Manga like Ugly Duckling of the Entertainment District

Also known as Minikui Yuukaku no Ko, Ugly Child at Flower District , An Unsightly Girl of a Red Light District. Picked from what people who loved Ugly Duckling of the Entertainment District went on to love. Show

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Worth a Billion: Modern-Day Courtesan

Juuoku no Are.: Yoshiwara Ichi no Oiran

2019, Manga, ongoing, 78%

Female Protagonist, Oiran, Acting

Yoshiwara, old Edo's paradise of pleasure, has been reborn in modern-day Tokyo.... In this playground of the powerful, where money rules all, women sell both their bodies and the idea of romance to their male clientele. Thrust into this world is the ingenue Asuka, who's been…

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