Koimonogatari: Love Stories - Recommendations

• Vol: 8; Ch: 54
• 2017 - 2020

It’s the last year of high school, and love is in the air. Romantic feelings that have been building up over years of friendship come to light. When Taichi’s classmate Futaba asks him to help her confess to his best friend, Toma, it sparks the catalyst that begins the sweet and heart-wrenching journey of their third and final year of high school.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 14
• 2011 - 2012

Mishima, a student at a school in the countryside, is bullied by his classmates. The reason is because he's seemingly gay. In reality, Mishima does like guys so he doesn't resist their bullying, and instead, finds solace in secretly cross-dressing. One day on the rooftop, Mishima finds the lipstick he'd lost before in the hands of Kirino, one of the bullies... and Kirino was about to put on the lipstick that Mishima used on his own lips. This is the story of young boys looking for a place they can really be themselves...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2021

Shouya, a high school boy whose heart has never known romance, comes across an internet diary filled with wistful whispers of love toward the writer’s same-sex crush. A photo posted to the page provides a hint as to the blog’s owner: Tsubame, a fellow classmate known for being a lone wolf. Shouya realizes that his friend Ryuu is the object of the diary writer’s affections, so he attempts to play matchmaker…but where will his own feelings take him in the process?

• 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: 4; Ch: 37
• 2020

A transgender teen named Ryuu finds an escape from the expectations and anxieties of his daily life in the world of street fashion. 

• Ch: 25
• 2017 - 2018

Can you really get over someone you loved? College student Jaewoo asks himself that every day. Growing up it used to be questions like: why do I like boys? Is this okay? Then the only man he ever loved fell in love with a woman, and the answers just seemed more and more far away. Imagine next, when he falls in love with that man’s older brother?! Sujin is sweet, caring, and the sole proprietor of a quaint countryside farm. And Jaewoo has just volunteered his summer working under him.

• Ch: 2
• 2007

When high-schooler Mimori finds his normally stern teacher in pain after getting dumped, he wipes the older man's tears away and offers words of encouragement, even managing to make him smile. His sensei's cute smile becomes etched in his mind, and Mimori decides he wants to do everything he can to make him smile more. As time goes on, his affection for his teacher grows deeper and Mimori decides to confess his love. But can his sensei accept his feelings?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2014 - 2015

From their first year of middle school to their second year of high school, Kai and Ren have not only always been in the same class—they’ve also always sat next to each other. But in their last year of high school, the boys are assigned to two separate classes, and with each passing day, Kai feels as if he’s slipping further and further away from Ren… One day, when Kai finds Ren sleeping in a classroom after school, he whispers the feelings that he can’t bring himself to say out loud…and Ren hears him. Will Kai’s confession push them further and further apart, or will it be the spark that brings them back to each other?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 2019

Takeru Inomata is a high school student who lives in a small provincial town. The unspoken, the rumors, the marriage, the children ... That's all over him. He lives his daily life, as it comes, without making waves and without passion. Until the day when, in high school, a new student arrives ... He will be very surprised when he discovers that the latter is none other than Kôtarô, one of his comrades in primary school. Very quickly, the two boys get closer ... What if a new love was being born?

• Vol: 3; Ch: 15
• 2009 - 2014

Mika, a high school student, has no doubts that she is a lesbian, few people around her know that though. She works at a cafe admiring the owner (she only has a thing for older women after all) and visits bars in the gay district. This story presents her life in pieces: from acquiring a surprising friend to helping a married woman discover herself and experiencing disheartening early love. All the while Mika is the confident young adult woman with an impressively mature mind.