Trope: angst

300 New Days With You

Wasureru Kimi to no 300-nichi

Sai Asai

Every day Rihito confesses to Arata, and every night Arata forgets.

A Paradise Reached Through Love

愛を積む楽園 (Ai wo Tsumu Rakuen)

rasu

A couple of 25 years has to start over when one of them loses every memory of their life together.

A Story of Love That I Do Not Know

Sachi Murakami

Arima's gentle boyfriend used to date the man next door and still carries the marks of it.

A Tempest of Cage

Mikan Matsumoto

Ten years after his brother was found dead at the foot of a cliff, a man tracks down the lover who never showed up.

A Tunnel of Spring Rain

Kei Ginkawa

Asahi loves the man who was engaged to his late sister and knows he is only a stand-in.

ADMONITION FROM AN ELDER BROTHER

NEMUI ASADA

Ten years after his only brother vanished, Tsuzuki has fallen in with a rough crowd, and then the brother comes back.

Be My Beta

Shin Yuri

Yoo-il's only friend hates omegas, so when Yoo-il presents as one in his twenties, he decides Cha Hwan must never find out.

Beautiful Things: The Complete Manga Collection

美しいこと (Utsukushii Koto)

story: Narise Konohara

After a breakup, Matsuoka starts going out at night in his ex-girlfriend's clothes, and a kind coworker falls for the woman he appears to be.

Beijing Comrades

Bei Tong

In late-1980s Beijing, the son of a powerful official and a working-class architecture student begin a relationship neither can be open about.

Blue Dust Trilogy

浅蓝三部曲 (Qian Lan San Bu Qu)

Chu Tu

Three linked stories about love between minds when bodies, species and even time can be left behind.

Blue Morning

憂鬱な朝 (Yuuutsu na Asa)

Shoko Hidaka

A boy inherits a viscount's title at ten and grows up wanting the cold, brilliant butler who raises him.

Brother-In-Law

Magoo

The man Yijun loved and pushed away announces he is marrying Yijun's sister.

Come and Take It

Tale, Dolphin

A patron meets again the violinist he once sponsored, whose playing has changed.

Cruel Love

iCiyuan

Gentle pianist Wen Niannan gave cold CEO Gu Yansheng three years of devotion and got nothing back. Now Gu wants him back.

Dear Stranger

minggur (story), neoddeol (art)

Soo-han wakes from a coma with no memories and a husband he cannot bring himself to trust.

December

12월

samk

Three years after fleeing the city, omega Yeonwoo comes back, wary of every alpha, until he catches a scent he knows.

Desert Flower

Moka Azumi

Two warriors on opposite sides of a war spend one night together and cannot stay away.

Egoism

Team Alchem

Cast out by everyone when he turns out to be an omega, Jaeun has only his stepbrother Jihan to rely on.

Engage

Yuu Minaduki

A young chef confesses to the handsome stranger who visits once a year and learns they are tied by family history.

Enveloped by the Fever of Guilt

UNOHANA

After two years working in Germany, pharmaceutical rep Amachi visits a Christmas market before flying home.

Escape into Oblivion

Gawee

Woojin tries to drive away the man who loves him with ever crueler demands, and Hwon meets every single one.

Escape Journey

エスケープジャーニー (Escape Journey)

Ogeretsu Tanaka

Naoto dumped Taichi after a huge fight in high school, and on the first day of college there he is again.

Falling

落池 (Luo Chi)

Yu Cheng

A spoiled rich boy pulls a poor, brilliant classmate into his life on a whim and learns too late what he had.

For My Weirdo

Do.D

A fragile musician trapped by a loan shark is offered help by an eccentric CEO who says he understands.

Forest of the Rabbits

Usagi no Mori

Enjo

Shunta sees his cheerful friend Tamaki crying, and what he feels in that moment frightens him.

Gold Gray

Lee Green

The world's last omega has spent his life in hiding, until he runs into the one man who needs him most.

Gravitation: Collector's Edition

グラビテーション (Gravitation)

Maki Murakami

An aspiring rock singer falls for the cold romance novelist who told him his lyrics were garbage.

Guiding Light

Clarju

In a ruined world, an amnesiac wakes to a fire esper who knows the city, and maybe him, too well.

Guilty Affection

Chelliace (story), DD (art)

Espers who overuse their powers go dark inside, and the people who pull them back pay a price of their own.

Hate or Love?

Dongye

Danzi Qian's past has left him hostile to gay people. Then he starts falling for his best friend.

Hatsujo Playroom

Shiramatsu

Ten years on, Moriya still loves a high school classmate, and that classmate has just joined his company.

Honbul

혼불

톨쥬 (Toljyu)

An investigator for a secret ghost-fighting agency goes undercover at a small-city high school and finds a boy who cannot die.

I SAY

アイ、セイ

Nemui Asada

A 36-year-old who keeps love at arm's length has his rules upended, in a collection of short stories.

Living to Suffer

活受罪 (Huo Shou Zui)

Tangstory

A doctor finds a wounded swordsman in a ruined shrine during a summer storm and saves the wrong man.

Love Tattoo

愛の刺青 (Ai no Irezumi)

Akairo Mash

A salaryman dumped for being boring meets a tattoo artist who is still tied to an old love.

Make Me Hate You

NIGARI SHIO

Hibiki has loved his friend Akira in silence for years. Then Akira gets a serious partner.

March Third

Baichuan

In the middle of a war, an army officer and a stage actor fall in love.

My Brother Left Behind Someone We Loved

Kure

After his brother dies, Kazuki travels to a seaside village to look after the omega his brother married.

Nectar

akabeko

A host cannot forget the man who changed what he wants, and the two move in together as friends with benefits.

New York, New York

ニューヨーク・ニューヨーク (New York, New York)

Marimo Ragawa

A closeted New York cop falls for a man he meets at a bar and has to stop hiding.

Old Wounds, New Growth

旧故新长 (Jiu Gu Xin Zhang)

Shi Wu Cha

After his boyfriend's funeral, a man wakes up in the past, when that boyfriend secretly loved him and he did not know he existed.

Payback

페이백

samk (novel)

Five years after losing his brother, his mother and his savings, ex-debt collector Lee Yoohan learns his ex arranged the killing.

Remnants of Filth: Yuwu

余污 (Yuwu)

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou (Meatbun)

A highborn general faces the lowborn comrade and former lover who defected to the enemy, now returned broken and facing execution.

Rosy Starling

Fang Zhen's father dies in a car crash alongside his mistress. A year later Fang Zhen takes it out on her younger brother.

Sahan

사한

Gru (novel)

Sahan, stranded in space for a year after his Moon-bound ship crashes, comes home to find eleven years gone and the neighbor kid grown up.

Salt Society

솔트 소사이어티

art: 제스 (Jess)

Beta So Gi-hyeon finally confesses to the alpha he has loved since childhood, gets turned down hard, and still cannot get free of him.

Sleeping on Paper Boats

Kami no Fune de Nemuru

Teki Yatsuda

In postwar Japan, a celebrated screenwriter quits because the people he bases characters on keep dying.

Smells Like Green Spirit

スメルズ ライク グリーン スピリット (Smells Like Green Spirit)

Saburo Nagai

In a small rural town, a bullied boy and his tormentor discover what they have in common.

Substitute Relationship

Kuaikan Comics

For five years He Yang treated his partner Xu Chengyan as a stand-in for someone else. Then Xu Chengyan dies.

SUPER NATURAL

ETSUKO

Two beauty school students who do everything together drift apart when one starts to want more.

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese

窮鼠はチーズの夢を見る (Kyuuso wa Cheese no Yume o Miru)

Setona Mizushiro

A private eye hired to catch a cheating husband turns out to be the college junior who has loved that husband for years.

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun

二哈和他的白猫师尊 (Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun)

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

A tyrant emperor kills himself and wakes as his teenage self, back under the teacher he hated most.

The Love I Left Behind That Summer

Yoko Onohara

College student Tsurumi is bored of drinking parties. At one more of them, he takes someone home.

The Missing Piece

貌合神离 (Mao He Shen Li)

Kun Yi Wei Lou

An artist who can no longer paint works a desk job and plays the fake lover of his company's young CEO.

The Second Alpha

2番目のα (2ban-me no Alpha)

Yofune Shibue

An alpha finds his fated mate on his first day at a new job, and the man is wearing a ring.

Till Death Us Do Part

长相守 (Chang Xiang Shou)

Tangstory

In 1930s Tientsin, a schoolteacher and a warlord's heir meet again in a new life, in a city about to be occupied.

To Live, to Die, to Love You Again

十世禅 (Shi Shi Chan)

Zheng Jiao Xiao Hun

A monk saves a fox demon struck down by heavenly lightning, and both feel they have met before.

Twittering Birds Never Fly

囀る鳥は羽ばたかない (Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai)

Kou Yoneda

A masochistic yakuza boss takes on a silent new bodyguard and breaks his own rule about getting involved with his men.

Two Moments in Time

C.light (story), C.Shoes (art)

Death keeps visiting Dohyung, and the goblin who keeps saving him will not say who he is.

Unfair Love Affair

12929, KIMBU, jinzo

An actor strung along for ten years by a spoiled friend gets to know that friend's older brother.

We're Not Cut Out to Be Lovers

Kou Hirokawa

A brooding mechanic finally confronts the noisy streamer next door, and the argument ends in a kiss.

Wedding Blues

Bread

On the morning of Aki's wedding, his childhood friend Jun comes to the changing room.

When It Rains, It Pours (Light Novel)

ふったらどしゃぶり (Futtara Doshaburi)

Michi Ichiho

Two co-workers, each unhappy at home, start confiding in an anonymous email pen pal without knowing who is on the other end.

Wintertime

Zeolgu, Cheongdam, Iiromill

Disowned and alone for nine years, Yihyeon runs into an old wound from high school who is now a ruthless gangster.

Written in the Stars

Cheongdam

For ten years Joo-hyuk has been the hiding place of the dominant omega he loves, one night at a time.

Yet Again, My Ex-Husband Wants to Remarry

Kuaikan Comics

Dominant alpha Ye Linghan turned fellow alpha Ji Ran into an omega with a single remark, married him, and then divorced him.

You Are My Alpha

君はアルファ (Kimi wa Alpha)

Arata Asanae

At an elite school for alphas only, one of two best friends suddenly presents as an omega.

You Lied to Me

Bond Mitsuya

Ken's manga does not sell. He keeps drawing because he trusts his editor and childhood friend, Yuma, completely.

Your Treacle Affects At Night

Sachi Murakami

A drunken confession at a bar gets Minami a boyfriend he does not believe he deserves.