Manga like Rabuka

Oyasumi Punpun

Also known as Goodnight Punpun.

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

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town.
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back.
He wants to find some porn.
That’s what he wants, but what does he get…?



Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Tragedy , Philosophy , Denpa , Suicide , Psychosexual , Urban , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Anti-Hero , Time Skip , Fugitive , Surreal Comedy , School , Cult , Meta , Work , Nudity , Gods , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Ghost

Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction

Also known as Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

The Japan Self-Defense Forces are still looking for a way to combat the alien threat, but so far conventional weapons have had no effect. Maybe it’s time to try something unconventional.

Meanwhile, Kadode Koyama and her best friend avidly track the aliens’ movements on social media and less enthusiastically study for college entrance exams. When the end of the world looms overhead, you learn to take things one step at a time.



Notes:
Winner of the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.
Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Seinen , Aliens , Female Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Primarily Female Cast , Politics , Military , Time Manipulation , Bisexual , Coming of Age , Dystopian , Denpa , Language Barrier , Philosophy , Tragedy , School , Otaku Culture , Suicide , Anti-Hero , Post-Apocalyptic , Gore , Satire , Cosmic Horror , Yuri , Video Games , Love Triangle

Subarashii Sekai

Also known as What a Wonderful World!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

A dream recaptured. A life on a new track. The absurdity of death. Laughter in the face of reality.

With this series of intersecting vignettes, Inio Asano explores the ways in which modern life can be ridiculous and sublime, terrible and precious, wasted and celebrated.



Tags: Seinen , Episodic , Philosophy , Anthology , School , Youkai , Yakuza , Suicide

Nora to Zassou

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

Following the death of his daughter, Assistant Inspector Yamada Hajime has lost hope in everything, and jobs like closing under-aged prostitution rings don't exactly help matters. But there he meets a girl who looks alarmingly like his late daughter. Her name is Umino Shiori, a runaway girl who's desperate enough to sell herself to escape her house but won't tell anyone why.

Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Survival , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Police , Fugitive , Drawing , School , Crime , Found Family

Solanin

Also known as Solanin.

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

College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude. Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Shigeo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world.



Notes:
The chapter count contains an epilogue published in October 2017 as part of the new Japanese volumes edition release.
It was nominated for the 2009 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan.
It was nominated for the 2009 Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material.

Tags: Coming of Age , Band , Seinen , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Found Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Family Life , College , Urban , Rock Music , Office Lady , Nudity

Yuku Tokoro

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Koizumi, a young man in high school with an alcoholic father and a neurotic mother, lives alone and spends his days living an ephemeral and hedonistic life. One day, he has a stomach cramp and asks for help from his classmate Minato, who confesses that he is gay and has feelings for Minato, and starts following him around.

Koizumi, knowing that Minato's right half of his body is handicapped by polio, bullies Minato to make him feel inferior because of his disability, while at the same time jumping into the river to save an abandoned kitten at Minato's request. The two develop a twisted relationship that cannot be described as friendship or love.



Tags: Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bullying , Boys' Love , Disability