Manga like Ashizuri Suizokukan

Shimeji Simulation

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

A girl who shut herself in a closet for the last 2 years of middle school realizes she has to go to high school. When she exits her closet for the first time in two years and looks at herself in the mirror, she notices that she grew shimeji mushrooms out of her head.

Tags: Meta , Surreal Comedy , Philosophy , Augmented Reality , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Denpa , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , 4-koma , Post-Apocalyptic , Hikikomori , Yuri , School , Episodic , Suicide , Gods , School Club , Tragedy , Religion , Trains

Henshin no News

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

A collection of short stories which feature the mystery of human beings with a seemingly surreal yet pure literature-like style.

Akahoshi-kun (赤星くん)
Suiheisen JPG (水平線JPG, Water Horizon JPG)
Hiruyasumi (昼休み, Lunch Break)
Dan-kun no Shinpai (ダンくんの心配, Dan-kun's Concerns)
Juu (銃, Gun)
Musume no Keikaku (娘の計画, The Daughter's Plan)
Seijin Bomb Natsu no Hi (成人ボム 夏の日, Adult Bomb Summer's Day)
Tonda Kuruma (飛んだ車, The Car That Flew)
Kamimura no Sawayaka na Hentai (紙村のさわやかな変体, Kamimura's Exhilirating Abnormality)

Tags: Denpa , Seinen , Anthology , Philosophy , Surreal Comedy , Coming of Age

Ano Ko no Ie

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

A slice-of-life manga that follows a little girl who leaves her childhood home to live in the woods after her neighbor is orphaned and she decides she too comfortable living her day-to-day peaceful life.

Tags: Rural , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Coming of Age , Animals , Seinen , Tragedy

Mitsuami no Kamisama

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

A story about a girl being kept in isolation in a world that appears to have experienced an earthquake and nuclear disaster.

Tags: Philosophy , Dystopian , Tragedy , Post-Apocalyptic , Seinen , Iyashikei

Yuuyake Trip

Also known as Nightfall Travelers: Leave Only Footprints.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

High schooler Ninamori Akane is assigned by the newspaper club to report on local places that are rumored to be haunted. She asks the new transfer student, Amemura Fujino, to join her, and together they discover the simple truths behind the spooky stories. Their friendship grows as they explore their town of labyrinthine paths and endless stairways.



Tags: Travel , Seinen , Female Protagonist

Rapid Commuter Underground

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

Zajiro is a salaryman who draws manga during his daily four-hour round-trip commute — a perfectly appropriate activity on a subway that shuttles between fantasy and reality. Today he continues to ride that real/surreal subway, pen in hand, depicting a mysterious underground world where pens take the form of pantographs and elephants amble aboard the train.



Tags: Trains , Full Color , Drawing , Meta , Denpa , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Surreal Comedy , Kemonomimi

Yuugai Muzai Gangu

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

Collection of one-shots:

1) Yuugai Muzai Gangu (有害無罪玩具)
2) Kyosuu Jikan no Asobi (虚数時間の遊び)
3) Kingyo no Ningyo wa Ningyo no Kingyo (金魚の人魚は人魚の金魚)
4) Bon ni Fukusui Bon ni Kaerazu (盆に復水 盆に帰らず)

Tags: Anthology , Meta , Philosophy , Alternate Universe , Post-Apocalyptic , Mermaid , Time Manipulation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri

Hanashippanashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

A collection of short stories about supernatural occurrences that take place in our everyday…

Note: Chapter count includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Seinen , Episodic , Anthology , Mythology , Denpa , Surreal Comedy

Samenai Machi no Kissaten

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

One day, Suzume finds herself unable to wake up, lost in a place known as the "Unwaking Town," Lutetia. There, she works at a coffee shop named "Quatre".

Tags: Iyashikei , Work , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Twins , Memory Manipulation , Amnesia , Chibi

Rojika to Rakkasei

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Psychological , Slice of Life

Rojika and Rakka live on a certain planet. They dig a hole to kill time, get a "Mystery Disc", find a "secret dungeon" in the forest, and spend every day having fun. There are a lot of things that the two still don't know on that planet ....



Tags: Lost Civilization , Post-Apocalyptic , Adoption , Tragedy , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Found Family , Seinen , Magic , Monster Boy , Primarily Animal Cast , Monster Girl , Male Protagonist , Environmental , Family Life , Parenthood