drama

Drama manga heavily emphasize their characters' emotional development. Whether by experiencing the protagonist's emotional turmoil, viewing heated character interactions, or exploring a passionate romance, any manga that humanizes its characters through emphasizing their flaws qualifies as a Drama.

Kagerou Inazuma Mizu no Tsuki

Kagerou Inazuma Mizu no Tsuki

Status: Completed
A collection of stories set amongst the oiran (high-rank courtesans before the time of geisha) in (mostly) the Yoshiwara district of Edo, a famous historical 'red-light district.'

1. Kagerou no Shou
When Kagerou was a child, her parents sold h... Show more
Mayonaka no Ariadone

Mayonaka no Ariadone

Status: Completed
From StarryHeaven:

When you have worries, is it about whether or not you are short or about your new class? Those were the problems that normal high school student, Chiyoko, faced. However, one day she meets her childhood friend Chiharu and Chiyok... Show more
Atsu Atsu Trattoria

Atsu Atsu Trattoria

Status: Completed
To save our crisis, a young chef, Habuka, suddenly appeared in front of my eyes. He's a very rude bastard, when we met for the first time everything went wrong. And I don't know why he lives in my house! But now, I have to live with a red face and my heart... Show more
Asatte no Houkou

Asatte no Houkou

Status: Completed
English
Asatte no Houkou follows the lives of Karada Iokawa, a young girl who is set to join junior high school after summer is over, and Shouko Nogami, a young woman who has just returned from studying abroad, who also happens to be the former gir... Show more
One

One

Status: Completed
From Tokyopop:
High schooler Jenny You is living a dream. In the public eye, she is a delicate princess, a successful pop star, but in real life, she's a rebellious beauty ostracized by her female schoolmates.
She and her classmate, Eumpa Won (One... Show more
Ace o Nerae!

Ace o Nerae!

Status: Completed
A story of an ordinary high school girl who gradually discovers her hidden talent of tennis through severe trainings designed by her strict coach. Can she become an "Ace" tennis player?
Ai to Yokubou no Rasen

Ai to Yokubou no Rasen

Status: Completed
Volume 1: 月の章
Volume 2: 闇の章
Volume 3: 断章ー白い月の女神ー
Volume 4: 花の章
Volume 5: 光の章
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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Meakashi Hen

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Meakashi Hen

Status: Completed
From Yen Press:

After a year at boarding school, Shion Sonozaki flees the oppressive institution and secretly returns to her hometown in the mountains, telling only her twin sister Mion of her arrival. Though the Sonozaki family has kept the siste... Show more
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Yoigoshi Hen

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Yoigoshi Hen

Status: Completed
From Yen Press:

In the twenty years since the Hinamizawa disaster, the small village has become a literal ghost town. Terrible rumors about the mysterious gas leak that claimed hundreds of lives have kept even the most curious at bay. But on this ... Show more
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Onisarashi Hen

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Onisarashi Hen

Status: Completed
From Yen Press:

It’s been almost a year since Natsumi and her family moved from the town of Onigafuchi. Her grandmother, a native of Hinamizawa village, fears that they will be cursed for abandoning the mountains, but Natsumi has never been happ... Show more
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Utsutsukowashi Hen

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Utsutsukowashi Hen

Status: Completed
At St. Lucia Academy, the body of a male teacher has been discovered in the pool. The girl who found him, Mizuho Kousaka, is a shy bullied student who seems relatively unaffected by her discovery. After all, this isn't the first time she has seen a corpse.... Show more
Kirakira 100%

Kirakira 100%

Status: Completed
Miku is an ordinary girl, who has a crush on her classmate Shibutani-kun. Miku doesn't have confidence in herself, and holds her feelings inside. But one day, after a makeover with the help of her guy friend Yuutenji, she ends up confessing her love to Shi... Show more
Black Jack

Black Jack

Status: Completed
Black Jack is an "unregistered" doctor with a clouded, mysterious past. He works with his little assistant Pinoko (who has a massive crush on the doctor), dealing with medical cases not very well known, which can be strange, dangerous, or not kno... Show more
Midnight

Midnight

Status: Completed
Midnight is the story of a taxi driver named Shinya Mito (whose name is literally Japanese for "mid" and "night") and his various passengers, each of whom he helps in various ways. Shinya drives a taxi as a way to earn money for the tre... Show more
Heya ni Oide yo

Heya ni Oide yo

Status: Completed
A story about two people who share the same room right from the day they first meet.
Nijigahara Holograph

Nijigahara Holograph

Status: Completed
Suzuki is a troubled boy. He's lived with uncaring foster parents for most of his life, alienated from the other kids at his school, owner of a cynical, unhappy mentality. Komatsuzaki is a violent, unpredictable bully whose head trauma causes him to act in... Show more
Akuma no Kuchizuke

Akuma no Kuchizuke

Status: Completed
Sara is a member of the Heaven Expedition Team, and her job is to hunt Devils, but she hasn't caught even one devil yet and if she doesn't catch one she will be expelled!

She decides to summon a devil so she can catch him, but what will happen whe... Show more
Lovely Baby

Lovely Baby

Status: Completed
My name is Kohinata An. My parents went overseas to work and left me to live with my grandma. However, she was hospitalized all of a sudden, leaving me as the manager of her lodging house! Furthermore, there are three cool guys lodging there! Ba-dump. Ba-d... Show more
The Nightmare of Fabrication

The Nightmare of Fabrication

Status: Completed
The Nightmare of Fabrication is a beautifully drawn full-colour manga from Yoshitoshi ABe. The 18 page short story can be found in the Lain Omnipresence in Wired artbook. It's a bonus story which apparently isn't related with neither the anime nor the PS g... Show more
Can't Lose You

Can't Lose You

Status: Unknown
Onmyouji (OKANO Reiko)

Onmyouji (OKANO Reiko)

Status: Completed
The manga and the movies of the same name are both based on the Onmyouji novels by well known Japanese science fiction writer Yumemakura Baku.
All three concern the adventures of Abe no Seimei, an onmyouji (magician) serving the imperial court during t... Show more
Crazy Kouzo BC

Crazy Kouzo BC

Status: Completed
Consists of a compilation of side stories

Indian Summer:
When they were little, three friends, Kaya, Takashi and Hiroshi spent time with each other before fate separated them. Now two years later, they meet each other once again during one su... Show more
Boyfriend (SOURYO Fuyumi)

Boyfriend (SOURYO Fuyumi)

Status: Completed
From Storm in Heaven:
Takatou Masaki is the second youngest of four sons, and seemingly a delinquent by nature. His hot temper has put a wedge between himself and his strict father, gotten him kicked out of one school, and tossed him at a school notori... Show more
Yaoh

Yaoh

Status: Completed
About ex-gangster who enters the world of hosts and the story depicts his journey to be number one in the club.
Hibari Chou 1 Choume no Jijou

Hibari Chou 1 Choume no Jijou

Status: Completed
From vnsharring:

Cheena is a bright girl who works for a living at Hibari Chou, one of the richest towns in Japan. Her mother passed away from an illness and now she lives alone with her father with a huge debt from his business failure. Cheena is... Show more
Aozora Pop

Aozora Pop

Status: Completed
Kazuki Orika, a 15-year-old girl, aspires to become a model like her beautiful mother, who passed away. Without the knowledge or consent of her father, Orika enters an amateur model competition, only to reunite with her childhood friend, Miyazaki Kanata, t... Show more
Yomawari Sensei

Yomawari Sensei

Status: Completed
The author, a high-school teacher, recounts his 12 years on "night patrol" in Yokohama City, where he comes face to face with youth dealing with issues ranging from self-mutilation to drug abuse.
Meikyuu Hyakunen no Suima

Meikyuu Hyakunen no Suima

Status: Completed
Michiru visits the land where her dead lover, Akira, had previously visited; a fortress on a solitary island. The queen that she meets there resembles someone she knows very well.
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Adaptation of the novel. Nov... Show more
June

June

Status: Ongoing
From NetComics:

Commonly acknowledged as a genius biologist, Dr. Gangjae Lee has a conceited and blunt personality that tends to push people away. But that doesn't bother him since he is a happy husband who has been married for 7 years to Jaehee, ... Show more
Portus

Portus

Status: Completed
17-year-old high school student Asami Kawakami's friend, Chiharu, has stopped answering her phone and never comes to school anymore. She would rather spend her time playing Portus, an old videogame. There is an urban legend that there is a secret level whe... Show more