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11 Manga/Graphic Novels for Valentine's Failures

Who wants a perfect love when you can experience social anxiety, interpersonal dysfunction, and baffling levels of obliviousness? Laugh along with hapless protagonists and romantic leads as they navigate friendship, family, and romance; grow and overcome their flaws; and in some cases realize that they were the jerk all along.

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  • At age 31, office worker Chikage Deguchi feels she missed her chances at love and success. When word gets out that she's a virgin, Chikage is humiliated and wishes she could turn back time to when she was still young and popular. She takes an…
    Graphic Novel, 2015–San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, LLC, [2015]- — Y 741.5952 TANEMURA
  • A cute werewolf girl helps a timid human boy gain the confidence he's always dreamed of having! Yutaka Shinso is constantly worried about what other people think of him. Hoping to turn over a new leaf, he changes high schools, but there's something…
    Graphic Novel, 2025San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, [2025] — 741.5952 MORISHITA
  • One of Shakespeare's most famous comedies finds a brilliant new life with this incredible Manga Classic adaptation. A Midsummer Night's Dream portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include…
    Graphic Novel, 2018Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada : Manga Classics, Inc., [2018] — Y 741.5971 SILVERMOON
  • Scott Pilgrim's life is fantastic. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, between jobs, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's awesome until a seriously mind-blowing delivery girl named Ramona Flowers enters his life.
    Graphic Novel, 2004Portland, Or. : Oni Press, c2004. — Y 741.5 O'MALLEY
  • Tomoko Kuroki naturally assumed she'd be popular when she got to high school...but then cold, hard reality swooped in for the attack! Turns out all the popularity points she's racked up in her video game dating sims are worth squat in real life, and…
    Graphic Novel, 2013New York, NY : Yen Press, 2013. — 741.5952 TANIGAWA
  • Broke young man + chainsaw demon = Chainsaw Man! Denji was a small-time devil hunter just trying to survive in a harsh world. After being killed on a job, he is revived by his pet devil Pochita and becomes something new and dangerous--Chainsaw…
    Graphic Novel, 2020San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media LLC, 2020. — 741.5952 FUJIMOTO
  • There's a whole lot of crazy going around! Has Chiyo's affection for her beloved shoujo manga-ka Nozaki finally soured?! She's bullying him out of the blue...and even plotting his destruction when the ball sports tournament rolls around...! To make…
    Graphic Novel, 2015–New York, NY : Yen Press, 2015- — Y 741.5952 TSUBAKI
  • Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend,…
    Graphic Novel, 2019New York : First Second, c2019. — Y 741.5973 TAMAKI
  • Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family…
    Graphic Novel, 2007Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007, c2006. — 741.5973 BECHDEL
  • Sawako Kuronuma is the perfect heroine ... for a horror movie. With striking similarities to a haunting movie character--jet-black hair, sinister smile and silent demeanor--she's mistakenly called Sadako by those around her. But behind her scary…
    Graphic Novel, 2009–San Francisco, Calif. : Viz Media ; London : Simon & Schuster [distributor], 2009- — Y 741.5952 SHIINA
  • The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation. Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve! With the whole…
    Graphic Novel, 2019San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, LLC, [2019] — Y 741.5952 ODA