Manga like Louvre no Neko

Kishibe Rohan Louvre e Iku

Also known as Rohan at the Louvre.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

As Rohan, a young Japanese manga artist, is drawing, he meets a mysterious, beautiful woman who tells him of a cursed 200-year-old painting. The painting was created using the blackest ink ever known, which came from a 1,000-year-old tree that the painter had cut down without the approval of the Emperor. The painter was executed for this, but the painting was saved from destruction by a curator of the Louvre. A decade later, Rohan visits Paris and asks the museum to unearth the painting from deep within its archives—but he is completely unprepared for the power of the curse he has unleashed.



Tags: Foreign , Ghost , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Full Color , Body Horror , Gore , Super Power , Drawing

Sennen no Tsubasa, Hyakunen no Yume

Also known as The Guardians of the Louvre.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Acclaimed manga artist Jiro Taniguchi provides the latest entry in the Louvre collection of graphic novels. After a group trip to Europe, a Japanese artist stops in Paris alone, intent on visiting the museums of the capital. But, bedridden in his hotel room with fever, he faces the absolute solitude of one suffering in a foreign land, deprived of any immediate or familiar recourse. When the fever breaks somewhat, he sets out on his visit and promptly gets lost in the crowded halls of the Louvre. Very soon, he discovers many unsuspected facets to this world in a museum in a journey oscillating between feverish hallucination and reality, actually able to speak with famous painters from various periods of history, led to crossroads between human and personal history by... the Guardians of the Louvre.



Tags: Historical , Seinen , Foreign , Full Color , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Educational

MUJIRUSHI

Also known as Mujirushi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Kamoda will do anything to earn a quick buck, even if it means skipping out on his taxes to take his wife on a luxury cruise. But when a random tax audit bankrupts his family, Kamoda soon discovers his wife has taken that cruise after all—only without Kamoda or their daughter Kasumi.

Desperate to provide, Kamoda invests in a scheme to mass-produce masks of controversial American presidential candidate Beverly Duncan. But a lackluster election kills their sales potential, burying Kamoda under a mountain of masks and debt. On the verge of despair, Kamoda discovers a sign that leads him to the Director, an art fanatic who vows he can make all of Kamoda and Kasumi’s dreams come true.



Tags: Foreign , Crime , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Language Barrier

Sunny

Also known as Sunny.

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

The story of an orphanage, the children who live in it, and the beat-up old Nissan Sunny 1200 which provides them with a means of escape from their boring everyday lives.

Note: Winner of the Best Manga of the Year award at the 2016 Shogakukan Manga Awards.

Tags: Family Life , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Seinen , Estranged Family , Tragedy , Autobiographical , Rural , Adoption , Episodic , Cars , Delinquents , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Baseball

Tekkon Kinkreet

Also known as Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Supernatural

Orphaned on the mean streets of Treasure Town, lost boys Black and White must mug, steal and fight to survive. Around them moves a world of corruption and loneliness, small-time crooks and neurotic police officers, and a band of sadistic yakuza who have plans for their once-fair city. Can they rise above their environment?

Won the Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan for the Eisner Award in 2008.



Tags: Seinen , Gangs , Urban , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Denpa , Yakuza , Primarily Child Cast , Mafia , Orphan , Nudity

Kuro

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

As the sole inhabitant of an enormous mansion, Coco would be utterly alone if not for her beloved black cat Kuro. Although he has his quirks, the two are an inseparable pair and enjoy fun-filled adventures on a daily basis.

Lulled into bliss by these idyllic days, Coco is completely unaware of the harrowing reality that surrounds her. For everyone else in her town, life is filled with dread and unease. They fear the sinister forces enveloping their town, but they are also afraid of Coco and Kuro. Ignorant of the situation, Coco lives out her peaceful days with Kuro, but her days of blissful ignorance may be quickly coming to an end...

Note: Includes 12 extra chapters.

Tags: Demons , Full Color , Animals , Tragedy , Amnesia , Body Horror , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Historical , Seinen , Conspiracy , Episodic , Gore

Omoide Emanon

Also known as Memories of Emanon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

The year is 1967, and a young Japanese man is thinking about the future. On one side of the water, the war is raging in Vietnam; far away on the other side, the Apollo Project has just met with disaster as three astronauts die in a capsule fire. And here and now, on a long nighttime ferry ride back home, he will meet and fall in love with a mysterious young woman who carries a past deeper and more profound than his dreams and fears of tomorrow. Her name, she jokes, is no name—Emanon, and she can never be forgotten, any more than she can forget.



Tags: Seinen , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Reincarnation , Heterosexual , Historical , Amnesia , Time Skip , Travel , Environmental , Nudity , Ships , Super Power , Autobiographical

Champagne

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Shunsuke Sakaki is a part-time university lecturer on Western European history. Ema Sakiyama, his student and Roppongi’s top hostess, asks for his help in settling a dispute with a customer who sent back a glass of champagne. With help from Rin, Ema’s friend who is oddly knowledgeable about champagne, it looks like Sakaki is gradually coming to understand the profound world of champagne, but…?

Tags: Seinen , Food , College , Bar

Keibiin-san to Neko: Onomichi Shiritsu Bijutsukan no Neko

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The Onomichi City Museum of Art is faced with a battle between two cats who really want to get into museum and a security guard who is trying to stop them!



Tags: Iyashikei , Biographical , Animals

107 Goushitsu Tsuushin

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

"Only I can remember what everybody else forgot." A collection of very short stories, almost poems, focused on a woman who takes on different roles. Surrealistic, slice-of-life, psychological, and sci-fi themes coexist in this volume, expressed in pale, ethereal hues.



Tags: Episodic , Female Protagonist