Manga like Maboroshi no 10-nen

Shomin Onyado

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

A young man and his friend, self-proclaimed nihilists, set out on a two-seater motorcycle to swim in Chikura, Chiba Prefecture, but get lost at dusk. Along the way, they met a vendor from Yamanashi, who introduced them to an old woman who lived alone, and together they stayed at her farmhouse. The group drank whiskey on the old woman's recommendation, and after the old woman fell asleep, the peddler told them of his tearful story.

Note: Published in Weekly Manga Sunday (April 1975).

Tags: Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Rural , Netorase

Tenkaichi Oomonoden

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

Tags: Shounen

Hime

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Thriller

Tags: Female Protagonist , Seinen

Munou no Hito

Also known as The Man Without Talent.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The Man Without Talent is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs—used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with. Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan.



Tags: Autobiographical , Seinen , Philosophy , Rural , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing , Male Protagonist

Ouba Denki Mekki Kougyou-sho

Also known as Oba's Electroplate Factory.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

An autobiographical manga based on Yoshiharu Tsuge's adolescence. Set in a downtown plating factory, the work follows Mr. Wolves, the owner of the factory, and a young worker named Yoshio, alongside other employees.

Note: Published in Bessatsu Manga Story (April 1973). Republished in Monthly Manga Garo No. 131 (July 1974).

Tags: Work , Autobiographical , Seinen

Sachiko no Sachi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Sachiko is a prostitute living a bright and strong life of adolescence, set in the old red line of Shinjuku 2-chome.

"I don't know the pleasure of sexuality that makes me drown, but the men who have passed by my body make a joyful voice."

Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Prostitution

Tonari no Onna

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

A collection of late-period Yoshiharu Tsuge stories, originally published 1981-1985.

Tonari no Onna (隣りの女)
Sanpo no Hibi (散歩の日々)
Shounen (少年)
Aru Mumei Sakka (ある無名作家)
Kinjo no Keshiki (近所の景色)
Ikebukuro Hyakutenkai (池袋百点会)

Tags: Anthology , Seinen

Kenka Hagakure

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Tags: Seinen , Military , Historical

Mansion Blues

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

A story of twisted sexuality that takes place in a closed apartment building. A total of nine episodes are included, including "The Italian Baby Carriage," which depicts the grief of a foreign wife Italy, "Dry Flower," which depicts the love and sex between two wounded women, and "The House of the Scarlet Peony," which depicts the madness of a woman in Ginza who is enchanted by a scarlet peony carving.

Tags: Seinen

Umineko no Shiro

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Tags: Anthology