Manga like Non Non Biyori

Yuru Camp△

Also known as Laid-Back Camp.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Setting up a tent, starting a fire, and eating noodles with Mt. Fuji in view...Rin and Nadeshiko absolutely love to camp! Enjoy their zest for travel and maybe even pick up a tip or two about roughing it in the great outdoors. You might just want to go camping yourself!



Tags: Outdoor , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Iyashikei , Travel , Rural , Educational , School Club , Food , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Environmental , Mopeds

Yotsuba to!

Also known as Yotsuba&!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai...um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving's fun 'cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made friends to play with (one of 'em acted like one of those bad strangers Daddy told Yotsuba not to go with, but it was okay in the end). I hope we get to play a lot. And eat ice cream! And-and-and...oh yeah! You should come play with Yotsuba too!



Notes:
Includes an interlude.
Won the Excellence Award for Manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006 and the Grand Prize of the 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2016.
Was nominated for the Manga Taishō award in 2008 and for the 12th and 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2008 and 2016.
Was nominated for the Eisner Award in the "Best Publication for Kids" category.

Tags: Family Life , Iyashikei , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Parenthood , Rural , Adoption , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy

Houkago Teibou Nisshi

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

Hina Tsurugi is a first year student at a coastal high school and regards herself as an indoorsy sort of person. Walking along the embankment, she runs into an older schoolmate, Kuroiwa, who invites her to join the “Teibou” club and start fishing! Surrounded by eccentric club members, how will Hina’s high school life turn out?

Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Fishing , Rural , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Educational , Coastal , Seinen , School , Primarily Teen Cast

Yakunara Mug Cup Mo

Also known as Yakunara Mug Cup Mo.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

The story begins when a high school girl moves to a shopping street in Tajimi. Many encounters await her, friends, town folk, ceramic art, etc. What will she discover in a town famous for ceramics?

Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , Rural

Yuru Yuru

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

True friendship is something that is not easily broken. That is exactly what best friends Haruka, Yuki and Misaki have. The school girl trio lives in a town close to the ocean and spend most of their time together on daily adventures. From a nice day at the beach to their typical day at school or the fun night at the local festival, Haruka, Yuki and Misaki will be best friends forever...



Tags: Full Color , Episodic , Iyashikei , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Photography , Seinen , Drawing , Animals , Rural , Outdoor

Barakamon

Also known as Barakamon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

For a certain reason, a handsome, young calligrapher by the name of Seishuu Handa uproots himself and moves to an island on the westernmost edge of Japan. "Sensei," as he comes to be known, is a city boy through and through, and has never experienced rural life until now. And by the looks of it, he has much to learn! Luckily(?), he has a willing teacher in Naru, the energetic expert islander, to help show him the ropes. But can Sensei keep up with the plucky first-grader, or will he get schooled?! Here unfolds a heartfelt island comedy about a gruff on the outside, soft on the inside urbanite teacher and his new, unfailingly kind island neighbors!



Notes: One extra and four side stories are included in volume 18+1. Original serialization was completed on 2018-12-12 with 18 volumes (139 chapters). A new limited-run serialization was started on 2023-04-12 and ended on 2023-09-12 in Monthly Shounen Gangan, in conjunction with the TV-drama adaptation. This new run adds 7 chapters and 1 volume to the total count.

Tags: Family Life , Iyashikei , Calligraphy , Rural , Found Family , Work , Male Protagonist , Coastal , Food , Rehabilitation , Teacher , Fishing , Shounen , Cars , Agriculture , Crossdressing , Cycling

Slow Loop

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

When Hiyori⁠—a young girl whose deceased father taught her the joys of fishing⁠—headed out to sea for some alone time, she never thought that she would encounter another girl there.

After a while, this girl⁠—named Koharu⁠—and her end up fishing and cooking together, and they get to know each other a bit in the meantime. During their brief time together Koharu finds out that the reason Hiyori went out to sea that day was because she's hesitant towards meeting her new step family that same evening. But what a coincidence! Koharu is also meeting her new family tonight! "No. It can't be a coincidence..." Follow these two 'sisters' and their new life together!

Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Fishing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Seinen , Female Protagonist

Hiyumi no Inaka Michi

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hiyumi is an ordinary teenage girl who, when her father told her they were going to move to Nagano prefecture, immediately pictured life in one of the biggest, liveliest centers of Japan.

She never expected for them to move to one of the least populated towns in the area. A town which takes a mile-long walk to get to a single convenience store. A town where you can count the different families on one hand. That type of town.

Anyway, let’s watch Hiyumi experience her new life in the boonies.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Rural , Yuri , School , Shounen

Mitsuboshi Colors

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hark! The city is in peril! Who you gonna call? Colors!

Sacchan, Yui and Kotoha are here to protect the city, solving mysteries and battling enemies with help from their friends.
But their quest isn't an easy one as their arch-nemesis Saitou, the violent police officer of Ueno, meets them at every turn.

Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Episodic , Iyashikei , Primarily Child Cast , Urban , Shounen , Primarily Female Cast , Detective

Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

Komichi Akebi lives out in the countryside with her family. She's won entrance to the prestigious Roubai Academy middle-school for girls and now she wants only two things -- to wear the school's sailor uniform and to make a hundred friends!

Tags: Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Iyashikei , School , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Seinen , Dancing , Acrobatics , Athletics , Orphan , Tragedy , Acting