Manga like Ai-Ren

Jumyou wo Kaitotte Moratta. Ichinen ni Tsuki, Ichimanen de.

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

A twenty-year-old with little hope for the future discovers a shop that buys lifespan, time, and health. This is a story dealing with the ensuing consequences.

Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Coming of Age , Tragedy , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Suicide , Shounen , Photography , Drawing , Mopeds

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Also known as Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.

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

Set hundreds of years in the future after an environmental catastrophe, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (also known as Yokohama Shopping Log) centers on the simple life of Alpha, an android who runs a small coffee shop in coastal Japan. Alpha stands witness to chronicle the end of humanity’s days with coffee, a slice of watermelon, and the sound of her moon guitar backed by distant seagulls. Quiet and bittersweet, this tale is about the melancholy beauty that can be found even as the end approaches.



Tags: Iyashikei , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Rural , Time Skip , Lost Civilization , Robots , Coastal , Artificial Intelligence , Seinen , Episodic , Work , Yuri , Mopeds , Travel , Restaurant , Family Life , LGBTQ+ Themes , Motorcycles , Nudity

Chobits

Also known as Chobits.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

After moving from the countryside into the big city, poor college student Hideki Motosuwa finds himself down on his luck. All he wants is a good job, a girlfriend, and his very own “persocom” - the latest and greatest in humanoid computer technology. Hideki’s luck changes one night when he finds Chi - an adorable, but seemingly broken, persocom thrown out in a pile of trash. After taking her home, Hideki discovers that Chi is more responsibility than he expected - and that there’s much more to his cute new persocom than meets the eye.



Tags: Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Male Protagonist , Asexual , Age Gap , Seinen , Amnesia , Dissociative Identities , Philosophy , Nudity , Heterosexual , Memory Manipulation

CLOVER

Also known as Clover.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Kazuhiko is a young, but already deeply wounded black ops agent of a baroque, retro-tech future - pulled out of retirement to escort Sue, a mysterious waif, to a destination she alone knows. Suu and Kazuhiko have never met . . . yet she knows him, having grown up since the age of four with her only human contact being two distant voices: that of her elderly "grandma," General Ko, and of Kazuhiko's dead girlfriend, Oruha. And Suu has been kept in that cage all these years because of what she is, and what the Clover Leaf Project found her to be -- a military top secret, and the most dangerous person in the world.



Tags: Philosophy , Shoujo , Achronological Order , Tragedy , Super Power , Alternate Universe

Itoshi no Kana

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

Though his name may mean good luck, Daikichi is far from lucky. Losing his home and his job, he narrowly avoids being homeless when he finds an old abandoned apartment building. But the apartment isn't nearly as abandoned as it first appeared, as it's being occupied by the ghost of a girl who committed suicide there many years prior. An ecchi romantic comedy from Tanaka Yutaka, mangaka of Ai-Ren.

Includes extras:
Volume 2 oneshot: Arashi no Date (嵐のデート); Comic Marble Vol.2
Volume 3 contains chapter 21.5 "Kana no Kitaku" (かなの帰宅).

Tags: Ghost , Nudity , Seinen

Ressentiment

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

A story set in the near future, about a middle-aged loser whose only refuge is a virtual bishoujo game.

Takurou, the main character, is a stereotyped, low self-esteem, adult male in a dead-end job. Because he feels he has nothing to live for, he let himself go, becoming fat, miserable, and lonely. The only shining thing he lives for is the occasional visit to a brothel where his savings will allow him to at least not be completely sexless. This is when, through a real-life friend of his, he is introduced to the virtual reality world of "The Unreal." Where, after spending $6000+ on equipment, you can purchase a virtual girlfriend who only thinks of you. Only the girl, Tsukiko, that Takurou purchases, seems to have come with a few defects.



Tags: Virtual World , Seinen , Otaku Culture