Manga like Nagi no Asu Kara

Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.

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

A group of childhood friends drifts apart after one of them, Meiko "Menma" Honma, dies in an accident. Years later, the leader of the group, Jinta Yadomi, has become withdrawn and lives as a recluse. An older Meiko appears to him, and says that she must have a wish granted, though she does not know what it is.



Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Hikikomori , Tragedy , Ghost , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Crossdressing , Video Games

Shiroi Suna no Aquatope

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

The story takes place at Gama Gama Aquarium, a small aquarium in Okinawa, an hour's bus ride from Naha. Kukuru Misakino is an 18-year-old high school student who works there, and she knows about the "secret" of the aquarium: sometimes you can see mysterious things. One day Kukuru meets Fuuka, standing in front of a water tank with flowing hair and a tear rolling down her cheek. Fuuka has given up on her dream of becoming an idol and she has run away from Tokyo to Okinawa. Wanting to find a place to belong, Fuuka earnestly asks to work at the aquarium. The story follows Kukuru and Fuuka as they deal with the issues of the secret of the aquarium and a looming crisis of its possible closure.



Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist

Kokoro Connect

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

5 boys and girls full-shuffled! 5-way love pentagon comedy! At clubhouse room 401, there gathers "anything goes" members of the culture study society. Pro-wrestling otaku Taichi Yaegashi, mysterious beauty Iori Nagase, cool Himeko Inaba, the clown Yoshifumi Aoki and fancy-loving Yui Kiriyama found the noisy but calm days suddenly come to a halt. The personality switched among the members--. The unnatural days of changinging into "someone" by getting back to "themselves" by becoming "someone else" has started!

Tags: Body Swapping , School , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual

Sora Yori Mo Tooi Basho

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

Mari Tamaki is in her second year of high school and wants to start something. It's then that she meets Shirase, a girl with few friends who's considered a weirdo by the rest of the class and nicknamed "Antarctica" since it's all she ever talks about. Unlike her peers, Mari is moved by Shirase's dedication and decides that even though it's unlikely that high school girls will ever go to Antarctica, she's going to try to go with Shirase.

Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Travel , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Seinen , Work , Tragedy , Educational , Ships , Outdoor Activities , School

Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso

Also known as Your Lie in April.

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

Kosei Arima was a piano prodigy until his cruel taskmaster of a mother died suddenly, changing his life forever. Driven by his pain to abandon piano, Kosei now lives in a monotonous, colorless world. Having resigned himself to a bland life, he is surprised when he meets Kaori Miyazono, a violinist with an unorthodox style. Can she bring Kosei back to music, and back to life?



Note: Nominated for the 2012 Manga Taisho Awards.

Tags: Tragedy , School , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Rehabilitation , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Classical Music , Shounen

8-gatsu no Soda Sui

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life

Tales of the unusual residents staying in an equally unusual seaside town.

Also includes the additional story "Uwa no Sora ga Oka Yori."

Tags: Environmental , Episodic , Urban Fantasy , Iyashikei , Full Color , Seinen , Primarily Child Cast , Rural , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Magic , Coastal

Otohime Diver

Also known as Otohime Diver.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Slice of Life , Sports

Sixteen years after the great hydroseism, nearly the entire world has sunken beneath the seas... but that won't stop Tatsumiya Minato from following her dream of becoming a high school student at the Enoshima Women's Ocean Academy!

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Primarily Female Cast , Scuba Diving , Swimming , School , Mermaid , Zombie , Coastal

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 , Animals , Astronomy , Kaiju , Male Protagonist , Scuba Diving , Amnesia , Monster Boy , Coastal , Urban , Educational , Ships , Body Horror , Cannibalism , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Work , Nudity

Abyss Azure no Zainin

Also known as A Sinner of the Deep Sea.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

The ocean covers about 70 percent of the earth's surface—a whole world, yet unknown to humanity… And in its depths, a nation, thousands of meters beneath the waves. There, the mermaid Jo has been whiling away her days in peace. But that tranquility is shattered when her friend Ryuu is locked away for breaking the gravest of undersea laws: that humans must never know of the world below.

But why would Ryuu let the secret slip? And who did she tell? The curtain rises on Jo's adventure to save her friend—and on her love..!?



Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Shapeshifting , Fugitive , Environmental , Mermaid , Coastal , Politics , Dragons

Huo Hai

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

The world’s largest aquarium – “Living Sea Aquarium” ushered in its first opening day, No one expected that the hidden (invisible) crisis would spread quietly in the blue water… Suddenly unknown creatures are going rampage in the aquarium. Zhang Chen, a diver who suffers from depression and Zhang Xing, a rebellious, sensitive and cold-hearted student. How will these two brothers who have never been friends unite and cooperate. The question also remains, how will these two brothers find each other and a way to escape?



Tags: Male Protagonist , Full Color