Manga like Hana-chan to, Sekai no Katachi

Ryuushika Ryuushika

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

A series of vignettes portraying the day-to-day life of a little girl with a very vivid imagination.

Ryuushika is crazy, totally crazy, like all children, infinitely curious, never short of absurd ideas, always ready to look at the world through a distorting prism of extraordinary freshness, it triggers disaster repeatedly around her!

Tags: Full Color , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Shounen , Episodic , Aliens , Primarily Teen Cast , Surreal Comedy

Ashizuri Suizokukan

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

panpanya’s debut one-volume work.

Ashizuri Suizokukan is a recompilation of panpanya’s Ashizuri Suizokukan and ASOVACE series, which were independently published in 2010 and 2011, respectively. It includes a collection of newly written travelogues and an abundance of color pages.
Ashizuri Suizokukan was published by Ichigatsu to Shichigatsu on August 30, 2013.

Ashizuri Aquarium (足摺り水族館)
The Complete Shopping District (完全商店街)
Board Game (すごろく)
A New Universe (新しい世界)
Innocent World (イノセントワールド)
A Dream I Had on April 17th, 2012 (二〇一二年四月一七日の夢)
Ashizuri Aquarium (足摺り水族館)
The City of the Dead (冥途)
Sputnik (スプートニク)
Untitled (無題)
Creatures of the Machine Age (マシン時代の動物たち)
Ashizuri Aquarium (足摺り水族館)
A Fish For You (君の魚)
Ending Theme (エンディングテーマ)



Note: Nominated for the 7th annual Manga Taishou Award.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Episodic , Iyashikei , Surreal Comedy , Anthology , Fishing , Denpa , Travel , Josei , Autobiographical , Animals , Artificial Intelligence

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 , Parenthood , Slapstick , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Rural , Adoption , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Fishing

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Also known as Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.

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

Set hundreds of years in the future after an environmental catastrophe, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (also known as Yokohama Shopping Log) centers on the simple life of Alpha, an android who runs a small coffee shop in coastal Japan. Alpha stands witness to chronicle the end of humanity’s days with coffee, a slice of watermelon, and the sound of her moon guitar backed by distant seagulls. Quiet and bittersweet, this tale is about the melancholy beauty that can be found even as the end approaches.



Tags: Iyashikei , Coastal , Female Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Rural , Robots , Lost Civilization , Seinen , Time Skip , Artificial Intelligence , Episodic , Travel , Work , Mopeds , Yuri , Family Life , Restaurant , Motorcycles , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity

Kotonoba Drive

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The story centres on Suu-chan, a girl who works part-time at a pasta restaurant named "Lamp." She witnesses mysterious events while riding her moped in the night, such as the past of a person or place. She can only experience these visions five minutes at a time.

Tags: Iyashikei , Episodic , Work , Seinen , Rural , Outdoor Activities , Ghost , Female Protagonist , Motorcycles , Photography , Cars

Rojika to Rakkasei

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

Rojika and Rakka live on a certain planet. They dig a hole to kill time, get a "Mystery Disc", find a "secret dungeon" in the forest, and spend every day having fun. There are a lot of things that the two still don't know on that planet ....



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Lost Civilization , Adoption , Surreal Comedy , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Found Family , Seinen , Magic , Male Protagonist , Monster Boy , Monster Girl , Environmental , Primarily Animal Cast , Family Life , Parenthood

Shimeji Simulation

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

A girl who shut herself in a closet for the last 2 years of middle school realizes she has to go to high school. When she exits her closet for the first time in two years and looks at herself in the mirror, she notices that she grew shimeji mushrooms out of her head.

Tags: Meta , Surreal Comedy , Philosophy , Augmented Reality , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Denpa , LGBTQ+ Themes , 4-koma , Post-Apocalyptic , Yuri , Hikikomori , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School , Episodic , Suicide , Gods , School Club , Tragedy , Religion , Trains , Cohabitation , Seinen

Tasogare Memorandum

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Takatori Eri is a high school girl. Her after school life is full of minor mysteries and drama.

Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Episodic , Female Protagonist , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Transgender , Primarily Teen Cast , School

Daidai wa, Hantoumei ni Nidone suru

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The bizarre everyday life stories of the citizens of a coastal port town.

Tags: Episodic , Tragedy , Gore , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Aliens , Ensemble Cast , Body Horror , Animals , Rural , School , Mermaid , Ships , Shounen , Twins , Bullying