Manga like Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni

COCOON

Also known as cocoon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A heart-wrenching chronicle of loss and resilience based on the true story of the Himeyuri corps of student nurses in WWII.

San and her best friend Mayu attend a boarding school for girls in Okinawa, but their studies are interrupted when they and the other students are recruited to help the war effort as assistant nurses. Sent to the front lines, the girls must deal with more than just the threat of enemy bombs overhead. Stuck working in the horrifying caves of a field hospital, San wishes she could wrap herself and her friends in a cocoon of protection. But invisible threads of affection are no match for the carnage that surrounds them, and day by day, more students perish. Worn down by starvation and loss, what will San and her remaining friends do when they are told to find their way home through the fields of total war?



Tags: War , Tragedy , Historical , Survival , Female Protagonist , Josei , Suicide , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gore , Primarily Female Cast , Rural , Crossdressing , Primarily Teen Cast , Medicine

Hadashi no Gen

Also known as Barefoot Gen.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

1945, Japan. Gen Nakaoka is a spirited six-year-old boy who lives with his poor yet loving family in wartime Hiroshima. As the second World War rages on, Gen's father Daikichi stands among the few outspoken who are opposed to the emperor and stand for the innocent civilians bearing the brunt of the war. However, in a society with nothing but feverous support for their nation, Gen and his family are ostracized as traitors. Unbeknownst to them, a terrible fate awaits the people of Hiroshima...

One quiet morning, the US forces drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In an instant, the city is completely destroyed, leaving thousands dead and many more exposed to radiation. Though Gen manages to survive the blast, he finds his life irreversibly changed. Regrouping with what's left of his family, Gen must now grapple with starvation, destitution, and an unsympathetic public who see survivors as little more than disease-ridden beggars.

Based on author Keiji Nakazawa's real-life experiences, Hadashi no Gen follows Gen and his fellow survivors in their struggle to survive in post-war Hiroshima. Gen resolves to soldier on with unwavering determination, while never forgiving those who caused the atrocity, never forgetting the pain of the bomb, and never letting his spirit be broken by the tragedy.

Tags: Tragedy , Historical , Adoption , Gore , Autobiographical , Male Protagonist , Delinquents , War , Found Family , Philosophy , Educational , Body Horror , Coming of Age , Shounen , Crime

Umarekawattemo Mata, Watashi to Kekkon Shitekuremasu ka

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Toranosuke fell in love with his servant Kaoru. For twenty years, they slowly developed their love for each other, thus a Showa couple of clumsy husband and muscle brained wife was born. They spend a lot of time together, and they begin to talk in a nostalgic manner in Toranosuke's hospital room. Gentle memories of a deeply in love husband and wife.

Note: Includes three extra chapters.

Tags: Tragedy , War , Family Life , Achronological Order , Found Family , Historical , Heterosexual , Reincarnation , Age Gap , Slapstick , Suicide , Parenthood , Disability , Pregnancy

Pippira Note

Also known as Pippira Note.

Status: Finished
Genres:

One day, a young woman named Kimiko meets a little lost bird named Pippira. Living with the little bird becomes a series of surprises and discoveries. Before long this little happiness becomes, to Kimiko, an irreplacable treasure in her day to day life.



Tags: Animals , 4-koma , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen

Neko ga Nishi Mukya

Also known as When a Cat Faces West.

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

Flow—the phenomenon that occurs when matter falls out of balance and changes form. Flow creates oddities big and small that can be disruptive or delightful in equal measure, and it's up to Flow Disposal departments and independent contractors to shepherd the Flow back to its natural form. For Chima Kondo, a 35-year-old woman stuck in the body of a 12-year-old thanks to the effects of Flow, understanding how Flow works and how to disperse it has become critical. But when she joins Flow Disposal contractors Hirota and Shacho of Hirota Flow Inc., she finds that there's more to Flow than she once knew, and plenty more to find out...



Tags: Iyashikei , Seinen , Episodic , Age Regression , Work , Animals , Philosophy , Alternate Universe

Shouwa Fanfare

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

A young girl named Sayoko fascinates people with her brilliant singing voice in the early days of the Showa era. In an effort to make people recognize her, she starts wanting to sing in talkie films. It's then that she happens to meet a piano prodigy, Asami, who disregards her singing as bad!!

The curtains rise on the birth of the story of a songstress that glitters with the dreams and love of a young girl in this historical tale.



Tags: Josei , Historical , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age

Fuutarou Fuken Nikki

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The Showa writer, Kyutaro Yamada was a medical student- Yamada, a young man who never went to the battlefield, continued to write about the state and problems of Japan at that time, sometimes sharply and sometimes emotionally, despite the conflict. How was it in his eyes in 1945 when it became a turning point in Japan?

Tags: Historical , Seinen

Kyuusai no Hi

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological

Nishioka Kyoudai's anti-war epic, told in their signature surrealist style.

A man wakes up one morning to find the world outside of his house a wasteland. As he searches for signs of life, he finds a fetus in a ditch, which promptly latches onto his thumb and won't let go, and things only get stranger from there...

Tags: War , Philosophy , Denpa , Dystopian , Post-Apocalyptic , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist

Gureumeul Nubineun Sonyeo

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

A village like fairytale. A meeting of a sixteen-year-old boy and a girl.



Note: Chapter count includes a prologue.

Tags: War , Female Protagonist , Full Color , Tragedy