Manga like Kodomo wa Wakatte Agenai

What is Kodomo wa Wakatte Agenai about?

Status: Finished

A narrative of self-discovery masquerading as a coming of age romance, a family composition drama, a procedural detective story, and a superpowered thriller. Sakuta Minami openly professes the many loves of her life: Matsumoto Leiji anime, her family, swimming, Magical Plastering Girl Buffalo Koteko, but the unanswered questions surrounding her mother's separation from her natural father have nagged her all her life. Moji Shouhei, an anime geek with prodigious talent for calligraphy, holds in his gifted hands both a physical key to the school roof of their high school as well as the figurative key to finally unraveling the mystery of Minami's father.

Tags: School , Swimming , Rural , Coming of Age , Seinen , Calligraphy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cult

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Aoi Uroko to Suna no Machi

Also known as Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand.

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

After her normal, happy life shatters, Tokiko and her father move to a small seaside town to live with her grandmother as sixth grade starts. There, the sound of the waves brings back a distant memory from when she visited seven years ago, a memory of almost drowning in the sea and being saved by a merman. Are there really mermaids in that sea? Tokiko adjusts to her new life in the small town as she holds out hope of once more meeting the merman who saved her.

Note: Contains an extra chapter.

Tags: Rural , Coastal , Josei , Coming of Age , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Mermaid , Iyashikei , School , Gods , Religion

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Mikako-san

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

The future, romance, everything is "undecided," yet the remaining days of high school seem as if they'll be over in the blink of an eye. Mikako Ichimura, 17 years old. Midorikawa, the strange guy who now sits next to her after a seating change and oddly prefers red pencils. At first, Mikako didn't think much of it, but after learning that they both love the same band, their relationship begins to change bit by bit...

The day to day life of a 17 year girl woven together in a soft literary style.

Included chapters: 30.5, 60.5, 90.5, 120.5, 150.5, 180.5

Tags: Full Color , Coming of Age , School , Seinen , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Yuri

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Tenohira Size.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The Oonishi family doesn't have a father anymore. They don't have much money. They don't even have a shower. Tenohira Size presents eight stories of a mother and her three children's day-to-day lives in the aftermath of divorce.

Tags: Josei , Family Life , Primarily Child Cast , Work , Parenthood

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Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru

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

The story of a family of five, living under one roof.

Winner of the New Creator Prize category of the 24th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (2020).

Tags: Family Life , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Age Gap , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle

Where to read?

Pocket Magazine

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Inai Boku wa Hotarumachi ni Iru

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

Despondent over the death of his best friend, Takeru wishes on a shooting star to meet Takuya one last time. A glimmer of light leads him to an ancient tree stump with a giant hole in it; a hole that impossibly leads to an entire city. It’s the same city as his - the same people and places - but, with a key difference: the Takuya in that world is alive and well... while Takeru is not.

Tags: Alternate Universe , Tragedy , Primarily Child Cast , Josei , Urban Fantasy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist

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Pixiv Comic

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Sunny

Also known as Sunny.

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

The story of an orphanage, the children who live in it, and the beat-up old Nissan Sunny 1200 which provides them with a means of escape from their boring everyday lives.

Note: Winner of the Best Manga of the Year award at the 2016 Shogakukan Manga Awards.

Tags: Family Life , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Seinen , Estranged Family , Tragedy , Autobiographical , Rural , Adoption , Episodic , Cars , Delinquents , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Baseball

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