Manga like Ningyo Ouji

Aoi Uroko to Suna no Machi

Also known as Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand.

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

After her normal, happy life shatters, Tokiko and her father move to a small seaside town to live with her grandmother as sixth grade starts. There, the sound of the waves brings back a distant memory from when she visited seven years ago, a memory of almost drowning in the sea and being saved by a merman. Are there really mermaids in that sea? Tokiko adjusts to her new life in the small town as she holds out hope of once more meeting the merman who saved her.

Note: Contains an extra chapter.

Tags: Rural , Josei , Coming of Age , Coastal , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Mermaid , Iyashikei , School , Gods , Religion

Kami-sama ga Uso wo Tsuku.

Also known as the gods lie..

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

Natsuru Nanao, a 6th grader who lives alone with his mother, strikes up an unlikely friendship with the reserved and driven Rio Suzumura. Natsuru plays hookey from soccer camp that summer, and instead of telling the truth to his mother, he spends all his time with Rio and her kid brother at their rickety house, where a dark secret threatens to upend their fragile happiness.



Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Seinen , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Tragedy , School , Bullying

Kaikisen

Also known as Tropic of the Sea.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Mystery

The legend has it that once upon a time, a pact was sealed between the Shinto priest of the town of Amide and a mermaid. Ever since, abundant fishing has guaranteed the town’s prosperity. This pact has always been honored by the priests of the Yashiro family. However, the legend has attracted both media and property developers, and the acting priest has acceded to their demands. Yosuke, youngest of the Yashiro family, has doubts about the existence of the mermaid, but will soon change his opinion as strange occurrences begin to unfold…



Included one-shot: Summer of Tension.

Tags: Seinen , Swimming , Mermaid , Environmental , Ships , Fishing , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual

Kin no Hitsuji

Also known as The Golden Sheep.

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

Winter of junior year. Not quite able to become adults, we couldn't stay as we were as children, either. Our tale explores a group of teenagers and their impatience and rebirth. "They say if you write down your wish, bury it under Sheep Tower and then dig it up after 7 years and 7 months, your wish will come true..."

Tsugu Miikura, a high schooler who loves to play guitar, had moved away due to family circumstances from the rural town where she spent her childhood. After several years, she's back in her old hometown. She reunites with her childhood friends—Sora, Yuushin, and Asari—the friends she'd buried a time capsule with back in elementary school. Tsugu is overjoyed to be with her friends once more, but the bonds that she thought would never change have in fact started to grow major cracks...



Included one-shots:
Volume 3: Love Letter
Volume 3: 100m Run

Tags: Bullying , Seinen , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , School , Food , Boxing , Work , Suicide

Ningyo no Sodate Kata

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life

A year after quitting my job I am alone living at a seaside town. One day after a storm had passed, I found a young mermaid girl hurt on the beach. I brought her home and set her in my bathtub trying to help her. But now what do I do? Features full-color artwork in a unique style!

Tags: Mermaid , Seinen , Hikikomori , Family Life , Male Protagonist

Kaijuu no Kodomo

Also known as Children of the Sea.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does.

Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish.



Tags: Philosophy , Mythology , Environmental , Seinen , Swimming , Female Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Ensemble Cast , POV , Astronomy , Kaiju , Male Protagonist , Urban , Scuba Diving , Amnesia , Monster Boy , Coastal , Educational , Animals , Ships , Body Horror , Cannibalism , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Work , Nudity

MagMell Shinkai Suizokukan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

A tale about a modern deep-sea aquarium employee in Tokyo!

What's living in the overwhelming darkness deep within the sea? Take a glimpse into this strange world about a boy working at a deep sea aquarium.

Tags: Animals , Educational , Work , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Environmental , Male Protagonist , Transgender , Disability

Ningyo no Mori

Also known as Mermaid Saga.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Romance , Supernatural

This is Rumiko Takahashi at her darkest, but her trademark humor and romance also pop up in this three-volume series. Legend has it that if a human eats a mermaid's flesh, they will be granted eternal life. But is that a blessing or a curse? Immortal lovers Yuta and Mana travel through Japan and the centuries longing for a normal life. On their journey, they meet others who have consumed the flesh of a mermaid in hope of becoming immortal. But the powerful substance affects each person differently. Yuta and Mana are two of the lucky ones. Others are fated to die or transform into a savage monster, a "lost soul."



This is the first volume of the Mermaid Saga series from the original tankoubon release, which includes the two-chapter stories "A Mermaid Never Smiles" (人魚は笑わない, Ningyo wa Warawanai), "The Village of Fighting Fish" (闘魚の里, Tōgyo no Sato), and "Mermaid Forest" (人魚の森, Ningyo no Mori Zenpen).

Tags: Mythology , Mermaid , Episodic , Body Horror , Nudity , Shounen , Gore , Achronological Order , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Pirates , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Heterosexual

Shiki no Zenjitsu

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

Compilation of 6 stories with a realistic feeling to them:

1. Shiki no Zenjitsu
Two people spend the last day of their cohabitation together before she gets married.
2. Azusa Nigou de Saikai
A father visits his daughter when her mother isn't at home.
3. Monochrome no Kyoudai
Two twin brothers reunite for a drink after ten years.
4. Yume Miru Kakashi (1st part)
A man who left for the city ten years ago returns to his home town for his younger sister's wedding.
5. Yume Miru Kakashi (2nd part)
The returning brother reminisces about their childhood in the countryside.
6. Juugatsu no Hakoniwa
An unknown high-school girl moves in with a struggling writer.
7. Sorekara
A cat observes the actions of her mysterious and rude owner.

Tags: Josei , Anthology , Family Life , Episodic , Animals , Ghost , Foreign , Rural , Heterosexual

Tegami Monogatari

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Sci-Fi

A collection of stories that revolve around letters.

Story 1, Strawberry and Anemone: Tsuzuru does want to kiss his girlfriend, Ichiko. He can’t, though, for a reason more biological than psychological...

Story 2, The White Messenger: Delivering a letter is a simple enough mission, but not when the intended recipient is a disowned royal.

Story 3, Periparus ater: When a wanted criminal saves a blind boy, neither expects the bond they will forge.

Story 4, Schrödinger’s Sweetheart: Eight women gather at an auction, united by their initial—H—and by their late paramour, E. Grosvenor.

Story 5, Stellar Ship and Ship of the Moon: A spaceship captain is meeting with her old classmates ten years after their last reunion.

Tags: Anthology , Seinen , Mermaid , Space , Historical , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Disability , Found Family , Foreign