Manga like Liaison: Kodomo no Kokoro Shinryoujo

Unmet: Aru Nougekai no Nikki

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama

Tags: Medicine , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Seinen

Yoake no Toshokan

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Tags: Josei , Work

Kimi to Uchuu wo Aruku Tame ni

Also known as Spacewalking With You.

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

Kobayashi just can’t focus—not on studying, not on work—and the adults in his life think he’s in danger of becoming a worthless dropout. Then, one day, a strange new presence arrives in his class: an energetic and naïve kid named Uno. Kobayashi saves Uno from getting scammed, and that close encounter launches a new friendship. Uno’s definitely a space cadet, but Kobayashi can’t help admiring the way he floats through life, and before he knows it, he might start feeling his feet lift off the ground, too…



Notes:
Winner of the 17th Manga Taishō in 2024.
Ranked 6th in the 3rd Crea Late Night Manga Awards in 2024.
Ranked 3rd in the 2024 Da Vinci Book of the Year ranking.
Ranked 1st in the Men's Division of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2025 guidebook.
Nominated for the 49th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category in 2025.
Ranked 3rd in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2025.
Ranked 4th in Freestyle Magazine's "The Best Manga 2025" ranking in 2025.
Winner of the Emotional Resonance Award at the 4th Magademy Awards in 2025.
Nominated for the Best New Manga award at the 2025 American Manga Awards.
Winner of the Freeman Book Award for Young Adult Literature in 2025.
Selected for the SLJ Best Books of the Year list in 2025.
Selected for the Top 10 of YALSA's 2026 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list in 2026.
Nominated for the 50th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category in 2026.
Nominated for the 30th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2026.

Tags: Disability , Male Protagonist , Astronomy , Seinen , Rehabilitation , School Club , School , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Delinquents , Primarily Male Cast , Work , Primarily Teen Cast

Iryuu: Team Medical Dragon

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Dr. Katou is an ambitious woman who seeks to revolutionize the corrupt and inefficient Japanese medical system from within by becoming a professor in a teaching hospital. She enlists a maverick surgeon, Dr. Asada Ryuutarou, to help her with research that would catapult her to a professorship should they succeed and publish. However, Asada's refusal to conform to the system soon threatens to destroy not only her plans but her entire career. Katou is prepared to do anything, including going along with the system, in order to achieve her end goal, but she begins to question whether she has gone too far as Asada's actions bring many of the system's shortcomings to light.



Tags: Medicine , Politics , Work , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Family Life

Black Jack ni Yoroshiku

Also known as Give My Regards to Black Jack.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

"What is a doctor?"- a young intern faces the dark side of the medical world.
The reality awaiting intern Eijirou Saito at the ultra-prestigious Eiroku University hospital turns out to be brutally long hours of work for a paltry salary of less than $500 a month. 3 months after his graduation from the university, his patients-first idealism crashes head-on into a medical system that's a veritable tangle of contradictions and competing interests.



Note: Won Excellence Prize for Manga in Japan Media Arts Festival (2002) and Grand Award in Japan Cartoonist Association Award (2004).

Tags: Medicine , Seinen , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Educational , Work , Disability , Episodic , Rehabilitation , Estranged Family , Nudity , Heterosexual , Suicide , Tragedy , Rescue , Writing , Crime

Black Jack

Also known as Black Jack.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Among adult readers in Japan Black Jack is Osamu Tezuka’s most popular achievement, and perhaps the most close to the creator’s heart, as Tezuka considered entering the medical field—majoring in medicine in college—before devoting his life to comics. Black Jack is a genius surgeon who never acquired his license due to his clashes with the medical establishment. He is hired out by anyone willing to pay his exorbitant rates and is perceived as a heartless rogue because of his enigmatic nature and antisocial manner. But as readers will soon discover, that is not the whole story.



Note: Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen category in 1977.

Tags: Episodic , Medicine , Male Protagonist , Work , Ghost , Disability , Tragedy , Suicide , Shounen , Meta , War , Drugs , Philosophy

Masuikai Hana

Also known as Anesthesiologist Hana.

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

Of the major causes causing the collapse of modern medical care, the lack of anesthesiologists is most severe. At times serious and at times comical, this story of university hospital anesthesiologist Hanaoka Hanako realistically depicts her every day work and life. While she faces the struggles of hard work, low pay, and sexual harassment, Hanako is ready every day to administer anesthesia.



Tags: Medicine , Seinen , Work , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Anachronism

Radiation House

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

It turns out that it’s not only the general practitioner who diagnoses our illnesses! There are medical radiographers, who probe for the causes and reveal the lesions using X-ray or CT imaging. Not to mention the radiologists, who interpret the scans and make the diagnoses. This 'image diagnosis' forms the foundation of modern medicine. From a previously unseen side of the hospital, where experts battle illnesses and injuries, we bring you 'Radiation House'.

Tags: Work , Medicine , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Educational , Artificial Intelligence , Software Development

Hikari to Tomo ni...

Also known as With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child.

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

Born during the sunrise—an auspicious beginning—the Azumas' newborn son is named Hikaru, which means "light." But during one play date, his mother notices that her son is slightly different from the other children. In this alternately heartwarming and bittersweet tale, a young mother tries to cope with both the overwhelming discovery of her child's autism and the trials of raising him while keeping her family together. This is a story that resonates not only for those whose families have been affected by autism, but also for all past, present, and future parents.



Notes:
The chapter count includes the one-shot "Thank You Sensei!, Haru no Manazashi".
The English publishing of this manga only had 8 volumes, compared to 15 in Japan.

Tags: Educational , Disability , Josei , Family Life , Coming of Age , Parenthood , Ensemble Cast , School , Female Protagonist , Work

Asper Kanojo

Also known as That's My Atypical Girl.

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

Yokoi is a manga artist who spends his nights delivering newspapers just to make rent, since his original works just don’t seem to sell. Suddenly, one day he gets a visit from Saito-san, a self-proclaimed fan of Yokoi’s work who made the long journey to meet him. Yokoi quickly realizes that the things Saito-san sees, feels, and thinks about are different from most people… These two struggle together to find a place to belong in this unique slice-of-life!



Note: Original serialization ran for 123 chapters. These were then combined to make up 100 chapters in the volume releases.

Tags: Rehabilitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Disability , Suicide , Bullying , Heterosexual , Seinen , Philosophy , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Drawing , Writing , Estranged Family , Female Protagonist , Language Barrier , Tragedy