Manga like Laika no Hoshi

Love Sync Dream

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

A gothic loli girl from Shibuya and an otaku from Iraq both become unlikely friends in this adventure based on the novel Alice in Wonderland.

Tags: Isekai , Seinen , Female Protagonist

Nightmare of Dogs

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

An escape from nightmares (humans).

An abused dog travels to the afterlife in search of salvation.

A dog named Canis travels the world in solitude. All the dogs she meets on her journey suffered from "nightmares." Canis is one of those dogs, too.



Tags: Seinen , Animals , Primarily Animal Cast , Travel

Sakai no Musume: Cat in the Car

Also known as Sakai no Musume: Cat in the Car.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

A collection of short stories centered around a girl, her cat and her car.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Cars , Episodic , Work , Desert , Animals , Urban Fantasy , Environmental

Machina

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

Wakaba meets a strange duo of a girl named Chao and her robot partner.

Tags: Robots , Seinen , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist

Rojika to Rakkasei

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Psychological , Slice of Life

Rojika and Rakka live on a certain planet. They dig a hole to kill time, get a "Mystery Disc", find a "secret dungeon" in the forest, and spend every day having fun. There are a lot of things that the two still don't know on that planet ....



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Lost Civilization , Adoption , Tragedy , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Found Family , Seinen , Magic , Male Protagonist , Monster Boy , Monster Girl , Environmental , Primarily Animal Cast , Family Life , Parenthood

Shimeji Simulation

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

A girl who shut herself in a closet for the last 2 years of middle school realizes she has to go to high school. When she exits her closet for the first time in two years and looks at herself in the mirror, she notices that she grew shimeji mushrooms out of her head.

Tags: Meta , Surreal Comedy , Philosophy , Augmented Reality , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Denpa , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , 4-koma , Post-Apocalyptic , Hikikomori , Yuri , School , Episodic , Gods , Suicide , School Club , Tragedy , Religion , Trains , Cohabitation , Seinen

Ashizuri Suizokukan

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Slice of Life

panpanya’s debut one-volume work.

Ashizuri Suizokukan is a recompilation of panpanya’s Ashizuri Suizokukan and ASOVACE series, which were independently published in 2010 and 2011, respectively. It includes a collection of newly written travelogues and an abundance of color pages.
Ashizuri Suizokukan was published by Ichigatsu to Shichigatsu on August 30, 2013.

Ashizuri Aquarium (足摺り水族館)
The Complete Shopping District (完全商店街)
Board Game (すごろく)
A New Universe (新しい世界)
Innocent World (イノセントワールド)
A Dream I Had on April 17th, 2012 (二〇一二年四月一七日の夢)
Ashizuri Aquarium (足摺り水族館)
The City of the Dead (冥途)
Sputnik (スプートニク)
Untitled (無題)
Creatures of the Machine Age (マシン時代の動物たち)
Ashizuri Aquarium (足摺り水族館)
A Fish For You (君の魚)
Ending Theme (エンディングテーマ)



Note: Nominated for the 7th annual Manga Taishou Award.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Iyashikei , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Anthology , Fishing , Denpa , Josei , Autobiographical , Travel , Animals , Artificial Intelligence

Henshin no News

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

A collection of short stories which feature the mystery of human beings with a seemingly surreal yet pure literature-like style.

Akahoshi-kun (赤星くん)
Suiheisen JPG (水平線JPG, Water Horizon JPG)
Hiruyasumi (昼休み, Lunch Break)
Dan-kun no Shinpai (ダンくんの心配, Dan-kun's Concerns)
Juu (銃, Gun)
Musume no Keikaku (娘の計画, The Daughter's Plan)
Seijin Bomb Natsu no Hi (成人ボム 夏の日, Adult Bomb Summer's Day)
Tonda Kuruma (飛んだ車, The Car That Flew)
Kamimura no Sawayaka na Hentai (紙村のさわやかな変体, Kamimura's Exhilirating Abnormality)

Tags: Denpa , Seinen , Anthology , Philosophy , Surreal Comedy , Coming of Age

Boku wa Mondai Arimasen

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

People differentiate between "normal people" and "strange people." But who decides what can be considered the norm? This story emerged from our world. This story will send your common sense flying. This new book by Miyazaki comes packed full of sensitivity and wonders. Eight short stories that will rise a rainbow in the heart of people who had lived a life of loneliness.

Tags: Seinen , Denpa , Anthology

Usuzumi no Hate

Also known as The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Mystery , Sci-Fi

A girl walks alone in a world without humans. Her mission—to search for survivors and cleanse the land. But is anyone still out there in the lonely, beautiful ruins, waiting to be found?

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Urban , Tragedy , Artificial Intelligence , Philosophy , Body Horror , Travel , Robots , Lost Civilization , Survival , Iyashikei