Best Girls Love Manga of 2023

The black-clad boy that Aya Oosawa likes is perfect: he is effortlessly nonchalant, has a sharp sense of style, and listens to the best music. Ever since the trendy Aya stumbled upon a small CD store to enjoy the rock classics her friends are not familiar with, the mysterious employee behind the counter has been on her mind. Meanwhile, the quiet and aloof Mitsuki Koga listens to her popular classmate Aya rave about her crush, tormented by a nagging thought: how to tell Aya that the guy she is interested in is not a guy at all! In reality, when Mitsuki sheds her plain high school uniform, she is the one manning the counter at her uncle Joe's CD shop. She wrestles with how to reveal her identity, but flirting with the stunning and clueless Aya is just too tempting. As music becomes their shared passion, it seems that Aya's feelings will remain unchanged—even when Mitsuki's secret comes to light.

One fateful day, Koharu is saved from an untimely end and reborn as a Cupid. Her mission: bring love to humans and earn a second chance at life. But modern problems call for modern solutions, and the Cupids of today have traded in their outdated bows and arrows for high-velocity firearms! Koharu's happy to dutifully help others find love, but her eccentric mentors don't play by the book and will happily turn an argument over a love triangle into a battlefield of tactical matchmaking action!!

Kurumi Yoshizawa is the student council president, with excellent grades and good manners... but in reality, she is spending her days struggling with the constraints of her mother and the excessive expectations of her teachers. One day, Yoshizawa is asked by her homeroom teacher to look after her absentee classmate Naoi, but Naoi could only look down on Yoshizawa as if she had been able to see through her heart. On the verge of breaking down from stress, Yoshizawa just barely suppresses the sudden urge to shoplift, but Naoi records the whole thing... This is a violent coming-of-age story about two people struggling in everyday life with no escape.

Takamine, a girl who can't seem to find something she likes or even really enjoys, has a chance encounter with Sakura, a student from a different school. When the two accidentally swap books, a connection is made that neither expected. While Sakura enjoys reading and talking about books, Takamine finds she quite likes Sakura's excitement and wonders if she'll ever feel so passionate about something...or someone. A sweet, slow burn romance about two young women and the relationship that blossoms between them.

Eri is the childhood friend we always spent time with. Someday I won't love her as a friend, but I'll never tell her that. Because I want to always be there for her...

"What if we became friends with benefits...?" Suuna, a gloomy high school student, leaves home to live in a dorm. But when she nervously enters her room, she finds her roommate, Ruka, feeling up another girl! She finds out Ruka needs a "friend with benefits," so Suuna takes charge and proposes they form a "(semi) friends with benefits" contract...? *Note: Originally a three-chapter limited run, it was picked up for full serialization starting 2023-05-09.*

The story is about couple Wakana Morinaga and Yuina Minami, who appeared as side-characters in the main series, while they attend college.

This story focuses on Ayaka and Sora after graduation.

Once a week, Miyagi pays 5,000 yen to her classmate Sendai. The 5,000 yen is to buy three hours of Sendai's time, which gives the right for Miyagi to give her orders. Miyagi is at the bottom of the school caste while Sendai is at the top. The two, who never crossed paths at school, spend time together after school under such a contract. Miyagi's orders are determined by her mood of the day, and Sendai cannot disobey. One day after school, Miyagi calls Sendai to her room and gives her an order that she usually does not give.

Koto, Aya, and Erika were secretly in love with each other. Koto revealed her feelings for Aya, but a short while later, Aya disappeared as if she had been spirited away. Seven years later, Aya reappears to Koto and Erika, just as she was then...

After the Great Human-Demon War comes to a close, humans use a magical device known as the Gear to found the Hero Institute, a school for raising a new kind of hero. Ruchika, a wild and reckless demon girl, travels to the city in the hopes of joining the institute. There she meets Leonie, the serious- minded daughter of the Almighty Hero who defeated the Demon Lord. Taking a liking to her immediately, Ruchika proposes-right in the middle of their entrance exam! Do these two girls have what it takes to become heroes? And can love bloom between a human and a demon?

I met her on the second floor of the gymnasium and thought she was beautiful. At the same time, I thought she was three times more delinquent than I was. When I first heard her name, I pictured it in hiragana. I think that softened my impression of her. From sharing a ping-pong table to sharing an apartment. From high school girls to office ladies. From skipping classes together to being together as lovers. All of their times together, from now until forever. This is a collection of newly written short stories, including "And......," which describes the day when they met with Adachi's mother just before they moved in together.

Ayu, a loner college student, meets the sweet and easygoing Riri in the campus cafeteria. When Riri invites her over, Ayu happily follows - only to be taught a relation between "usual friends" is more intimate than she's assumed.