Manga like Ningyo Rhapsody

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 , Hikikomori , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Work , School , Autobiographical , Meta , Shounen , Primarily Child Cast

Doctor Mermaid

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

A mermaid, said to be capable of curing any disease, is sold to a wealthy businessman for 11-trillion yen. Envy, jealousy, and confusion, as the secret of the mermaid is revealed. A must-read modern fairy-tale!

Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Mermaid , Primarily Adult Cast , Female 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 , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Urban , Scuba Diving , Monster Boy , Coastal , Educational , Primarily Adult Cast , Body Horror , Ships , Cannibalism , Animals , Primarily Teen Cast , Nudity , Work , Heterosexual