Manga like Kitai Fuku ga Aru

Kuragehime

Also known as Princess Jellyfish.

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

Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She’s loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese dolls. However, a chance meeting at a pet shop has Tsukimi crossing paths with one of the things that the residents of Amamizukan have been desperately trying to avoid—a beautiful and fashionable woman! But there’s much more to this woman than her trendy clothes! This odd encounter is only the beginning of a new and unexpected path for Tsukimi and her friends.



Note: Chapter count includes 10 extra chapters

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Fashion , Crossdressing , Foreign , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Language Barrier , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Found Family , Urban , Makeup , Age Gap , Drawing , Male Harem , Gender Bending , Animals , Coming of Age

Runway de Waratte

Also known as Smile Down the Runway.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Chiyuki Fujito has a dream: to become a Paris Collection model. The problem is, she’s too short to be a model, and everyone around her tells her so! But no matter what they say, she won’t give up. Her classmate, a poor student named Ikuto Tsumura, also has a dream: to become a fashion designer. One day Chiyuki tells him that it’s “probably impossible” for him, causing him to consider giving it up … ?! This is the story of two individuals wholeheartedly chasing after their dreams in spite of all the negativity that comes after them!



Note: Nominated for the 11th Manga Taishou Awards in 2018.

Tags: Fashion , Work , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Shounen , School

Complex Age

Also known as Complex Age.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Twenty-six year old Nagisa Kataura has a secret. By all appearances, she’s an average temp-worker, but beneath her business-casual exterior she’s a devoted cosplayer. Transforming into her favorite anime and manga characters is her passion in life, and her hard work and creativity has earned Nagisa respect amongst her cosplay cohorts. But to the rest of society, her hobby is a silly fantasy, so she has to keep her two worlds separate. However, as demands from both sides of her life begin to increase, she may one day have to make a tough choice – what’s more important to her, cosplay or being “normal”?



Note: Includes the Complex Age pilot.

Tags: Cosplay , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Otaku Culture , Time Skip , Urban , Educational

Boys Run The Riot

Also known as Boys Run The Riot.

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

High schooler Ryo knows he’s transgender, but he doesn’t have anyone to confide in about the confusion he feels. He can’t tell his best friend, who he’s secretly got a crush on, and he can’t tell his mom, who’s constantly asking why Ryo "dresses like a boy." He certainly can’t tell Jin, the new transfer student who looks like just another bully... The only time Ryo feels at ease is when he’s wearing his favorite clothes. Then, and only then, the world melts away, and he can be his true self. One day, while out shopping, Ryo sees an someone he didn't expect: Jin. The kid who looked so tough in class has the same taste in fashion as him! At least, Ryo has someone he can open up to - and the journey ahead might finally give him a way to express himself to the world.



Note: Includes the original one-shot.

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Transgender , Fashion , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Work , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , School , Found Family , Photography , Drawing , Primarily Male Cast

Akogare ni, Sode wo

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

A story about girls who want to wear their favorite clothes. Winner of the 16th MangaOne New Monthly Award.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Fashion , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast

Nigeru wa Haji daga Yaku ni Tatsu

Also known as The Full-Time Wife Escapist.

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

What’s a girl to do when there are no jobs? Once Mikuri Moriyama got out of grad school, all she could find was a temp job, and they just laid her off! Worried about his daughter, her dad helps her get a job doing housekeeping for this guy he used to work with named Tsuzaki. Just when things are starting to go well, though, Mikuri’s parents decide it’s time to move out to the countryside. She’ll likely be unemployed for the rest of her life if she goes with them, but she doesn’t make enough money to rent her own place. That’s when Mikuri, always the daydreamer, comes up with a solution out of left field …



Notes:
Originally ended on February 25, 2017 with 43 chapters and a bonus. The series directly continued in Kiss3 on January 19, 2019 with chapter 44.
Volume 9 contains the side story "Tateba Shakuyaku, Suwareba Botan, Aruku Sugata wa Yuri no Hana" (立てば芍薬、座れば牡丹、歩く姿は百合の花). Adapted into a TV drama broadcasted on TBS starting Oct. 2016.

Tags: Josei , Work , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Parody , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Marriage , LGBTQ+ Themes

Blue Period

Also known as Blue Period.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…



Note: Nominated for Manga Taisho Awards in 2019, Kodansha Manga Awards in 2019 and the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020. Winner of the 13th Manga Taisho Awards. Winner of the General Manga category of the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Awards.

Tags: Drawing , Coming of Age , College , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Educational , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Tragedy , Transgender , Primarily Teen Cast , Bisexual , Crossdressing , Gender Bending , Suicide , Nudity , Tomboy

Kaisha to Shiseikatsu: On to Off

Also known as On and Off: Work-Life Imbalance.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

A lolita boy and a punk girl form a fashion-forward bond without realizing they already know each other from work!

There are two sides to every working adult: one they show when they’re on the job, and one they show when they’re off the clock. For coworkers Sotaro Amata and Akira Hanku, this holds doubly true. Outside the office, these fashionistas don outfits that metamorphose them into completely different people!

So what happens when they form a connection after hours…without recognizing who the other person is?



Tags: Crossdressing , Primarily Adult Cast , Office , Tomboy , Josei , Femboy , Work , LGBTQ+ Themes , Office Lady

Odore Shishidou Ken

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Tags: Seinen , Dancing

Kaisha To Shiseikatsu

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

Two co-workers who cross-dress outside of work accidentally bump into each other.

Tags: Crossdressing , Office Lady , Work , Heterosexual , LGBTQ+ Themes