Manga like Complex Age

Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru

Also known as My Dress-Up Darling.

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

Traumatized by a childhood incident with a friend who took exception to his love of traditional dolls, doll-artisan hopeful Gojou Wakana passes his days as a loner, finding solace in the home ec room at his high school. To Wakana, people like beautiful Kitagawa Marin, a trendy girl who's always surrounded by a throng of friends, is practically an alien from another world. But when cheerful Marin--never one to be shy--spots Wakana sewing away one day after school, she barges in with the aim of roping her quiet classmate into her secret hobby: cosplay! Will Wakana's wounded heart be able to handle the invasion from this sexy alien?!



Tags: Cosplay , Otaku Culture , Fashion , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Gyaru , Heterosexual , Makeup , Seinen , Photography , Educational , Primarily Female Cast , Crossdressing , School , Drawing , Unrequited Love

Kitai Fuku ga Aru

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

University student Mami is seen by everyone as the fashionable cool model-type but she secretly just wants to wear Lolita fashion.

While she tries occasionally to be more cute & less "stylish", she can't overcome the imagine others have of her. When she watches a new coworker at the cafe she jobs part-time leave in a extremly flashy outfit, it sparks the courage in her to express herself more truthfully too!

Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Fashion

Tokyo Tarareba Musume

Also known as Tokyo Tarareba Girls.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

"I spent all my time wondering 'What if?' Then one day I woke up and I was 33."

Rinko doesn't think she's that bad-looking, but before she knew it, she was thirty-something and single. Now she wants to get married by the time the Tokyo Olympics rolls around in six years, but… that might be easier said than done!



Note:
-Nominated for the 9th and 10th Manga Taisho Award and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.
-Includes 25 extra chapters.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Female Protagonist , Satire , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Primarily Female Cast , Bar , Urban , Love Triangle

Genshiken

Also known as Genshiken.

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

It’s spring of freshman year, and Kanji Sasahara has a difficult dilemma. Should he declare his love for manga and anime fandom by joining an otaku club, like he has always wanted to? Is he prepared to deal with the social stigma attached to being an otaku? Meanwhile, Saki Kasakabe has her own otaku conundrum. How can she turn her boyfriend, anime fanboy Makoto, into a normal guy? Kanji follow his heart as does Saki. When both Kanji and Makoto join Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Saki chases Makoto through the various activities of the club from cosplaying and comic conventions, to video gaming and anime model figures. Saki finds otaku to be more than she imagined, but not necessarily in a good way.



Tags: Otaku Culture , School Club , College , Seinen , Cosplay , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Meta , Parody , Tragedy , School , Video Games

Nigeru wa Haji daga Yaku ni Tatsu

Also known as The Full-Time Wife Escapist.

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

What’s a girl to do when there are no jobs? Once Mikuri Moriyama got out of grad school, all she could find was a temp job, and they just laid her off! Worried about his daughter, her dad helps her get a job doing housekeeping for this guy he used to work with named Tsuzaki. Just when things are starting to go well, though, Mikuri’s parents decide it’s time to move out to the countryside. She’ll likely be unemployed for the rest of her life if she goes with them, but she doesn’t make enough money to rent her own place. That’s when Mikuri, always the daydreamer, comes up with a solution out of left field …



Notes:
Originally ended on February 25, 2017 with 43 chapters and a bonus. The series directly continued in Kiss3 on January 19, 2019 with chapter 44.
Volume 9 contains the side story "Tateba Shakuyaku, Suwareba Botan, Aruku Sugata wa Yuri no Hana" (立てば芍薬、座れば牡丹、歩く姿は百合の花). Adapted into a TV drama broadcasted on TBS starting Oct. 2016.

Tags: Josei , Work , Parody , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Age Gap , Marriage , LGBTQ+ Themes

Blue Period

Also known as Blue Period.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…



Note: Nominated for Manga Taisho Awards in 2019, Kodansha Manga Awards in 2019 and the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020. Winner of the 13th Manga Taisho Awards. Winner of the General Manga category of the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Awards.

Tags: Drawing , Coming of Age , College , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Educational , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Tragedy , Transgender , Bisexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing , Suicide , Gender Bending , Nudity , Tomboy

Hokenshitsu no Otaku Onee-san wa Suki desu ka?

Also known as Do You Like the Nerdy Nurse?.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

There’s a new school nurse at Mitsugi Middle School, and the students couldn’t be more ex­cited. To everyone else, Momoyama-sensei is an unmatched beauty, but second-year student Tamotsu Kurita sees something they don’t—that she’s also a massive nerd! Her love of 2D characters—and only 2D characters—knows no bounds, and try as she might, she just can’t hide it. To Kurita, being around a beautiful lady who shares his interests is a dream come true, but Momoyama-sensei’s more excited to talk about her favorite fictional idols than anything else...

Note: includes 2 extra chapters

Tags: Iyashikei , Episodic , Otaku Culture , School , Medicine , Cosplay , Seinen , Video Games , Heterosexual , Age Gap

Honjitsu no Urabe-san to

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

Haruna Urabe, age 24. Hobbies: smoking, drinking, cosplay. The story of Haruna Urabe, which has been uploading daily on SNS with the caption "Today," is now a serialized manga! Every day she hangs out, teases, and plays with her junior colleague, Kinoshita-kun. .

Tags: Slapstick , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Seinen

Slow Motion wo Mou Ichido

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

Though no one in school aware of it, Ootaki-kun, a first year high school student, is a big fan of 80's songs and idols. One day, he found out that his classmate that sits next to him, Yakushimaru-chan, has the same interests as him...

Note: Includes a prologue.

Tags: Idol , Otaku Culture , Seinen , Hikikomori , School , Educational , Love Triangle

Cloth Road

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

In the future, computers and their components have become as small as threads, and there are groups of world famous fashion designers making clothing out of them. The Designers have Models, girls who wear these computer-clothes and who duke it out in a series of competitions called the War King, to determine who is the world’s best Designer and Model. Fargas is one such Designer, the son of a famous one, who is now sick and dying and needs medical care. All of this costs money, which the family doesn’t have, living in the slums of the city. But what Fargas doesn’t know is that his fraternal twin sister, Jennifer, who was seperated from him at birth, has the ability to Model - and when put together, they make an unbeatable team. Will Fargas become a world-class Designer? Can Jennifer, who has never Modeled before, enter the War King and beat other famous and deadly Models competing against her? Can they both save their father from untimely death?

Tags: Seinen , Fashion