At least one character has a romantic interest in another one, but the feelings are not returned.
This is the cornerstone of all love triangles or love polygons.
Top 18 Unrequited Love Manga to read
- 1. Positively Yours
- 2. Kieta Hatsukoi
- 3. Here U Are
- 4. Deoreoun Yongmang
- 5. Tsuka no Ma no Ichika
- 6. Namsachin-ui Beobchig
- 7. Ore wo Suki na no wa Omae dake ka yo
- 8. Itsuwari no Freja
- 9. Oshiego-kun to wa Dekimasen
- 10. Sheets no Sukima
- 11. The World Where I Belong
- 12. Other Than My Friend's Sister, Something Else
- 13. Prince Cinderella
- 14. Boku ga Otto ni Deau made
- 15. Ayaka-chan wa Hiroko Senpai ni Koishiteru
- 16. Unmei wo Shinjinai Kare ga Iu ni wa
- 17. Golden Days
- 18. Gajang Gipeun Gobaek
1. Positively Yours
To Hee-won’s dismay, the BFF she crushed on and her other BFF are now dating! Seriously bummed, Hee-won decides to go wild just one time, and find solace with a handsome stranger. A very satisfying one night affair has now turned into more — she’s pregnant! Fate brings them together again, and now the regimented Doo-joon is determined to do the right thing and marry her. But they’re basically strangers! Except... their bodies have been very intimately acquainted. What’s this mother-to-be to do?
Positively Yours is finished and has null Volumes and 82 Chapters. It is also Known as: I have a baby
2. Kieta Hatsukoi
“Aoki... I didn’t know you thought about me that way...”
Aoki has a crush on Hashimoto-san who sits next to him. However, when he borrowed her eraser, he discovered the name of his classmate, Ida, written on it... . Moreover, Ida saw him using the eraser... Don’t tell me he misunderstood?! It’s a little silly, but so begins the story of them working their hardest for their first love.
My Love Mix-Up! is finished and has 9 Volumes and 36 Chapters. It is also Known as: 消えた初恋, Kieta Hatsu Koi, Vanishing My First Love, Faded First Love
3. Here U Are
Receiving the newcomers is a task for Yu Yang, and he ends up helping the unsociable and towering Li Huan, the kind of person that does everything to be disliked. But after better knowing each other, he discovers that the giant isn't that bad of a person at all...
Note: Includes 20 extra chapters.
Here U Are is finished and has null Volumes and 157 Chapters. It is also Known as: You are here, You're here
4. Deoreoun Yongmang
Seong-Yul has a crush on Seung-Won, his friend's older brother whom he has known since childhood. There is an unbridgeable gap between him, an Alpha, and himself, a Beta, due to their age difference and family differences. Seong-Yul, who suddenly developed an omega and was fired from his job, and now needs a lot of money, gives up on Seung-Won when he hears that he is getting married and enters the establishment with a feeling of despair. However, he is scared by the strong alpha pheromones and the attitude of treating people like objects and tries to leave...
"Did you think it was better to give a hole to another kid than to burden me?"
Seung-Won, who came as his first customer, caught him being an omega and trying to sell his body.
Note: Include one side story chapter.
Deoreoun Yongmang is finished and has null Volumes and 11 Chapters. It is also Known as: Dirty Desire, Désirs Impurs
5. Tsuka no Ma no Ichika
Ichika Sendawara has now lived beyond the predicted amount of time the doctor had given her left to live. Now, she currently spends her days going to university while carrying the uncertainty of her death.
One day, as she is filled with the hopelessness and emptiness from a future that she can't see, a person happened to catch her eye and they are none other than Akifumi Yurugi, her philosophy lecturer who had suddenly quit his job. Now that she is reunited again with the lecturer that she is deeply in love with, she has found a new reason to continue living but...
Tsuka no Ma no Ichika is finished and has 2 Volumes and 29 Chapters. It is also Known as: 束の間の一花, Tsukanoma no Ichika
6. Namsachin-ui Beobchig
Jay is a guy that wanted to talk with his friend about their secret crushes, When Jay was about to confess who he has a crush on, his friend Jiwoon, who’s crush is actually towards Jay, was hopefull that Jay was going to confess his feelings towards her. But she felt shocked when she learned that actually Jay’s crush was someone else, after that, Jay asked her about her crush, Jiwoon tried to avoid the question and gave him a vague description which caused a misunderstanding that his crush was actually towards Jay’s friend Seohyun. She and Jay are just good friends without anything romantic going on between them, The way Jay interacts with her is just in a friendly manner and tries to help her to get her “crush”….Let the romantic drama begin at school!
Namsachin-ui Beobchig is finished and has null Volumes and 75 Chapters. It is also Known as: Boy-Friend's Rule, 男闺蜜准则, The Law of Being Friends With a Male
7. Ore wo Suki na no wa Omae dake ka yo
Amatsuyu Kirasagi is invited out alone by the cool beauty upperclassman Cosmos and his childhood friend Himawari. Expecting to hear their confessions, he triumphantly goes to meet each of them in turn. But Cosmos and Himawari both instead confess to Amatsuyu that they like his friend. Amatsuyu fights this lonely battle, but there is another girl who is looking at him. She is a gloomy girl with glasses and braids. Amatsuyu finds that he hates her, because she's always turning her sharp tongue only on him and finding enjoyment in his troubles. But it turns out that she's the only one who actually does like him.
ORESUKI: Are you the only one who loves me? is finished and has 6 Volumes and 42 Chapters. It is also Known as: 俺を好きなのはお前だけかよ, Ore o Suki na no wa Omae dake ka yo , Ore o Suki Nano wa Omae Dake ka yo , Ore wo Suki na no wa Omae dake ka yo , Orewo Sukinanoha Omaedake kayo
8. Itsuwari no Freja
Freya thinks of herself as a simple village girl, but her idyllic life is shattered when she is caught up in the aftermath of a treacherous Sigurdian plot. She bears a striking resemblance to her country’s beloved Prince Edvard, who lays dying from poison.
Without its ruler, all of Tyr will quickly be engulfed by Sigurdian violence. Now Freya must take Prince Edvard’s place and lead his valiant knights in defending the realm!
Prince Freya is currently publishing . It is also Known as: 偽りのフレイヤ, Artificial Freja
9. Oshiego-kun to wa Dekimasen
After a night of drinking and lamenting over her love life, Hinata is surprised by a knock on her door. But even more surprising is the handsome man on the other side! Except there's one problem: he's her former student from years ago. Shintarou has always loved Hinata and spent years proposing and expressing his love for his sensei even though she was 17 years older. Hinata did her best to spare his feelings and told him she'd only marry him once he was 18 and an adult. Sure enough, that time has come. But can Hinata really get mixed up with one of her former students?
I Can't Date My Student... Can I? is currently publishing . It is also Known as: 教え子くんとはデキません, My Student Grew Huge and Proposed to Me, Dekkaku Natta Seito ni Kyuukon Sareru Hanashi, でっかくなった生徒に求婚される話, I Can't Do That With My Former Student, A Story About Getting Proposed To By My Student Who Grew Huge
10. Sheets no Sukima
Between the Sheets features the unusual friendship from the nearly inseparable Saki and Minako. Minako carries a fervent torch for the other girl - a passion of which Saki is initially ignorant. But when Minako sleeps with Saki's boyfriend Ken , the true nature of Minako's obsession begins to reveal itself ... provoking an understandably strong reaction from Saki.
Between the Sheets is finished and has 1 Volumes and 6 Chapters. It is also Known as: シーツの隙間, Sheets no Sukima
11. The World Where I Belong
A high school student's attempt to end his life is interrupted by a strange girl with even stranger powers.
The World Where I Belong is finished and has null Volumes and 69 Chapters.
12. Other Than My Friend's Sister, Something Else
Seula has endured unrequited love for a long time, thinking she could settle for just being a friend. However, when he finds out that Areum is getting married, his world collapses. In an attempt to calm her broken heart, Seula, totally drunk, ends up calling Areum and confessing her feelings. But the next day, when she wakes up in an unknown place, completely naked... at her side is Areum's younger sister, Daun?!
Other Than My Friend's Sister, Something Else is currently publishing .
13. Prince Cinderella
Outgoing and athletic, Darim’s always surrounded by friends. But back in elementary school, she used to be a social outcast—she only started making friends when Taehoo brought her into the fold. Now in high school, the two have drifted apart, but Darim is waiting for a chance to reunite with her icy Prince Charming. There’s just one issue: Darim’s body transforms into a boy’s at noon every day, only to turn back at midnight! Well, if she can’t get close to Taehoo as a girl… Why not try as a boy?!
Prince Cinderella is finished and has null Volumes and 36 Chapters. It is also Known as: Cinderella Limit
14. Boku ga Otto ni Deau made
A manga adaption of Nanasaki Ryousuke‘s essays titled "Boku ga Otto ni Deau made" about him and his husband being the first gay couple to get married in Japan.
Until I Meet My Husband is finished and has 1 Volumes and 12 Chapters. It is also Known as: 僕が夫に出会うまで, Boku ga Otto ni Deau made
15. Ayaka-chan wa Hiroko Senpai ni Koishiteru
Soft and bubbly office lady Ayaka is madly in love with her senior at work, Hiroko! Two lovestruck coworkers who both think the other is straight totally crush on each other...
Note: Previously serialized under the title "Ayaka-chan wa Hiroko Senpai wo Otoshitai"
AYAKA is in LOVE with HIROKO! is finished and has 3 Volumes and 24 Chapters. It is also Known as: 彩香ちゃんは弘子先輩に恋してる, Ayaka-chan wa Hiroko Senpai ni Koi Shiteru, Ayaka-chan wa Hiroko Senpai wo Otoshitai, Ayaka-chan wa Hiroko-senpai o Otoshitai, 彩香ちゃんは弘子先輩を落としたい, Ayaka is in Love x Love x Love with Hiroko
16. Unmei wo Shinjinai Kare ga Iu ni wa
Love as destined is boring.
Kousuke, who can see the red thread of fate, suffers from unrequited love at the university. However, he hid that feeling in his heart, because he knew that the two "red threads of fate" weren't connected... On the other hand, one day, Yuka is told by a fortune-teller that "the fateful partner is nearby" and becomes aware of Kousuke as a romantic partner.
Unmei wo Shinjinai Kare ga Iu ni wa depicts the love of an adult who is at the mercy of fate.
What He Who Doesn't Believe in Fate Says is currently publishing . It is also Known as: 運命を信じない彼が言うには, Unmei wo Shinjinai Kare ga Iu ni wa
17. Golden Days
Feeling rebellious toward his overprotective mother, Soma Mitsuya, a first-year high school student, only cares about his violin and his hospitalized grandfather. On the night his grandfather’s condition suddenly worsens, an earthquake hits, sending Mitsuya to 1921 in the Taisho era…
Golden Days is finished and has 8 Volumes and 47 Chapters. It is also Known as: ゴールデン・デイズ, 黄金岁月, 黄金男孩, 골든 데이즈
18. Gajang Gipeun Gobaek
Do-Hun has been secretly in love with Ye-Jun since middle school. They were always together through high school and college, and Do-Hun believed they would stay by each other’s side forever. But one day, Ye-Jun suddenly got married, shattering Do-Hun’s quiet hopes. Even after years of trying, he couldn’t shake off his endless, frustrating one-sided love. Determined to move on, he decides to take a solo trip. Just as he’s about to leave, he hears the news, Yejun is getting divorced after just three years of marriage. That very night, Ye-Jun unexpectedly shows up at Do-Hun's door and asks him...
“Can you take me on that trip?”
Note: Chapter count contains 3 side story chapters.
Deepest Confession is finished and has null Volumes and 11 Chapters. It is also Known as: 最も深い告白〜ずっとお前が好きだった〜, คำสารภาพที่ไม่อาจเอื้อนเอ่ย, 刻在心底的告白