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Shoujo and josei manga that have victorian/gothic or historical themes, aristocrats or other noble characters.

Manga made by the group CLAMP that's found on Helmet libraries in Finland. There are both finnish and english ones listed.

CLAMP mangaryhmän tekemää mangaa joka on Suomen Helmet kirjastojen järjestelmässä. Listattuna mangaa niin suomeksi kuin englanniksi.

if u wanna understand the avengenders endgame of shoujo that is tsubasa chronicle or wanna just be a collector or both or whatever

The art nouveau movement features an elegant aesthetic that I wish was in more media.

Here is a list of manga that seem to evoke some visual influences of the art movement, whether solely the covers, occasional appearances in the actual manga, or even if the author is known to be a fan. Probably not a definitive list.

Major thanks to https://occidental-influence-manga.tumblr.com/ btw holy crap

I only included the ones with confirmed relationships. Ship bait and other such implications(Devils and Realist) or when it's only played for comedy(Kaguyahime) don't count.

Note: arranged in the order of release.

Work in progress!

Not found on MAL: Wedding Bells Are Ringing(1998), Watashi ga Motete Dousunda SPIN-OFF(2018), Mirai to Kare to Papa Jijou(2021).

DISCLAIMER: not every title on this list is trying to be a "good and realistic representation". But I believe even "problematic" depictions are worthy of note. You've been warned.

List of manga with non-binary characters(aka X-gender in Japan): protagonists, main characters and side characters. I tried to include only the confirmed ones.

Note: arranged in the order of release. Some of the titles are NSFW.

Work in progress!

Not found on MAL: Watashi no Kanojo wa Otoko no Ko(2018), Alien Idol(2018), Douruanki(2019).

Mangas from different genres and demographies that will most likely leave a mark on you. Rich stories with strong characters and themes, sometimes uplifting, sometimes tragic, but stories worth telling. Beware of the TWs, lots of the mangas presented here contain delicate subjects

More non-binary characters in manga

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/28860

If you want to know about the CLAMP animes check this: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39651

From Buddhism, Christian sutras, etc. to stories about emerging religious groups. Works in which some kind of fictitious religion appears are also included.

In addition to the main theme ones, it also includes those in which the main protagonist is a monk and sub-themes.

Transgender (binary trans, non-binary, and/or intersex) manga with official English (at least partial) translations. Organized roughly by release order in Japan.

(My definition of a trans manga is one that has a main trans character. Them being transgender may or may not be a big impact on the story.)


Not on MAL:

"Onna" toshite Idakaretai... Seitenkan Shite, Hatsukoi wo Mou Ichido./Hold Me, Baby, As a Lady... -First Love Again in the Body of a Woman.
Sanae Takahashi (trans woman) (protagonist)
Machiko (trans woman) (supporting)

Kamisama, Boku wo Koroshite Kudasai - Otoko no Karada de Umareta Jigoku/The Pain of Living in a Male Body
Subaru Kawase (trans girl) (protagonist)

Queer Manga published by Tokyopop.


side note: Cardcaptor Sakura is now published through Kodansha.

Just a list of Shojo and Josei manga that began publishing before 1990 that have been officially published in english, although some are Out of Print or from defunct digital publishers and thus are no longer legally available.

I can't seem to add this one, but Sign wa V!/The V Sign! (1969) was officially published as well (https://myanimelist.net/manga/125803/Sign_wa_V)

This one isn't in the MyAnimeList database, but Pairazahda/Pairazada (1984) is legally published and available digitally in english (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07757Y1X9?ref_=dbs_m_cmx_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks)

(database entry: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/yrzhtz5/pairazada)

Some Pre-1990s Shojo stories without database entries from Moto Hagio were published in the English Anthology "A Drunken Dream and Other Stories". These include Angel Mimic/Tenshi no Gitai (1984), Autumn Journey/Aki no Tabi (1971), and Girl on Porch with Puppy/Pochi de Shōjo ga Koinu to (1971). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Drunken_Dream_and_Other_Stories)

Himitsu no Akko-chan was published in Japan in a Bilingual English edition intended to be an english-learning aide to japanese people.

The Shojo stories Plus 1 (1986) and Purple (1985) from Ciao magazine were published in english in Animerica Extra's Short Program Volume 1 Anthology which was later released in its own collected volume in the US (https://myanimelist.net/manga/1443/Short_Program).

best rated shoujo according to mal
all series are labelled from the original
all have to be readily available to read in English
they are in order of rating
I have not read them all so this is unbiased
i do plan to read all of them though
as of 15.11.24
this is 51-100
attack on titan is not a mistake look it up as to why

This is a list of all the Shojo and Josei manga Dark Horse Comics has ever published. Notably, certain titles have seen their licenses change hands before or after publication, so titles like Card Captor Sakura will have been both published by Dark Horse, even while previously being published by Tokyopop and then currently by Kodansha USA. It's a bit difficult to find the older licensed titles from the 2000s due to how long ago it was and the iffy UI of the Dark Horse website/poor archive ability of it, but I've done my best.