Manga like Avant-Garde Yumeko

Sweet Poolside

Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi , Romance , Sports

Oota Toshihiko is a meek 7th grade boy who's teased for having an unnaturally hairless skin. Meanwhile, his female classmate Gotou Ayako suffers from having unnaturally hairy skin which she must shave everyday, despite being terrible at shaving. And by the 2nd law of manga-tropes, Oota accidentally walks in on Gotou shaving one day, and is then roped into helping his hairy classmate shave.

Note: Includes one epilogue and the one-shot "Choujou Eyes Sawada" (超常眼球　沢田).

Tags: Shounen , Coming of Age , School Club , Bullying , Swimming , School , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Unrequited Love

Shino-chan wa Jibun no Namae ga Ienai

Also known as Shino Can't Say Her Name.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

High school can be a stressful time for many young people. The change means a new commute, new friends, new courses…new teachers. For Shino Oshima the change could have meant an opportunity to blossom into adulthood. Unfortunately, things go wrong on her first day - she fails to even say her name during her homeroom introduction. From then on Shino is a part-mute part-stuttering mess. Ostracized and afraid she struggles to find her place in this new world... But thankfully for her, she finds her voice through music and some unexpected new frienemies.



Tags: School , Seinen , Bullying , Language Barrier , Female Protagonist , Time Skip , Musical Theater

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

Onna no Hadaka wo Nama de Mitai

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Wanting to see a naked girl in person, Tsuda Kouta attends a nude model sketching session where he was awakened to the arts. There, he also meets our heroine who speaks in Kansai dialect and a pure, sugar-sweet love begins to unfold.

Five other short stories included!

Tags: Seinen

Alabaster no Kisetsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

Maeda Gin is a student who enjoys drawing graffitis at an abandoned apartment complex building near his school, with his friends and acolytes, Teppei and Kon-chan. One night, while they're at work on one of their masterpieces, they're interrupted by a mysterious ghastly pale-skinned woman who scares them. In the process of fleeing, Gin loses his sketchbook to her and then from this point onwards, his life will change in a major way! Some nude painting with his beautiful and attractive art teacher? Welcome to Season of Alabaster.

Tags: Drawing , Teacher , School , School Club , Nudity , Age Gap , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love

Fujiko no Kimyou na Shoseijutsu: Whitesnake no Gosan

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Supernatural

During the events of Stone Ocean, Jolyne hears the story of one of her co-prisoners—a shunga (erotic ukiyo-e) artist popular among the inmates. Following the two's meeting, Pucci comes up yet another Stand-powered plan to put Jotaro's daughter out of commission.

Tags: Drawing , Prison , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri

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 , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Tragedy , Transgender , Bisexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing , Gender Bending , Suicide , Nudity , Tomboy

Oyasumi Punpun

Also known as Goodnight Punpun.

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

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town.
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back.
He wants to find some porn.
That’s what he wants, but what does he get…?



Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Tragedy , Philosophy , Denpa , Psychosexual , Suicide , Urban , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Anti-Hero , Time Skip , Fugitive , Surreal Comedy , School , Cult , Meta , Work , Nudity , Gods , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Ghost

Yuki Nee-chan no Kannou Gokko.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

First year Highschool boy Shin Yuki stumbles one day upon his naked childhood friend reenacting a sensual novel with an mannequin in an empty classroom. Yukino Kurose, a third year student, loved to reeanact stories with Yuki's help from books when she was a child, to discover how the characters in the story felt. This time she got herself a sensual novel and asks Yuki to help her out with her reenactment again. Otherwise she'll have to find someone else, because mannequins are not enough. After a quick deliberation Yuki decided to help her out, because he doesn't want anyone else to see her naked

Tags: Heterosexual , Human Pet , Primarily Female Cast , Love Triangle , Female Harem , Nudity , Seinen , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Tsundere , Tomboy , Yuri , Crossdressing