Girl in Heels - Recommendations

• Vol: 16; Ch: 74
• 2008

HyoYi is a poor girl with a scholarship to one of the most exclusive private schools, attended only by kids from the richest families. Strong and resilient, HyoYi fights to protect her mentally handicapped brother whose disability makes him a target for bullies and beatings. Then she meets MinHa, who unexpectedly winds up making an agreement to protect the siblings. Bound together by their unusual arrangement, HyoYi and MinHa gradually learn what it means to love, one step at a time....

• Vol: 4; Ch: 17
• 2011 - 2012

Azusa used to be bullied to the point where she begged her parents to move. In her new school, she's asked out by the most popular guy, Kasuga-kun. Afraid of being bullied again, she agrees. But, she finds herself falling in love with Kawaguchi-kun and his strength. He gives her hope that she might finally break free from her past and find true love, but Kasuga-kun stares at her possessively with murderous eyes.

• Vol: 6; Ch: 27
• 2011 - 2014

In middle school, Ichinose Kimitaka taught his friends how to play basketball. Despite his experience with the sport, his friends quickly outmatched him in skill. After an incident brought on by his frustration and jealousy, he was crushed and on his way to toss out his basketball shoes. He met a girl who was just as frustrated, throwing her dancing shoes away after been rejected from her hobby. He urged her to give basketball a try, and the two exchanged their shoes instead of throwing them away. As he enters high school, Kimitaka learns that she is now a happy, social basketball player. Will Kimitaka be able to find the courage to make new friends and pursue his own talents?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 2006

The stories all revolve around the common troubles that teenagers go through, whether it be falling out with a friend, being bullied, or dieting.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 3
• 2001

Sawako has always tried her best to do well in school, like her older sister, so she would be praised by her mother. She gets good grades, has many friends and a caring boyfriend, and in general things are going well for Sawako. That is, until she is caught in a compromising situation by another classmate. Suddenly, Sawako's life is turned upside down when all of her classmates ostracize her and even her boyfriend abandons her. Faced with being bullied on a daily basis by her entire class, Sawako must find a way to survive or die trying.

• Ch: 28+
• 2023 - ?

Haruki endures relentless bullying from a trio of classmates. One day, a beautiful transfer student named Shirayuki suddenly approaches him and asks if he would date him if the bullying stopped. Haruki dismisses it as a joke. But the next day, one of his tormentors disappears. Then another. One thing's for sure—Shirayuki is a psychopath that lacks common sense and empathy.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 23
• 2015 - 2018

Not only is high schooler Tasuku Kaname the new kid in town, he's also terrified that he's been outed as gay. Just as he's contemplating doing the unthinkable, Tasuku meets a mysterious woman who leads him to a group of people dealing with problems not so different from his own. In this realistic, heartfelt depiction of LGBT+ characters from different backgrounds finding their place in the world, a search for inner peace proves to be the most universal experience of all.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 9
• 2009

Takaya has fallen in love at first sight with a girl he saw at his college. The only problem is that she happens to be Yurina, the girl he spent his elementary school days tormenting. While he hardly remembers her from those days, Yurina hates him with a passion. She holds him responsible for all the lasting emotional and psychological scars that were caused by the years he made her life a living hell. Takaya hopes they'll be able to move past their history and fall in love, but can Yurina ever feel anything for him but hatred and the desire for revenge?

• Vol: 5; Ch: 30
• 2015 - 2018

Nanako has died. Her beautiful absentee classmate, Kisaragi Tamiko, reappears at school like she's been born anew. The three girls she 'calls out' are driven into a corner by her almost insane acts, but...What is Tamiko's true goal? Is it really vengeance...? And what is the true identity of 'the thing decomposing' in her house? This mystery unleashes all a girl's confines including bullying, toxic parents, and humiliation...

• Vol: 13; Ch: 134
• 2016 - 2019

"May I never be born again." Trying to throw himself off the roof of the school is Ayumu, a boy who lived an ordinary junior high school life until half a year ago. What pushed him to this point? And what is the true ending that awaits...?