Manga like Oyaji

Genres: Action Drama

What is Oyaji about?

Status: Finished

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
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Arigatou

Arigatou

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

A depressing story about how a Japanese family's life goes wrong: an immoral protagonist, her sister who was gang raped before, her alcoholic mother who later devoted her life to a cult, and her father who lost favor with his company... full of sexual content and highly violent.

Tags: Family Life , Nudity , Bullying , Seinen , School , Gore , Delinquents , Crime , Cult , Tragedy
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Mada, Ikiteru...

Mada, Ikiteru...

Status: Finished
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Tags: Survival , Suicide , Seinen , Tragedy
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Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

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Okan

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

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Tags: Male Protagonist , Seinen , Food , Family Life , Time Skip , Rural , Tragedy , Police
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"Haikai Roujin" Don Quixote

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

Inspired by Cervantes' Don Quixote, the author criticizes heartless individualism and indifference in modern Japan, as seen through the eyes of an old man, who, although childish with age, sees the truth of things.

Tags: Urban , Satire , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Classic Literature , Surreal Comedy , Elderly Protagonist , Tragedy
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