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from now on, we begin ethics : drama & philosophy | teacher of a high school ethics class has significant one-on-one interactions with his students ; contains harsh subject matter, including rape (attempt + mentions), self harm, and questionable ideas regarding relationshipssuicide girl : mahou shoujo, horror | kirari goes to a group suicide meeting to end her life and ends up becoming a magical girl instead ; warnings for suicide mentions and self harm (modes of suicide become their transformation tool)jigoku kurayami hana mo naki : supernatural drama, thriller | seiji, a neet on the verge of homelessness, can see people's sins as youkai and becomes employed at a unique "consultation" agency by a mysterious young manbrutal: satsujin kansatsukan no kokuhaku : crime drama & thriller | hiroki dan is the son of a police superintendent general with potential for a successful future in law enforcement, but has a secret hobby of violent vigilantism ; general warning for gore and violence, as well as a rape plot that crosses over two chapters in the first volumehiru : drama, thriller, crime-ish | girl loses her place in society due to a miraculous tragedy and begins to live her life as a "leech," and learns that there are others like her, including an old childhood acquaintance ; warnings for general violencesaturn return : drama & mystery | author mc being forced to trace her past by her new eager and young editor to uncover the truth about her newly-deceased frienddo androids dream of love? : smut & romance | daughter of a robotics genius is left a personal android when her father diesoshiete kudasai, fujishima-san : smut & romance | romance author rio, awkward and inexperienced in love, has to write smut and meets the love of her life while "researching" it ; includes some shoujo manga clichéseven if you don't do it : drama | two people in different marriages bond over empty bedrooms while trying to repair their current relationshipsasper girl : drama & psychological | girl tracks down her favorite mangaka and ends up living with him ; overcoming various mental illnesses together ; warnings for self harm, mentions of suicide, child abuse, and one instance of animal abuseshrink : psychological, minor medical-ish drama? | psychiatrist helping several new patientstomodachi game : drama, mystery, psychological thriller | yuuichi is forced to participate in a very high-stakes and dangerous series of games with his four closest "friends"koko kara wa otona no jikan desu : josei romance & supernatural with potential smut in the future | a girl who can see spirits alleviates a demon haunting her boss (who is also her crush) by sleeping in the same bed as himame to kimi to : comedy, slice of life | a woman picks up a tanuki peculiar, highly intelligent dog on the side of the road and keeps it as a petgannibal : horror, mystery, thriller | a cop and his family are relocated to a remote mountain town with a tight but volatile community of cannibals ; warnings for goremotokare mania : comedy, josei, romance | yurika is obsessed with an ex from five years ago and suddenly meets him again after being hired in the same company, but after an odd attempt at reconnecting on his part, she's left feeling cold. she meets a man with a similar hang-up to her (and a mutual crush) so maybe they can get over their exes together ; it's better than this description, i promisetrying out marriage with my girl friend : romance, slice of life | kurumi and ruriko made a pact to get married if they were still single after 5 years, following ruriko's patissiere training in france, now how will they handle their newlywed lifewondance : sport drama, hidden romance | kotani kabo is immediately entranced by wanda hikari, a girl obsessed with dancing, so joins their high school's dance club with her encouragement in order to challenge himself and overcome his perceived shortcomingstonari no seki no hen na senpai : josei, romance, smut | mebuki mayumi has been transferred into the sales department and is now surrounded by all of the hot guys she could ever want, including her senpai asahina akio, who would be much more of a catch if he weren't so gloomy and didn't have stalker tendencies...hopefully mebuki can train him out of it ; tw for nonconsensual sexual content due to a yandere love interest (weird sex behaviour starts in chapter one, so i'd skip completely if you're any ounce of wary abt it)hikaru ga shinda natsu : horror, mystery | yoshiki's best friend hikaru went missing in the mountains one week and came back different ; tw for eldritch / monster / psychadelic imagery, some goregal to bocchi : comedy, slice of life | an introvert and borderline outcast who is admittedly not great with gyarus becomes close friends with onesensei, kongetsu dou desu ka : romance, slice of life, supernatural | murasaki has the power to see into the future and, as the daughter of a landlord, tasked with collecting tenants' rent, including that of a writer, shijima banri, who she knows she is fated to be with ; tw for age gap romance, sensei in this sense does not denote teacher or professor, but respected professional, though i understand it doesn't excuse the potential issues regarding power dynamic (but it's mostly just rly sweet)it looks like my son has been reincarnated into another world : comedy, drama, psychological | isekai otaku doubara's former high school classmate contacts him after her son's sudden death and tells him she thinks her son has been reincarnated and wants to find a way to either join him or bring him back from the other side ; tw for mild suicidality i guess ?? at the beginning since mio tries to "reincarnate" by asking doubara to kill her with different methodsleviathan : drama, horror, sci-fi | leviathan, an abandoned passenger space ferry is discovered and a student's log book reveals that there is at least one survivor in the last available hibernation cell somewhere on the shipafter god : * action, drama, psychological, supernatural* | a story about actual gods, tragedy, and overwhelming power in one woman's eyes, also there's a lab-created talking cat ; tw for body horror and eldritch atrocities

last updated : 2023.03.10