True Beauty
Girl beats bullies by hiding "ugly" face with makeup.... But now no one recognizes her, and she wants to keep it that way, but how long can she actually? (Never have I rooted for a second male lead more OMG)
This is hugely popular – there's a drama adaptation and everything – YMMV, I find it depressing AF
ContemporaryHigh schoolMakeover
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Night Owls & Summer Skies
Girl meets girl in cute rich kid summer camp drama where the main characters struggle through the hardest parts of life together in a fun and very prettily drawn way.
ContemporaryWLW
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Long After The Ending
Cute fantasy location where isekaied FL tries to rewrite her fate in the original novel by opening a romance counseling business and ends up entangled with the second male lead.
Isekai
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I Will Seduce The Northern Duke
Asshole duke finds a modern actress who fell through some kind of dimension hole into his world where someone is plotting against him. She is now enlisted to help find out who is behind said fuckery by pretending to be his mistress.
I might say "aloof" rather than asshole... This one is fun – you don't normally get an isekai leaning into the protagonist's old life's skill set. She has to use all her acting ability to discover who was responsible for the death of the duke's former fiancee. Lots of social status jockeying, etc.
IsekaiCelebrityRevengeMysteryHehe
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Freaking Romance
Highly recommend. Girl moves into an apartment where there is a interdimensional rift that lets her see into a parallel universe where the person living in her new apartment is a total hottie. Turns out they can both see each other and form a friendship... And possibly more.
The art in this one is really interesting – strong stylization, especially in the coloring styles, but also inconsistent across the assistants, especially with the inking?
Contemporary
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For My Lost Love
She enters the world of her favorite novel and resolves to save the life of her bias. Said bias is the second male lead who lost out on the true heroine's love – but our character refuses to let him meet his original fate. I like this one because the awkward fannish dynamic is unusual, but not emphasized so hard that one feels embarrassed for her. Art is good, translations variable.
IsekaiHeheHeroine is the real villainPower struggle
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Act Like You Love Me!
Love triangle modern Korean drama type where poor girl receives cursed doll from old man that controls a celebrity actor who is grumpy but secretly sweet.
Second male lead here far superior to main lead. 😔
ContemporaryLove triangleCelebrity
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The Princess Doesn't Want To Marry Her Ideal Type
She doesn't want to get married because she's busy – a career in some combination of detectiving and – er – royal guarding? Terribly elite. So she makes up a description of the only kind of man she could possibly want to marry, so her doting parents will leave her alone about it, except – he's found? But... no one would honestly live up to that ridiculously specific description, so what's going on?
I can't say I manage to keep track of the side characters most of the time but it's cute enough. Easy to confuse with How To Prey On The Master.
Swordswoman
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I Will Live This Life As A Supporting Character
Fantasy academy, high-schoolish? She is going to live a quiet life since she knows herself to be a supporting character, but... Actually, it does seem a bit slice-of-lifey and quiet, other than her being the center of a star-like love diagram.
Reverse harem is the only kindIsekai
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Inso's Law
This is a super popular one! It's based on a web novel where...
our protagonist wakes up and her world has changed.
She figures out that she is in a web novel, of which her neighbor is the FL.
She tries to be strategic about it – but her neighbor is under the impression they've been best friends for years...
Then there are the group of four extremely cool guys who constitute the genre staple. Surely it's best to avoid them, right?
I went and read the novel since it extends beyond where the manhwa has gotten to, and I sort of regret it; my favored endgame wasn't in the cards and I'm only reading the rest of the comic out of habit, I guess. That said, there's a peculiar quality to it that's really refreshing: tonally it's sort of like A Softer World was mashed into a standard romance of this type?
ContemporaryHigh schoolTrope CityLove triangleIsekai
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The Time When We Were Young
The FL, a respectable literary figure, wrote an embarrassing web novel when
she was young. Now she keeps being thrown back into it... Not even sure this has a romance in it?
ContemporaryHigh schoolIsekaiTrope CityHehe
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The Way to Protect the Female Lead’s Older Brother
This one is really popular probably because of the art: inexpressive, but intricate. Our FL is in the wow-so-dark-and-edgy family of some of the prominent villains of an R-19 novel, and owing to some trauma they inflicted on her, she's trying to not let the novel plot go forward. This means saving a prisoner they'd taken. Don't be weirded out by the young look of the ML at first, there's a time skip pretty early so they are clearly pushing the art to contrast that. Feel free to be weirded out by anything else. I read ahead in the web novel and... sure, I guess?
Wow so edgyPower struggleIsekai
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The Remarried Empress
This is one of The Big Ones. If you keep seeing commenters referring to "Trashta", this is where that's from. Our FL was prepared to be the empress from a very young age – but now the emperor has gotten his mistress pregnant and her position becomes more and more marginal... Meanwhile, the visiting emperor of another empire... you get it. Anyway, cool that the protagonist's personality is poised and mature relative to the genre norm.
The art is fairly beloved, though I will note that
- ML's face is somewhat weird, and
- There is a curl brush they use for Rashta's hair that Once You See, You Cannot Unsee.
Power struggleLove triangle
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The Princess Imprints a Traitor
Can I tell you this is actually a work of great literary quality? No. But the worldbuilding is genuinely cool. Our FL is one of many children of the emperor, caught up in a fight for survival. The empire has an enslaved population of "homunculi", and in her previous life, she refused in protest to take one as her personal knight – but this time around, she knows whose power will awaken as the "King of Homunculi"...
ReturnerWill to liveBodyguardPower struggle
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Red Flavored Romance
Look, the treatment of weight in this isn't what the Maintenance Phase podcasts might ideally have it be – but it is still pretty cool to see an explicitly bigger female protagonist portrayed respectfully. She's trying to get famous with her mukbang channel to find her mom; her doctor says she has to lose weight... and through some hijinks she discovers that if her secretly-a-vampire classmate drinks her blood, that helps with the weight loss. There are other supernatural things going on, too... It's cute! It's funny! I'm sad not to have seen an update in a long time!
VampireContemporaryHigh school
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My Second Husband
FL discovers her actor husband is cheating on her before she dies in an accident... and returns to her college days, just before her first date with him. She resolves not to get involved! Instead, it seems like her childhood friend might be interested – but as that relationship develops, some threatening things keep happening, and there's more than meets the eye... Enjoyably self-serious.
Love triangleContemporaryUniversityReturner
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My Ex-Boyfriends Fell In Love With Me
This one gets a little back-and-forth-y but the art's solid and if you like a love triangle you'll like this (though I'll note that they aren't even slightly subtle about the endgame).
ContemporaryLove triangleOffice life
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How to Be a Dark Hero’s Daughter
Our protagonist has woken up in a child's body in a mystery thriller novel. She encounters and rescues the novel's main character, a Dexter "I serially kill serial killers" type – and he adopts her. Fun mystery investigations ensue. Signs point to her growing up within the plot eventually.
Child protagonistMysteryIsekaiHehe
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Marriage of Convenience
She returns and tries to unchoose her own selfish past behavior; interesting to have an FL reckoning with guilt.
ReturnerPenance
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It Looks Like I’ve Fallen into the World of a Reverse Harem Game
FL tries to untangle the literal sex slavery that the villainess whose body she'd
woken up in had committed... and survive while the game's real heroine tries to
meet her own ends.
Heroine is the real villainIsekaiVideogamePenanceWill to live
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I Want To Become The Emperor, So I Need A Divorce
Has to trick terrible husband into divorce so he won't assume her title on the death of her brothers. The terrible husband's mistress is particularly stereotypically flat, not assuming even a Trashta's worth of psychological interest. Something's odd about the art for the male faces, but the rest is fine.
RevengeReturner
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A Whirlwind Campus Romance
Baram dropped out after her affair with a prof she didn't know was married.
Now she's back and being harassed in the name of the dead man... Art students,
drama, a golden retriever...
ContemporaryUniversityLove triangleHehe
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