Manga like Ristorante Paradiso

La Quinta Camera

Also known as La Quinta Camera.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

An apartment in Italy. In four of the rooms live four single men with singular personalities. Into this peculiar ménage steps an exchange student, the new tenant of the fifth room. Brought together by chance, friends by choice, they pursue their dreams together as the days drift gently by.



Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Age Gap , Ensemble Cast , Iyashikei

Koi wa Ameagari no You ni

Also known as After the Rain.

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

Akira Tachibana. 17 years old, high school junior. Akira, awkward when it comes to expressing her feelings, finds herself secretly falling for the manager of the family restaurant where she works, one Masami Kondo, age 45. The curtain rises on the small love story that begins to unfold between Akira, stuck standing on the crossroads of adolescence, and Kondo, at the turning point of his own life…



Notes:
Includes one extra chapter.
Won the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Award in the General Category.
The publishing rights of the manga got acquired by Shueisha on 2025, and the first volume of its Shinsouban got published on April 17th, 2025.

Tags: Age Gap , Work , Athletics , Rehabilitation , Coming of Age , Writing , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Unrequited Love , Heterosexual , School Club , Restaurant , School , Tragedy , Classic Literature

Sono Otoko, Amatou ni Tsuki

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

A sensational chocolate overload. Flooding taste with a pinch of romance.
A different kind of love story, revolving around a certain esteemed chocolate aficionado.

Jean-Louis, an extraordinarily talented Parisian attorney. Above all else on earth, his lifelong love has been... Chocolate. Troubled people cross his path in every direction he travels. As one might expect, might chocolate become Jean-Louis' method of salvation for these grieving souls? Furthermore, what mysteries of his past shall surface?

Tags: Seinen , Episodic , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Foreign , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist

Seiyou Kottou Yougashiten

Also known as Antique Bakery.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

A high school crush, a world-class pastry chef, a former middle-weight boxing champion...and a whole lot of cake! Ono has come a long way since the agonizing day in high school when he confessed his love to handsome Tachibana. Now, some 14 years later Ono, a world-class pastry chef and gay playboy has it all. No man can resist Ono's charms (or his cooking skills!) but he has just found a new position under a man named Tachibana. Can this be the only man who resisted his charms, and if so, will the man who once snubbed the "magically gay" Ono get his just desserts? And how in the heck did a former middleweight boxing champion wind up as Ono's cake boy?



Note: Recipient of 26th Kodansha Manga Award in the shoujo manga category for 2002.

Tags: Food , Primarily Male Cast , Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes

Nodoka no Niwa

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

This is a love story between 23 year old grad student Asahina Motoko and her 64 year old professor Sakaki Ikuo. Motoko is a very mature and serious girl with poor social skills and is often called dark and gloomy by her classmates. However she finds Professor Sakaki to be kind and easy to talk to, despite his reputation as a strict and scary teacher. Although Professor Sakaki tells Motoko that her feelings for him are not love, something is developing between the two of them, and it might change them both into better people.

Tags: Josei , Tragedy , Age Gap , College , Teacher , Love Triangle , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist

Bokura ga Koi wo Shita no wa

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Four men enjoy their retirement in the countryside. Friendly "General", playboy "Snob", wild mountain man "Doc", and silent "Professor". Suddenly, a mysterious beauty appears among them. As she talks about her past, each man gets drawn to her, and she remembers how it feels to be in love. Will it be the last love of their lives? A story about mature love and a rich life.

Tags: Josei , Male Harem , Rural , Primarily Adult Cast

Saraiya Goyou

Also known as House of Five Leaves.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Masterless samurai Akitsu Masanosuke is a skilled and loyal swordsman, but his naïve, diffident nature has more than once caused him to be let go by the lords who employ him. Hungry and desperate, he agrees to become a bodyguard for Yaichi, the charismatic leader of a group calling itself “Five Leaves.” Although disturbed by the gang’s sinister activities, Masa begins to suspect that Yaichi’s motivations are not what they seem. And despite his misgivings, the deeper he’s drawn into the world of the Five Leaves, the more he finds himself fascinated by these devious, mysterious outlaws.


Chapter count includes two side stories: “Warmth” in volume 3, and “Raindrops” in volume 6

Tags: Male Protagonist , Historical , Seinen , Samurai , Detective , Fugitive , Crime , Gangs , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Swordplay , Found Family , Oiran , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Police

Hyakunichi Coffee

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

"Memories anchor me to the past, but dreams carry me to the future."
Seeking to connect with her roots, Xiaoming leaves her familiar life in Japan and crosses the ocean to attend university in Taiwan, her late father's homeland. But navigating a foreign country completely alone proves harder than she imagined. Struggling just to find a place to live before the semester starts, a disheartened Xiaoming wanders into Treasure Hill, a historic and tranquil settlement quietly breathing in the heart of Taipei.
Hidden within its winding alleys is "Hyakunichi Coffee," a quiet coffee shop steeped in an intriguing urban legend: it is said to solve the deepest troubles of anyone who walks through its doors. Run by the enigmatic owner, Meng, the cafe is more than just a place to rest: it operates as a secret "Dream Laboratory" that delves into the fragments of people's memories.
"Why does my father keep speaking to me in my dreams?"
Guided by the memories of the Chestnut Tiger, a fragile butterfly known to migrate 2,000 kilometers across the sea, Xiaoming embarks on a surreal journey through "Memory Palaces," transcending the boundaries of time and space.



Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist

Mitsuya-sensei no Keikakuteki na Ezuke.

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

"This pounding in my chest is more than just admiration!?"

Tomoya Ishida is a newbie editor at fashion magazine Sophia Monthly. After his senior's sudden hospitalization, he's hastily assigned to collect a column manuscript from the famous culinary researcher Ayumu Mitsuya. He pays him a visit soon after, and to his surprise, finds an affable, older man who speaks in a Kyoto dialect. Being asked to wait, Tomoya is served a simple dish that entices his stomach, and soon he finds himself eagerly awaiting their next encounter!



Tags: Age Gap , Boys' Love , Food , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Primarily Male Cast , Photography

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.

Notes:
Volumes 11-12 contains the follow up series "Yumeiro Pâtissière: à la Carte".
Volume 1 contains the one shot Beautiful Dreamer (ビューティフルドリーマー).
Chapter count includes 8 bonus chapters

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