Manga like Kuuden no Himegimi

SHIORI EXPERIENCE: Jimi na Watashi to Hen na Ojisan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Music

Shiori was once a guitarist in a light music club in high school, but her first live performance was dashed when her brother ran away from home with a lot of debt to become a musician in Tokyo.

A decade later, Shiori is now a high school teacher, leading a boring, uneventful life and paying off the debt... till she runs into the ghost of none other than a famous guitarist Jim-you-know-who.

A story of a 27-year-old woman on her way to a music legend begins here.

Tags: Band , Ghost , School Club , Seinen , Coming of Age , Teacher , Female Protagonist , Rock Music , Tomboy , Anachronism , Delinquents , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Solanin

Also known as Solanin.

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

College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude. Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Naruo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world.



Notes:
Nominated for the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan and the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material.
Includes one extra chapter and one-shot "Haru yo Koi (Awaiting Spring)" first included in the October 2017 new Japanese edition.

Tags: Coming of Age , Band , Tragedy , Seinen , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Urban , Rock Music , College , Office Lady , Nudity

Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta

Also known as The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Music , Romance

Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya falls head over heels for an employee at a local CD shop. He's got an air of mystery about him, great style, and an impeccable music taste. Little does she know—this supposedly male employee is actually her female classmate Mitsuki! Mitsuki generally keeps to herself, but since her seat is right next to Aya's, she can't help but be extremely aware of the other's crush. Revealing the truth is out of the question for Mitsuki—but perhaps getting closer to Aya wouldn't be so bad...



Tags: Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Rock Music , Tomboy , Primarily Teen Cast , Short-Form Chapter , Gyaru , Primarily Female Cast , Josei , Work , School , Fashion , Iyashikei , 4-koma , Time Skip

Desperado

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music

Shiina Kaoru, an ordinary high school student who lives in a tedious town where school is boring and there are no place to go to play, his only salvation is the live house where he watch local bands play. His ordinary life started to change when he decided to buy an electric guitar and met the mysterious transfer student, Kurosu Michiya, who owns a black Gibson Les Paul full of knife scars.

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Yesterday wo Utatte

Also known as Sing “Yesterday” For Me.

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

Half stuck in the past, but still facing forward...
After graduating from university, Uozumi spends his days working at a dead-end convenience store job. But one day, a strange girl with a crow, Haru, appears in front of him. Awkward yet sincere, their hearts flutter and sway like the falling petals of a cherry blossom...



Tags: Love Triangle , Urban , Rehabilitation , Heterosexual , Konbini , Coming of Age , Unrequited Love , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Teacher , Philosophy , Iyashikei , Photography , Drawing

ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream! COMICS

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

Ren Nanahoshi is a lonely college student who isn't good at communicating with others. He remembers the thrill of watching a live band perform when he was young, and spent most of his days searching for his own identity. One day, while singing karaoke alone, two boys named Yuuto and Wataru discover Ren's singing ability. The two agree: "This is fate. Let's start a band!" Ren promptly runs away, but fate indeed steps in, and their journey begins.

Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Band , Male Protagonist , Shounen