Manga like Hoshi no Ko

What is Hoshi no Ko about?

Status: Finished

Life is like the glimmer of the stars: sometimes merry, sometimes subdued. From your first days on Earth as you discover the world, to the trials and tribulations of adulthood. When I was born, my mother named me Ruka. This is my ordinary, extraordinary life.

Included one-shots:
Afterglow
Nemureru Mori no Shoujo

Tags: Shoujo , Family Life , Coming of Age , Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , Tragedy

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Aoi Uroko to Suna no Machi

Also known as Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand.

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

After her normal, happy life shatters, Tokiko and her father move to a small seaside town to live with her grandmother as sixth grade starts. There, the sound of the waves brings back a distant memory from when she visited seven years ago, a memory of almost drowning in the sea and being saved by a merman. Are there really mermaids in that sea? Tokiko adjusts to her new life in the small town as she holds out hope of once more meeting the merman who saved her.

Note: Contains an extra chapter.

Tags: Josei , Rural , Iyashikei , Coastal , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Mermaid , School , Gods , Religion

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Viz

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Korisu Ballet

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

A girl who, despite her boyish appearance, is secretly in love with ballet dancing...

Tags: Dancing , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , School

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Mugi no Wakusei

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

In a mountainside bakery, the young shopkeeper Konta meets Mamita, an alien whose spaceship crashed and is looking for food. Konta winds up taking the stranded alien in as his little brother. This is the diary of a baker and an alien as they live together as "siblings".

Tags: Iyashikei , Family Life , Josei , Aliens , Rural , Male Protagonist , Food

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