Manga like Ritou no Umi

Yuru Yuru

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

True friendship is something that is not easily broken. That is exactly what best friends Haruka, Yuki and Misaki have. The school girl trio lives in a town close to the ocean and spend most of their time together on daily adventures. From a nice day at the beach to their typical day at school or the fun night at the local festival, Haruka, Yuki and Misaki will be best friends forever...



Tags: Full Color , Iyashikei , Episodic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Photography , Outdoor Activities , Rural , Animals , Drawing , Seinen

AQUA

Also known as Aqua.

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

After 150 years of Terraforming, Aqua, the formerly planet known as Mars, now has more than 90 percent of its surface covered in water. A young girl named Akari Mizunashi arrives at the city of Neo-Venezia, an exact replica of the old Italian city of Venice, hoping to become an Undine, the most coveted job on Aqua.



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Work , Primarily Female Cast , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Episodic , Aviation , Shoujo

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

8-gatsu no Soda Sui

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life

Tales of the unusual residents staying in an equally unusual seaside town.

Also includes the additional story "Uwa no Sora ga Oka Yori."

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Episodic , Environmental , Iyashikei , Full Color , Primarily Child Cast , Seinen , Rural , Female Protagonist , Coastal , Foreign , Magic

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Also known as Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.

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

Set hundreds of years in the future after an environmental catastrophe, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (also known as Yokohama Shopping Log) centers on the simple life of Alpha, an android who runs a small coffee shop in coastal Japan. Alpha stands witness to chronicle the end of humanity’s days with coffee, a slice of watermelon, and the sound of her moon guitar backed by distant seagulls. Quiet and bittersweet, this tale is about the melancholy beauty that can be found even as the end approaches.



Note: Includes four extra chapters.

Tags: Iyashikei , Coastal , Female Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Rural , Robots , Lost Civilization , Seinen , Time Skip , Episodic , Artificial Intelligence , Travel , Work , Mopeds , Yuri , Family Life , Restaurant , Motorcycles , Nudity

Hyakumanjou Labyrinth

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Sci-Fi

"We got lost in a wooden labyrinth...?"

Reika and Youko, who work part time finding bugs for a game company, suddenly find themselves lost in a wooden labyrinth.
They try to escape somehow, but the riddles and dangers only keep increasing...
Also loaded with game jokes, the curtain rises on this escape room drama!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Seinen , Survival , Fugitive , Video Games , Aliens , Disability , Death Game , Isekai , Environmental , Nudity