Manga like You to Bakemono ni Naru Chichi ga Tsurai

Sabishisugite Rezu Fuzoku ni Ikimashita Report

Also known as My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness.

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

A hugely popular comic on Pixiv, My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness offers readers an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman’s exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age.



Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Autobiographical , Non-fiction , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Family Life , LGBTQ+ Themes , Rehabilitation , Yuri , Disability , POV , Psychosexual , Philosophy , Drawing , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Survival , Achronological Order , Urban , Nudity , Full Color , Denpa

Genjitsu Touhi Shitetara Boroboro ni Natta Hanashi

Also known as My Alcoholic Escape from Reality.

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

Nagata Kabi’s downward spiral is getting out of control, and she can’t stop drinking to soothe the ache of reality. After suffering from unbearable stomach pains, she goes to the hospital, where she is diagnosed with pancreatitis—and is immediately hospitalized. A new chapter unfolds in Nagata Kabi’s life, as she struggles to find her way back to reality and manga creation in the wake of her breakdown.



Note: Includes the prologue.

Tags: Autobiographical , Rehabilitation , Disability , Non-fiction , Female Protagonist , Medicine , Drawing , Josei , Philosophy , Drugs , Yuri

Hitori Koukan Nikki

Also known as My Solo Exchange Diary.

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

Struggling with the idea of living alone and adjusting to the effects of her previous book’s success, this follow-up to the award-winning autobiographical comic continues the author’s quest for self-acceptance and love.



Note: Includes 3 extra chapters and the one-shot “Chika-chan no Yuuutsu”.

Tags: Autobiographical , Female Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Non-fiction , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Family Life , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Suicide , Drawing , Disability

Jitsu wa Watashi Sexless de Nayandemashita

Also known as Secretly, I've Been Suffering About Being Sexless.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Married life isn't all lovey-dovey, or ooh-la-la steamy--not when you and your partner have opposing sex drives. When a married woman with a raging libido can't find the satisfaction she needs from her tame, lackluster husband, she's left with no choice but to get her fix elsewhere...



Note: Includes the epilogue.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Seinen , Non-fiction , Heterosexual , Autobiographical , Family Life , Marriage , Primarily Adult Cast

Arigatou tte Ieta nara

Also known as I Wish I Could Say “Thank You”.

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Slice of Life

How do you say “thank you” and “goodbye” to a woman who has been domineering and difficult her whole life? Especially when that woman is your mother!

Yukari had long struggled in a chaotic love-hate relationship with her mother Chieko, so when her mother is diagnosed with advanced stage pancreatic cancer with just months to live, she is faced with a difficult situation.

Takinami honestly recounts the turmoil created by this announcement from her sister Nao without ever descending into pathos. At first she thinks of the practical – where should her mother be, who’s going to look after her, how can I with my work and my child? Then slowly she starts to face the fact of losing this energetic woman who had never even caught a cold to her memory! After years marked by difficult communication, will they now manage to overcome their conflicts and say what’s truly in their hearts before it’s too late?



Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Autobiographical , Josei , Non-fiction

Hikikomori Niizuma

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

"Marriage"—when two who were once unrelated vow to love each other and wish for each other's happiness become "family." This marks the start of the married life of her dreams, or so she thought. Before she knew it, she became a shut-in!? What will the newlywed wife do!?

This is the true story of a woman who became a shut-in as she was living the newlywed life!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Autobiographical , Hikikomori , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Family Life , Urban , Marriage

P-chan wa Ningen ja Nai?: ADHD de Utsu no Watashi, Hatarakizurai kedo Nantoka Yattemasu

Status: Finished
Genres:

Tags: Autobiographical , Disability

Jibun no Karada wo Yurusu made

Also known as Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A bravely blunt autobiography about confronting the tangled traumas of gender dysphoria and workplace sexual harassment.

Nonbinary manga artist Poppy Pesuyama is excited when forms offer the option to choose "neither" for gender and thrilled about their new job working as an assistant for mangaka X! But then he sexually harasses them, treating them first like a girl and then like something less than human. It only lasts a few months, but in some ways it never ends.

Born into a body they hate and still reeling from the abuse they faced seven years ago, Pesuyama begins to rail at their past, their friends, and even their mother as they try to come to terms with who they are and what happened to them.



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Autobiographical , Agender , Transgender , Bisexual , Rehabilitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Bullying , Non-fiction , School , Disability , Seinen , Drawing , Work

Gyakutai Chichi ga Youyaku Shinda

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Even today, my childhood haunts me... This is the story of a woman who grew up with violence...

A message to parents who mistreat their kids: your children never forget. Neither the beatings nor the abuse. The same goes for insults or the feeling of being betrayed over and over again. Thus, I would like you to keep one thing in mind: when you get older, remember that your fate will be in their hands.

All I yearned for was a normal life... With normal parents...



Note: Originally serialized under the title "Chichi ga Shindara Yurusu Koto ga Dekimasu ka?" (父が死んだら許すことができますか？)

Tags: Autobiographical , Josei

Sayonara Shikyuu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Yuki Okada, at the age of 33, has a perfectly fulfilling life: happily married, mother of a little girl, and practicing the job she loves as a manga artist. But when she consults her doctor for a simple delay of her period, she does not expect the terrible news that awaits her: despite her young age, she has developed cancer of the cervix. She doesn't know how to react to the ordeal that life has imposed on her... However, she quickly realizes that she will have to make some hard choices. But between the opinions of her family and the doctors, how will she know what's the right thing to do?

Tags: Autobiographical , Female Protagonist , Josei , Medicine