Hi,

I am interested in reading manga where the lead is a female and is strong.
I have seen this kind of threads before, but they are usually two to three years old, if possible I want to see if there any new recommendation.

The amount of time that I saw a male character save the supposed bad-ass heroine has me in tears already (and gagging). I just want them to be competent and stay competent.

[Sensei no Barrage=https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=77850] had in its last couple of chapters a pretty cool heroine, but it was a short manga so who knows how her development would have went.
Another example would be Shuto Heru [url=https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=39560] which had just about everything I wanted, strong and competent female lead, no pointless fan service, cool side characters (plus everyone was competent).

Thanks for the help

You might like Jiu jIu or sakuran
Also really like dazzle but it's pretty old and was licensed by Tokyopop

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Not sure what kind of genre you're looking for specifically, but here's a couple you might like:

Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
Aoi Horus no Hitomi - Dansou no Joou no Monogatari
Raise wa Tanin ga Ii
Koroshi Ai (in this one the female lead gets "saved" once but that doesn't take away from her character/make her permanently weak at all)

First of all thank you very much for your recommendation!
Hatenkou Yuugi - was just about what I wanted, a strong female character that can hold her own (I hope more chapters will be translated soon).

Kusuriya no Hitorigoto - A smart and capable heroine is perfect. I really like to read stories where the main female lead can hold her own.
Koroshi Ai - Cool art and cool heroine.

Are there anymore recommendations?

I definitely have a hard time finding actual "Strong Female Lead"s as well! Here's my pick from my reading list in the past couple years:

I've watched Akatsuki no Yona really grow in popularity, and it totally deserves it. Yona is refreshingly multi-faceted and competent.
Satsuriku no Tenshi - Not a ** physically** strong female lead, but

Rachel and Zack make a great team

Sekai de Ichiban Warui Majo - Main female lead may be a bit inexperienced, but she's magically the strongest.
Ciel - The Last Autumn Story I think is in fact completely scanlated now. Features a large collection of flawed, albeit competent characters.
Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?'s main character is female, although you can't really tell as she's a spider...
I've read some of Mahou Tsukai no Yome, but I'm not sure how it's developed now.

Thanks for the thread!

warau kanoko-sama and the sequel koi dano ai dano is a shoujo school life series so there isn’t any fighting, but the main heroine is really smart(but dense when it comes to love) it might not be what your looking for, but she is definitely not like all the other wishy-washy bubbly shoujo protagonists in other manga. She calculating and can be pretty manipulative at times.

youjo senki is about a loli girl killing everybody, well it’s technically a guy from Japan that is reincarnated into a little girls body after pissing off god. He/she rises in rank while destroying everybody in his/her way,

Aoharu x Machinegun it’s not fully scanlated but the main character is a really badass heroine. She’s actually mistaken for a guy because she’s really tomboyish. The MC has really fast agility and can keep her own despite being a complete newbie at survival games.

If I can think of anymore, I’ll tell you. Hope this helps!

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