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Chichi no Koyomi

Also known as A Journal Of My Father.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

KNOW THY FATHER

After well over a decade’s absence, Yoichi Yamashita journeys back to his hometown to attend his father’s funeral. As the relatives gather and the stories flow alongside the drinks, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. The spring afternoon playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mother’.

Through confidences and memories shared with those who knew him best, Yoichi rediscovers the man he had long considered an absent and rather cold father.



Tags: Family Life , Seinen , Historical , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist

Theseus no Fune

Also known as The Ship of Theseus.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

On June 24, 1989, 21 people, among them children, were found poisoned to death in the elementary school of Otousu village in Hokkaido. Bungo Sano, a police officer of the same village, was arrested. Twenty eight years later, Sano’s son, Shin Tamura, starts to suspect that his father, who continues to plead his innocence even after being handed the death penalty, may have been wrongfully convicted, and launches his own investigation. Upon arriving at the crime scene, a thick fog descends, engulfing Shin, and he finds that he has slipped back in time to the year 1989. The curtain rises on this authentic crime suspense that transcends time and space in a confrontation with the truth.



Tags: Rural , Seinen , Time Manipulation , Crime

Haipoji HIGH POSITION

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Supernatural

A 46-year-old man who has been divorced by his wife, has a financial problem in his company and a remarkable thing just happened when he was caught in a fire in a building—he goes back in time to his 16-year-old self.

Memories that were sepia colors start to move colorfully.

Tags: Marriage , Denpa , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Time Manipulation , Age Regression , Seinen , School , Nudity , Delinquents , Time Skip , Age Gap

ReLife

Also known as ReLIFE.

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

When the responsibilities of being an adult and the ugly side of corporate bullying betrays one's childhood dreams, many would wish to return to their innocent childhood to relive their life and make the right decisions. Dumbfounded by the offer presented to him, 27-year-old Arata Kaizaki hopes to turn his life around through a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Returning home from his part-time job, Arata is persuaded by Ryou Yoake, an employee of ReLife Research Institute, into participating in an experiment which will help him overcome his difficulties and re-enter corporate life. As part of the ReLife experiment, Arata's physique is reverted to that of a 17-year-old, and all he must do is relive his high school life for one year. Waiting for him at the end of the experiment is a job offer that he has been struggling to get ever since he left his first company.

With few other options, he decides to go along with this plan. However, with adult-like tendencies and many years since his last formal education, Arata steps into an unexpectedly challenging territory—a normal day of high school.



Note: Includes 16 extra chapters

Tags: Memory Manipulation , Age Regression , Shapeshifting , School , Full Color , Rehabilitation , Amnesia , Ensemble Cast , Kuudere , Coming of Age , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Work , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Time Skip , Age Gap , Love Triangle , Volleyball , Suicide

Coo no Sekai

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Psychological , Supernatural

Seventh grader Hayashi Renei is troubled by a strange dream: Her dead brother, who was killed in an automobile accident, comes back to life as Coo. The dream comes again the following night and then every night thereafter.

Coo's world is a cruel one--crueler than the real world, even--with its own share of pain, suffering, and sadness. Renei is searching for her house with her brother and others whom she meets in Coo's world so that she can return to reality and the land of the living...



Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Travel , Isekai , Afterlife , Yuri

Aoi Haru

Also known as Blue Spring.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

This dark and intense drama is set in a boy's high school where Kujo becomes the official leader of a gang. Kujo must constantly defend his position by playing a dangerous rooftop game with the other boys vying for his position. This manga has also been made into a film which has shown in various festivals throughout the world.



Tags: Delinquents , Coming of Age , Gangs , Yakuza , School , Seinen , Anthology , Guns , Mahjong

Undercurrent

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

The manga begins as Kanae Sekiguchi, proprietor of the Tsuki no Yu bathhouse, struggles to reopen her business after the unexplained disappearance of her husband...

Tags: Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Work , Detective , Suicide

Gabai

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Gabai Granny is based on the bestseller Saga no Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga), which is penned by comedian Shimada Yoshichi as he recounts his childhood memories of growing up under the care of his grandmother.

This is the story of a young boy, after being sent from Hiroshima to Saga (10 years after the second World War, in 1958) by his mom because of a lack of money, journeying to a faraway place, and living in conditions alien to him, definitely makes him miss home. Worse, he is not familiar with his grandmother and her ways too. But with his Gabai Granny, he will slowly discover with his growing pains, just how resourceful Granny is...



Tags: Iyashikei , Family Life , Rural , Seinen , Historical , School

Zipang

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

In the year 200X, a Japanese fleet consisting of 3 vessels leave on a mission to South America. After encountering a storm, the ship JDS Mirai find themselves without their escorts and in 1942, traveling towards the island of Midway to face the American fleet in one of largest battles in naval history. The crew of MIrai must decide whether or not to change the course of history by involving itself in WWII.

Tags: Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , Military , Primarily Adult Cast , War , Ships , Historical , Time Manipulation

Hare Yuku Sora

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Summer. Around Tokyo. A terrible accident between a motorcyclist and a van. Ten days later, the van's driver, Kazuhiro Kubota, 42 years old, dies. At the same moment, though, the motorcyclist, Takuya Onodera, 17 years old, begins showing signs of life. In just a few days, he regained consciousness: a true miracle. However, the one which awakens in Takuya's body is Kazuhiro. After a moment of surprise, he understands that a second chance was granted to him: he was allowed to borrow Takuya's body to do what he had to do before his death, i.e. tell his wife and his 8 years old daughter that he deeply loved them and that he regrets that his job couldn't allow him to spend much time with them. Who will believe, however, that he is but Kazuhiro Kubota in another body ?

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