Best Girls Love Manga of 2021

One day, while rushing to a piano lesson, a girl named Saki collides with someone on the street. As Saki collects herself, the stranger picks up the sheet music Saki dropped, hands it to Saki together with a band-aid, and continues on her way—all without saying a word. Saki is left wondering about the identity of the tall, lovely stranger, only to discover the next day that she is one of her classmates at her new high school. The girl's name is Kanon, and though she is hearing impaired, she refuses any kind of support or "special treatment" from her teachers or classmates. Over the course of the year, Saki slowly grows closer to Kanon and begins to chip away at her cold exterior.

Yuki Nomoto, although a complete amateur, enjoys cooking more than anything. The young office worker has big ambitions for the dishes she wants to create, but there is a recurring problem: she has no one to share her cooking with. Much like an artistic masterpiece that never sees the light of day, Nomoto feels her efforts are wasted and her options limited if she only cooks for herself. By a stroke of luck, Nomoto bumps into Totoko Kasuga, her neighbor two doors down, who is carrying a feast of fast food to consume all by herself. Kasuga may be intimidating at first glance, but her love for food in large quantities is exactly what Nomoto needs to push her culinary skills to the next level. With each meal Nomoto prepares for Kasuga, the two women slowly begin to open up their lives and hearts to one another.

Ordinary office worker Rei Oohashi wakes up in the body of the protagonist of her favorite otome game, Revolution. To her delight, the first person to greet her is also her favorite character, Claire Francois—the main antagonist of the story! Now, Rei is determined to romance Claire instead of the game's male leads. But how will her villainous ladylove react to this new courtship?!

Manga editor Asako Suga decides moving into a new home is just the thing she needs to get over a painful breakup with her toxic ex-girlfriend. She finds the perfect place for rent—affordable, spacious, lovely garden included—but there's one catch. The house comes with a live-in landlord! It's disappointing enough that Asako can't have the single life she hoped for, but her cute landlord also seems to be hiding a big secret...Will living together bring them closer, or turn out to be more trouble than it's worth?

Ririka Kaguhara is a plain, friendless, and often overlooked first-year girl in high school. However, she has one hobby in particular that she can never tell a soul about; that being her dedication to her fetish and recording her observations of how it manifests itself in all sorts of unique ways amongst her classmates.

Riri is a transfer student with a unique fascination—she wants the school delinquent, Atsuko, to say adorable things! Despite her fearful reputation, Atsuko goes along with it, thinking Riri is just a harmless weirdo. However, she soon finds herself getting increasingly flustered every time she reads one of Riri's lists of cute words. And she's not the only one whose heart races after each interaction! Will this game bring them closer together and lead to an entirely new relationship?

Okiku, an evil spirit that terrorized many during the Edo era, has been reborn after 360 years. Modern exorcists are helpless against its power, so they tried to negotiate. "You can have anything you want, if you will spare the lives of the common people." "In that case, I will take that pretty girl over there!" An occult yuri comedy between a beautiful girl exorcist and a slightly naughty evil spirit!

Naori Shida is a college student who loves making alcoholic drinks but has no friends to share them with. At a mixer, she meets Hinata Ibuki, who she ends up taking home with her. After making her a drink, Naori discovers that Hinata is an ogre-girl descended from Shuten-doji who needs alcohol to live, can only drink alcohol offered to her by humans, and grows horns whenever she drinks. Thus, Hinata decides to make Naori her personal bartender.

The final diary written with you. On the day they entered university, Haruki and Sakura had a fateful encounter in the classroom. Charmed by each other, they lived together after graduation, but their separation came suddenly. Sakura had disappeared from the world. Since then it's been five years, five cherry blossom seasons. Still brokenhearted, Haruki happens to find a diary. It was the yet-unfinished ten-year diary that Sakura had been keeping.

Yuna Momose and Rinka Aiba were made for each other, and their whole school knows it. Between Yuna's princess-like elegance and Rinka's prince-like charm, all their classmates see them as the ideal couple. Yotsuba Hazama is no exception to that, but she is exceptional in another way: she's somehow managed to become fast friends with both of them! Having the whole school's favorite ship as her two best friends isn't exactly easy, though. Not only does it make everyone treat Yotsuba like a particularly obnoxious third wheel, it makes her feel like one too! Or at least it does, until one day, Yuna asks her out. And then Rinka asks her out too! And Yotsuba, whose social anxiety never seems to kick in until after she's already messed something up...says yes to both of them, without sparing so much as a single thought for the consequences. Oops! Now Yotsuba only has one choice: keep her accidental two-timing under wraps and make both of her new girlfriends as happy as she possibly can!

Only I remember that there were three entrance ceremonies this year. Only I remember the unchosen days. The world, repeating "todays" like a broken record... "My name is Michiru Inaba. Nice to meet you." A story about her, who befriended me the following day as well. About my first human relationship, about the gradually shrinking distance between us, and my quietly changing feelings... A slightly strange story about a friendless, loveless me, and her, and our clumsy feelings.