Nazo no Kanojo X
Mysterious Girlfriend X

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FEMME FATALE
Psycho, controlling, badass and smart women vs. confused young naive boy

Shuuzou Oshimi works, Tatsuki Fujimoto works, dark romances, some comedies and so on.



In other works:
-Ichise x Eriko Kaneda (Texhnolyze)

Only manga with kanojo in the title...(I cheated on some of them)

Denpa, drug abuse, psychological abuse, schizophrenia, depression, loneliness, anxiety, suicidal, manipulative characters, all kinds of mental issues and problems. You find them here
can consist a little bit of romance, horror, mystery, and thriller

ASANO INIO, OSHIMI SHUUZUO, SUGARU MIAKI...
Excluded, if you don't know them, go read them ffs why are you even here
focusing on "non-mainstream" mangas or mangakas

btw loving a depressed mc doesn't make you one

This is a collection of wholesome romances that don't give you the depressing ending of a character romantically unresolved - you know what you're getting into and what characters will pair up (no nisekoi/oregairu/school days bs). Softcore NTR FREE!!

Please let me know if I need to make any changes to the list - I read most of these manga and can vouch for their straightforward love stories. If you don't think a certain manga should be on the list feel free to send me a message.

Here is a list of mangas that should appeal to old farts like me, who are too old to find fun in shonen characters getting stronger, cliché fantasy or in vanilla school romance tropes.
The main drive is that the manga should have some personality, with decent and properly written characters, laid-back humor, an interesting context and / or a subtle story. Good art and page layout are also appreciated. No violence porn or excessive fan service either, I like authors to focus on something else than these simple devices, although I'm not against them at very small doses when they serve the story. The manga may have been adapted in anime or not, I only address the mangas here.
There are probably some spoilers in my comments so skip them if you're worried about that.
EDIT : Since I reached the MAL 50 limit, I'm going to create a Take 2 of this Interest Stack. Check it out if you liked this one.

Huh? Oh yeah haha I read manga sometimes... what no nothing weird haha just normal stuff wait no don't click tha-

Romances that will make you have diabetes! high amounts of sugar in these mangas. Cute moments, love, drama and a bit of comedy. If you want to relax and read titles with romance and couples in love, we have a list that will sugaren your day, enjoy responsibly

I remember reading a transcript of a conversation between Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hideaki Anno in which one of them said something along the lines of "the heart of manga is fetishism". I don't remember which, but the other agreed, and they were right.

Manga series with covers that feature recurring design and composition elements, consistent art styles, gradual changes that show intent and overall harmony of the entire collection. I'm open to suggestions, I try not to add too many “standing character” situations, but will do so if the art is striking enough.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/51319
Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54221
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/59082
Part 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/59870
Part 6: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/61371
Part 7: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/62115

For the badge-based item entries in the yearly Manga Reading Challenge. As there is an entire decade's worth of MRC events with a myriad of badges provided by various talented artists, this will be a multipart stack. All series are marked with their respective first badge year.

MRC 2016 badges: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1469512&msgid=44079996
MRC 2017 badges: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1582478&msgid=49234445

Stack series Pt 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/63302
Stack series Pt 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/63350
Stack series Pt 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/63351
Stack series Pt 5: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/63388
Stack series Pt 6: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/63459
Series stack Pt 7: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/63460
Series stack Pt 8: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/63501
Series stack Pt 9: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/63502
Series stack part 10: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/63504

Somewhat long series that are still short enough so that you could binge read the whole series over the weekend. Some go a few chapters over the 100 mark which is why the "ish" part is there.

Monthly Afternoon (月刊アフタヌーン, Gekkan Afutanūn) is a Japanese monthly seinen manga anthology published by Kodansha under the Afternoon line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of January 25, 1986. Afternoon has spawned many successful manga series such as Oh My Goddess!, Genshiken, Blade of the Immortal and Big Windup!. It is part of Kodansha's "1day" series, which also includes the magazines Morning and Evening. A spin-off magazine, named good! Afternoon, started publishing on November 7, 2008. (Source: Wikipedia)

I base my list simply on the manga listed on MyAnimeList (https://myanimelist.net/manga/magazine/4/Afternoon).

Those I haven't had yet and which have a good chance of moving up in the rankings: EDEN: It's an Endless World, Historie, Endou Hiroki Tanpenshuu, Neko ga Nishi Mukya, Ookiku Furikabutte, Vendemiaire no Tsubasa and Sister Generator