What is University manga?

Since college/university students are typically at least eighteen years old, with stories covering mature everyday life topics, you will find the college setting quite often in seinen and josei anime. Topics that can now be covered - as compared to High School settings - are higher education (i.e. coping with higher intellectual stress), the more adult party life (i.e. alcohol, smoking, sex), the issues of daily life vs. studying - especially when having to work to pay for bills, and finally the possible friction between those in and out of college.

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Grand Blue

(Grand Blue Dreaming)

8.27

Description:

A new life begins for Kitahara Iori as he begins his college career near the ocean in Izu city, full of excitement for his new life. He will be moving into his Uncle's diving store "Grand Blue." There he finds the beautiful ocean, beautiful women, and men that love diving and alcohol. Will Iori be able to live his dream college life? (Source: MangaHelpers)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Rating

Status

current

Started

2014-04-07

Here U Are

8.25

Description:

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... (Source: MU) Note: Includes 20 extra chapters.
Type

manhua

Chapters

157

Status

finished

Started

2017-11-22

Kanojo, Okarishimasu

(Rent-A-Girlfriend)

6.88

Description:

Kinoshita Kazuya is a regular college student who was just dumped by his girlfriend for another guy. Feeling down in the dumps, he decides to use an app called Diamond to hire Mizuhara Chizuru, a rental girlfriend, to make himself feel better. From their first meeting, she seems to be the perfect girl for him, but is there more to her than meets the eye? And how will their not quite typical relationship develop? (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2017-07-12

Minamoto-kun Monogatari

7.22

Description:

Minamoto-kun has a face pretty enough to make people think he's a girl. Because of his face, he was bullied by the girls in middle school who were jealous of his good looks. He developed a fear of women due to the trauma, and for that reason chose to attend a high school for boys. Just as he enters college and makes a promise to himself to overcome the trauma of his past, his father remarries and asks him to move out of the house. His father arranges for him to live with his aunt (Minamoto-kun's father's younger sister) for the time being. She is an extremely beautiful woman who is also a non-tenured professor at his college. When he arrives at her apartment, she shows him her breasts and tells him that he will be her "guinea pig" in her reverse Hikari Genji project. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

16

Chapters

360

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

2011-09-15

Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai!

7.32

Description:

Sakurai Shinichi’s one wish is for a little peace and quiet. But Uzaki Hana–his boisterous, well-endowed underclassman–has other plans. All she wants is to hang out and poke fun at him. With the help of her chipper charm and peppy persistence, this might just be the start of a beautiful relationship! (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2017-12-01

Cheese in the Trap

8.15

Description:

Having returned to college after a year long break, Hong Sul, a hard-working over-achiever, inadvertently got on the wrong side of a suspiciously perfect senior named Yoo Jung. From then on her life took a turn for the worse and Sul was almost certain it was all Yoo Jung's doing. So why is he suddenly acting so friendly a year later? (Source: Baka-Updates)
Type

manhwa

Volumes

0

Chapters

46

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2010-07-07

Hidamari ga Kikoeru

(I Hear the Sunspot)

8.01

Description:

Because of a hearing disability, Kohei is often misunderstood and has trouble integrating into life on campus, so he learns to keep his distance. That is until he meets the outspoken and cheerful Taichi. He tells Kohei that his hearing loss is not his fault. Taichi’s words cut through Kohei’s usual defense mechanisms and open his heart. More than friends, less than lovers, their relationship changes Kohei forever. (Source: Open Peace Books) Note: the series is composed of Hidamari ga Kikoeru (completed, 6 chapters/1 volume) Hidamari ga Kikoeru - Koufuku Hen (completed, 7chapters/1 volume) Hidamari ga Kikoeru - Limit (completed, 19 chapters/3 volumes) Hidamari ga Kikoeru - Shunkashuutou (ongoing)
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2013-12-21

Himegoto: Juukyuusai no Seifuku

(Himegoto: Uniforms at the Age of Nineteen)

7.5

Description:

This is a story of a group of college-age people who struggle with gender and sexual identity. Yuki (nicknamed Yoshiki) is a girl, but she is terrible at 'being feminine.' She mostly dresses like a boy and is often mistaken as one. However, she has to wear a skirt and imagine being dominated by a guy in order to masturbate. Nagao Mikako seems young and innocent, and she uses that apparent innocence to sell her body as a fake 15-year-old. She knows her youthfulness can't last forever, but she enjoys tricking the men. Her friends have no idea of her sexual habits and believe her to be sweet and sheltered. Aiba Kaito is a pretty good-looking guy, but he wants to be Nagao Mikako. He often dresses as a girl, picking out clothes that mimic Mikako's style. Though he's into cross-dressing, he is still attracted to women. Will these young adults and their friends be able to handle their 'guilty secrets' and muddle their way through this confusing period of their lives? (Source: MangaHelpers)
Type

manga

Volumes

8

Chapters

100

Status

finished

Started

2010-07-30

Osananajimi ni Najimitai

7.02

Description:

Fujimino Daisuke was often pushed around by his tomboy childhood friend Hino Matsuri when they were children but several years later, they meet each other again in college where Daisuke discovers that Matsuri has developed into quite a lovely young woman. But despite that, much to Daisuke's dismay, she has also retained much of the tomboy personality that made her a little difficult to get along with in the past. (Source: Mangadex)
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

24

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2018-01-05

Tsukiatte agete mo ii ka na

(How Do We Relationship?)

7.92

Description:

For as long as she’s known, Miwa’s been into women - and now she’s at university, it might finally be time for her to come out of her straight-passing shell. Of course, that takes a lot of confidence, and coming out is never easy - but could Saeko, her trashy popular weirdo of a friend, give her the help she needs - or just maybe, could the two of them be more alike than Miwa realises…?! This series is a reimagining of tmfly’s earlier work of the same name.
Type

manga

Volumes

14

Chapters

133

Status

finished

Started

2018-08-17

Cigarette & Cherry

7.41

Description:

Cool beauty senpai x virgin-kun kouhai?! Aiming to get a girlfriend with his college debut, what appeared before Kouhai-kun was a beautiful, smoker Senpai?! Generating a lot of buzz on Twitter and Instagram, this clumsy love comedy starts its serialization! (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

Status

current

Started

2017-08-29

Escape Journey

(Escape Journey)

7.79

Description:

It’s Naoto’s first day of college, and the last person he expected to see was his high school ex Taichi, whom he’d dumped after a huge argument. Even though years have passed, Naoto finds he’s still steamed over some of the harsh words that were exchanged, but he also recognizes how much Taichi has matured since then and can’t help getting pulled back in. Will the discovery of his friend’s crush on Taichi fray the fragile threads of this mending relationship? (Source: SuBLime)
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

19

Rating

Smut

Status

finished

Started

2015-02-06

Yours to Claim

(Yours to Claim)

7.26

Description:

Nothing crazy ever happens to Jooin. He’s just your average college student, keeping his head down and flying under the radar. Yahwi, on the other hand, is drop dead gorgeous, super popular…but also kinda mean. So why has the campus heartthrob taken an interest in a total nobody? There must be an ulterior motive…but it’s hard to care when faced with those killer looks. Will Jooin become a slave to his desires? Or perhaps he’ll become the master himself… (Source: Lezhin)
Type

manhwa

Chapters

107

Rating

Smut

Status

finished

Started

2020-04-02

Dasei 67 Percent

(67% Inertia)

7.12

Description:

This comedy manga takes place in the room of a college girl named Yoshizawa. Her friends, Itou, Kitahara, and Nishida often stop by, and they run into funny adult-level problems. For instance, there is the day when her friends drop by while Yoshizawa's hungover in bed, and she suddenly realizes that she doesn't have on any underwear under the covers. Yoshizawa also has unusual problems, like her need for advice on drawing realistic penises in her manga, since she's never encountered one in real life before. There are a lot of quirky things that can happen in a college girl's home! (Source: MangaDex)
Type

manga

Volumes

9

Chapters

96

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

2014-07-19

Asumi-chan wa Les Fuuzoku ni Kyoumi ga Arimasu!

(Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothel!)

7.91

Description:

The story focuses on the erotic experiences that Asumi-chan, our protagonist, has in a lesbian focused sex establishment. (Source: Manga Mogura)
Type

manga

Rating

Ecchi

Status

current

Started

2020-07-18

Semantic Error

(Semantic Error)

8.2

Description:

You're an error in my perfect world. Sang-U Chu is a stickler for rules. So when his classmates free-ride on a group project, he doesn't credit them. But this prevents one senior, Jae-Yeong Jang, from graduating. And like oil and water, Sang-U and Jae-Yeong don't mix. Can Sang-U debug Jae-Yeong — a semantic error in his perfect life? (Source: Manta, edited) Note: Chapter count includes a Christmas Special.
Type

manhwa

Chapters

94

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2020-07-27

Cheese in the Trap Season 2

7.89

Description:

Second season of Cheese in the Trap. Cheese in the Trap Season 2 was digitally published in English by LINE Webtoon from May 3, 2015 to August 7, 2016.
Type

manhwa

Volumes

9

Chapters

67

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2011-06-15

Hwajang Jiwojuneun Namja

(The Makeup Remover)

7.78

Description:

After years of being told to focus on studying, Yeseul feels lost when she starts college and is suddenly expected to pay attention to makeup. When a chance encounter with brilliant makeup artist Yuseong leads to her taking part in a televised makeup competition, Yeseul begins to question the role that makeup and appearance play in society. (Source: WEBTOONS)
Type

manhwa

Volumes

7

Chapters

129

Status

finished

Started

2018-05-03

Fools

8.11

Description:

For college senior Edward, friends and relationships have always been a bit of a nuisance until he meets Justin, the peppy new freshman eager to be his friend...or more?
Type

manhwa

Volumes

4

Chapters

78

Status

finished

Started

2016-06-06

Cheese in the Trap Season 3

7.97

Description:

Third season of Cheese in the Trap. Cheese in the Trap Season 3 has been digitally published in English by LINE Webtoon since August 14, 2017.
Type

manhwa

Volumes

12

Chapters

108

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2013-01-09

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