Manga like Kono Yo wa Tatakau Kachi ga Aru

Koko wa Ima kara Rinri desu.

Also known as Welcome to Ethics Class.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Ethics, or the study of what it means to live, and the principles that shape our sense of right and wrong. It’s a subject you might go your whole life without learning, and never suffer for it. Yet within this classroom lie the truths essential to understanding ourselves. Enter Mr. Takayanagi, a calm yet enigmatic ethics teacher who faces the struggles of his students head-on, guided by his own unconventional beliefs. A modern, thought-provoking story of youth, morality, and the teacher who dares to challenge both.



Tags: Teacher , Philosophy , School , Episodic , Educational , Bullying , Seinen , Suicide , Crime , Heterosexual , Delinquents , Tragedy , Yakuza , LGBTQ+ Themes , Drugs , Nudity , Disability

Nami yo Kiitekure

Also known as Wave, Listen to Me!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

The stage is Sapporo, Hokkaido. One night, our heroine, Minare Koda, spills her heartbroken woes to a radio station worker she meets while out drinking one night. The next day, she hears a recording of her pitiful grumbling being played live over the air. Minare storms into the station in a rage, only to then be duped by the station director into doing an impromptu talk show explaining her harsh dialogue. With just one recording, the many eccentric facets of Minare's life begin to pull every which direction as she falls ever deeper into the world of radio.



Note: Nominated for the 9th and 13th Manga Taisho Award in 2016 and 2020.

Tags: Seinen , Work , Female Protagonist , Cult , Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation

Shinsekai yori

Also known as From the New World.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Ecchi , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

About one thousand years into the future, civilization has been retrograded and humans are living dispersed within small communities. People in this era have a psychic power called "Juryoku" which materializes things they imagine. In the absence of advanced scientific technology, people are using this power as a major source of energy.

One day, a girl called Saki, along with her friends, finds a small archive robot outside the town. It records the ancient history of humans. It tells them that Juryoku was found in the 21st century and the discovery caused a world war between psychics and non-psychics. The psychics won this war and thus their reign of terror began.

When the adults in town figure out that the children discovered this forbidden knowledge, they seal their Juryoku and exile them. Saki and the others end up in a forest where they meet a huge hairless bipedal mouse known as a "Bakenezumi" and get involved in a violent war the creatures are currently engaged in.

Tags: Dystopian , Bisexual , Nudity , Super Power , Yuri , Female Protagonist , Time Skip , Slavery , Memory Manipulation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Revenge , Rural , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Shounen , War , Ghost

Akane-banashi

Also known as Akane-banashi.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama

Rakugo--the ultimate form of storytelling, where everything in a story is expressed with just your body and words. Shinta and his daughter Akane have been seduced by this wonderful form of classical entertainment. Having observed her father strive to pass the shin'uchi rakugo test, Akane will take her own steps into this unique world!



Notes:
Ranked 3rd in the 8th Next Manga Awards print manga category in 2022.
Ranked 4th in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023 guidebook for male readers.
Ranked 3rd in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2023.
Ranked 2nd in the 16th Manga Taisho in 2023.
Nominated for the 47th Kodansha Manga Award in the shounen category in 2023.
Included in the New York Public Library's 2023 Best Books for Teens.
Included in YALSA's 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens.

Tags: Rakugo , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Primarily Adult Cast , Acting , Work , Philosophy , Shounen , Found Family , Revenge , Family Life , Time Skip , School

Nemurubaka

Also known as Nemurubaka: Half-Awake Fools.

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

In a women’s college dorm, Yumi drifts through her days working at a bookstore, unsure what comes next. Across the room, her upperclassman Ruka throws herself into her music, chasing a future that feels both urgent and impossibly far away. As Ruka pushes forward and Yumi lingers in her wake, the space between dreaming and doing grows harder to ignore.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Band , Time Skip