Manga like Natsuko no Sake

Boku no Mura no Hanashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A story based on real life events. The Sanrizuka Struggle, told from the perspective of the peasants fighting for their land.

Tags: Seinen , Rural

Kohaku no Yume de Yoimashou

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

Nana Kenzaki, who works at an advertising agency in Kyoto, is frustrated that her work isn't being recognized by her coworkers. One day, she happens to walk into an izakaya bar called "Shirokuma" and encounters the owner, Ryuichi Nonami; photographer Tetsuo Ashikari; and "craft beer"… The Kyoto craft beer story begins, where you can enjoy beer more freely!



Tags: Food , Seinen , Bar , Restaurant , Primarily Adult Cast , Aromantic , LGBTQ+ Themes

Chichi no Koyomi

Also known as A Journal Of My Father.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

KNOW THY FATHER

After well over a decade’s absence, Yoichi Yamashita journeys back to his hometown to attend his father’s funeral. As the relatives gather and the stories flow alongside the drinks, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. The spring afternoon playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mother’.

Through confidences and memories shared with those who knew him best, Yoichi rediscovers the man he had long considered an absent and rather cold father.



Tags: Family Life , Seinen , Historical , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist

Oishinbo

Also known as Oishinbo.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Around the offices of Tozai News, Shiro Yamaoka has a reputation for being over-blunt, under-ambitious, and generally an all-around slacker. So why has he been given the important job of coming up with the "Ultimate Menu" to celebrate the newspaper's 100th anniversary? Because he possesses qualities his other colleagues don't: an exquisitely discerning palate, an encyclopedic knowledge of food and drink, and a masterful touch in the kitchen.



Tags: Food , Seinen

Sousou no Frieren

Also known as Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.

Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. With the great struggle over, they all go their separate ways to live a quiet life. But as an elf, Frieren, nearly immortal, will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to terms with the mortality of her friends? How can she find fulfillment in her own life, and can she learn to understand what life means to the humans around her? Frieren begins a new journey to find the answer.



Notes:
Winner of the Grand Prize at the 14th Manga Taisho Awards.
Nominated for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
Placed 3rd at the 7th Annual Next Manga Award.

Tags: Magic , Travel , Elf , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Time Skip , Snowscape , Unrequited Love , Demons , Iyashikei , Medieval , Kuudere , Heterosexual , Episodic , Tragedy , Spearplay , Food , Fairy Tale , Dungeon , Time Manipulation , Shounen

Golden Kamuy

Also known as Golden Kamuy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama

In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.



Note: Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016 and the 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018. Nominated for the 20th and 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Tags: Conspiracy , Historical , Military , Outdoor Activities , Indigenous Cultures , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Politics , Food , Surreal Comedy , Educational , Primarily Male Cast , Travel , Snowscape , Found Family , Gore , Primarily Adult Cast , Survival , Guns , Male Harem , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Revenge , Language Barrier , LGBTQ+ Themes , Anti-Hero , Slapstick , Crime , Wilderness , Prison , Trains , Animals , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Swordplay , Archery , Disability , Suicide , Tanned Skin , Transgender , Twins , Cannibalism , Heterosexual , Zoophilia , Yakuza , Crossdressing , Dissociative Identities , Time Skip