Manga like Chuuou Asia Cooking

Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

Within the winding streets of Kyoto's geisha district, there lives a 16 year old girl named Kiyo. After failing to become a Maiko, an apprentice traditional Japanese performer, Kiyo works as the caterer for her troupe. This is the story of her daily life.

Tags: Food , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Iyashikei , Work , Shounen , Educational , Episodic , Yuri

Mazumeshi Elf to Yuuboku Gurashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

Reborn in another world! But there's too much rice! The elves are cute and have a nice atmosphere, but I can't live as they do! With the cooking skills of a professional, I'll surprise the elves!!
Cutting-edge!! Of a different world gourmet.

Note: Includes 6 extra chapters.

Tags: Food , Shounen , Educational , Monster Girl , Elf , Primarily Female Cast , Isekai , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Female Harem , Kemonomimi , Cosmic Horror , Time Manipulation , Economics

Dungeon Meshi

Also known as Delicious in Dungeon.

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

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions...and a member! They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to starve on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons...none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!



Notes:
Nominated in the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Manga Taishou Award in 2016-2019.
Ranked first in the 2016 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (Male Readers Division).
Includes 14 extra chapters.

Tags: Dungeon , Food , Environmental , Magic , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Lost Civilization , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , Elf , Dragons , Demons , Cosmic Horror , LGBTQ+ Themes , Body Horror , Kemonomimi , Necromancy , Episodic , Monster Girl , Iyashikei , Alternate Universe , Succubus , Witch , Mermaid

Shokugeki no Souma

Also known as Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi

Yukihira Souma's dream is to become a full-time chef in his father's restaurant and surpass his father's culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Souma's fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?



Included side stories:
Volume 1: Shokugeki no Souma (pilot).
Volume 3: Kimi to Watashi no Renai Soudan.
Volume 8: Natsuyasumi no Erina.
Volume 13: Shokugeki no Soma X Isobe Isobee Monogatari.
Volume 13: Betsubara! #1 & #2 (counts as one chapter).
Volume 15: Betsubara! #3 & #4 (counts as one chapter).
Volume 20: Betsubara! #5.
Volume 21: Betsubara! #6 & #7 (counts as one chapter).
Volume 31: Kareinaru Bansankai.

Tags: Food , School , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Nudity , Educational , Time Skip , Tsundere , Incest , Desert

Golden Kamuy

Also known as Golden Kamuy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama

In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.



Note: Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016 and the 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018. Nominated for the 20th and 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Tags: Conspiracy , Historical , Military , Outdoor , Seinen , Educational , Politics , Ensemble Cast , Surreal Comedy , Food , Travel , Found Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Survival , Guns , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Language Barrier , Crime , Slapstick , Revenge , Anti-Hero , Trains , Male Harem , Snowscape , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Prison , Swordplay , Disability , Suicide , Archery , Tanned Skin , Boys' Love , Twins , Transgender , Cannibalism , Yakuza , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Zoophilia , Dissociative Identities , Heterosexual , Gender Bending

Tenju no Kuni

Also known as Blissful Land.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Khang Zhipa is a 13-year-old doctor’s apprentice living in a mountain village in 18th-century Tibet. One day, when he gets back from collecting medicinal herbs, he finds a bride-to-be and her wedding party will be resting at his home for the night. The bride’s name is Moshi Rati and it turns out she’s actually Khang Zhipa’s fiancee from another land, here to stay! Enjoy this heartwarming slice-of-life tale woven by a kind-hearted boy and his mysterious bride.



Tags: Medicine , Rural , Iyashikei , Arranged Marriage , Foreign , Historical , Family Life , Marriage , Primarily Child Cast , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Educational , Shounen , Food

Otoyomegatari

Also known as A Bride's Story.

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

A Bride’s Story tells the tale of a beautiful young bride in nineteenth-century Asia. At the age of twenty, Amir is sent to a neighboring town to be wed. But her surprise at learning her new husband, Karluk, is eight years younger than her is quickly replaced by a deep affection for the boy and his family. Though she hails from just beyond the mountains, Amir’s clan had very different customs, foods, and clothes from what Karluk is used to. As the two of them learn more about each other through their day-to-day lives, the bond of respect and love grows stronger.



Note: Won the Prix Intergénérations ("Intergenerational Award") at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2012 and the 7th Manga Taishou award in 2014.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Historical , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Marriage , Foreign , Heterosexual , Iyashikei , Travel , Age Gap , Family Life , Educational , Arranged Marriage , Food , Twins , War , Archery , Nudity , Language Barrier , LGBTQ+ Themes , Animals

Onna no Ko ga Iru Basho wa

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

This short serialization presents stories of young girls across the world, who are told what to do, or not to do, "because they are a woman", either because of the religion or the culture of the place they live in.

Soccerball Kettobasu Hi (サッカーボールを蹴飛ばす日)
Set in Saudia Arabia and follows the girl Salma as she learns about a part of her family that had been hidden from her.
Shikamettsura to Megane (しかめっつらとメガネ)
Set in Morocco and follows the girl Habiba as her family for a month long period hosts a strict and conservative old friend of her grandmother's who won't stop chastising Habiba and her older sister for not being pretty enough or too interested in scholary pursuits. But is there a reason behind this old woman's unkind demeanour?
Ookina Ie no Ojou-san (大きな家のお嬢さん)
Set in India and follows the girl Kanti as she suddenly goes from poverty to wealth when her mother remarries. She can now go to school and gets a tutor, the 17 year old Asha. However it becomes clear that the help Kanti's stepfather has been offering Asha may not be as charitable as it seems.
Obaachan to Mama to Papa (おばあちゃんとママとパパ)
Set in Japan and follows the girl Marie. Marie and her divorced mother live together with a conservative grandmother who has been pushing old fashioned ideals of what an ideal girl and woman is onto Marie.
Hajimari no Hi (はじまりの日)
Set in Afghanistan in 2002 after the Taliban first lost power. We follow two girls as they receive school supplies for the first time.

Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Non-fiction , Educational , Religion , Football , Family Life , Arranged Marriage , Polyamorous