Manga like Mitsuami no Kamisama

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Also known as Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Set hundreds of years in the future after an environmental catastrophe, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (also known as Yokohama Shopping Log) centers on the simple life of Alpha, an android who runs a small coffee shop in coastal Japan. Alpha stands witness to chronicle the end of humanity’s days with coffee, a slice of watermelon, and the sound of her moon guitar backed by distant seagulls. Quiet and bittersweet, this tale is about the melancholy beauty that can be found even as the end approaches.



Tags: Iyashikei , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Rural , Robots , Time Skip , Lost Civilization , Coastal , Artificial Intelligence , Seinen , Episodic , Work , Yuri , Mopeds , Travel , Restaurant , Family Life , LGBTQ+ Themes , Motorcycles , Nudity

Ashizuri Suizokukan

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Slice of Life

panpanya’s debut one-volume work.

Ashizuri Suizokukan is a recompilation of panpanya’s Ashizuri Suizokukan and ASOVACE series, which were independently published in 2010 and 2011, respectively. It includes a collection of newly written travelogues and an abundance of color pages.
Ashizuri Suizokukan was published by Ichigatsu to Shichigatsu on August 30, 2013.



Note: Nominated for the 7th annual Manga Taishou Award.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Iyashikei , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Anthology , Fishing , Denpa , Josei , Autobiographical , Travel , Animals , Artificial Intelligence

Houseki no Kuni

Also known as Land of the Lustrous.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

In a world inhabited by crystalline lifeforms called The Lustrous, every unique gem must fight for their way of life against the threat of lunarians who would turn them into decorations. Phosphophyllite, the most fragile and brittle of gems, longs to join the battle. When Phos is instead assigned to complete a natural history of their world, it sounds like a dull and pointless task. But this new job brings Phos into contact with Cinnabar, a gem forced to live in isolation. Can Phos’s seemingly mundane assignment lead both Phos and Cinnabar to the fulfillment they desire?



Note: Nominated for the 8th Manga Taisho in 2015.

Tags: Tragedy , Philosophy , Seinen , Anthropomorphism , Religion , Coming of Age , Anti-Hero , Body Horror , Shapeshifting , Cosmic Horror , Post-Apocalyptic , Time Skip , Revenge , Agender , Reincarnation , Dissociative Identities , Memory Manipulation , Ensemble Cast , Space , Politics , Amnesia , Aliens , Asexual , Swordplay , Heterosexual , Suicide , Robots , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Foreign , Gods , Gender Bending , Nudity

Yakusoku no Neverland

Also known as The Promised Neverland.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest kids at the Grace Field House orphanage. And under the care of the woman they refer to as “Mom,” all the kids have enjoyed a comfortable life. Good food, clean clothes and the perfect environment to learn—what more could an orphan ask for? One day, though, Emma and Norman uncover the dark truth of the outside world they are forbidden from seeing.



Note: Nominated to the 22nd, 23rd, and 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Tags: Survival , Body Horror , Primarily Child Cast , Demons , Dystopian , War , Found Family , Guns , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Politics , Coming of Age , Alternate Universe , Travel , Ensemble Cast , Conspiracy , Anti-Hero , Time Skip , Gore , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Amnesia , Rural , Heterosexual , Suicide , Augmented Reality

Tasogare-boshi no Sui to Neri

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

A heart-warming story of a happy-go-lucky girl and a talking sloth living on a declining Earth.

Note: Includes one bonus chapter.

Tags: Iyashikei , Seinen , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Animals , Found Family

Samenai Machi no Kissaten

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

One day, Suzume finds herself unable to wake up, lost in a place known as the "Unwaking Town," Lutetia. There, she works at a coffee shop named "Quatre".

Tags: Iyashikei , Work , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Twins , Chibi , Amnesia , Memory Manipulation

Shuuseki Kairo no Himawari

Also known as IC in a Sunflower.

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

A cyber-punkish collection of stories revolving around the theme of the "DOLL."

Gum no Iranai Kodomo-tachi (Keep Those Condoms Away From Our Kids)
The tale of boys and girls who have lost their sexual desire.

Rissa no Tetsu no Hitsugi (The Iron Maiden)
The tale of the strain a girl experiences from having grown up in a home without love.

Shuuseki Kairo no Himawari (The Sunflower Quality Of An Integrated Circuit)
Vanilla is a maidroid in the home of an elderly master and his younger wife. The atmosphere in the house is cold and stiff because the wife is having an affair with a younger man. The lonely master comes to look upon Vanilla as his own dear child. He suggests that when the sunflowers bloom, they go outside together to watch them. "Is that a command, sir?" asks Vanilla. "It is not a command," he replies. "It is a promise." And so forms the piercing and painful integrated circuit—the alternating current of intercourse—between a lonely old man and the emotionless Vanilla.

Bara Tessen no Mukougawa (The Other Side of the Rose Wire)
What was the thing a girl like an angel endlessly carried?

Kago no Sakana (Fish Out of Water)
A mermaid is brought out of her dream.

Koubutsu-kun (Mister Mineral)
Inside the body of a cute girl who's just like a doll... are internal organs, and blood, and...

Anata wa Ikiteiru (Alive)
The sad tale of a human and a clone who pass right by each other.

Tags: Tragedy , Josei , Artificial Intelligence , Heterosexual , Anthology , Cyberpunk , Nudity , Maids , Mermaid , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist

U

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Romance , Sci-Fi

Yuu has spent her entire life with a “copy” of herself, her twin sister. Now science has created a copy more perfect than nature ever could, and Yuu seems like the perfect test subject. But as her copy becomes more intelligent day by day and begins questioning its own existence, the experiment threatens to spiral out of control. Who is real and who is a copy? And what is a “copy” that has surpassed its original? Just a copy, the original, or something else entirely?

Tags: Female Protagonist , Twins , Clone , Josei , Tragedy , Cannibalism , Body Horror , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Heterosexual

Owari Nochi, Asanagi-kurashi.

Also known as Giant Spider & Me: A Post-Apocalyptic Tale.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

A young girl named Nagi and a giant spider make an unusual pair in this post-apocalyptic story, but living in the mountains is lonely, and they’ve managed to find each other. Join them in their strangely sweet domestic bliss as they spend their days sharing tea and throwing picnics, proving that love (and delicious food) can bring together even the most unlikely of friends.



Tags: Food , Rural , Iyashikei , Post-Apocalyptic , Animals , Seinen , Educational

COCOON

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

San and Mayu are two schoolgirls living in Okinawa during the closing months of the Pacific War. Together with their classmates, the two friends are drafted into the war effort as nurses for wounded soldiers. When ordered to die for their country, the remaining members of the group escape only to face the harsh environment of a tropical paradise that has become a hellish battlefield.

Tags: War , Tragedy , Historical , Female Protagonist , Survival , Josei , Gore , Primarily Female Cast , Rural , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing , Medicine