Manga like 5 Centimeters Per Second

What is 5 Centimeters Per Second about?

Status: Finished

Remember a time before cell phones could be found in every pocket? Or when even accessing the world wide web was something only readily available in a library? Back then letters still filled up postboxes and moments just felt so much more precious when captured on Polaroid film. Now life seems to move at the speed of light. Our memories are captured and shared with the world on social media platforms. And love, which is already capricious, can feel like it is moving at terminal velocity.

In Makoto Shinkai’s defining work, the internationally renowned director and animator unfolds a love story that is as timeless as it is fleeting. Yukiko Seike’s rendition of this modern classic adds a new level of emotion and intimacy that is unique to its source material.

Tags: Coming of Age , Time Skip , Seinen , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Trains , School , Surfing

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Tenki no Ko

Also known as Weathering With You.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life

The summer of freshman year of high school. A boy named Hodaka runs away from his island home and goes to Tokyo, where he spends every day in loneliness. Then, in a corner of the bustling city he meets a girl named Hina. But he soon finds out that she possesses a mysterious power.

Tags: Environmental , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Gods , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Work , Fugitive , Guns , Police , Heterosexual

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Kotonoha no Niwa

Also known as The Garden of Words.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches...

Tags: Coming of Age , Rehabilitation , Heterosexual , Bullying , Teacher , Age Gap , Seinen , Male Protagonist , School , Fashion , Iyashikei

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INKR Pocket Magazine

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Hoshi no Koe

Also known as Voices of a Distant Star.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

To what distance would you go for your one true love? In the midst of an alien invasion, Mikako joins the resistance, leaving behind the one young man she loves. As she goes deeper into space, Mikako's only connection with her boyfriend is through cell-phone text messages. The war rages on and years pass, but Mikako barely ages in the timelessness of space while Noboru grows old. How can the love of two people, torn apart by war, survive?

Tags: Space , Aliens , Seinen , Tragedy , Revenge

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INKR

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Kimi no Na wa.

Also known as your name..

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

A story of two people determined to hold on to one another. Mitsuha, a high school girl from a town deep in the mountains, dreams of an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy from Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As the two begin swapping lives, a miraculous story is set in motion.

Tags: Body Swapping , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , School , Gender Bending , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation , Urban , Rural , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Mythology , Trains , Shrine Maiden , Alternate Universe , Religion , Seinen , Time Skip

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Oyasumi Punpun

Also known as Goodnight Punpun.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town.
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back.
He wants to find some porn.
That’s what he wants, but what does he get…?

Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Tragedy , Philosophy , Denpa , Suicide , Psychosexual , Urban , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Anti-Hero , Time Skip , Fugitive , Surreal Comedy , School , Cult , Meta , Work , Nudity , Gods , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Ghost

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Viz

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Umibe no Onnanoko

Also known as A Girl on the Shore.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

Koume Sato and Keisuke Isobe are two teenagers living in a sleepy seaside town. After getting used and dumped by her crush, the emotionally damaged Koume decides to start a sexual relationship with Keisuke, without any emotions involved. However, they both soon discover that sex with no strings attached leads to unexpected complications, not just for themselves but also the people surrounding them.

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Sukima

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Ao no Flag

Also known as Blue Flag.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

High school senior year, spring—one of life's important forks in the road. Taichi Ichinose finds himself in the same class as Futaba Kuze, who he feels strangely averse to, and his popular childhood friend, Touma Mita. One day, Futaba confides in him her love for Touma, and asks him for help. How will Taichi respond? This new “pure” love story begins as the three are colored in the emotions of youth.

Tags: Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Philosophy , Chibi , School , Bisexual , Boys' Love , Baseball , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Time Skip , Rehabilitation , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Yuri

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Shonen Jump Plus MANGA Plus MANGA Plus

Viz

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Natsu e no Tunnel, Sayonara no Deguchi: Gunjou

Also known as The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes: Ultramarine.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Kaoru Touno heard a rumor: The laws of space and time mean nothing to the Urashima Tunnel. If you find it, walk through and you’ll find your heart’s desire on the other side…in exchange for years of your own life. On the night Kaoru just so happens to find himself standing in front of a tunnel that looks suspiciously like the one the rumor describes, he finds himself thinking of Karen, the sister he lost in an accident five years ago. To Kaoru’s surprise, he’s been followed by the new transfer student Anzu Hanashiro, who promises to help him experiment with the mysterious tunnel–but what does she want from Kaoru in exchange? And what will he have left to give, after the tunnel’s done with him?

Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Time Manipulation , School , Rural , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Coastal , Bullying , Time Skip

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Sunday Webry

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Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Romance

The story centers on Asuna, a girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her father as a memento. However, she embarks on a journey of adventure to meet a boy again, and thus comes to know the cruelty and beauty of the world, as well as loss.

Tags: Seinen , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Travel , Lost Civilization

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Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo: Tokikake

Also known as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Makoto Konno is in junior high school. She is good friends with her childhood friend Kousuke Tsuda and transfer student Chiaki Mamiya. They “pretend play” baseball after school every day, but their relationship starts to change drastically when Makoto acquires the ability to leap through time.

Tags: Tragedy , School , Shounen

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