Manga like Papa told me

Sekai de Ichiban Yasashii Ongaku

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

A cute and touching story of a single mother, Sumireko, and her daughter, Nozomi. The manga starts off with Nozomi being sixteen years old in the first chapter, then hops back to before she was born. Finally with the third chapter starts the "real" story, when Non-Non (Nozomi) is three years old.

Tags: Josei , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Parenthood , Episodic

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 , Parenthood , Slapstick , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Rural , Adoption , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Fishing

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 , School , Orphan , Parenthood , Restaurant

Kakushigoto

Also known as Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Kakushi Gotou is a single father with a secret: he's a top-selling manga artist of a raunchy series that perhaps isn't suitable reading material for his young daughter, Hime. So he does what any doting father would do—he hides it all from her, no matter the hijinks that ensue!



Note: Chapter count includes all Issue comics (216 in total), 4 regular chapters, and the color comics included in each volume (12 in total).

Tags: Family Life , Meta , Work , Drawing , Satire , Tragedy , Episodic , Shounen , Parenthood

Kumichou Musume to Sewagakari

Also known as The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Kirishima Tooru is the right-hand man of the Sakuragi crime family. For him, the job is a perfect excuse to let his violent instincts run wild, earning him the nickname “the Demon of Sakuragi”. It seems like nothing will stand in the way of his vicious nature. But then one day, he receives an assignment like never before from the boss—babysitting his daughter! This is the heartwarming (or is it bloodcurdling?) story of a little girl and her yakuza caretaker!



Tags: Josei , Yakuza , Family Life , Delinquents , Anti-Hero , Found Family , Mafia , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Criminal Organization , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes

Yuzuki-san Chi no Yon Kyoudai.

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

The Yuzuki family consists of four brothers: Hayato, Mikoto, Minato, and Gakuto. The eldest son, Hayato, happily lives every day to the fullest. There are tears, laughter and excitement at home, at school, and in the neighborhood!



Tags: Family Life , Male Protagonist , Iyashikei , Primarily Male Cast , Shoujo , Coming of Age , School , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Teacher , Tomboy

My Girl

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Kazama Masamune - a single 23-year-old man... has a child? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring.

Tags: Seinen , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Iyashikei , Parenthood , Work , Episodic , Tomboy

SPY×FAMILY

Also known as SPY x FAMILY.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The master spy codenamed <Twilight> has spent his days on undercover missions, all for the dream of a better world. But one day, he receives a particularly difficult new order from command. For his mission, he must form a temporary family and start a new life?! A Spy/Action/Comedy about a one-of-a-kind family!



Notes:
Includes 2 "Extra Missions" and 11 “Short Missions”.
Nominated for the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020.
Nominated for the 13th and 14th Manga Taisho Award in 2020 and 2021.
Nominated for the 44th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2020.

Tags: Family Life , Espionage , Found Family , War , Surreal Comedy , Assassins , Work , Female Protagonist , Adoption , Male Protagonist , School , Fake Relationship , Aliens , Politics , Shounen , Heterosexual , Marriage , Orphan , Ensemble Cast , Super Power , Hikikomori , Slapstick , Guns , Parody , Episodic , Parenthood , Foreign , Terrorism , Satire , Iyashikei , Urban , Historical , Anachronism , Tsundere , Gore

Sen to Man

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Chihiro, a middle-aged father who still thinks he's good-looking, lives together with his 12 year old daughter, Shima. Is Shima irritated by her dad because she's going through puberty? Or is she just acting like a spoiled kid? Asami Sekiya presents a realistic depiction of a girl in middle school.

Tags: Seinen , Family Life , Episodic

Chihiro-san

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Chihiro-san, a former sex worker uninhibited by the shackles of society and conventional wisdom, is a someone that has life figured out... for the most part. The story follows her life in a small seaside town as customers of the box lunch shop she works at come to her about various concerns weighing on their minds. What's Chihiro's guiding answer to their love, work, family, and self-inflicted troubles?

Note: Adapted into a live-action film titled Call Me Chihiro, which was released in Japan and distributed worldwide by Netflix on February 23, 2023.

Tags: Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Found Family , Coastal