Manga like Canis: Dear Mr. Rain

Haruka Tooki Ie

Also known as A Home Far Away.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In the winter of 1990, a young man named Alain finds himself lost and searching for direction. He currently cannot find it at home nor through the church. But when he meets Hayden, a free-spirited cook, he at least finds someone he can relate with. He may not know where his life is going but at least he has someone to lean on. But Alain's new life, filled with new feelings and many new challenging experiences, may force him to find his path on the road...



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Travel , Boys' Love , Tragedy , Fugitive , Religion , Crime , Foreign , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Prostitution , Nudity

Banana Fish

Also known as Banana Fish.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...



Tags: Mafia , Tragedy , Gangs , Conspiracy , Noir , Drugs , Primarily Male Cast , Crime , Revenge , Criminal Organization , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Coming of Age , Shoujo , Delinquents , Urban , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Politics , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Adoption , Orphan , Tanned Skin , Assassins , LGBTQ+ Themes , Boys' Love , Police , Cars , Bisexual , Photography , Classic Literature , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Prison

Toumei na Ai no Utsuwa

Also known as The Vessel of a Transparent Love.

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

Miki Donoue has lived a life of full misfortune since childhood. Kind but timid, he has always kept alone to himself to prevent others from being caught up with his misfortunes. One night, he is approached by a mysterious man who asks him, "Can you give me your misfortune?" The man claims to be a "akashibito," a monster that feeds on human misfortune to sustain its life, and he claims that he malnourished and near death. The good-natured Miki names the monster "Shiro" and decides to take him in to feed him energy. Shiro's pure devotion to his human host is a source of joy, and he soon finds himself attracted to Miki. But as his days are filled with happiness, something begins to happen to Shiro's body...? Note: Includes one bonus chapter.

Tags: Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Youkai , Work , Virginity , Age Gap , Bisexual , Anal Sex , Rehabilitation , Nudity

Kimi no Yoru ni Fureru

Also known as Touch Within the Abyss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

“When you get to know the real me… you will be disappointed.”

Chinatsu, a hitman, meets his destiny again. His name is Kasumi. He was the boy who reached out to Chinatsu when he lost his brother in front of his eyes.

A few years later, Chinatsu rescues Kasumi from a snatcher by chance. Kasumi is blind, and Chinatsu can’t leave him alone in the street… although he knows he shouldn’t get close to him, the distance between them gets shorter day by day…

A story of redemption, in which two young men trapped in darkness slowly soothe each other’s loneliness.



Note: Chapter count includes one extra.

Tags: Boys' Love , Disability , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Assassins

Paradise Kiss

Also known as Paradise Kiss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Yukari wants nothing more than to make her parents happy by studying hard and getting into a good college. One afternoon, however, she is kidnapped by a group of self-styled fashionistas calling themselves "Paradise Kiss." Yukari suddenly finds herself flung into the roller-coaster life of the fashion world, guided by George, art-snob extraordinaire. In a glamorous makeover of body, mind and soul, she is turned from a hapless bookworm into her friends 22 own exclusive clothing model.



Tags: Josei , Coming of Age , Fashion , Female Protagonist , School , Heterosexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Meta , Bisexual , Ensemble Cast , Love Triangle , Transgender , Time Skip , Unrequited Love , Nudity , Boys' Love

NO.6

Also known as No. 6.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi

For Shion, an elite student in the technologically sophisticated city No. 6, life is carefully choreographed. School, study, and the occasional visit with his friend and classmate Safu. One fateful day, however, he takes a misstep, sheltering an injured boy his age from a typhoon. Known only as Rat, this boy is a VC—a fugitive living outside the computerized tapestry of city control—and helping him will throw Shion’s life into chaos and start him down a path to discovering the appalling secrets behind the superficial perfection of No. 6.



Tags: Anti-Hero , Dystopian , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Urban , Crime , Conspiracy , Shoujo , LGBTQ+ Themes , Lost Civilization , Cyberpunk , Boys' Love , Yandere , Male Protagonist , Acting , Gods , Class Struggle , Crossdressing

Kimi no Yoru ni Fureru

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

This is an "after-story" about their honeymoon period. Note: A booklet originally bundled with the Animate edition of the tankoubon.

Tags: Boys' Love , Primarily Adult Cast , Disability , Primarily Male Cast

Tonari no Hyakkai Kenbunroku

Also known as Tales of the Hundred Monsters Next Door.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

Katagiri Jinpachi is a man plagued by mysteries, and the only one who can help him is the mysterious Harada Oriza, a famed painter of ghost and yokai portraits. These two men share the same peculiar fate, and their wicked tale of the ghastly and the curious, the strange and the shocking, all begins here.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Youkai , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Age Gap

Ginmokusei no Shitateya

Also known as Haberdashery Ginmokusei.

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

Ubuki has taken over Ginmokusei, a long-established haberdashery in Ginza, he inherited from his grandfather. But unlike when his grandfather was in charge, the shop is now dead!
So when a handsome man named Tosei comes to visits the shop, Ubuki is elated! But his joy is cut short when he is told that his customer service is not up to par.



Tags: Boys' Love , Work , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tanned Skin , Fashion , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast

Sweet Our 1R

Also known as Our Sweet One-Room Apartment.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Kaname and Shima have been living together for a year. They have sex almost every day, and things are going well for the couple—at least until Kaname begins to think he’s a sex addict and starts avoiding sex with Shima. Shima, on the other hand, mistakenly believes Kaname is bored of him. Will their long-awaited trip to Tokyo resolve this misunderstanding before it snowballs into an avalanche?



Tags: Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Time Skip , Cohabitation