Fujiwara Kaoru: Vampire Girl is really good. She has also written a bunch of short story collections which aren't quite as good, but can be interesting: Fetish, Paradise, A Story of Long Ago, and Withdrawal Love

She is my favorite josei mangaka and her art is just beautiful! I loved all her stories even the oneshots were great. i wonder why did she stopped releasing 🙁 .

And pretty much all non-shounen-ai titles from YUMEKA Sumomo. I know most of them are marked as shoujo, but they are josei in my opinion.

JOIN EVIL FLOWERS!!!~ ♥

I agree with a lot of things that have been mentioned here 🙂
I really like Paradise Kiss and Erica Sakurazawa's works, too
I would add : Mari Okazaki - Suppli and Sweat&Honey
Yoshino Aki - Yuru Koi
Takane Yonetai - Love Drops
Mitsuki Oda - Real Love (it's a one shot but really nice)
Nodame Cantabile is nice but it's kind of like shoujo for me ^^;

Kimi Wa Petto
followed by
Nana

Honey and Clover yeah

Nana it was my first josei manga and i fell in love with josei ever since, shoujo is so predictable and it started to irritate me.Also i think haou airen (even though its not techinally josei but it should be)

"In this game of love someone has to lose and it will not be me"

I really hope more people start reading this webcomic cus it's really underrated but it's brilliant! The art is great and the story is definitely gripping!

Cheese in the Trap

READ IT EVERYONE!

I would say 7 seeds. It's an awesome josei and also Kuragehime.

I used to not be very into it, but I'm excited about all the great josei I've stumbled across this past year or so.

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Natsuyuki Rendezvous
Otoko no Isshou
Chikutaku Bonbon
Hatena no Hana
Koi Suru Savanna
Her
Love, Hate, Love
Mirror Ball Flashing Magic

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Nana is my all time FAVE and Gokusen is funny and bad-ass! Both are really different to the usual path and I love it!

NANA!!!

I was here ~.^

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I really hope more people start reading this webcomic cus it's really underrated but it's brilliant! The art is great and the story is definitely gripping!

Cheese in the Trap

READ IT EVERYONE!

Well, YEAH! I really like this one, and they stopped releasing it 🙁 at least in English. This webcomic is really great, I love "watching" the conversations and situations between 2 main protagonists. I wish the translators would continue it

Also, I second Kuragehime 🙂

I really liked Spicy Pink. If I remember correctly, it was my first josei manga.

I am totally in love with Kuragehime. I skimmed the summary so many times, but then I actually read it. one of the funniest mangas I've ever read, with that bit of romance that makes you squeal.

Usagi Drop ^^

DA: ** Nanami-Koshiro **
YT: ** Otogibana **
CR: ** Kironjae **

My choice of josei is kind-of different:

1)Olimpos
2) Hyakki Yakoushou
3) Karneval
4) Petshop of Horrors
5)Aruosumente
6)Saver
7) Amatsuki
8) 07-Ghost
9) Are You Alice?
10) +C: Sword and Cornett