Kicking off our list today is a steamy yuri comedy about having your “first time” with a hottie robot girl!

Beautiful and intelligent at work, Tsuda Akane’s colleagues think she’s got life handled—but at home, she’s a hot mess! Her apartment looks more like a landfill, and she’s always drinking, which leads to regretful impulse purchases…like buying an android maid online. But her newfound purchase is a horny hottie who’s about to shake up Akane’s life in so many ways…which begs the question, Android wa Keiken Ninzuu ni Hairimasu ka? (Does it Count if You Lose Your Virginity to an Android?)!

A hilarious yuri comedy with a shameless helping of smutty fun, Does it Count if You Lose Your Virginity to an Android? will be delivering itself to you in April 2023.

A bittersweet tale of youthful romance and “what could have been” comes in the form of Ana Oncina’s Just Friends.

During one fateful summer in her teenage years, Erika’s mother pressures her into going to an overnight camp. The anti-social Erika can’t think of anything worse, but despite her reluctance, she goes—and meets Emi, a girl with whom she’ll form a special bond. Now in their 30s, Erika and Emi reminisce about their meeting and the roads not taken.

Dramatic and heartbreaking, the standalone volume of Just Friends will be dropping in February 2023, via Tokyopop.

Hiranashi Mieri’s Kanojo ga Dekinai Onna (The Girl That Can’t Get a Girlfriend) is an autobiographical tale of love and heartbreak!

An awkward and nerdy college student, Mieri secretly wants a hot androgynous girlfriend, but all her previous relationships have ended in disaster. Her luck turns around when she meets Ash—but when this love ends abruptly, Mieri will do anything to get her girlfriend back!

The light-hearted true-to-life The Girl That Can’t Get a Girlfriend is a brilliant exploration of sexuality, dating, and the difficulties of relationships. This standalone volume will be releasing in February 2023.

A series that highlights different types of Girl’s Love, from drunken age-gap encounters to online gaming friends!

Fusoroi no Renri (Assorted Entanglements)’s first volume features Iori—a twenty-eight-year-old office worker who bemoans her terrible love-life and drowns her sorrows in beer. After a particularly rough night out drinking, she wakes up next to a gorgeous girl called Minami—a bar worker who doesn’t want to let Iori slip out of her fingers!

Each volume of Assorted Entanglements will feature different couples, so readers get to experience all the drama and squishy feelings of new love again and again! The first volume of Assorted Entanglements is arriving in February 2023.

Our top pick of the year is a brilliant manga and light novel series about competitive dating, fake love, real love—and the most chaotic first year of high school ever! Welcome to the genius that is Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wake Naijan, Muri Muri! (*Muri Janakatta!?) (There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless…).

After a lonely three years in middle school, the shy and introverted Renako is intent on reinventing herself into a popular high schooler. Against all odds, Renako finds herself befriending her polar opposite—the glamorous, wealthy, outgoing Mai. Renako thinks she’s found her new BFF—but Mai’s love confession throws “friendship” out the window! Unless…?

A battle between friendship and love begins! You can choose whether you’d like to read the light novel of There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… which releases in May, or the manga adaptation we’ve featured today, which arrives a month earlier in April 2023!