Manga like Gokko

Otaku no Musume-san

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Kanau Yukimura is nine years old, and she's meeting her father for the first time. However, he turns out to be an otaku! The two of them start living together in the same apartment, next to a lot of interesting neighbors. Unsurprisingly, things don't always go smoothly for these two...

Tags: Family Life , Seinen , Otaku Culture

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 , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Denpa , Seinen , Suicide , Drugs , Bullying , Nudity , Disability

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 , Fishing

Ponkotsu Ponko

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

The near future, in a quiet seaside town. Yoshioka, who had recently lost his wife, just wants to spend the rest of his days in peace. However, Yoshioka's children, worried about their father's health, sent a housekeeping robot to help him. Yoshioka's quiet life is about to change.



Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Robots , Iyashikei , Rural , Maids , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Philosophy , Disability , Memory Manipulation , Episodic

Miman Renai

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Twenty-nine-year old Kurose Kazumi is a programmer in a eroge company and has played plenty of galges when he was younger, but he's completely uninterested in young girls. A chance encounter changes that when he meets a middle schooler who suddenly says she can't date him, but he realizes how cute she is and wants to keep her with him.

Tags: Time Skip , Seinen , Age Gap

Otona no Zukan Kaiteiban

Also known as Adults' Picture Book.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Erotic manga author Kudou's friend Haruki passes away, leaving behind his young daughter Kiki and a note bequeathing her to Kudou. Strange as the situation is, Kudou commits to making a real family for the girl—so when he meets a woman who reminds him of his late friend, he fires off a marriage proposal on the spot! By blood, friendship, love, or circumstance, family is family...



Tags: Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Adoption , Family Life , Parenthood , LGBTQ+ Themes

Qtμt

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

A startling collaboration between Fumi Fumiko and cultural commentator Sayawaka.

Hana was blissfully enjoying the halcyon days of school life along with her friends, right up until the moment she received a mysterious letter emblazoned with the phrase "don't say a thing". Uncertain of its origins, Hana consults with her friends which sets off a disastrous chain of events - changing each of their lives for the worse.

Tags: Tragedy , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , School , Amnesia , Idol , Conspiracy , Suicide