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Ouran High School Host Club

Ouran High School Host Club

Ouran High School is a prestigious private academy where money and status count for everything. Haruhi Fujioka is a scholarship student at the elite school, and is appalled by the lazy attitude of the rich and powerful students towards their studies. The Host Club is a clear example of this: a group of six attractive and wealthy boys spend their time entertaining the female pupils for a profit. When Haruhi accidentally breaks a ¥8,000,000 vase belonging to the club, they force her to work off her debt as one of the club's members; and to do so, she must masquerade as a boy! Can Haruhi keep her gender a secret from the club's exclusive clients?

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phoenixaurora phoenixaurora says...

The premise of these reverse harem manga are very similar as well as the art style.  A girl crossdresses at a school for rich people and becomes a part of the school's most popular and influential group of boys who are typecast into roles such as prince, shota and megane.  Each has their own secret to hide or a troublesome past.  The prince type of both manga are the first to find out the heroine's true gender and both manga have a pair of twins.  The heroine has a blunt, pragmatic personality.  Later in both series, drama involving the wealthy families of the school occurs.  In both, there's a plotline about the mother of the princely character.  However, unlike Ouran, Love Sick has no comedy and is much darker.  

Gentlemen's Alliance Cross

Gentlemen's Alliance Cross

Haine Otomiya is a student at the elite Imperial Academy. A one-time gang member who was put up for adoption by her father, her life changed when she met Shizumasa Togu, president of the student council and ‘emperor' of Imperial Academy. Haine quits her gang and enrolls at the prestigious private school in the hope of winning Shizumasa's love. When she is hired as his school bodyguard, she's thrilled; but can she survive the drama of the student council? As secrets spill and relationships form, Haine is pulled further into the world of the elite and powerful, where wealth is everything and social status is the basis of all relationships. What's a girl to do?

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phoenixaurora phoenixaurora says...

Similar elements: A person has idolized someone they've adored since childhood, who through their kindness, changed the person for the better.  The person now has to come to terms that the person he/she knew before is no longer the same.  He/she must reconcile the person they put on a pedestal with the actual cold, distant person now that they've reunited in high school.  The male lead in both series is one of the most popular boys in the school and is surrounded with other beautiful, popular people as well.  The girl becomes a part of his group.  In Gentlemen's Alliance Cross, this group is the student council.  The high school they attend is an elite private school for wealthy, influential families.     

*SPOILERS* More than one guy falls for the girl.  There's some shocking revelations about twins in both series and how they have issues with being recognized as each other instead of as individuals although Love Sick and Gentlemen's Alliance Cross are totally different in their twins' situations.  Some drama occurs because of a mentally ill mother.  One of the big twists is that the main girl, although thought to be from a normal middle class family, is actually the sole heiress to one of the most powerful families in the country but was kicked out.  She returns with a vengeance to reclaim her rightful status in the family she was shunned from. *END SPOILER*

Later in both series, there's some convoluted drama revolving revenge, alliances, the rich families of the school, and their heirs.  I enjoyed the stories of both but would not recommend them for people who get lost reading manga easily.  Gentlemen's Alliance Cross's art style is very elaborate and characters often look very similar.  Love Sick seemed to have been rushed so sometimes the narrative is a bit disjointed.  However, overall I really liked these two.  

Savage Garden

Savage Garden

In 18th century England, Gabriel, an orphan girl from a fallen noble family befriends a young man named Jeremy, who was rumored to be an illegitimate child of a nobleman. After an incident occurs, Gabriel must impersonate her friend Jeremy, taking his place at an all boys academy for nobles, a place that may seem like heaven to others, but in reality hides a harshness and brutality which she could never have imagined.

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These two series are darker takes on the gender bender and reverse harem tropes than most other shoujo manga. Our heroines have transferred to elite schools for the rich under the guise of a boy in order to avenge a dead loved one. And for once, the heroine's looks are believable as a girl hiding under a boy's identity. Blackmail, using others' loyalty for her, revenge and guilt are some of the elements in these stories. Savage Garden and Love Sick have gripping, fast-paced (maybe a bit rushed) plots full of twists and turns. 

SSG - Meimon Danshikou Keppuuroku

SSG - Meimon Danshikou Keppuuroku

For her brother's sake Otowa, Subaru decides to take his place at an all male prestigious high school for a year until he recovers from being in the hospital. She gets to the school and runs into a few strange guys on her first day, but as soon as she tells them her name - they are surprised and make her go to the Lion Club. Hiding the fact that she's a girl will be difficult enough and now she has to deal with this strange group who are forcing her to join their club because they all believe that in their past lives they were members of the Shinsengumi!

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Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom - After School

Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom - After School

Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki has gotten herself a transfer to a high school in Japan...but not just any school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she's going to an all-boys' high school...and disguising herself as a boy! But as fate would have it, they're more than classmates...they're roommates! Now, Mizuki must keep her secret in the classroom, the locker room, and her own bedroom. And her classmates - and the school nurse - must cope with a new transfer student who may make them question their own orientation...

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Black Rose Alice

Black Rose Alice

Dimitri Lewandoski is a celebrated tenor in early 1900s Vienna. When he is killed in an accident, his corpse is colonized by the seeds of a vampire master. At first, Dimitri denies that anything has changed, but as the people around him start dying, he is forced to accept the ghastly truth. Flash-forward to 2008. In Tokyo, Azusa Kikukawa’s troubled love life comes to an end with a fatal accident. Dimitri appears in her dying dreams with a diabolic proposal he will save her lover if she agrees to become the breeding ground for the next generation of vampire seeds...

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Oresama Teacher

Oresama Teacher

Mafuyu is the ideal yanki chick—no-nonsense, take-charge, and hard-hitting. But when she gets expelled for being a delinquent, her mother, fed up with her daughter’s wayward ways, sends Mafuyu to an isolated school far off in the country. Mafuyu, determined to make the best of the situation and make her mother proud, decides to turn over a new, feminine, well-behaved leaf. But her yanki soul can’t be kept down, and the night before school starts she finds herself defending some guy who’s getting beaten up. One slip wouldn’t have been a problem, except the guy is…her teacher?! How can Mafuyu learn to be a girly girl if her teacher won’t let her forget her yanki past?

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The Beautiful Skies of Houou High

The Beautiful Skies of Houou High

Kei Saeba isn't your typical girl – she's manly and is in love with the fairer sex, much to her mother's dismay. And so, now that Kei is ready to begin high school, her mother secretly enrolls the girl into an all-boys school in hopes of changing her sexuality – an action that Kei is less than thrilled with once she discovers the truth. Now, for the next three years, Kei must pretend to be a boy and keep her secret safe, lest the school get a bad reputation from its wealthy benefactors. How will Kei cope with being surrounded by men, when all she wants is a lovely lady by her side?

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Love Game

Love Game

Akane Fujisawa is a big fan of world-famous movie star Jake Lee. To cheer herself up after a breakup, she travels alone to Hong Kong, where Jake lives. But soon after her arrival, she is left penniless after being robbed by some shady men. The man who steps in to help her looks just like Jake...!

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Amnesia (Kuroyurihime)

Amnesia (Kuroyurihime)

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