Manga like Kami Eshi no Ude ga Tabetai

Blue Period

Also known as Blue Period.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…



Note: Nominated for Manga Taisho Awards in 2019, Kodansha Manga Awards in 2019 and the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020. Winner of the 13th Manga Taisho Awards. Winner of the General Manga category of the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Awards.

Tags: Drawing , Coming of Age , College , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Educational , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Tragedy , Transgender , Bisexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing , Suicide , Gender Bending , Nudity , Tomboy

Look Back

Also known as Look Back.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Fujino is a fourth grader who draws a manga strip for the school newspaper. Her art makes her the star of the class, but one day she's told that Kyomoto, a student who refuses to come to school, would also like to submit a manga for the paper...



Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on September 3, 2021.

Tags: Drawing , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Hikikomori , Shounen , Coming of Age , Work , Meta , School , Primarily Child Cast , Philosophy , Rehabilitation

Ryuu to Chameleon

Also known as Dragon and Chameleon.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

Garyo Hanagami is a best-selling manga artist praised as a genius of the craft. Shinobu Miyama is a bitter rookie with a knack for copying other people's art styles. When an accident causes the two to switch bodies, Miyama is more than happy to take Hanagami's place, forcing the veteran to rebuild his career from the ground up. Now, the dragon must reclaim his throne from the chameleon who replaced him!

Tags: Drawing , Body Swapping , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Otaku Culture , Work

Doku no Okurimono

Also known as gift of poison.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Gift Hisono is a gifted painter cursed with financial woes. On the brink of finishing his latest work, his trusty palette knife suddenly snaps! In a desperate attempt to afford a replacement, he steals paint from his close friend and fellow art club member, Taima. This act of theft witnessed by another club member, Kadomi, marks the beginning of his poisonous downfall...



Tags: Drawing , Bullying , Tragedy , School , Male Protagonist , Blackmail , Suicide , Shounen , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast

Shoujo no Mayu

Also known as Girl's Cocoon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Romance , Thriller

A trilogy of beautiful, dangerous, and cruel truth between adolescent girls...



Tags: Yuri , School , Full Color , Primarily Female Cast , Anthology , Josei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Musical Theater , Body Image , Bullying , Yandere , Ojou-sama , Suicide

Bijutsu-bu no Futari

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

In a world full of ugliness, they were supposed to be the only ones they could trust.... Regardless of whether others scorn them or not, regardless of whether they steal or not... Aiko and Shino devote their youth to art. Their relationship changes when Shino is awarded the grand prize at an art exhibition...

Tags: Drawing , School Club , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School

Imouto no Ane

Also known as Sisters.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

Mitsuko is a third year at an art high school. In the hallway, she found a painting which had won the school competition and would be hung up for a whole year; a nude painting of herself done by her little sister, even though Mitsuko had never posed for her. About sibling who draw naked drawing of each other.

Tags: Drawing , Female Protagonist , Nudity , School , Family Life , Shounen

Kunigei: Oukuni Daigaku Geijutsu Gakubu Eiga Gakka

Also known as Kunigei - Okuni University Art Department Film Program.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Aspire to be a famous director! A modern story of youth in film school!

Tags: Filmmaking , College , Shounen , Male Protagonist

Shuumatsu, Kimi to

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Slice of Life

Gourmet BL. Two people peacefully enjoying meals together against the backdrop of a mysterious zombie outbreak.

Shuuhei is consumed by the promise he made with Tomoya back in middle school.

"Would you eat me?"



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Tragedy , Cohabitation , Seinen , Cannibalism , Boys' Love , Zombie , Male Protagonist , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Time Skip , Yuri

Monochrome no Futari

Also known as Monochrome Days.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy

A reliable office worker, Hanaichi Fudo, undoubtedly had a gift for the arts but gave up on his dreams of becoming an artist to lead a normal life. One day, his senior at work, Saori Wakaba, asked Hanaichi for help in writing her manga. Will he take up the pen again?! Written by Yosuke Matsumoto, author of "The Lady Becomes an Idol", a unique new take on aspiring manga artists!

Tags: Drawing , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Heterosexual , Shounen , Office , Work , Educational