Manga like Musume no Tomodachi

Chi no Wadachi

Also known as Blood on the Tracks.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological

Ordinary middle school student Seiichi Osabe receives love and care from his mother Seiko. Until one summer an incident changes the family dynamic forever. This is a story of a mother’s love that has gone too far….



Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Family Life , Denpa , Coming of Age , Crime , Suicide , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Amnesia , Psychosexual , Bullying , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , School , Police , Nudity , Cosmic Horror , Tomboy , Dissociative Identities , Acting

Koi wa Ameagari no You ni

Also known as After the Rain.

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

Akira Tachibana. 17 years old, high school junior. Akira, awkward when it comes to expressing her feelings, finds herself secretly falling for the manager of the family restaurant where she works, one Masami Kondo, age 45. The curtain rises on the small love story that begins to unfold between Akira, stuck standing on the crossroads of adolescence, and Kondo, at the turning point of his own life…



Notes:
Includes one extra chapter.
The publishing rights of the manga got acquired by Shueisha on 2025, and the first volume of its Shinsouban got published on April 17th, 2025.

Tags: Age Gap , Work , Athletics , Rehabilitation , Coming of Age , Writing , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Unrequited Love , School Club , Heterosexual , Restaurant , School , Tragedy

Watashi ga 15-sai dewa Nakunatte mo.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi

Iwashita, a middle-aged salaryman, is living a modest but repressed life, shunned by his daughter and nagged by his wife. Until one day he ran into a girl named Chyna. She offered Iwashita a meal for 20,000 yen - an invitation to become a daddy. This is the beginning of a painful but dazzling story of a 15-year-old girl searching for self-worth and a 40-year-old middle-aged man struggling between reason and desire.



Tags: Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Estranged Family , Psychosexual , Blackmail , Cheating , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Crime , Nudity , Homeless , Tragedy , Pregnancy , Time Skip , Office , Fellatio , Nakadashi

Watashi no Shounen

Also known as My Boy.

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

Satoko Tawada, a 30-year-old office worker at a sporting goods company, encounters Mashuu Hayami, a 12-year-old boy, playing soccer in a park at night. She was treated cruelly by a former lover, he is dealing with a high-handed and uninvolved family. Both are burdened with loneliness, and they sense that the other has something that they’re searching for...



Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Office , Male Protagonist , Office Lady , Time Skip , Age Gap , Heterosexual , Tragedy , School , Love Triangle

Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou.

Also known as Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took In a High School Runaway.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Yoshida is just your average salaryman, drowning his tears in booze. On his way home one night, he finds a runaway high school girl sitting on the street. She offers to sleep with him in exchange for a place to stay―and Yoshida lets her off the hook and offers her work instead. A rom-com between the most unbalanced couple you'll ever find!



Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Love Triangle , Work , Urban , Office Lady , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Female Harem , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Gyaru , Shounen

"Okaeri, Papa"

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Thriller

The woman I married has a daughter, a second-year high school girl named Tooko. I was worried when I heard that her daughter was around that age, so I was glad to see that we got along. But sometimes, Tooko seemed to come on a little too close...?



Tags: Yandere , Seinen , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Inseki , Female Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Nudity , Parenthood , Torture , Tragedy , School , Psychosexual

JK, Shachiku wo Kau

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Three years after joining the workforce, Ken Inubosaki is 24 years old, single, with a measly 89,000 yen in savings, living the miserable life of an overworked wage-slave. When he passed out on the street from overwork and drinking, he was picked up by a beautiful JK girl and blackmailed into becoming her "pet"?

Tags: Age Gap , Urban , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Human Pet , Femdom , Primarily Female Cast , Bullying , Work , Shounen

Oyasumi Punpun

Also known as Goodnight Punpun.

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

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town.
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back.
He wants to find some porn.
That’s what he wants, but what does he get…?



Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Tragedy , Philosophy , Denpa , Suicide , Psychosexual , Urban , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Time Skip , Surreal Comedy , School , Fugitive , Gods , Meta , Cult , Work , Nudity , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Religion

Mabayui ne, Tamao-kun.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

A high school boy falls in love with an almost 30-year-old woman?!



Note: Includes 5 extra chapters.

Tags: Josei , Age Gap , School

Kuzu no Honkai

Also known as Scum's Wish.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Psychological , Romance

Mugi and Hanabi are the perfect high school couple...but their relationship is built on a single shared secret: They're each in love with someone else.



Note: Includes one extra chapter and the one-shots "Nyan Nyan Prelude (Meow Meow Prelude)", "Nyan Nyan Serenade (Meow Meow Serenade)", "Nyan Nyan Oratorio (Meow Meow Oratorio)", "Nyan Nyan Cantata (Meow Meow Cantata)" and "Nyan Nyan Andante (Meow Meow Andante)".

Tags: Heterosexual , Seinen , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Netorare , School , Love Triangle , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Age Gap , Fake Relationship , Yuri , Unrequited Love , Nudity