Manga like Kimi no Sekai ni Koi wa Nai

Watashi wa Kabe ni Naritai

Also known as I Want to Be a Wall.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Any love story aficionado will say that the key to a successful couple is intense desire for one another-but what if the characters in question are an asexual woman with a passion for Boys Love stories and a gay man whose heart forever belongs to his oblivious childhood friend? Although romance will never be in the cards for newlyweds Yuriko and Gakurouta, the bond blossoming between them promises to be a wonderful relationship-the likes of which neither has ever experienced before…

Note: Includes four extra chapters.

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Asexual , Marriage , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Aromantic , Fake Relationship , Iyashikei , Found Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Unrequited Love , Otaku Culture , Cohabitation , Boys' Love , Slapstick , Coming of Age , Rural , School , Travel , Matchmaking , Language Barrier , Bisexual , Educational

Shimanami Tasogare

Also known as Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare.

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

Not only is high schooler Tasuku Kaname the new kid in town, he’s also terrified that he’s been outed as gay. Just as he’s contemplating doing the unthinkable, Tasuku meets a mysterious woman who leads him to a group of people dealing with problems not so different from his own. In this realistic, heartfelt depiction of LGBT+ characters from different backgrounds finding their place in the world, a search for inner peace proves to be the most universal experience of all.



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Coming of Age , Found Family , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Ensemble Cast , Transgender , Crossdressing , Agender , Asexual , Yuri , Boys' Love , Suicide , Rehabilitation , Aromantic , Primarily Teen Cast , School

Mine-kun wa Nonsexual

Also known as Mine-kun Is Asexual.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Mine-kun is Asexual. He doesn't like sexual intimacy in a relationship. He can kiss a girl, but it's not something he wants to do if he can help it. But Murai loves him so much that she's willing to overlook the fact that she can't hold his hand; that she can't cuddle up next to him when they watch movies together; that she can't fall in love with him the way that she hopes to be loved in return. In the eyes of those around them, is this even a relationship that's meant to last, or is it a train wreck just waiting to happen?



Tags: Asexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Time Skip , Bisexual , Urban

Last Gender: Nanimono demo Nai Watashitachi

Also known as Last Gender: When We Are Nameless.

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

Welcome to BAR California, a place for you to reveal your true self. People of different genders, propensities, and sexual orientations gather at a certain chic bar that's hidden from the public eye. While some come in search of themselves, others step into the establishment looking for sex and love. There are as many sexualities as there are people, and the patrons' stories intertwine as they struggle to find happiness. A bisexual trans woman who's been hurt by the voices of others wishes she had a "normal" relationship; a married, middle-aged salaryman secretly expresses his female side; and a pansexual cis guy is on the lookout for true love.



Note: Includes the pilot one-shot "Watashi Ki, Oriori to (A Self for All Seasons)".

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Bisexual , Seinen , Transgender , Bar , Tragedy , Nudity , Yuri , Agender , Crossdressing , Marriage , Aromantic , Boys' Love , Twins

Fukakai na Boku no Subete wo

Also known as Love Me for Who I Am.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Mogumo is a cute but lonely high school student who just wants a few loving friends. Fellow student Iwaoka Tetsu invites Mogumo to work at his family’s café for “cross-dressing boys,” but he makes an incorrect assumption: Mogumo is non-binary and doesn’t identify as a boy or a girl. However, Mogumo soon finds out that the café is run by LGBT+ folks of all stripes, all with their own reasons for congregating there.



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Transgender , Agender , Coming of Age , Estranged Family , Found Family , Crossdressing , Seinen , Work , Restaurant , Femboy , Maids , Cosplay , Love Triangle , Body Image , Yuri , Boys' Love , School , Suicide

Kaketa Tsuki to Doughnuts

Also known as Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Uno Hinako throws herself into makeup, fashion, and falling in love, hoping that will make her seem “normal” to the other people at her job. But no matter how hard she tries, she’s a self-doubting mess inside, and her attempts at “normal” romance with men just keep failing. When she starts to think she might be alone forever, a new normal presents itself–in the form of her relationship with Sato Asahi, a level-headed woman who works at her company, which starts as respect until it becomes far more intimate.



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Asexual , Office Lady , Female Protagonist , Work , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Office , Kuudere , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love

Umi ga Hashiru End Roll

Also known as The Credits Roll into the Sea.

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

Umiko, a grandma, realizes that she has the same desire to make movies as university student Kai—and soon she enrolls in Kai's film school!

"It's not the movies you like…you like watching the people watching the movies."

Just what are you going to do with the rest of your life? It's the question you'll always have to answer, no matter your age. Umiko Chino is a 65-year-old retired woman in mourning for her late husband. Remembering how they used to watch films together, Umiko goes to the movie theater for the first time in years, where she meets Kai, an attractive, ambiguous young man who studies filmmaking at a nearby art school.

They would seem to have nothing in common, except for this—both of them sometimes like to look more at the way the audience reacts to a movie than the movie itself. Kai believes Umiko has the same deep desire he possesses to experience how people respond to something they made… and challenges her to stake the rest of her life discovering that thrill.

Soon Umiko surprises herself by enrolling in the same film school as Kai. But sailing into this new sea, she's suddenly inside the currents of her fellow students' lives, a much younger generation that she struggles to understand, driven by their own passions and their own relationships. Who's really experienced at life, and is it old age or observation that brings wisdom? And does what you're looking for change when you look with your eyes instead of through a camera lens…?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Elderly Protagonist , Filmmaking , Photography , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Shoujo , Iyashikei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Asexual , Aromantic

Otouto no Otto

Also known as My Brother's Husband.

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

Otouto no Otto is a family drama that begins with the auspicious arrival of Mike, a Canadian who has come to pay respects to the family of his recently deceased Japanese husband Ryoji, whose only remaining immediate family member is Yaichi—an identical twin brother. As Mike gets accustomed to Japanese morays and the surprising idiosyncrasies of living with Yaichi and his daughter Kana, the sleepy Japanese suburb also learns the true meaning of family.



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Family Life , Educational , Coming of Age , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Food , Twins , Boys' Love , Language Barrier , Marriage , Transgender , Parenthood

Sensitive Boy

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Stories of bittersweet youth, about troubled boys facing coming-of-age questions about love, sexuality, and other psychological issues.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Episodic , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Suicide , Drugs , Primarily Teen Cast , Asexual

Ano Yoru no Pool

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological

A social outcast finds human connection in a classmate who's also different.

Winner of the Monthly Morning "Morning Zero" award (October)

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Swimming , Primarily Teen Cast , Asexual , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , School , Coming of Age , Aromantic , Primarily Child Cast