Manga like Chibi Maruko-chan

What is Chibi Maruko-chan about?

Status: Releasing

The title character, Maruko, is a nine-year-old third-grade student. She is lazy, disorganized and usually late for school, in strong contrast with her neat and tidy older sister who must share her room with her. Maruko, like many kids, tries to avoid homework and chores, takes advantage of her doting grandfather and squabbles with her sister. Nevertheless, she is a well-meaning child who tries to do good.

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 , Autobiographical , Shoujo , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , School , Urban , Episodic , Historical , Satire
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Here is a list of Manga similar to Chibi Maruko-chan

Crayon Shinchan

Crayon Shin-chan

Also known as Crayon Shinchan.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

Shinnosuke Nohara might look like an innocent little kid, but anyone whose dealt with kids know they're anything but innocent. Relentlessly sassing the adults around him, pulling perverted pranks, and driving people to tears with embarrassment, Crayon Shinchan's the "kindergartener from hell," a five-year-old boy whose bodily functions, offensive comments, and outrageous behavior consistently annoy everyone around him. A national phenomenon in Japan, this shocking and hilarious comic celebrates the terrible power of destruction and indecency wielded by toddlers everywhere!



Tags: School , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Family Life , Slapstick , Seinen
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Yotsuba&!

Yotsuba to!

Also known as Yotsuba&!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai...um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving's fun 'cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made friends to play with (one of 'em acted like one of those bad strangers Daddy told Yotsuba not to go with, but it was okay in the end). I hope we get to play a lot. And eat ice cream! And-and-and...oh yeah! You should come play with Yotsuba too!



Notes:
Includes an interlude.
Won the Excellence Award for Manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006 and the Grand Prize of the 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2016.
Was nominated for the Manga Taishō award in 2008 and for the 12th and 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2008 and 2016.
Was nominated for the Eisner Award in the "Best Publication for Kids" category.

Tags: Family Life , Iyashikei , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Parenthood , Rural , Adoption , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy
The Wonderful World of Sazae-San

Sazae-San

Also known as The Wonderful World of Sazae-San.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Slice of Life manga about a woman named Sazae and her family.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Josei , 4-koma
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Azuki-chan

Azuki-chan

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

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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Tokimeki Tonight

Tokimeki Tonight

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

This is a long, epic manga that spans three generations of the Etou family. The first part is about Ranze, a relatively normal high school girl, except for the fact that her father is a vampire, her mother is a werewolf, and that she has magical powers of her own. Her family was banished from the Magic World to live among the humans, and they now guard the gate between the two realms. The story really begin when Ranze falls for a human boy, which her parents strictly forbid. Later story arcs focus on Ranze's brother and on Ranze's daughter.



Note: Includes 9 extra chapters.

Tags: Family Life , Shapeshifting , Magic , Super Power , Twins , Shoujo , Vampire , Werewolf , Female Protagonist , Body Swapping , Heterosexual , Surreal Comedy , War , Fairy Tale , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Time Manipulation , Memory Manipulation , Boxing , Reincarnation , Age Regression , Gods , Mythology , Necromancy , Slapstick , Urban Fantasy , Yakuza , Tragedy , Acting , Witch , Henshin , Body Horror , Writing , Orphan , Yandere
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Jarinko Chie

Jarinko Chie

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The manga is about ten-year-old Chie, "the most unfortunate girl in Japan," who manages her family diner while her unemployed yakuza father and her mother are separated.

Note: Jarinko Chie won the 26th Shogakukan Manga Award for best general manga in 1981.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Seinen
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Asari-chan

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: Primarily Child Cast , Shoujo
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Kocchi Muite! Miiko

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 , School , Coming of Age , Episodic , Chibi
Kokko-san

Kokko-san

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

In that wonderful time of our life when we are children and we come out into the world with all our curiosity, and every event is a source of surprise and marvel. In that wonderful time of our lives, where tranquility allows us, we love spending time with our friends and sharing their dreams. This is the story of a little girl and her "Kokko san", a story made ​​up of remnants of daily life, hilarious situations, and emotions that open the heart.

From the award-winning author of "The Town of Evening Calm; The Country of Cherry Blossoms", in a story that's sweet and funny at the same time.

Tags: Kids , Female Protagonist , Animals , School , Seinen , Family Life
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Atashinchi

Atashinchi

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Outrageous misadventures of an almost normal family with a housewife, her husband, and their two kids Yuusuke and Mikan. Wacky humor about this weird family's daily life.

Tags: Chibi , Female Protagonist , Family Life
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