Hey, I have a completely different request to the usual this time. I want to read any manga that teaches you a little about ancient Japanese history or Chinese. Here are some specifications:

+ Big plus if there is romance
+ I prefer shoujo-ish drawings if possible
+ I want a female protagonist please
- No ecchi, none, ever
- No shounen ai or BL please
- If it's a romance, please no love triangles

Thank you in advance~

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I'm in idol hell T.T

Chang Ge Xing - But you're probably reading that already.
I'd also like to add Jin. It has a male protagonist and is seinen though.

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Rurouni Kenshin
Ookami-heika no Hanayome -mostly about romance though
Ichi -probably fits what your looking for the most
Blood and Steel -although this one has a male MC

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Like educational manga? take a look at Ed U. Manga's list of manga here

Gou - Himetachi no Sengoku

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Kaze Hikaru - About the Shinsengumi. Basically a citizen(?) police force with 7 guys (I think). They're romanticized a LOT in Japanese fiction (especially since most of them meet a tragic end). I actually didn't like this manga (found it boring), but it's mostly historical but in this manga one of them is actually secretly a girl dressed as a man.

Amakusa 1637 - High school kids go back to 1637 Japan. This during the Japanese isolation period and Christians were being persecuted. Even though some parts have been changed because of the protagonists' appearance, they do present a lot of historical facts since characters go "xxx was supposed to happen" or "but in the history books this xxx".

I second Rurouni Kenshin. Good job, Gale1 for mentioning it! The main character is actually male, but it's really an equal female and male leads. Kaoru and Kenshin, subtle romance between the two at first, romance between him (Kenshin) and someone else, definite romance of KenXKao at the end.

Edit: forgot to mention, after I read RuroKen, I hear bits and pieces of Japanese history, and can really relate to it. Learn a little bit about samurai, the Shinsengumi, etc etc.

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"'The lives I've taken will be paid for with my own life.' That's one way to look at it...but it doesn't mean they come back once you die. Lives can also be paid for by the sword; by redeeming yet other lives. That is why 'Hitokiri Battousai' is still alive in the Meiji Era."

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Tetsuwan Girl. More about post war life rather than actual history.

Sangokushi would be perfect, but it's about China.