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Nande Ikiteru ka Wakaranai Hito: Izumi Sumi 25-sai

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Slice of Life

Izumi Sumi, a 25-year-old part-timer, struggles through anxiety and depression, pondering the meaning of her own life.

Tags: Rehabilitation , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Philosophy , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Denpa , Iyashikei , Episodic

Hitori Koukan Nikki

Also known as My Solo Exchange Diary.

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

Struggling with the idea of living alone and adjusting to the effects of her previous book’s success, this follow-up to the award-winning autobiographical comic continues the author’s quest for self-acceptance and love.



Note: Includes 3 extra chapters and the one-shot “Chika-chan no Yuuutsu”.

Tags: Autobiographical , Female Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Non-fiction , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Family Life , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Suicide , Drawing , Disability

Sora no Shita Yane no Naka

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

NEETs are people who have chosen not to be part of society due to personal problems or just straight-out laziness.

This story is centered around a certain young woman who has become a NEET right after high school without even realizing it. In her case, though, it's not that she doesn't want work - but rather that there is not a single job out there which can fulfill her very specific criteria...

Oh, well...at least her mother understands her!

Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Work , 4-koma , Hikikomori , Primarily Adult Cast

Komi-san wa, Komyushou desu.

Also known as Komi Can't Communicate.

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

Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. But all that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly realizes she isn’t aloof—she’s just super awkward. Now he’s made it his mission to help her on her quest to make 100 friends!



Notes:
Winner of the 67th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2021.
Chapter count includes 37 extra chapters.

Tags: School , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Love Triangle , Disability , Slapstick , Heterosexual , Shounen , Meta , 4-koma , Yandere , Gyaru , Agender , Chuunibyou , Surreal Comedy , Crossdressing

Change H peach

Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi

Cover illustration: Toko Kotoha

Tags: Seinen , Anthology , Crossdressing , Gender Bending

Marin to Sadao

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

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Shissou Nikki

Also known as Disappearance Diary.

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

In 1989, comic artist Hideo Azuma succumbs to the pressures of deadlines and tries (unsuccessfully) to hang himself using the slope of a mountain. He leaves his family, wandering as a dumpster bum looking for scraps of food, cigarette butts or discarded alcohol. After several months he is arrested as a vagrant and returned to his home. He then repeats the cycle in 1992 this time becoming a gas pipe fitter in another town. Later, in 1998, his alcohol dependence is so bad he is forced into rehab. This book is his expression of those three periods of his life told, not in a deep or depressed way but, as befits his nature, in a buoyant and cheerful cartoon art.



Tags: Autobiographical , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Non-fiction , Disability , Seinen , Food , Work , Homeless , Suicide