Manga like Okan

Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki

Also known as Wolf Children: Ame & Yuki.

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

When Hana worked up the courage to speak to the mysterious loner in her college class, she never expected the encounter would blossom into true lovenor that he was secretly a wolf living in human form. Their relationship was far from ordinary, but she wouldn’t have had it any other way. Her joy only grows with the births of Ame and Yuki, who have inherited their father’s unique ability to transform. But life is full of both joy and hardship, and Hana is left to bring up her little wolves on her own. Raising human children is hard enough…but how will she handle their wild side, too?



Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Family Life , Coming of Age , Mythology , Tragedy , Environmental , Werewolf , Rural , Shapeshifting

Oyaji

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Living in poor neighborhoods of Osaka, Kumada watch over his wife and two young children. He is huge and riddled with scars and he works hard, smokes and drinks of sake as if it were mere water, gruff and scary, he talks little. But Kumada deeply loves his family and will protect it at the peril of his life when members of a yakuza clan set on fire to his house to facilitate a real estate transaction.

Jailed for the murder of those who failed to burn his people alive, Kumada was released fifteen years later and found his family. He will have to face the distrust of his children who know nothing of their father except that he had abandoned them. But he is determined to regain control of their education, starting with his son, a urchin abused by the tough guys of the district.

Tags: Seinen , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Gore

Amaama to Inazuma

Also known as Sweetness and Lightning.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Having lost his wife, math teacher Kouhei Inuzuka is doing his best to raise his young daughter Tsumugi as a single father. He’s pretty bad at cooking and doesn’t have a huge appetite to begin with, but chance brings his little family and one of his students, Kotori Iida, together for homemade adventures. With those three cooks in the kitchen, it’s no wonder this dinner table drama is so delicious.



Tags: Food , Family Life , Iyashikei , Seinen , Tragedy , Teacher , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Restaurant , Parenthood , Orphan , School

Okaa-Sama

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Momoyo is a daughter of Yae and Genta. Due to poverty, Yae and Genta decide to give Momoyo to the Sakurakoujis as an adopted child. Even though Momoyo is loved by her foster parents and looks very happy, her grandfather wouldn't accept her as his granddaughter. Momoyo meets her cousin, Reiko. Reiko says there's a secret about Momoyo.

Tags: Shoujo , Tragedy