Manga like Koi wa Ameagari no You ni

Kowloon Generic Romance

Also known as Kowloon Generic Romance.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge. Amid the hidden emotions and extraordinary daily lives of the men and women working in its confines, a tale of romance begins to unfold for real estate agent Reiko Kujirai—one that feels as familiar as Kowloon itself…



Note:
Nominated for the 14th Manga Taisho Award in 2021.
Nominated for the 6th Tsugimanga Award in the Print Manga Category in 2020.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Amnesia , Seinen , Clone , Primarily Adult Cast , Dystopian , Office Lady , Urban , Work , Alternate Universe , Nudity , Memory Manipulation , Heterosexual , Foreign , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gender Bending

Musume no Tomodachi

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

Kosuke has lived to play the ideal self as a father at home and as a manager at work. However, his life changes 180 degrees when he meets his daughter’s friend. In front of her, Kosuke was able to be his real self and his worn-out heart was healed. However, he knows that these are feelings that should never be held. The story of the middle-aged man meeting a young girl, presented to the modern people who suppress themselves in society, begins.

Tags: Age Gap , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Estranged Family , Female Protagonist , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Work , Office , Urban , Hikikomori , School , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Watashi no Shounen

Also known as My Boy.

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

Satoko Tawada, a 30-year-old office worker at a sporting goods company, encounters Mashuu Hayami, a 12-year-old boy, playing soccer in a park at night. She was treated cruelly by a former lover, he is dealing with a high-handed and uninvolved family. Both are burdened with loneliness, and they sense that the other has something that they’re searching for...



Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Office , Male Protagonist , Office Lady , Time Skip , Age Gap , Heterosexual , School , Love Triangle

Hirunaka no Ryuusei

Also known as Daytime Shooting Star.

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

After arriving in Tokyo to live with her uncle, Suzume collapses in a nearby park where she had once seen a shooting star during the day. A handsome stranger brings her to her new home and tells her they’ll meet again. Suzume starts her first day at her new high school sitting next to a boy who blushes furiously at her touch. And her homeroom teacher is none other than the handsome stranger!



Notes:
Includes 3 extra chapters.
Includes the one-shot "Tsuyu Kaoru (ツユカオル, A Love Story in Moist Rainy Days)"
Includes the one-shot "Heroine no Ryuusei (ヒロインの流星)"
Includes the one-shot "More than Words (モア ザン ワーズ)"
Includes the one-shot "Cookie Girl Cream Boy (クッキーガール クリームボーイ)"
Includes the one-shot "Hibi Ryuusei: Suzume no Parallel Koukou Nikki (日々流星－すずめのパラレル高校日記－, Suzume's Parallel School Diary)"

Tags: Shoujo , Love Triangle , School , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Teacher , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Urban , Primarily Teen Cast

Tsukikage Baby

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In a small provincial town filled with a spirit of preservation for a traditional performance art called, "Owara," arrives Hotaruko, a transfer student from Tokyo. When a local boy named Hikaru catches her in an awkward stance in - what was supposed to be - an empty classroom, they form a strange bond. What's more, their bond makes way for an unexpected development?



Tags: Josei , Dancing , Age Gap , Rural , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , School , Heterosexual , Fake Relationship

Koi to Yobu ni wa Kimochi Warui

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

Once you fall for someone, you can't stop the love. A strange encounter spurs the meeting of Amakusa Ryou, a high spec businessman who's loose with women, and his high school sister's best friend, Arima Ichika. From there, he falls madly in love. On the one hand, he approaches her with almost too straight-forward methods, while she responds simply disgusted, insulting him without hesitation...and he takes it as her way of showing love. This is a romantic comedy about a twisted elite employee and a normal otaku high school girl.

Note: Chapter count includes 7 extras.

Tags: Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Josei , Heterosexual , Love Triangle

Ristorante Paradiso

Also known as Ristorante Paradiso.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

At the age of 21, Nicoletta travels to Rome to find her mother, Olga, who abandoned her long ago. Nicoletta finds her at Casetta dell'Orso, a charming little restaurant owned by Olga's husband. The staff of bespectacled gentlemen welcomes Nicoletta warmly, but Olga's reception is not so pleasant. Olga has never told her husband that she ever had children--and he must never know.

In exchange for Nicoletta's playing "the daughter of an old friend," Olga offers Nicoletta a place to live and an apprenticeship at the restaurant. Nicoletta fits in well among the unique personalities at Casetta dell'Orso. She gets along particularly well with the kindly headwaiter, Claudio, a divorced man who, after years, has still never taken off his wedding ring. As Nicoletta's feelings for Claudio become complicated, she finds a sympathetic ear in Olga, leading the estranged pair to form a friendship neither expected. But as they grow closer, the pressure exerted by the secret they share becomes too much to bear.



Tags: Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Food , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Josei , Work , Bar , Iyashikei , Restaurant

Taisetsu na Hi wa Itsumo Ame

Also known as It Rains on Precious Days.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Kyoko always thought she would end up getting married to her long-term boyfriend Kenichi. However, reality hits her like a ton of bricks when he decides to end their relationship and move to Kyushu without her. At the age of 24, she starts a new life in Tokyo, where she crosses paths with Yoichi at her workplace. His warmth tugs at her heart, and despite their 17-year age gap, she falls in love with him. However, fate has other plans, and when two other men shake up her love life, she must make the biggest decision of her life.



Tags: Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Josei

Shiota-sensei to Amai-chan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The daily lives of model student Amai Yayoi and her high school teacher, Shiota Tsuguharu.

Tags: Josei , Episodic , Age Gap , Teacher , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , School , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Yuri

Lip Smoke

Also known as Lip Smoke.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

High-school student Setsuna Iwato works part-time for a publishing agency. When her employer is having trouble with an erotic fiction novelist, she becomes his assistant to help him rediscover the feeling of a "Pure Kiss".

Tags: Shoujo , Teacher , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual