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In manga, ‘Josei’ (‘women’) refers to manga aimed towards women, rather than the young girls who read its younger counterpart, shojo. Both are typically told from the female perspective, appearing in women’s magazines like Flowers and Petit Comic. Unlike shojo, which largely tackles themes like high school and middle school life, first love, and occasionally something dark, Josei focuses on more mature themes like work life, university life, marriage, divorce, and intimacy.

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Josei romance often centers around more mature romantic themes as well, examining different styles of relationships than typical shojo, popular-guy-meets-shy-girl. From age-gap relationships to workplace flings and balancing friendship and romance to achieving one’s dreams, josei has fans covered, and these josei romance manga are the best of the bunch.


Updated on March 28, 2024, by David Heath: Shojo isn’t always kids’ stuff, and josei isn’t always serious. Even so, readers burned out on tales about young girls prancing to school or fighting aliens may find josei’s older leads and (mostly) more grounded stories more intriguing and relatable, especially when it comes to love.

In josei romance, friendships get tested, love can turn to hatred, hatred can turn to love, and it can be blind to status, circumstances, and more. Here are the best josei romance manga available for readers in need of a love story.


12 Hana Wants This Flower To Bloom!

Anime-Planet Score: 3.6/5 Stars

hana-san wa moritasai

  • Creator: Haruna Ueno.
  • Release Date: February 25, 2018.
  • Volumes: 3.
  • Fan Translations only.

Hana Wants This Flower to Bloom! is about Hana, a typical office worker whose parents see marriage in her near future. However, after she walks in on her boyfriend cheating, she’s back at square one. If only people were as supportive as the readers of her gardening blog. Then Hana’s mom sets her up on a blind date with a man. Fortunately, he turns out to be someone she met before, and she thinks they really hit it off on their date.


Unfortunately, he says he doesn’t have any intention of getting married. He’s indifferent to relationships, but she suspects he’s one of the regular readers on her gardening blog. In fact, she thinks he’s the one she’s been talking to online through the blog for the past 4 years. But how can she know for sure? How can she reveal the truth if he is her most dedicated reader? And how will he react? Readers will have to check out the manga to find out.

11 Dekinai Futari

Anime-Planet Score: 3.8/5 Stars

dekinai futari

  • Creator: Satomura.
  • Release Date: October 20, 2020.
  • Volumes: 5.
  • Fan Translations only.


Dekinai Futari starts with Nao and Takehito as office rivals, who “fight like cats and dogs,” according to their coworkers. But when Nao gets sick and accidentally texts Takehito instead of her sister, he comes to her aid despite their differences, reminding her of all the reasons she used to love him. It turns out the two used to date in high school, but nobody else knows about this.

When things start to heat up between the two, Touma, a fierce and worthy rival to Takehito, appears to shake things up. How will Takehito and Nao deal with their feelings while keeping things a secret? Their coworkers already think they’re enemies. Learning the truth could make things more uncomfortable than they should be. The strip hasn’t been adapted into an anime, but it did get a live-action series in 2022.

10 Perfect World

Anime-Planet Score: 4/5 Stars

perfect world

  • Creator: Rie Aruga.
  • Release Date: March 24, 2014.
  • Volumes: 12.
  • Available in English via Kodansha Comics USA.


Tsugumi had dreams of becoming a painter in high school, only to become a normal 26-year-old woman working for an interior design firm, while Itsuki is an architect who became a wheelchair user after getting in an accident shortly after he graduated. Though the two were friends back in the day, and Tsugumi harbored feelings for Itsuki, they never got together and hadn’t seen each other since their last day at school.

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The two unexpectedly came across each other at a business dinner, where she first learned of his disability. Itsuki is reluctant to start anything with her due to his wavering health and fears of bringing her down, and Tsugumi doesn’t want to spoil their friendship. Yet it turns out her old feelings didn’t fully go away after all. Perfect World not only won awards but gained a movie adaptation and a live-action drama series, too.

9 Haru’s Curse

Anime-Planet Score: 4/5 Stars

haru's curse

  • Creator: Asuka Konishi.
  • Release Date: November 28, 2015.
  • Volumes: 2.
  • Available in English via Kodansha USA’s Vertical Comics imprint.


Haru’s Curse showcases how josei can be more complex, as it’s a tale about love and grief. Before she died, Haru asked her sister Natsumi to bury her with a photo of herself with her boyfriend Tougo. It was a simple enough request, but after the funeral, Tougo approaches Natsumi about going out with him in Haru’s place. Although Haru truly loved Tougo, they were in an arranged marriage in order to preserve Tougo’s bloodline.

This meant either sister would have fit the bill for the arrangement, though his family much preferred Haru. She agreed only if he’d take her to the places he took Haru. But the grief over the loss of her beloved sister and the guilt of taking her partner drives her to the edge. She isn’t alone, however. Through this unusual arrangement, she and Tougo find solace in their loss and learn to live again day by day.


8 Please Love The Useless Me

Anime-Planet Score: 4/5 Stars

please love the useless me

  • Creator: Aya Nakahara.
  • Release Date: April 15, 2013.
  • Volumes: 10.
  • Fan Translations only.

Please Love the Useless Me sees Michiko Shibata down on her luck. She had just lost her job, was barely surviving on her meager savings, and spent the last of a sketchy loan she took out on a ‘boyfriend’ who turned out to be scamming her. It’s at her lowest ebb that she finds herself reconnecting with her old boss, Kurosawa.

He treats her to a meal, and the two discuss her working for him again via a restaurant he inherited from his grandmother. Michiko is tentative because she remembers him as a horrible boss, but she takes the offer as there’s something about this new line of work that suits him better. They make for a nice odd couple, where they start off bickering but gradually find out they’re on more common ground than they think.

7 Date Of Marriage

Anime-Planet Score: 4/5 Stars

date of marriage

  • Creator: Ito Nishihara (web novel), Muno (manga adaptation).
  • Release Date: March 28, 2020.
  • Volumes: 6+.
  • Available in English via Mangamo.


When Yoshiko is unexpectedly dumped by her long-term boyfriend, she fears that her goal to be married by thirty is out the window. When she voices this fear to her coworker, Yuuki, he casually suggests that, if she hasn’t found someone else by the time she hits that age, he’ll marry her instead, which is why the manga is called Date of Marriage.

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Yoshiko thinks that Yuuki is just being nice at first, but when he runs into her at work the next day, he tells her he was being serious. There’s something about the proposal that gets Yoshiko’s heartbeat racing, yet she can’t help but wonder if he has any ulterior motives. The manga is an adaptation of Nishihara’s original web novel, and its unique premise was enough to receive a live-action drama series in 2023 as well.


6 Josee, The Tiger And The Fish

Anime-Planet Score: 4.12/5 Stars

Best Josei Romance Manga- Josee, The Tiger and the Fish

  • Creators: Seiko Tanabe (original novel), Nao Emoto (manga adaptation).
  • Release Date: January 6th, 2020.
  • Volumes: 2.
  • Available in English via Yen Press.

Josee, The Tiger and the Fish was the title story of a compilation of Seiko Tanabe’s short stories published in 1985 and was adapted as a live-action movie in 2003. It took another 17 years for it to get another live-action movie via Korea, an animated movie via Japan, and this manga by the movie’s character designer Nao Emoto.

Like Perfect World, it’s about a disabled person finding love. This time the guy, Tsuneo, saves Kumiko ‘Josee’ Yamamura from a near-death experience and, as a token of gratitude, receives a job offer to become Josee’s caretaker. At first, things don’t go well, until he’s able to take her out to see the sea. As she gets to see more of the world, she learns to express herself artistically. The two bond, but the path to love isn’t as easy as it seems.


5 Strawberry Love

Anime-Planet Score: 4.14/5 Stars

strawberry love

  • Creator: Irono.
  • Release Date: August 16, 2018.
  • Volumes: 4.
  • Available in English via Square Enix’s Manga UP digital platform.

Can love be found on a strawberry farm? Yes, if Strawberry Love has anything to say about it. When Sara’s grandfather is hospitalized, she needs to take care of his strawberry farm for him until he’s better. This is where she meets Minori, a veteran strawberry farmer who’ll be showing her the ropes. The two are awkward at first but slowly open up to each other, both harboring feelings that they’re too afraid to reveal.

Why are they afraid? Because there’s a 13-year age gap between the two. She’s a 20-year-old college student, and he’s a 33-year-old guy from the sticks. They’re both adults, albeit ones who are too worried about that gap to express themselves. It’s a wholesome take on a trope that’s usually played for titillation and drama rather than a matter of the heart. This is likely why it went from being a webcomic on Pixiv to getting serialized in Pfantapy magazine.


4 Chihayafuru

Anime-Planet Score: 4.18/5 Stars

Shojo Manga Finished in 2022- Chihayafuru

  • Creator: Yuki Suetsugu.
  • Release Date: December 28th, 2007.
  • Volumes: 50.
  • Available in English via Kodansha Comics USA.

Josei romance often sees love bloom for office ladies, college students, teachers, etc. Chihayafuru sees it spring up in the world of competitive karuta. It sees the aimless Chihaya and insecure Taichi introduced to Uta-garuta, a card game where players have to complete a classical poem with cards before their opponent, new student Arata.


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His skill at the game inspires Chihaya to partake, while Taichi takes part in order to beat Arata. They played it all the time as kids until fate split them apart. But Chihaya’s love for the game and her friends never went away. Now in high school, she enters karuta’s competitive scene in order to be the best and see Arata again, unaware that she’s already got an admirer in her life.

3 Gokusen

Anime-Planet Score: 4.22/5 Stars

Gokusen - Anime Like Yakuza

  • Creator: Kozueko Morimoto.
  • Release Date: December 15th, 1999.
  • Volumes: 15.
  • Fan Translations only.

Gokusen hasn’t received an official English translation, though its 13-episode anime adaptation did get an English dub in 2004 if people are keen to track it down. It’s a josei story with a twist, as it combines a hot-for-teacher tale with the yakuza. It sees Kumiko ‘Yankumi’ Yamaguchi become the homeroom and math teacher for Class 3D, the most unruly class of characters at the all-boys Shirokin Academy.


She’s able to bring them to heel with her stern ways and curious behavior. It earns their respect and 18-year-old Shin’s interest. He wonders why she works better with his class of delinquents than the more well-behaved ones. Then he discovers her secret: she’s the heir to the Kuroda Ikka yakuza family, and they want her back as their leader. The result is a romcom where, despite his best efforts to help, Shin is often bailed out by Yankumi. But each time he tries, he earns that extra bit of respect.

2 Kids On The Slope

Anime-Planet Score: 4.25/5 Stars

Best Josei Romance Manga- Sakamichi no Apollon

  • Creator: Yuki Kodama.
  • Release Date: September 28th, 2007.
  • Volumes: 9.
  • Fan Translations only.


Sakamichi no Apollon, aka Kids on the Slope, hasn’t had an official English translation yet, but it did receive an anime directed by Cowboy Bebop‘s Shinichiro Watanabe of all people. It was his next big work after Samurai Champloo and a host of rejected projects. Perhaps there was something to the story about a trio of students bonding and finding love through jazz that he found appealing.

Set in the 1960s, Kaoru has trouble making friends because his father’s work keeps his family moving every few years. But it’s while going to school in Sasebo that he meets Sentarou, the most feared delinquent at his school. Despite their different backgrounds, the two become friends over a shared interest in jazz music and befriend their classmate Ritsuko when they visit her family’s record shop. It’s only when romance enters the picture that things get more complicated between the three.


1 Black Sesame Salt And Custard Pudding

Anime-Planet Score: 4.3/5 Stars

black sesame salt and custard pudding

  • Creator: Yufuko Suzuki.
  • Release Date: July 27, 2018.
  • Volumes: 3.
  • Available in English via Renta!

Haruhi gets herself in a sticky situation when her dad suddenly demands she move back home to work for his construction company. Instead of talking it out with her father, Haruhi drunkenly decides that her best option is to marry the closest man at the izakaya (traditional Japanese bar) and finds herself bringing home a man 20 years her senior after signing marriage papers.

While this could be a set-up for something unsavory, the story takes a sweeter turn as her now-husband, Nagato, works with her to help her father let her live her dream in the city. Then, in the process, it tells a story about two people meant for each other, despite their appearances. Hence the title “Black Sesame Salt and Custard Pudding,” an unlikely pairing of a salty seasoning with a sweet dessert.

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