Manga like Koisuru Kiseichuu

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

Itai no Itai no, Tonde Yuke

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

The plot involves a young man who becomes a killer (by accident) – but his victim has the power of “postponement,” temporarily delaying her death.

Tags: Gore , Time Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Suicide , Bullying , Memory Manipulation , Tragedy , Torture , Philosophy

Kimi wa Tsukiyo ni Hikarikagayaku

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Ever since the death of someone important to me, I’ve been living recklessly. After I became a high school student, there was a girl in my class who remained hospitalized due to “luminescence disease.” This disease is named for the fact that the bodies of those who suffer from it glow faintly when exposed to moonlight, and that glow becomes stronger as their time of death draws closer. The girl’s name is Watarase Mamizu.

After learning that she doesn’t have long to live, and there are things that she wants to do before she dies…

“Will you let me help you with that?”

“Really?”

As this promise was made, the time that had frozen for me began moving again.

Grand Prize winner of the 23th Dengeki Novel Prize.

Tags: Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , School , Suicide , Denpa

Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou.

Also known as Higehiro: After Getting Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Yoshida is just your average salaryman, drowning his tears in booze. On his way home one night, he finds a runaway high school girl sitting on the street. She offers to sleep with him in exchange for a place to stay―and Yoshida lets her off the hook and offers her work instead. A rom-com between the most unbalanced couple you'll ever find!



Tags: Office Lady , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Work , Seinen , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Gyaru

NHK ni Youkoso!

Also known as Welcome to the N.H.K..

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

Tatsuhiro Satou, a university dropout entering his fourth year of unemployment. He leads a reclusive life as a hikikomori, ultimately coming to the bizarre conclusion that this happened due to some sort of conspiracy. One day just when his life seems entirely unchanging, he meets Misaki Nakahara, a mysterious girl who claims to be able to cure Tatsuhiro of his hikikomori ways. She presents him with a contract basically outlining that once a day they would meet in the evening in a local park where Misaki would lecture to Tatsuhiro in an effort to rid him of his lifestyle. During these outings, many subjects are discussed, though they almost always pertain in some way to psychology or psychoanalysis.

Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Hikikomori , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation , Male Protagonist , Otaku Culture , Conspiracy , Autobiographical , Denpa , Drugs , Tragedy