Manga like Itai no Itai no, Tonde Yuke

Mikkakan no Koufuku

Also known as Three Days of Happiness.

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

HOW MUCH IS LIFE TRULY WORTH?
Kusunoki used to believe he was destined for great things. Ostracized as a child, he held on to a belief that a good life was waiting for him in the years ahead. Now approaching the age of twenty, he's a completely mediocre college student with no motivation, no dreams, and no money. After learning he can sell his remaining years-and just how little they're worth-he chooses to divest himself of all but his last three months. Has Kusunoki truly destroyed his last chance to find happiness...or has he somehow found it?



Tags: Tragedy , Philosophy , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Urban , Seinen , Hikikomori , Heterosexual , Writing , Suicide , Photography , Drawing , College , Mopeds , Autobiographical , Amnesia

Starting Over

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

On his twentieth birthday, a man is sent back in time to when he was the age of ten. Intending to repeat the same choices and actions he had made in the past, he discovers that things don't always play out according to expectations.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Age Regression , Philosophy , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , College , Memory Manipulation , Reincarnation

Kimi ga Denwa wo Kakete Ita Basho

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

The Place You Called From & The Place I Called From are novels by Sugaru Miaki, also known as Fafoo, writer of Starting Over, Three Days of Happiness, and Pain, Pain, Go Away.

The story is about a boy entering high school, who answers a strange call from a public phone one night. The caller challenges him to a bet: She’ll remove the birthmark which he sees as the cause of so many problems, and he’ll have fifty days to win the heart of a girl he’d considered far beyond his reach. And with this, a very strange summer begins.

Volume 1: The Place You Called From
Volume 2: The Place I Called From

Tags: Mythology , Rehabilitation , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , School , Amnesia , Heterosexual , Suicide , Bullying , Love Triangle , Astronomy

Koisuru Kiseichuu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

The story is about a man whose compulsive tendencies make it impossible for him to keep a job, and a young girl who skips school and loves insects. The two meet, come to support each other in reintegrating into society, and fall in love. There’s a problem, however: namely, the parasites in their heads.

Tags: Hikikomori , Age Gap , Rehabilitation , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Denpa , Suicide , Urban , Disability , Software Development , Snowscape

Jisatsu suru ni wa Mukanai Kisetsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy

One morning, Nagase witnesses the moment his classmate, Tsubasa Amamiya, jumps in front of the oncoming train. He starts thinking about why she'd choose to die but arrives at no answer. Seeing this his friend Fukai hands him a capsule which he claims is a miniature time machine. Nagase, half-in-doubt, takes the capsule and wakes up 2 weeks in the past. He then meets Amamiya on the rooftop under the rain...

First Prize winner of Kodansha Ranobe Bunko's 6th Rookie of the Year award​.

Tags: Suicide , Time Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation

Natsu e no Tunnel, Sayonara no Deguchi

Also known as The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Kaoru Touno heard a rumor: The laws of space and time mean nothing to the Urashima Tunnel. If you find it, walk through and you’ll find your heart’s desire on the other side…in exchange for years of your own life. On the night Kaoru just so happens to find himself standing in front of a tunnel that looks suspiciously like the one the rumor describes, he finds himself thinking of Karen, the sister he lost in an accident five years ago. To Kaoru’s surprise, he’s been followed by the new transfer student Anzu Hanashiro, who promises to help him experiment with the mysterious tunnel–but what does she want from Kaoru in exchange? And what will he have left to give, after the tunnel’s done with him?



Tags: Male Protagonist , Rural , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban Fantasy , School , Tragedy , Time Manipulation , Bullying , Philosophy , Time Skip

Sakurada Reset

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

Nearly half the population of Sakurada, a small town near the Pacific Ocean, has some sort of unique power. These powers range from being able to enter the mind of a cat, to resetting the world back to a certain point in time in the past. There is a group known as the "Kanrikyoku" that controls and monitors the use of these powers. Asai Kei and Haruki Misora work for their school's club called "Houshi" club, which execute any missions received from the Kanrikyoku. Misora has the ability to reset the world 3 days. This means that all events and any memory of the past 3 days that "could have" happened, never happened. Kei has the ability to "remember" the past. Even after Misora uses her powers to reset the world back 3 days, Kei will retain those 3 days in his memory. Combining their powers, these two solve missions issued by the Kanrikyoku.

Tags: Super Power , School , Urban Fantasy , Time Manipulation , Achronological Order , Philosophy , Kuudere , Love Triangle

Kinou no Haru de, Kimi wo Matsu

Also known as Wait For Me Yesterday in Spring.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

Two years ago, high schooler Kanae left his small island community of Sodeshima to pursue his academic dreams in Tokyo. When that life falls short of his expectations, he runs away from home to return to Sodeshima to find his childhood friend, Akari. But before they can rekindle their old feelings for each other, the clock strikes six and Kanae finds himself inexplicably thrust forward four days into the future. Worse, he learns that Akito, Akari’s older brother—and Kanae’s childhood hero—is dead.

Except death might not be the end for Akito. As Kanae tries to fill in the four-day gap of his memories, Akari explains: he’s about to relive those four days in reverse order in a phenomenon known as “Rollback.” Kanae himself explained it to her…in a past he hasn’t yet experienced. Armed with this new knowledge, Kanae is determined to leverage Rollback however he can to save Akito’s life—and Akari’s heart.



Tags: Time Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Achronological Order , Rural , Suicide , Tragedy