Manga like Alabaster no Kisetsu

Sora wo Matotte

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama

Namiji Ogawa is a high school student who teaches himself oil painting every day in order to draw the ultimate nude. After an encounter with a certain "witch", the goal is to take the entrance exam to Tokyo University of the Arts...!?

Tags: Drawing , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Age Gap , Coming of Age , Nudity

Blue Period

Also known as Blue Period.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…



Note: Nominated for Manga Taisho Awards in 2019, Kodansha Manga Awards in 2019 and the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020. Winner of the 13th Manga Taisho Awards. Winner of the General Manga category of the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Awards.

Tags: Drawing , Coming of Age , College , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Educational , Philosophy , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Transgender , Bisexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing , Gender Bending , Nudity , Suicide , Tomboy

Kumanishi Bijutsubu Rough Sketch-senpai

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

A libido-fueled art comedy featuring the secret art club activities of a delinquent girl and the boy who will make her his masterpiece.



Tags: Drawing , School , School Club , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Gyaru , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Heterosexual , Delinquents , Mythology

Look Back

Also known as Look Back.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Fujino is a fourth grader who draws a manga strip for the school newspaper. Her art makes her the star of the class, but one day she's told that Kyomoto, a student who refuses to come to school, would also like to submit a manga for the paper...



Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on September 3, 2021.

Tags: Drawing , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Hikikomori , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Work , School , Autobiographical , Meta , Shounen , Primarily Child Cast

Imouto no Ane

Also known as Sisters.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

Mitsuko is a third year at an art high school. In the hallway, she found a painting which had won the school competition and would be hung up for a whole year; a nude painting of herself done by her little sister, even though Mitsuko had never posed for her. About sibling who draw naked drawing of each other.

Tags: Drawing , Female Protagonist , Nudity , School , Family Life , Shounen

Avant-Garde Yumeko

Also known as Avant-Garde Yumeko.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Psychological

I just want to see it! High schooler Yumeko is your ordinary high school girl except she's obsessed with seeing the male body part in real life. Determined, Yumeko decides to join the art club at school.



Note: Includes the one-shot "Super Fly" (スーパーフライ);.

Tags: Nudity , Female Protagonist , School Club , Drawing , School , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age

Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru

Also known as My Dress-Up Darling.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

Traumatized by a childhood incident with a friend who took exception to his love of traditional dolls, doll-artisan hopeful Gojou Wakana passes his days as a loner, finding solace in the home ec room at his high school. To Wakana, people like beautiful Kitagawa Marin, a trendy girl who's always surrounded by a throng of friends, is practically an alien from another world. But when cheerful Marin--never one to be shy--spots Wakana sewing away one day after school, she barges in with the aim of roping her quiet classmate into her secret hobby: cosplay! Will Wakana's wounded heart be able to handle the invasion from this sexy alien?!



Tags: Cosplay , Otaku Culture , Fashion , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Gyaru , Makeup , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Photography , Seinen , Educational , Primarily Female Cast , Crossdressing , School , Unrequited Love , Drawing

Ballroom e Youkoso

Also known as Welcome to the Ballroom.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sports

Fujita has drifted through middle school aimlessly, unable to find friends or anything that can hold his attention. Then, one day, he's attacked by a gang and saved by a mysterious man. But this isn't a karate master; it's a ballroom dance instructor! Reluctantly, Fujita takes a few beginner's classes, only to find his inspiration... an entrancing, teenage dance prodigy named Shizuku. It's Fujita's first step into the high-octane world of competitive dance!



Note: Nominated for the 6th and 8th Manga Taisho Award.

Tags: Dancing , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , School

Kono Manga no Heroine wa Morisaki Amane desu.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

Aizumi Kyousuke's goal is to debut as a mangaka while still in school, however, his childhood friend, Amane, sees this as an impediment for him to concentrate on his studies now that he started college, so when he asks her for help to be the model of the protagonist of his manga, she will seek to do it "wrong" to take that idea out of his head, not knowing that her "strange" poses would end up motivating him even more.

Tags: College , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Drawing , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast

Kinyoubi wa Atelier de

Also known as Friday at the Atelier.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Tamaki's asked by the famous painter Shunsui to become a nude model. When she accepts without hesitation, he somehow falls for her?! The love story between an oblivious girl and a handsome but extremely self-conscious artist begins! Note: Includes one bonus extra and 10 interlude chapters.

Tags: Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Nudity , Food , Tsundere