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Shoujo manga magazines typically feature stories with female leads: the character whose perspective and inner thoughts primarily narrate the story to the audience.

The manga collected in this stack are original works serialized in these same shoujo magazines, but instead feature a male leading character. Story plots can fall into any genre and vary widely, including Romance, Adventure, Horror, or Comedy.

Please note Boys Love (BL) stories and male casts with heavy BL subtext are excluded from this stack. Manga serialized in josei magazines are also excluded as there are specific publications which have a higher tendency to feature only male characters.

Manga collected in this stack have stories which focus on the struggles of maintaining, repairing, or building family bonds. These relationships should be between the main characters and must be non-romantic in nature.

Series which focus primarily on taking care of infants to pre-teen children will not be included in this stack; please use the Childcare theme to find these stories. However, if the childcare component is only one relationship of multiple in the family, then these manga will also be added here.

These manga focus on caring for children above the age of ten, as well as the relationships between older children or teenagers and their parental figures.

This is a list of all the Shojo and Josei manga licensed by eManga (Digital Manga Publishing) that I could find. However, they have an extremely large BL and GL selection that I didn't look through entirely, so if that is of interest, they are marked as specific sections on their website and have their own imprints (June and Lilyka which merged with eManga). DMP/eManga has been around a long time and many of these titles are Out of Print.

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/56786

Some titles without MAL database entries:
- Marin by Miyoko Satomi (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/5n4d52s/marin)
- Wild Knight: Knight of The Seal (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/znygacw/fuuin-no-kishi)
- Your Gentle Hand (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/u8lvcq5/kimi-no-yasashii-te)
- Don't Tell My Husband (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/i7ezcc4/hakoiri-oku-sama)
- Ai Ribbon (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/65vly38/ai-ribbon)
- A Spiritual Boy (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/4ero6gu/spiritual-danshi)
- Mizuki (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/e0l7w3d/mizuki)
- Morality Of Love by Rin Kotoki (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/hkeuu60/renal-moral)
- Please Make Me Your Pet! by Hachi Mitsumura (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/6v06puz/onegai-watashi-wo-petto-ni-shitekudasai)

*Brave 10 is a Saiyuki situation where part was published as seinen while the other part was published as Josei.

I tried to compile an extensive list of the English Licensed Shojo and Josei manga titles where romance is a sub-plot at best, if present at all (many of these don't have any romance present).

Part 1-dark/horror/thriller: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/my
Part 2-Fantasy/Supernatural: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/57092
Part 3-Sci-fi/Historical/Mystery: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/57098
Part 5-Character dramas/Modern Real-life Japan: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/57100

Wings manga magazine titles had a large influx of english licenses in the early 2000s, but these days only 7 titles have all volumes available for purchase without having to buy second-hand:

- Pairazahda by Ryou Azumi (digital only)(no MAL entry for the title, but here's its MangaUpdates: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/yrzhtz5/pairazada)

- Earthian by Yun Koga (digital only, physically OOP)

- Diamond Century by Tachibana Mizuki and Sakura Rinko (digital only)

- RG Veda by CLAMP (digital only, physically OOP)

- Tokyo Babylon by CLAMP (physical and digital)

- Mermaid Prince by Kaori Ozaki (physical and digital)

- Kase-san and... by Takashima Hiromi (physically and digitally)

- Kase-san and Yamada by Takashima Hiromi (physically and digitally) (continuation of the Kase-san and... series)

manga that explores gender identity in various ways ft. unsurprisingly a lot of queer, trans, nb characters! (maybe not always elegantly but exploration is exploration!)