Manga like Sunadokei

Bokura ga Ita

Also known as We Were There.

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

Nanami starts high school with high hopes of making lots of friends. She develops a crush on the enigmatic Yano, but he may have too many secrets for her to handle.

At that time...

...I didn't fully understand what Yano meant.



Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo in 2005.

Tags: Shoujo , Coming of Age , Time Skip , Tragedy , School , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Suicide , Primarily Teen Cast , Achronological Order

NANA

Also known as Nana.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance , Slice of Life

Nana Komatsu is a young woman who's endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, she's hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. She's looking for love and she's hoping to find it in the big city.

Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is cool, confident and focused. She swaggers into town and proceeds to kick down the doors to Tokyo's underground punk scene. She's got a dream and won't give up until she becomes Japan's No. 1 rock'n'roll superstar.

This is the story of two 20-year-old women who share the same name. Even though they come from completely different backgrounds, they somehow meet and become best friends. The world of Nana is a world exploding with sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties.



Note: Winner of the 48th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shoujo Category in 2002.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Shoujo , Band , Pregnancy , Tragedy , Philosophy , Time Skip , Found Family , Bisexual , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Rock Music , Netorare , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cheating , Achronological Order , Urban , Age Gap , Drugs , Nudity , Bar

Oboreru Knife

Also known as Drowning Love.

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

"I don't know what this feeling is … I don't know what I should do now … all I know is, I want him." They fight one another, they chase after one another, they capture one another—a turbulent tale of preteens on the brink of self-destruction, masterfully brought to life by George Asakura!

Tags: Shoujo , Gods , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Psychosexual , Rural , Love Triangle , Tragedy , Mythology , Fashion , School , Photography , Crime , Delinquents , Acting , Gangs , Coastal , Modeling , Religion , Estranged Family , Time Skip , Suicide , Blackmail , Body Image , Band

MARS

Also known as Mars.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Thriller

Kira, a shy high school student, lives only for her art. Rei, an arrogant, rebellious and violent playboy, wears his delinquency like a badge of honor. They are exact opposites in every way, but when Kira sees Rei kissing a statue of Mars, she overcomes her fears and asks him to model for her. And, to everyone's surprise, Rei agrees.



Tags: Heterosexual , Shoujo , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Suicide , School , Motorcycles , Drawing , Tragedy , Delinquents , Twins , Primarily Teen Cast , Yandere , Amnesia , LGBTQ+ Themes

Ano Ko no Kodomo

Also known as My Girlfriend's Child.

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

Sachi and her boyfriend Takara are a young couple in high school. They go to school together, hang out, and even engage in the more intimate side of dating. However, after a recent evening of sex, Sachi gets the feeling that something isn’t right and buys a pregnancy test. Later, in the bathroom of a family restaurant far from her home, she sees the two red lines that will change her life forever.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Educational , Pregnancy , Shoujo , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Snowscape , Estranged Family , Bullying , Family Life , Teacher

Bread & Butter

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

Life isn't going too well for Yuzuki. She's a 34-years-old and without a boyfriend. The elementary school she works at is close to firing her, and to top it off she doesn't know what to do with her life at all. But even when she quits her job and tries to have an arranged marriage things don't work out. Only the bread she eats at the small stationery store around the corner gives her comfort. So one day, she asks the store owner to marry her on a whim and to her surprise, he agrees...?

Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Josei , Work , Marriage , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Drawing , Age Gap

Piece

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance

One day, Mizuho, a university student, receives news that her classmate in high school, Origuchi Haruka, passed away. Mizuho doesn’t remember being best friends with Origuchi, but apparently, Origuchi told her mother that Mizuho was her best friend. And now, her mother wants Mizuho to help her find the boy Origuchi dated during high school. Mizuho told Origuchi’s mother that Origuchi was a very plain girl, and she was never seen with a guy, but her mother told Mizuho that Origuchi got pregnant and had an abortion when she was in high school. Mizuho was shocked, so she starts asking her other classmates in high school and following the traces Origuchi left behind.

Tags: Shoujo , Heterosexual , School , Female Protagonist , Achronological Order , Delinquents , Crime , College

Nanji, Hoshi no Gotoku

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Akimi is a high school girl who lives on a scenic island in the Seto inland sea with her mother, who has become deeply unhappy due to her father's affair.. One day, she becomes friends with Kai, who transferred to the island due to the love of his free-spirited mother....

Tags: Josei , Estranged Family , Heterosexual , Rural , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy

Tennen Kokekko

Also known as Pure and Natural Cock-A-Doodle-Doo.

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

A boy from Tokyo, Hiromi Osawa, transfers to a school in a remote village where Soyo has lived her whole life. Soyo and her friends are desperate to make Hiromi fall in love with their village, but Hiromi seems nonchalant about everything. It's a sweet slice-of-life story about growing up in a small village in the countryside.

(Source MANGA MILLION)

Tags: Shoujo , Rural , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast

Hachimitsu to Clover

Also known as Honey and Clover.

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

Takemoto lives in a run down student apartment, where his greatest worry is when he'll next be able to afford to eat meat and whether he'll get to class on time. Although he's away from home and living on his own, Takemoto is far from finished growing up. Along with his crazy cast of friends, Morita, Mayama, Yamada, and Hagumi, Takemoto sets out to discover life and his true self.



Notes:
Won the the 27th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 2003.
Includes 11 extra chapters.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Josei , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Heterosexual , College , Primarily Adult Cast , Unrequited Love , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Philosophy , Teacher , Drawing , Work , Cycling , School , Male Harem , Tragedy , Bar