Manga like Nemurubaka

Solanin

Also known as Solanin.

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

College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude. Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Shigeo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world.



Notes:
The chapter count contains an epilogue published in October 2017 as part of the new Japanese volumes edition release.
It was nominated for the 2009 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan.
It was nominated for the 2009 Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material.

Tags: Coming of Age , Band , Seinen , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Found Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Family Life , College , Urban , Rock Music , Office Lady , Nudity

Itai Onee-san wa Suki desu ka?

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Shiori Itai is a 26 year old woman who works as an office lady. Single, but aspiring to find love one day, she suffers from a big flaw: she constantly looks exhausted, jaded... in short: at the end of her life! Every time she undertakes something new in her daily life, this aspect of her personality as well as her extreme awkwardness are missing...

Tags: Office Lady , Slapstick , Nudity , Episodic , Heterosexual , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Love Triangle , Denpa , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Fitness

Hinamatsuri

Also known as Hinamatsuri.

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

Nitta is an ambitious, young member of the Ashikawa-gumi yakuza syndicate. One day, a mysterious, oval-shaped object falls out of thin air into his apartment, and suddenly changes everything! Inside of the object is an expressionless young girl named Hina. The girl has formidable telekinetic powers that she uses to threaten Nitta, forcing him to allow her to live in his apartment. Dangers abound as the yakuza member and young psychic begin their life together as roommates!



Includes 32 extra chapters.

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Found Family , Adoption , Slapstick , Family Life , Super Power , Yakuza , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Parenthood , Coming of Age , Work , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , Time Skip , Male Protagonist , Homeless , Primarily Female Cast , Urban , Bar , School , Time Manipulation

Aa toka Uu shika Ienai

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

Serialisation of the original Pixiv comic.

A reticent rookie artist and an editor desiring plot (and not just 'plot') team up to take on the eromanga industry together. Chaos and cohabitation ensue.

Tags: Drawing , Disability , Female Protagonist , Work , Yuri , Age Gap , Psychosexual , Nudity , Office Lady

Kono Yo wa Tatakau Kachi ga Aru

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Kiri Ito has been working for three years. Full of negative energy, with an unfulfilling job, a sexually harrasing boss, and an unfaithful boyfriend. Just as the office lady was reaching the end of her rope, she receives a letter... At 25 years old, it is time for a new reckoning on life.

Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban

Aiseki Ii desu ka?

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Tsubaki is a working woman struggling with her relationship with her subordinates. Momoko is a college girl struggling with her part-time job. Two people of different ages and backgrounds happen to sit together...? It's a breath of fresh air, a relaxing lunchtime comedy.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Work , Restaurant , Tsundere , Food

Yabai Idol no Manager ni Natchatta Hanashi

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

On stage, Maron is a sparkling idol, but in her private life, she is a weird, chain-smoking, emo girl. As her manager, I have to support Maron and keep the true face of the "perfect idol" hidden from the public. An idol with a history and her caring manager Their story begins in the smoking room. Note: Originally self-published, it was picked up for commercial serialization by Comic Howl starting 2024-04-16.

Tags: Yuri , Idol , Delinquents , Gyaru , Primarily Adult Cast

Maitsuki Niwa-tsuki Ouya-tsuki

Also known as Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord.

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

Manga editor Asako Suga decides moving into a new home is just the thing she needs to get over a painful breakup with her toxic ex-girlfriend. She finds the perfect place for rent—affordable, spacious, lovely garden included—but there’s one catch. The house comes with a live-in landlord! It’s disappointing enough that Asako can’t have the single life she hoped for, but her cute landlord also seems to be hiding a big secret...Will living together bring them closer, or turn out to be more trouble than it’s worth? Note: Inclues 5 extra chapters

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Idol , Seinen , Cohabitation , Iyashikei , Age Gap

Hana Monogatari

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

The manga centers on Hanayo, an elderly woman whose husband of many years has only recently died. After finishing a Buddhist service for her husband, she finds herself walking out in town alone for the first time in a long time. She stumbles onto a cosmetics store, and meets a beautiful woman named Yoshiko Doujima, and falls in love at first sight. Hanayo had long given up on makeup after her husband nagged her about it, but putting some on with Yoshiko's help brightens her heart.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Elderly Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Makeup , Seinen , Fashion , Iyashikei

Parkbaeu x Kimnampaen

Also known as Star x Fanboy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

What if you could talk to your favorite fictional character every day? And what if they make you feel like the most special person in the world? “Good morning,” “I was thinking about you,” “Sweet dreams,” “See you tomorrow”... Some fans dive into their TV/movie/book obsessions on social media by interacting with accounts that take on the persona of their favorite characters. But what if the person behind that fictional account is actually...the very star who played that role?



Tags: Boys' Love , Acting , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Full Color , Primarily Male Cast , Work , College , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things