Manga like Mimi wo Sumaseba

Nemuranai Machi Kara

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Sanako is a 10-year-old girl who lives with her father in Tokyo. Inside the grey building which is their home, they have created a sky garden full of huge, green potted plants. In this city oasis, kind-hearted people meet…


Tags: Urban , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Parenthood , Family Life , Unrequited Love , Found Family , School , Age Gap , Delinquents , Yakuza

Coquelicot-zaka kara

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

The story is set in Showa 38 (1963, a year before the Tokyo Olympics) and follows the coming of age of a high school girl named Komatsuzaki. The manga recounts Komatsuzaki's everyday life of "laughter and tears" with a school newspaper member, the student council president, and other schoolmates.

Tags: Shoujo , Historical , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , School

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 , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Tragedy , Transgender , Bisexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing , Suicide , Gender Bending , Nudity , Tomboy

Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

Komichi Akebi lives out in the countryside with her family. She's won entrance to the prestigious Roubai Academy middle-school for girls and now she wants only two things -- to wear the school's sailor uniform and to make a hundred friends!

Tags: Female Protagonist , Iyashikei , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Seinen , Acrobatics , Dancing , Athletics , Acting , Orphan , Tragedy

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