Manga like Sensei no Kaban

What is Sensei no Kaban about?

Status: Finished

The story of "Sensei no Kaban" is about Tsukiko, a woman of thirty, that meets by chance his now sixties ex-professor of Japanese in a bar. The meeting will be the first of many in wich the two main characters discover that they love despite the age difference. A love story told with an original and effective narrative structure which divides the plot into seventeen short stories, seventeen romantic moments united by the same thread: Poetry and the ineffability of small simple things that make you happy.

Tags: Seinen , Iyashikei , Heterosexual , Philosophy , Food , Age Gap , Bar , Restaurant , Nudity

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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 the epilogue.
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 , Rehabilitation , Athletics , Writing , Female Protagonist , Seinen , School Club , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Restaurant , School , Tragedy

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Pil

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Tags: Female Protagonist , Josei , Work , Autobiographical

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Kohaku no Yume de Yoimashou

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

Nana Kenzaki, who works at an advertising agency in Kyoto, is frustrated that her work isn't being recognized by her coworkers. One day, she happens to walk into an izakaya bar called "Shirokuma" and encounters the owner, Ryuichi Nonami; photographer Tetsuo Ashikari; and "craft beer"… The Kyoto craft beer story begins, where you can enjoy beer more freely!

Tags: Food , Seinen , Bar , Restaurant , Primarily Adult Cast , Aromantic , LGBTQ+ Themes

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Pixiv Comic Magcomi Mangas.io

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Yonagi-san no Yonayona Gyoza

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Bar , Food , Seinen , Restaurant

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Mangas.io

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Haruka na Machi e

Also known as A Distant Neighborhood.

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

Who hasn't thought about reliving their past, correcting perceived mistakes or changing crucial decisions? Would this better your life or the lives of those closest to you? Or would your altered actions prove even more harmful? One man gets the chance to find out...

Middle-aged Hiroshi Nakahara is on his way home from a business trip when he finds himself on the wrong train heading for his childhood hometown. His footsteps take him to his mother's grave and it's there that he is catapulted back into his life as an 8th grader - but with all his adult memories and knowledge intact. As he struggles to make sense of his predicament his adult memories of his childhood return but are somehow subtly changed. The questions start to form ... would his father still disappear without explanation? would he still marry his wife?

Tags: Time Manipulation , Age Regression , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Seinen , Rural , Magic , Philosophy

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