Manga like Shirokuma Café

Chi's Sweet Home

Also known as Chi's Sweet Home.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Chi is a mischievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Separated from the warmth and protection of her mother, she feels distraught. Overcome with loneliness, she breaks into tears in a large urban park meadow, when she is suddenly rescued by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. The kitty is then quickly and quietly whisked away into the warm and inviting Yamada family apartment …where pets are strictly not permitted.



Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Animals , Full Color , Iyashikei , Family Life , Seinen , Found Family , Adoption , Primarily Animal Cast

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 , Fishing

Kabocha no Bouken

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

A young man and his calico cat move to the countryside. This is a chronicle of the day-to-day adventures of Kabocha and her owner, perfect for cat lovers.

Tags: Animals , Rural , Male Protagonist , Seinen

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

Africa no Salaryman

Also known as African Wildlife at Work.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

A lion, toucan, and lizard live the lives of office workers in a capitalist society in Japan, while also dealing with their unique situations as animals living beyond the savanna and the food chain.



Tags: Animals , Work , Office , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Animal Cast , Shoujo , Anthology

Yasashii Shirokuma

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

A girl that loves to paint left her home and for some reason lives with two polar bears. This is the story of a girl suffering from loneliness and anxiety until she finds the place she belongs.

Tags: Animals , Iyashikei , Anthropomorphism

Shinmai Shimai no Futari Gohan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

"But suddenly, I had a little sister. That was the problem."
After her father's remarriage, Sachi suddenly has a new stepsister, Ayari. At first, their interactions are awkward, and very brief. However, they soon discover a shared love... of food?
Sachi soon discovers Ayari's passion for cooking, and the two step-sisters soon begin to bond over Ayari's delicious cooking, and begin to overcome the barriers that had once kept them apart. While their parents are away on their honeymoon, they learn to cope with their differences, and bond over a seemingly insignificant thing!

Tags: Food , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Family Life , Shounen , Photography , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School

Yumeiro Pâtissière

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

Amano Ichigo is a 14-year-old cake lover. After meeting a lecturer, Henrie Lucas, at a cake buffet, she enters St. Marie Academy—a school that raises and cultivates future pâtissières. Not only is she placed in the elitist group with three princes of sweets, but she also meets sweets spirit Vanilla on her first day of transfer. Ichigo is air-headed, a total klutz, and a complete novice at cake making, but she's trying her best mastering one at a time in order to make her eaters happy.

Note: Contains the one-shot "Yumeiro Pâtissière: à la Carte".

Tags: Shoujo , Food , Magic , School , Heterosexual , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Ojou-sama , Bullying , Fairy

Ramen Ookami to Curry Tora

Also known as Ramen Wolf and Curry Tiger.

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

Meet your new favorite food critics: a chubby wolf named Mita Jirou and a ripped tiger named Yanagi Kagetora. Kagetora used to eat to live, but all that changed when he met Jirou–who lives to eat! Jirou is more than happy to help his striped feline friend explore the restaurants and delicacies tucked within their city, and he enjoys all their finds with great relish. There’s nothing better than a hot meal to bring two guys together in this deliciously illustrated story of food, fur, and friendship.



Tags: Animals , Anthropomorphism , Food , Kemonomimi , Primarily Animal Cast

Nekomata to Asagohan

Also known as Breakfast with My Two-Tailed Cat.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life

Souichirou's wife's wanted to retire to the countryside, but soon after they achieve this dream, she dies. So he won't be left alone, their pet cat Nii turns into a talking nekomata, a two-tailed yokai cat. Together they share a heartwarming slow life, cooking and eating delicious food surrounded by nature. Enjoy freshly baked bread, handmade jam, fluffy omelets, and seasonal vegetables with the members of this unusual household.

Tags: Youkai , Food , Anthropomorphism , Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , Rural , Animals