Penguin Musume Max - Recommendations

• Vol: 4; Ch: 28
• 2007 - 2009

Closet otaku and school idol 16 year old Aiba Hina announces right at the start that she is going to quit being an otaku, but apparently she was going to stop being otaku because a manga character said he hates otaku. Fujoshi power max! She tries to sell all her most precious otaku collections at I-books at Radio Kaikan 3F, but ends up getting seen by a classmate who was working there part-time at the register. In order to hide her identity as an otaku she decides that the only way to salvage the situation is to assassinate the classmate who saw her in the store!?

• Vol: 3; Ch: 13
• 2011 - 2012

As an anonymous erotic author, high-school student Mitsumaru Yahiro needs to keep his occupation a secret. If anyone were to find out, everyone would look at him as a pervert and his life would be over. Yahiro’s wish for his secret to remain unknown is reinforced when Kisaki Madoka, his crush, becomes disgusted when she saw his erotic series. Soon after, his work load increases and the publisher sends an assistant to help in the process. But the assistant turns out to be Madoka and, in fact, she is a giant fan of Yahiro’s work. She seems to be willing to do anything to keep working for him and it looks like the tables have turned for Yahiro.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 16
• 2010 - 2012

One day, would-be shoujo mangaka Aruto rushes home, eager to submit her newest work to a manga competition, when suddenly a cyborg materializes in her room with a terrifying message from the future.  His name is G-Maru, and he's her biggest fan, but there's a problem: Aruto isn't destined to become a shoujo artist, she's actually one of the future's most popular erotic artists! Refusing to accept her fate, Aruto must now continue to pursue her dream while trying her best to ignore G-Maru's constant attempts to put her into a variety of ecchi situations, all in the name of keeping her erotic future alive!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 20
• 2004 - 2005

With Big Bro off in the U.S. spreading the good name of otakus everywhere, Shinano moves into the Maniac Road store and begins her new life at a new high school. The love of all things manga and anime runs strong in Shinano as she searches for others with the same passion.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2009

Hayashi Shoutaro is an otaku and a student who sucks at studying, the results showing on every test. And if that wasn't bad enough, he also calls out things like, the one who scores the lowest has to clean the classroom by themselves. In his class, there is a girl he likes, Kanda Yayoi, who always gets top scores and is popular among the whole class. When he arrives home after cleaning the classroom, he's met by his perverted, otaku sister who has him cross-play (cross-dressing cosplay) to go to an anime merchandise display. There he meets Yayoi, who it turns out is also an otaku, and she falls in love with his cosplay persona...?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 18
• 2020

• One Shot
• 2011

Spoilers are bad. Especially when you spoil the favorite anime to a member of the kendo club. When Terada accidentally lets slip a spoiler about Hikami’s favorite anime, only bad things can happen. From then on, Terada can only try to survive the increasingly extreme measures Hikami uses to take vengeance. It can only be described as a war – a spoiler war.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 20
• 2011 - 2013

It is still a shock to Saga Shigekata that he is standing at Ikebukuro Krea Academy, a relatively new school with a very particular curriculum. He was supposed to be attending a normal high school, but when his parents discovered the sketches he was drawing, they sent him here. This school is relatively new and is known as the otaku school where aspiring manga artists gather to learn about creating their own masterpiece. Shigekata meets a fellow first year named Miyakawa Hinari who seems to be in a cosplay costume but later finds out that not only is she Shigekata’s classmate, she is the president and founder of Krea Academy. He starts making new friends that inspire him to produce artwork with a lot of passion.

• Vol: 1+
• 2023 - ?

• Vol: 4+; Ch: 50+
• 2018 - ?

The shy girl, Ninose Shizuk, is a high schooler who makes a living out of drawing adult oriented manga. Every day, in order to survive, she puts her heart working on it, until she encountered a certain problem...