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: Rural , 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 , Episodic , Demons , Iyashikei , Kuudere , Tragedy , Large Breasts , Shounen , Fairy Tale , Medieval , Dungeon , Time Manipulation , Food

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

Kohaku no Yume de Yoimashou

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

Why not read about a popular craft beer now? Kenzaki Nana, who works in an advertising agency in Kyoto, was frustrated that the people in the company weren’t treating her fairly. At that time, she encountered a shop owner, Nonami Ryuichi and a photographer, Ashikari Tetsuo and a craftbeer at the Izakaya “Shiro Kuma”. All the featured beers are real! The Kyoto Craft Beer Story begins!

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

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