Manga like Manga Lover

What is Manga Lover about?

Status: Releasing

Yanai, a successful manga editor, is in Shinjuku to research the lives of youth who hang out around Kabukicho, when a girl suddenly grabs him by the shirt. Misumi lives in a manga cafe, cleans a love hotel for what little cash she has, and spends all her time devouring manga—but now she’s started writing it, and wants Yanai to take a look. He’s dismissive at first, until he finally reads it and discovers she has real, if unpolished, talent. He offers to be her editor, but gets more than he bargained for when this almost feral girl suddenly takes up residence in his apartment! Her desperation and fixation are at total odds with the professional world he knows, jolting him out of his normal routine and opening his eyes to what manga is really about.

Tags: Drawing , Seinen , Homeless , Female Protagonist , Urban , Orphan

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Comic Days

Look Back

Also known as Look Back.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Fujino is a fourth grader who draws a manga strip for the school newspaper. Her art makes her the star of the class, but one day she's told that Kyomoto, a student who refuses to come to school, would also like to submit a manga for the paper...

Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on September 3, 2021.

Tags: Drawing , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Hikikomori , Coming of Age , Shounen , Work , Meta , School , Philosophy , Primarily Child Cast , Rehabilitation

Where to read?

Shonen Jump Plus MANGA Plus

VIZ

Bilibili

MANGA MILLION

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Urekko Mangaka X Utsubyou Mangaka

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological

A story about the twisted entanglement between a depressed, shut-in, has-been comic author, and another best-seller, Super Darling comic author.

Tags: Rehabilitation , Aromantic , Boys' Love , Suicide , Asexual , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing

Where to read?

Pixiv

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Uchikirare Mangaka to Doujin Onna

Also known as Axed Mangaka and Doujin Creator.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama

An unsuccessful mangaka, RObou-sensei, finally has his series axed... Dejected, he opens social media and discovers an account that is absolutely obsessed with his work! When he learns they plan to sell doujinshi based on his series at a convention, he heads there, hoping to meet at least one person who genuinely likes what he draws, but then...?! That hugely popular one-shot that trended on social media is now becoming a full serialization! A miscommunication comedy that explores otaku culture and depicts the realities of being a mangaka with a comedic touch! A story where the creator "god" and an otaku "believer" keep talking past each other.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Writing , Otaku Culture , Drawing , Work , Female Protagonist , Shounen

Where to read?

Shonen Jump Plus MANGA Plus

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Monochrome no Futari

Also known as Monochrome Days.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

A reliable office worker, Hanaichi Fudo, undoubtedly had a gift for the arts but gave up on his dreams of becoming an artist to lead a normal life. One day, his senior at work, Saori Wakaba, asked Hanaichi for help in writing her manga. Will he take up the pen again?! Written by Yosuke Matsumoto, author of "The Lady Becomes an Idol", a unique new take on aspiring manga artists!

Note: Includes 13 extra chapters.

Tags: Drawing , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Work , Shounen , Office , Heterosexual , Educational , Meta

Where to read?

MANGA Plus

Shonen Jump Plus

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Hitman

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Kenzaki Ryuunosuke is a new editor for Weekly Shounen Magazine, but his love for an unpopular series gets him no love with his coworkers. He meets Takanashi Tsubasa, an aspiring mangaka, and seeks to prove himself by making her the number one manga artist in Japan.

Tags: Work , Drawing , Meta , Urban , Heterosexual , Shounen , Nudity , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Writing

Where to read?

Pocket Magazine

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Blue Period

Also known as Blue Period.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…

Note: Nominated for Manga Taisho Awards in 2019, Kodansha Manga Awards in 2019 and the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020. Winner of the 13th Manga Taisho Awards. Winner of the General Manga category of the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Awards.

Tags: Drawing , Coming of Age , College , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Educational , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Tragedy , Transgender , Primarily Teen Cast , Bisexual , Crossdressing , Suicide , Gender Bending , Nudity , Tomboy

Where to read?

K MANGA

Comic Days

INKR

Pocket Magazine

Omoi

Piccoma

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Bakuman.

Also known as Bakuman。.

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

Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world?

Tags: Drawing , Work , Meta , Shounen , Educational , Writing , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Tomboy , School , Tragedy , Marriage , Love Triangle

Where to read?

VIZ MANGA Plus

Shonen Jump Plus MANGA Plus

VIZ