Manga like Jarinko Chie

Chibi Maruko-chan

Also known as Chibi Maruko-chan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Momoko Sakura is a third-grade elementary school student. Because she’s small and a girl, everyone calls her “Chibi Maruko-chan.” This delightful, diary-style comic follows the everyday adventures of Maruko-chan and her quirky family and school friends.



Notes: Won the 13th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 1989. After Sakura-sensei's passing in 2018, the production was taken over by her former assistants at Sakura Production, with irregular serialization continuing in Ribon Magazine.

Tags: Family Life , Chibi , Autobiographical , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , School , Urban , Episodic , Satire , Historical

Crayon Shin-chan

Also known as Crayon Shinchan.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

Shinnosuke Nohara might look like an innocent little kid, but anyone whose dealt with kids know they're anything but innocent. Relentlessly sassing the adults around him, pulling perverted pranks, and driving people to tears with embarrassment, Crayon Shinchan's the "kindergartener from hell," a five-year-old boy whose bodily functions, offensive comments, and outrageous behavior consistently annoy everyone around him. A national phenomenon in Japan, this shocking and hilarious comic celebrates the terrible power of destruction and indecency wielded by toddlers everywhere!



Tags: School , Family Life , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Short-Form Chapter , Slapstick , Seinen

Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo

Also known as Kochikame.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Comedy manga starring eccentric police officer Kankichi Ryotsu and his co-workers' silly and heartwarming misadventures in Tokyo's downtown area of Kameari.



Note: Includes the one-shot "Robot Santapei."

Tags: Shounen , Police , Male Protagonist , Urban , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick

Sazae-San

Also known as The Wonderful World of Sazae-San.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Slice of Life manga about a woman named Sazae and her family.

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , 4-koma

Doraemon

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Doraemon, a cat shaped robot which came from the 22nd century in the future, goes back in time in order to help Nobita, a below average lazy kid, to make his life less miserable and improve his descendent's life. With many of Doreamon's gadgets from the future, Nobita's life will never be as the same.

Tags: Kids , Episodic , Robots , School , Primarily Child Cast , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist

Kobo-chan

Also known as Kobo, the Li'l Rascal.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Kobo-chan is a 4-koma humor comic surrounding Kobo Tabata and his family.

Note: this entry includes chapters of "Kobo-chan" published until 2003/7. Later releases are included in the <a= href "https://anilist.co/manga/61979/">Shin Kobo-chan entry because of a change of tankoubon publisher, even if the series still continue to be released under its original name in the Asahi Shinbun

Tags: 4-koma , Family Life

Shin Crayon Shin-chan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

A continuation of Crayon Shin-chan by Usui's assistants after his passing away in 2009.

Tags: School

Golgo 13

Also known as Golgo 13.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Thriller

In 1991, UN inspectors found the incomplete Project Babylon--a cannon capable of hurling a shell 600 miles. In 1995, the Clinton administration learns of a second, hidden Iraqi supergun--now operational, and with a much, much longer range... There are only two options to destroy the supergun: send in an airstrike--or send in Golgo 13! Then, flash back to 1979 on the streets of San Francisco, where a hit-and-run accident intersects with a mob boss's terror that he is G13's next target... Plus excerpts from the File 13 dossier revealing the secrets of his personal data, false identities, alias, and more!



Tags: Seinen , Assassins , Gekiga , Episodic , Historical , Crime , Foreign , Guns , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Nudity

Sansan Roku

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

Sanpei's wife, Otsuu, recently passed away and his son, Shirou, offers Sanpei to live at his place with his daughter-in-law, Reika, and granddaughter, Nona. Ever since Sanpei married Otsuu, she has taken care of him and Sanpei has never learned how to cook, clean and other household chores. After going through his late wife's belongings, Sanpei finds a book that she was writing that records all the things she was doing for him. Things from recipes and how to do household chores to dealing with the family that he has never really connected with. Now with the help of the late Otsuu's book, Sanpei learns how to do all the things she did for him and start making connections with the closest family members he has.

Most readers might not be able to directly understand Sanpei's struggles of losing a wife after so many decades. However, you may have a grandparent that experienced that kind of tragedy and Sansanroku will help you put yourself in their shoes. A very heartwarming manga.

Tags: Family Life , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Age Gap