Manga like Chichi no Koyomi

Haruka na Machi e

Also known as A Distant Neighborhood.

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

Who hasn't thought about reliving their past, correcting perceived mistakes or changing crucial decisions? Would this better your life or the lives of those closest to you? Or would your altered actions prove even more harmful? One man gets the chance to find out...

Middle-aged Hiroshi Nakahara is on his way home from a business trip when he finds himself on the wrong train heading for his childhood hometown. His footsteps take him to his mother's grave and it's there that he is catapulted back into his life as an 8th grader - but with all his adult memories and knowledge intact. As he struggles to make sense of his predicament his adult memories of his childhood return but are somehow subtly changed. The questions start to form ... would his father still disappear without explanation? would he still marry his wife?



Tags: Age Regression , Time Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Seinen , Rural , Magic , Philosophy

Inu wo Kau

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Short stories by Jiro Taniguchi. Five short stories. The first one tells the death of an old dog, hence the title. The last one is a bit similar to a later work of the author, Kamigami no Itadaki.

Tags: Animals , Seinen , Family Life , Tragedy , Mountaineering , Episodic , Primarily Adult Cast

Aruku Hito

Also known as The Walking Man.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Who takes the time these days to climb a tree in bare feet to rescue a child's toy? To stop and observe the birds? To play in the puddles after a storm? To go down to the sea to put a shell back? The Walking Man does as he strolls at random through urban Japan—often silent, often alone—with his vivid dreams that let time stand still.



Tags: Iyashikei , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Urban , Achronological Order , Time Skip , Family Life , Nudity

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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Oyacocco

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Oyacocco centers around the relationship between a single dad and his child.



Tags: Seinen , Estranged Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Parenthood , Elderly Protagonist , Denpa , Urban , Chibi

Natsuko no Sake

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Passion and a dream of sake.

Natsuko, the daughter of a sake brewery, fights for her dream of brewing the best sake in Japan using the legendary rice Tatsunishiki.



Tags: Seinen , Agriculture , Rural , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Educational , Food , Tragedy