Manga like Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Kakushigoto

Also known as Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Kakushi Gotou is a single father with a secret: he's a top-selling manga artist of a raunchy series that perhaps isn't suitable reading material for his young daughter, Hime. So he does what any doting father would do—he hides it all from her, no matter the hijinks that ensue!



Note: Chapter count includes all Issue comics (216 in total), 4 regular chapters, and the color comics included in each volume (12 in total).

Tags: Family Life , Meta , Work , Drawing , Satire , Tragedy , Parenthood , Episodic , Shounen

Joshiraku

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

A joint effort between popular illustrator Yasu and Kouji Kumeta, creator of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, this manga features female rakugo storytellers. After stepping off the stage, these comedians chit-chat in the girl's dressing room. This is a comedy that begins after the storyteller has said goodbye to the audience!

Tags: Rakugo , Meta , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Shounen , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Surreal Comedy

Voynich Hotel

Also known as The Voynich Hotel.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Horror , Mystery , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Welcome to the Voynich Hotel, a rundown resort located on an all but deserted island in the South Pacific. Owned by former Mexican wrestler Kandre Umeda, the hotel is maintained by two mysterious maids, Elena and Beluna, as well as a homicidal chef named Amelia.

Kuzuki Taizou, a Japanese tourist, comes to stay at the hotel to escape from his dark past. Soon he discovers that the strange occupants and happenings of the island are even more abnormal than what he is used to. Taizou quickly becomes embroiled in the spiderweb of affairs on the island, growing close to many of the residents and helping them out, though often causing even more problems for himself. But when Taizou's past comes to the island to haunt him, his new friends jump to his aid.

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Seinen , Witch , Maids , Assassins , Foreign , Ensemble Cast , Inn , Primarily Adult Cast , Mahjong , Yakuza , Drugs , Ghost , Disability , Gore , Nudity , Skeleton , Demons , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bisexual , Amnesia , Zombie , Adoption , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual

Katte ni Kaizou

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Katsu Kaizou is a very gullible 17 year old high school student, and a believer in science fiction, aliens, ghosts, UFOs, conspiracies, etc. He thinks that everything going on around him is the result of some sort of alien plot to take over the world. Each story is pretty much self-contained and is completely bizarre. Kaizou joins the school's science club, makes new friends, and ends up coming in contact with all sorts of strange things like log people, deadly sushi, pee-blades, scary infections, robot invasions, ghosts, living dolls, and more!

Included one-shot:
Volume 13: Yuuryou Bukken Chuukai Shimasu

Tags: Parody , School , Shounen , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Denpa , Trains

Oddman 11

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

There are 11 kids in Setsu's school who have special quirks and characteristics, called Oddman. Setsu wants to date the only male Oddman, Itami, so she proceeds to challenge all the other Oddman since they're his ex-girlfriends. In the process, she makes several Oddman fall for her instead.

Tags: Monster Girl , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , Nudity , Female Protagonist , Yuri , Female Harem , Ensemble Cast , Meta , School , Bisexual , Kemonomimi , School Club , Heterosexual

Gintama

Also known as Gin Tama.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi

The samurai didn't stand a chance. First, the aliens invaded Japan. Next, they took all the jobs. And then they confiscated everyone's swords. So what does a hotheaded former samurai like Sakata "Gin" Gintoki do to make ends meet? Take any odd job that comes his way, even if it means losing his dignity.



Included Bonus Chapters:
Volume 1: Dandelion (One-shot).
Volume 2: Shirokuro (One-shot).
Volume 24: 13 (One-shot).
Volume 38: Bankara-san Ga Tooru (One-shot).
Volume 41: Special Lesson.

Tags: Found Family , Parody , Samurai , Meta , Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Aliens , Philosophy , Episodic , Shounen , Tragedy , Space , Historical , Anachronism , Ensemble Cast , Time Skip , Police , War , Conspiracy , Dystopian , Fugitive , Robots , Ninja , Assassins , Ghost , Homeless , Crossdressing , Idol , Reincarnation , Shrine Maiden , LGBTQ+ Themes , Body Swapping , Gender Bending , Dissociative Identities , Judo , Drawing , Gangs , Female Harem , Afterlife , Amnesia , Cult , Military , Nekomimi , Politics

Isekai Shikkaku

Also known as No Longer Allowed In Another World.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

An adventure in another world with cute girls by your side and video game-like powers–sounds like an anime fan’s dream, right? Not so for melancholic author Osamu Dazai, who would quite literally prefer to drop dead. Video games haven’t even been invented yet when he gets yanked into another world in 1948. Really, all the fantastical adventure he keeps running into is just getting in the way of his poetic dream of finding the perfect place to die. But no matter how much he risks his hide, everything seems to keep turning out okay. Follow a miserable hero like no other in this cheerfully bleak isekai comedy!



Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category.

Tags: Isekai , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Parody , Anachronism , Heterosexual , Female Harem , Travel , Tragedy , Magic , Nekomimi , Medieval , Werewolf

NHK ni Youkoso!

Also known as Welcome to the N.H.K..

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

Sato Tatsuhiro is a drug-addled "hikikomori" (a Japanese shut-in) who thinks a sinister organization, NHK (Nihon Hikikomori Kyoukai), is the cause of all his problems! He falls in love with a girl, Misaki, who he thinks is trying to assassinate him, but doesn't know how to talk to her or if he can trust her. The more he stay in his house watching anime porn, reading manga and doing drugs, the harder it is for him to leave. Only Misaki can keep him from rotting away in his own apartment!



Tags: Hikikomori , Otaku Culture , Rehabilitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Denpa , Suicide , Drugs , Bullying , Nudity , Disability , Shounen

Arakawa Under the Bridge

Also known as Arakawa Under the Bridge.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Kou Ichinomiya, a young man born with a silver spoon in his mouth and raised with the mantra “never owe anyone” suddenly finds himself deeply indebted to a young homeless woman, Nino, who lives on the Arakawa river bank and claims to originally be from the planet Venus. When Nino rejects all of Kou’s mundane offers of money or housing, Kou is at a loss for how to repay his debt, until Nino suddenly asks him to teach her about love. A daunting task, but the over-achieving Kou is determined to return Nino’s favor. And so begins Kou’s life under the bridge, along with a band of eccentric characters who have formed their own little community outside the boundaries of typical Tokyoite life…




Tags: Surreal Comedy , Seinen , Heterosexual , Aliens , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Slapstick , Found Family , Philosophy , Episodic , Homeless , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Denpa , Amnesia , Twins , Ghost , Crossdressing , Yakuza

Shibuya Near Family

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

This is a series of vignettes that vividly describes the life of a third-grade girl and her family living in Shibuya.

Tags: Shounen , Female Protagonist , Urban