Manga like Azuki-chan

What is Azuki-chan about?

Status: Finished

Azuki-chan is a manga series about a young schoolgirl named Azusa Noyama, nicknamed Azuki-chan because when she was younger she was accidentally called Azuki instead of Azusa.

She always hated the name until one day a new boy starts in the same class as her called Yūnosuke Ogasawara, the same day she is teased by a boy called Ken-chan about her nickname. Yūnosuke-kun passes by and happily memorizes the name becoming the first girl he notices. Azuki is over joyed, and instantly falls in love with him, loving both him and her nickname.

However Azuki gets jealous when she sees him chatting to other girls and cannot work out why he doesn't realize her love.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist

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Chibi Maruko-chan

Also known as Chibi Maruko-chan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Momoko Sakura is a third-grade elementary school student. Because she’s small and a girl, everyone calls her “Chibi Maruko-chan.” This delightful, diary-style comic follows the everyday adventures of Maruko-chan and her quirky family and school friends.

Notes: Won the 13th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 1989. After Sakura-sensei's passing in 2018, the production was taken over by her former assistants at Sakura Production, with irregular serialization continuing in Ribon Magazine.

Tags: Chibi , Urban , Autobiographical , Shoujo , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , School , Episodic , Historical , Satire

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Kodomo no Omocha

Also known as Kodocha: Sana's Stage.

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

Sana Kurata is a cheerful, energetic child actress in 6th grade who appears on a popular TV show. With her mother, Misako, and her manager, Rei, at her side, life is full of happiness. But her class at school, led by Akito Hayama, is plagued by chaos. In the face of such conflict, what will Sana do?!

Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Coming of Age , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , School , Acting , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Orphan , Tsundere , Slapstick , Family Life , Heterosexual , Suicide , Adoption

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Kocchi Muite! Miiko

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The continuation of Miiko Desu!
This time, Miiko is in the fifth grade, and the stories have become more exciting! (Doko Demo Doa Manga Scanlations)

This series received the 1996 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.

Ano Hi Kara no Denwa:
Haruna’s father buys a new cell phone and gives his old one to her baby sister to play with. It’s old-fashioned and heavy, but Haruna discovers that this phone has a secret power… -cloudcake16-

Tags: Kids , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Coming of Age , School , Chibi

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Asari-chan

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Short stories about Asari, a naughty, boyish, voracious, but also a very innocent girl.

Note: Winner of the 1985 Shogakukan Manga Award in the Children's category.

Tags: Shoujo , Primarily Child Cast , Episodic , Family Life , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Tomboy

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Shougakusei no Himitsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

There are many firsts when you are a child. The first time your heart pounds fast when you see your childhood friend, when it didn't do so before. The first changes in your body. Friendships and relationships that all too sudden become more complicated. The times when you don't want to talk to anyone, but it feels too hard to bear alone. This is the story of elementary school children.

Tags: Shoujo , Primarily Child Cast , School

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12-sai.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

The story begins with Hanabi, a sixth-grade girl who is neither an adult nor a child. She deals with issues such as accidentally witnessing her homeroom teacher kissing, and worrying about experiencing physiological changes before her friends. This is the depiction of a 12-year-old girl's innocent worries and first love.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast

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Mizuiro Jidai

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

The story follows Yuko Kawai, a junior highschool student, as she faces the challenges of growing up and overcoming her shyness as she comes of age. She begins seeing her best friend Hiroshi Naganuma, the boy next door, in a different light.

Tags: Shoujo , School

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