked into Becoming the Heroine's Stepmother
I woke up in the body of mob character Civilian 1 in the "tragic novel" I wrote with my friends for fun. And since Duke Henstone, the father of the female protagonist, starts a revolution in order to change his daughter's unhappy future, many lives are in danger if I leave it like this. "I will protect the female lead!" That's how I started to live with the daughter of the stupid duke. But for some reason, the small female lead is a bit strange. "Why do you keep trying to hook me up with your dad?"
Source: MU
Tricked into Becoming the Heroine's Stepmother is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Éminence Grise Female Lead Is Trying to Make Me Her Stepmom
16. Age of Arrogance
The lord of Pervaz, who led the 28-year war to victory, Asha Pervaz.
For Pervaz, who was devastated by the long war, Asha heads to the imperial family to receive the victory reward promised by the emperor. However, the only reward that came back was the "right to choose a marriage partner."
As the best choice, Asha pointed out the Duke of Carlisle Haven, the first prince who had recently been deprived of the title of crown prince. If she was refused, she intended to receive compensation from the emperor...
"Marquise Perbaz. I will accept your marriage proposal."
Contrary to expectations, the Duke of Carlisle accepted Asha's choice. Promising tremendous support for Pervaz...!
Age of Arrogance is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: City of Arrogance, The Age of Arrogance, The Era of Pride, अहङ्कारको युग, ยุคแห่งความโอหัง, 傲慢的时代
15. Eonni, Ibeon Saengen Naega Wangbiya
Her fiance, her sister, and her parents. Ariadne returns 14 years from the past, the day she was cast aside by everyone. "Shit! I am trying to court you right now!" From her fiance, who acted much different than he did in the past, "Don't cry, Ariadne. Don't you know how pretty you are to me?" to the kind Prince, who fell for her at first sight. This time, she will get revenge on everyone and become Queen.
Eonni, Ibeon Saengen Naega Wangbiya is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Sister, I Am the Queen in This Life, Nesta Vida, eu serei a Rainha, In This Life, I’ve Become The Queen
14. The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway
When six-year-old Inés laid eyes on the handsome heir to House Escalante, she promptly made the boy her fiancé. Since noble men are all the same, she figured she might as well choose a pretty one. But Lord Cárcel isn't ready for this sort of commitment just yet, and he spends the next decade and a half avoiding the marriage at all costs! Luckily, that's no trouble for Inés, as this marriage failing is exactly what she wants. In fact, he has her blessing to sow his wild oats as long as he stays out of her business. Unfortunately, being a playboy isn't as fun when your fiancée gives you permission. And doesn't this mean she's cheating on him too? Now, Cárcel is determined to change Inés' mind about him and prove he can be the husband she's always wanted.
The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: El Anillo Roto: Este matrimonio fracasará de todos modos, This Marriage Is Bound to Sink Anyway, 反正这段婚姻注定失败
13. Angnyeoui Mungujeome Oji Maseyo!
“A useless thing like you has no value in our family. Take this money and leave immediately!” “Yes! Goodbye!” She became the incompetent villainess who commits wrongdoings in order to earn the love of her fiance, the male lead. Her reputation was already at rock bottom and the main characters, who can’t live without each other, are having an affair. “Getting kicked out and receiving money is good enough!” So after she was kicked out, she set up a stationery store in front of a school. She reminisces of snacks, beer candy, and even bubbles! Just you wait, kids! But… somehow her young customers are a little weird? “I’ll find you a handsome and modest man, and not someone who has an affair like my brother!” “Ha, then what about my brother, the crown prince?” The great magic swordsman, the next crown prince, the villainous tower master, and finally, the hidden villain...
Source: NU
Please Don't Come to the Villainess' Stationery Store! is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Please Don't Come to the Evil Lady's Stationery Store!
12. My Mom Got a Contract Marriage
Lilyca is a poor girl who used to spend every day with her alcoholic mother.
However, one day...
"Kyaa, it's hot! No!"
Her mother woke up screaming and nonsensically asked, "Lily, you're alive! Have you gotten younger?"
"What's the date?"
She'd lost her mind!
"This can't be... I've come back!"
She started spouting more puzzling things, even going so far as to say, "We need to go to the Imperial Ball and meet the Emperor!"
Lilyca began to worry that something had gone wrong with her Mother's head...
My Mom Got a Contract Marriage is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: My Mother Gets Married Again, My Mother Got Married By Contract
11. How to Hide the Emperor's Child
“You never loved me anyway, did you?” The marriage that Astell had been waiting for all her life came to an end in one day. She wanted to be Kaizen's wife since she was 10 years old, but all she had left was the stigma of being an empress. Astell wanted to leave. "Yes, yes, I didn't love you," Astell lied one last time to the man who was the reason for living, to the man who had been her husband for a day, so she thought she would never have any contact with him again, however... "I... I think you're pregnant?” Six years later, Astell, reunited with Kaizen, lied to him again in order to protect her child. “Who… who is that boy?” “He’s my nephew.”
Source: MU
How to Hide the Emperor's Child is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: How to Hide the Emperor's Child
10. Marry My Husband
My best friend and my husband cheated on me. If that was not enough, he killed me, his terminally ill wife.
Ji Won, who died like that, miraculously returned to 10 years ago. In order to change her future, Ji Won pledges to hand over her ill fate to her "best friend" Soomin.
'So, marry my husband instead of me.'
Marry My Husband has finished publishing and it has 68 Chapters. It is also Known as: To Marry My Husband
9. The Guy Upstairs
Rozy finds her neighbor, the guy who lives upstairs a little bit too suspicious.
Source: Webtoon
The Guy Upstairs is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: The Guy Upstairs
8. Disobey the Duke if You Dare
You must never see the duke’s face.
After her second husband's death, Lily is forced into a third marriage by her father. Her new husband is rumored to be a monstrous warmonger, but to Lily's surprise, the Duke turns out to be a kind man and husband. There's just one catch... she must never see his face.
Disobey the Duke if You Dare has finished publishing and it has 96 Chapters. It is also Known as: If I Disobey the Duke
7. Dangsinui Mabeopsa Imnida
Prophet Liye falls into a world where magic exists and wakes up as a woman that a shaman doctor resurrected when she was a little girl. Tanaril, a wizard cursed by a witch to never have children with any woman, meets Liye at a hotel bar by chance. After drinking cocktails from a bartender at the bar, they spend the night together. Tanaril misunderstands that Liye approached him on purpose and accuses her of approaching him to take advantage of his high status. Despite how she was offended by his accusations, she became pregnant with his child. After announcing the pregnancy through a magical letter, the two get married by contract for different reasons and purposes. She knows she shouldn't fall in love with Tanaril, since she's from a different world and all that. It'll be a piece of cake since Tanaril is a cold, distant person, right? But her expectations are ruined when she discovers that Tanaril is actually caring and warm.
My Wizard, My Destiny is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: I'm Your Wizard, Mein Zauberer, mein Schicksal, Mon sorcier bien-aimé, Yo soy tu mago, Your Wizard, Твой маг, 転生して氷の魔法使いと契約結婚しました , 당신의 마법사입니다
6. Eojjeodaboni Cheonsaengyeonbun
‘How long have I been laying down at home…?’ Han Jia, who is turning 32 this year (she’s a freelancer who still doesn’t have a full-time job/jobless), suffers because of the pressure given by people around her that keep telling her to get married. Around the same time, Jin Mincheol, her childhood friend who came to Jia’s hometown for holiday, is having the same problem. Then, the two people got married just like that. Now that they have married….. ‘Huh? We match each other more than i thought?’
Source: MU
Maybe Meant to Be is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Accidentally Heavenly Match, Match Made in Heaven by Chance
5. Hot Mother
Although once a top-level assassin, she unexpectedly got trapped by her babysitter, raped by a stranger and was pregnant. When she want to question aunt who is the father, but aunt ran away. Her baby was kidnapped by an underworld group mistakenly after six years. She could do nothing but going undercover by pretending a driver to their boss…
Hot Mother has finished publishing and it has 133 Chapters. It is also Known as: Jípǐn là mā hǎo V5, Jipinlamahaov5
4. Cheating Men Must Die
One moment oppressing scum yields a moment of satisfaction. Continuously oppressing scum yields continuous satisfaction. Our female main lead, Su Lüxia is bound to the Second Female Lead Counterattack System and transmigrates to several small worlds. Using elaborate means, she beats up countless cheating bastards and bitches. Su Lüxia: "Only a cheating bastard's tears of remorse, and the pained moans of a bitch unable to get what she wants bring me solace." System: "Has my host tapped into her humanity today? Nope."
Cheating Men Must Die is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Cheating Men Must Die
3. I Became the Tyrant's Servant
A former call center employee finds herself transported into a fantasy novel, where she becomes the "servant" of the male protagonist, a cruel tyrant who kills anyone he doesn't like and lives in lust.
She doesn't want to die like the original character, so she plans to escape before the tyrant finds the female protagonist, who is the only one capable of changing his heart. To do this, she begins to do business, buy ships and train concubines for the tyrant. However, her plans are thwarted when the tyrant begins to take an interest in her and pursues her relentlessly.
Will she be able to escape her fate or will she fall in love with the man she was supposed to hate?
I Became the Tyrant's Servant is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 成为暴君的奸臣
2. A Bittersweet Couple
A man who had been hard at work throughout his school days, appeared after 10 years and proposed to Soo-bin, who was busy refusing many blind dates, with difficult conditions to refuse.
Source: MU
A Bittersweet Couple has finished publishing and it has 72 Chapters. It is also Known as: 'Til Debt Do Us Part, A Sweet and Bitter Couple, A Sweet and Bitter Love, A Sweet and Bloody Couple, Bitter Sweet Marriage, Sweet and Bloody Couple, Bittersweet Couple, 我的契约爱人, 相愛相殺的夫妻
1. My Fair Maid
For Sandy the maid, seeing Killian Winifred's handsome face is the best part of working for the Winifred family. But Killian's fiancee, Alexandra, hates his womanizing ways and would rather be struck by lightning than marry him. As if to answer her prayer, lightning strikes Alexandra's carriage while she's out on a rainy day. In that exact moment, Sandy falls off a cliff while gathering mushrooms, landing on the carriage. Next thing she knows, she's waking up in Alexandra's body! With her own body buried in a cemetery, Sandy has no choice but to pretend she's Alexandra. But despite her best efforts, Killian starts noticing changes in "Alexandra's" behavior. The situation get even messier when the real Alexandra's soul shows up and demands her body back. Can Sandy and Alexandra return to their previous lives, or will they have a better chance of getting struck by lightning again?
Source: TappyToon
My Fair Maid is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: My Fair Maid
