Manga like Rikon Kurabu

Dousei Jidai

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

Kyouko (21) and Jiro (23) live together in Tokyo as an unmarried couple. She was a graphic artist in an advertisement agency, and he was just starting out as an illustrator. In a world on the verge of a sexual revolution, this is the story of their daily life with friends and family, and the struggles of their relationship.

Tags: Philosophy , Seinen , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Urban , Episodic , Drawing , Office Lady , Tragedy , Suicide , Sadism , Incest

Maria

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Maria is a high schooler in 70s Japan. Feeling that she doesn't fit into society, she leaves her home to travel across Japan. During her travel, she will meet men and women, some of them she will love, looking for her place in life.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Yuri , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Bisexual , Nudity , Seinen

Itezuru

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

O-Tsuru (the crane), named because she used to stand on one foot to warm the other, was sold by her parents to become a geisha. She will begin as a shikomikka (apprentice) in an okiya: the house where the geisha live. By doing the commissions of his elders, Tsuru will discover the life of these women. Finally, one day, her turn arrives. She goes to her benefactor's room. Who, by paying the ceremony fees, will bring it into the world of geisha. Tsuru will then take the name of Tsurugiku and become a famous geisha in the world of pleasures.

<i<>Note: It was first collected in a volume in 1992.

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast

Kantou Heiya

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

August 15 1945, a plane from the US Air Forces crashes in a field in the Chiba region. Thus begins, the day of Japan's capitulation, that great bildungsroman about Kinta, a young boy raised by his grandfather after his mother's death.

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Transgender