Manga like Hatarakanai Futari

Hirayasumi

Also known as Hirayasumi.

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

With a carefree outlook on life, Hiroto knows better than anyone that slowing down is sometimes the best way to move forward.

At 29 years old, carefree Hiroto Ikuta doesn’t have a girlfriend, a full-time job, or a plan for the future—and he couldn’t be happier. Hiroto’s breezy attitude isn’t easy for everyone to understand, though. In a world filled with anxiety, confusion, and grief, Hiroto and the people who surround him are all just doing their best to figure out this thing called life.

After developing an unlikely friendship with the grouchy old granny who lives in his neighborhood, Hiroto suddenly finds himself inheriting not just her house, but some rather difficult emotions as well. His 18-year-old cousin Natsumi moves in with him, but as a struggling art student, she has her own troubles to deal with and may just put Hiroto’s easygoing lifestyle to the test.



Tags: Seinen , Iyashikei , Family Life , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , College , Drawing , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Filmmaking

Itai Onee-san wa Suki desu ka?

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Shiori Itai is a 26 year old woman who works as an office lady. Single, but aspiring to find love one day, she suffers from a big flaw: she constantly looks exhausted, jaded... in short: at the end of her life! Every time she undertakes something new in her daily life, this aspect of her personality as well as her extreme awkwardness are missing...

Tags: Office Lady , Nudity , Slapstick , Episodic , Heterosexual , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Love Triangle , Denpa , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Fitness

Yuuutsu-kun to Succubus-san

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Supernatural

An evil succubus encounters a depressed young salaryman with no sexual desire. However, luckily this is one positive succubus. She'll get him to regain his libido!

Tags: Seinen , Succubus , Monster Girl , 4-koma

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

Nande Ikiteru ka Wakaranai Hito: Izumi Sumi 25-sai

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Slice of Life

Izumi Sumi, a 25-year-old part-timer, struggles through anxiety and depression, pondering the meaning of her own life.

Tags: Rehabilitation , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Tragedy , Denpa , Iyashikei , Episodic

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 , Heterosexual , Office Lady , Iyashikei , Work , Time Skip , Mahjong , Nudity , Cohabitation

Futoukou no Nichijou

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Saotome Amane is in her second year of high school, and again she's happily skipping school! She loves her internet, games, and anime—your run-of-the-mill shut-in. But she's different to the average NEET, being a 16-year-old schoolgirl makes her superior! ...At least that's what she thinks.

Tags: Shounen , Hikikomori , Female Protagonist

Sora no Shita Yane no Naka

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

NEETs are people who have chosen not to be part of society due to personal problems or just straight-out laziness.

This story is centered around a certain young woman who has become a NEET right after high school without even realizing it. In her case, though, it's not that she doesn't want work - but rather that there is not a single job out there which can fulfill her very specific criteria...

Oh, well...at least her mother understands her!

Tags: Seinen , Work , Female Protagonist , 4-koma , Hikikomori , Primarily Adult Cast

Me-Teru no Kimochi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Koizumi, Shintarou is 30 years old, a virgin, and has isolated himself in his room for 15 years. He has become a burden on his father, Koizumi Yasujirou. one day, Shintarou makes a proposition that if Yasujirou gets a girlfriend, Shintarou will come out of his room. It turns out that Yasujirou has already made a girlfriend, a young beautiful woman, Yoshinaga Haruka, who is with Yasujirou for her own personal reasons. Yasujirou and Haruka decide to get married, but Yasujirou dies on their honeymoon. Now Haruka decides to take care of Shintarou, and so this weird "mother and son" are now living together.

Tags: Hikikomori , Seinen , Inseki , Nudity

Barakamon

Also known as Barakamon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

For a certain reason, a handsome, young calligrapher by the name of Seishuu Handa uproots himself and moves to an island on the westernmost edge of Japan. "Sensei," as he comes to be known, is a city boy through and through, and has never experienced rural life until now. And by the looks of it, he has much to learn! Luckily(?), he has a willing teacher in Naru, the energetic expert islander, to help show him the ropes. But can Sensei keep up with the plucky first-grader, or will he get schooled?! Here unfolds a heartfelt island comedy about a gruff on the outside, soft on the inside urbanite teacher and his new, unfailingly kind island neighbors!



Notes: One extra and four side stories are included in volume 18+1. Original serialization was completed on 2018-12-12 with 18 volumes (139 chapters). A new limited-run serialization was started on 2023-04-12 and ended on 2023-09-12 in Monthly Shounen Gangan, in conjunction with the TV-drama adaptation. This new run adds 7 chapters and 1 volume to the total count.

Tags: Family Life , Iyashikei , Calligraphy , Rural , Found Family , Work , Male Protagonist , Coastal , Food , Rehabilitation , Teacher , Fishing , Shounen , Cars , Agriculture , Cycling , Crossdressing