Manga like Harebare Biyori

Kuriko to Biyori

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Nagatsuka Soujiro who works as a candy maker and his wife Makoto welcome a 4-year old Kuriko as their foster child. Soujiro, who doesn't have many memories of his childhood, worries whether he can properly take care of his foster daughter. This is a story about how people who are not related by blood become a family through making candy.



Note: Chapter count includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Food , Family Life , Parenthood , Iyashikei , Seinen , Adoption , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist

Uso no Kodomo

Also known as False Child.

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

Imagine if a child who had passed away suddenly reappeared, looking exactly as she did before. But what if it was all the doing of a shapeshifting tanuki? This isn't a reunion. She isn't real. And yet, her parents cling to the bittersweet lie.

Experience a poignant tale of loss and longing from the author of "My Clueless First Friend".



Note: Includes three extra chapters.

Tags: Shapeshifting , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Animals , Family Life , Shounen , Dissociative Identities

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

Chichi to Hige-Gorilla to Watashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

After losing her mother to a tragic accident, 6-year old tomboy, Michiru, finds a suspicious person moving into her precious home: her dad’s giant younger brother Kouji, the “Beard Gorilla”. While awkward at first, it doesn’t take long for the two to develop a familiar bond that looks more like that of a brother and a sister, than that of niece & uncle.

Source: Manga Updates

Tags: Family Life , Iyashikei , 4-koma , Seinen , Parenthood , Tomboy

Korogaru Kyoudai

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Minato Usami is a high-school girl with a new little brother from her father's remarriage. Having high expectations after being told that her new brother is an adorable little boy, Koshiro—said little brother—turns out to be a little different than she imagined.

Tags: Family Life , School

Hoshikuzu Telepath

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Konohoshi Umika is a high-schooler who is very bad at communicating with others. Feeling almost like an alien trapped on Earth with nowhere to belong, one day she meets a girl who claims to be an actual alien!

Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2021 Award in the Print Manga Category.

Tags: 4-koma , Aliens , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Educational , Female Protagonist , School Club , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen , School

My Girl

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Kazama Masamune - a single 23-year-old man... has a child? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring.

Tags: Seinen , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Iyashikei , Parenthood , Work , Episodic , Tomboy

Ryouchou wa Ryouri Jouzu

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Food , 4-koma

Yashiro no Maou

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

Maou Shaitan Geneha, a demon lord whose powers were sealed away, seeks out the descendant of the one who sealed her; the office lady Shishibe Yashiro. Maou makes a contract with her, hoping to tempt Yashiro into undoing the seal.

Tags: Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Demons , Yuri , Office Lady , Shounen