Manga like Jarinko Chie

What is Jarinko Chie about?

Status: Finished

The manga is about ten-year-old Chie, "the most unfortunate girl in Japan," who manages her family diner while her unemployed yakuza father and her mother are separated.

Note: Jarinko Chie won the 26th Shogakukan Manga Award for best general manga in 1981.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Seinen
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Here is a list of Manga similar to Jarinko Chie

Chibi Maruko-chan

Chibi Maruko-chan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The title character, Maruko, is a nine-year-old third-grade student. She is lazy, disorganized and usually late for school, in strong contrast with her neat and tidy older sister who must share her room with her. Maruko, like many kids, tries to avoid homework and chores, takes advantage of her doting grandfather and squabbles with her sister. Nevertheless, she is a well-meaning child who tries to do good.

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

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: Family Life , Episodic , Male Protagonist , School , Seinen , Slapstick
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Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo

Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The typical Kochikame plot involves Ryo-san coming up with a money-making scheme by inventing a new gadget or capitalizing on a fad, achieving great success, calling on Nakagawa's help as things turn sour, and finally losing it all as the fad runs out of steam or out of control. While the plots are gag-driven, much of the humor comes from the juxtaposition of mundane characters with the bizarrely incongruous (Nakagawa's wealth, Maria's appeal, everyone's lack of actual police work), most of which is never explained or rationalized in the slightest.



Notes:
-Volume 201 got published on October 4, 2021.
-Included one-shot: Robot Santapei.

Tags: Shounen , Police , Male Protagonist , Urban , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick
The Wonderful World of Sazae-San

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
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Doraemon

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 , Male Protagonist , Shounen
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Kobo, the Li'l Rascal

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
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Shin Crayon Shin-chan

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
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Golgo 13

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 , Guns , Foreign , Crime , Historical , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Nudity
Sansan Roku

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 , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Heterosexual
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