Manga like Genshiken

What is Genshiken about?

Status: Finished

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 , Parody , Meta , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , School , Video Games

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INKR

Dasei 67 Percent

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

This comedy manga takes place in a college girl named Yoshizawa's room. Her friends, Itou, Kitahara, and Nishida often stop by, and they run into funny adult-level problems. For instance, there is the day when her friends drop by while Yoshizawa's hungover in bed, and she suddenly realizes that she doesn't have on any underwear under the covers. Yoshizawa also has unusual problems, like her need for advice on drawing realistic penises in her manga, since she's never encountered one in real life before. There are a lot of quirky things that can happen in a college girl's home!

Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.

Tags: College , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Drawing , Otaku Culture , Nudity , Episodic , Heterosexual , Cosplay

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Tonari no Young Jump

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NHK ni Youkoso!

Also known as Welcome to the N.H.K..

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Romance

Sato Tatsuhiro is a drug-addled "hikikomori" (a Japanese shut-in) who thinks a sinister organization, NHK (Nihon Hikikomori Kyoukai), is the cause of all his problems! He falls in love with a girl, Misaki, who he thinks is trying to assassinate him, but doesn't know how to talk to her or if he can trust her. The more he stay in his house watching anime porn, reading manga and doing drugs, the harder it is for him to leave. Only Misaki can keep him from rotting away in his own apartment!

Tags: Hikikomori , Otaku Culture , Rehabilitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Denpa , Suicide , Drugs , Bullying , Nudity , Disability , Shounen

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Grand Blue

Also known as Grand Blue Dreaming.

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

After moving out on his own to a seaside town, Iori Kitahara makes a college debut he never anticipated. A new chapter of his life unfolds, full of diving with beautiful girls and shenanigans with a gaggle of lovable bastards! Idiot-expert Kenji Inoue and au naturel authority Kimitake Yoshioka bring you a glorious college tale filled with booze-fueled antics!

Tags: Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , College , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Coastal , Bar , Scuba Diving , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Kuudere , Meta , Tsundere , Female Harem , Bisexual , Gore , Yandere , Gyaru , LGBTQ+ Themes

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Comic Days

INKR Pocket Magazine

K MANGA

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Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san

Also known as Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Ever wonder what it's like to sell comics at a Japanese bookstore? Honda provides a hilarious firsthand account from the front lines! Whether it's handling the store, out-of-print books, or enthusiastic manga fans, Honda takes on every challenge!

Note: It consists of 24 normal chapters + 11 bonus chapters.

Tags: Work , Otaku Culture , Skeleton , Language Barrier , Educational , Autobiographical , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist

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Pixiv Comic

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Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

Katsuragi Keima is known on the net as the god of getting the girls while in real life he’s known as otamegane and he hates all real girls. However he is approached by Elsie, a devil from hell, to help her in catching runaway spirits that hide in people. Apparently the spirits only hide in the hearts of girls and the only way to get the souls out is by making the girl fall in love so the spirit gets forced out. And he’s not allowed to fail or he will lose his head.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Female Harem , Male Protagonist , School , Video Games , Otaku Culture , Demons , Heterosexual , Urban Fantasy , Slapstick , Gods , Denpa , Memory Manipulation , Shounen , Amnesia , Time Manipulation , Family Life , Age Regression , Anti-Hero , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Kuudere , Conspiracy , Bullying , Dissociative Identities , Coming of Age , Crossdressing , Idol , Band , Philosophy , Chibi , Body Swapping

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Complex Age

Also known as Complex Age.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Twenty-six year old Nagisa Kataura has a secret. By all appearances, she’s an average temp-worker, but beneath her business-casual exterior she’s a devoted cosplayer. Transforming into her favorite anime and manga characters is her passion in life, and her hard work and creativity has earned Nagisa respect amongst her cosplay cohorts. But to the rest of society, her hobby is a silly fantasy, so she has to keep her two worlds separate. However, as demands from both sides of her life begin to increase, she may one day have to make a tough choice – what’s more important to her, cosplay or being “normal”?

Note: Includes the Complex Age pilot.

Tags: Cosplay , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Otaku Culture , Body Image , Primarily Female Cast , Urban , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Bullying

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Manga Planet

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Bonnouji

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

Fate brings two people who live in the same condo together on a typical afternoon. Ozawa (26) has just broken up with her boyfriend of five years and was in the process of trying to rebuild her life when she meets Oyamada who lives a couple floors below her. He is somewhat of a loner although he does have a few friends and his room is cluttered with all the random stuff that his impulse shopper brother sends him. Ozawa takes an interest with all the things in his room and the two start a friendship that slowly turns into something more.

Tags: Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Heterosexual , Iyashikei , Work , Time Skip , Mahjong , Cohabitation , Nudity

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Hoero Pen

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

The truth about the mangaka: Moyuru Honoo will show how hard and dangerous this job is. But his passion for drawing and for the supreme art of mangas can't be stopped, even by blonde assassins, alien writers, and unhappy editors!

Tags: Seinen , Drawing , Episodic , Primarily Adult Cast , Work

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Hachimitsu to Clover

Also known as Honey and Clover.

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

Takemoto lives in a run down student apartment, where his greatest worry is when he'll next be able to afford to eat meat and whether he'll get to class on time. Although he's away from home and living on his own, Takemoto is far from finished growing up. Along with his crazy cast of friends, Morita, Mayama, Yamada, and Hagumi, Takemoto sets out to discover life and his true self.

Notes:
Won the the 27th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 2003.
Includes 11 extra chapters.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Josei , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Heterosexual , College , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Rehabilitation , Philosophy , Teacher , Drawing , Work , Cycling , School , Male Harem , Tragedy , Bar

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Kujibiki Unbalance

Also known as Kujibiki Unbalance.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

Chihiro has been cursed with bad luck all his life. But all that changes when he wins a mysterious lottery that earns him a spot at the prestigious Rikkyoin High School, a strange place where everything is decided by chance--even who gets appointed to the student council. Although Chihiro has drawn the winning ticket, this is no ordinary honor. Each day the student-council members must risk their lives to save the school from various forces of evil. Chihiro's luck is about to be put to the test yet again, and one wrong move could mean death!

Tags: Female Harem , School , Seinen

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