Manga like Sexy Tanaka-san

What is Sexy Tanaka-san about?

Status: Cancelled

The manga centers on two women: Kyouko, a regular accounting department office worker who is around 40 and who maintains another life as the belly dancer Sali, and Akari, a likeable 23-year-old temp worker and colleague of Kyouko who is seeking marriage. Akari is convinced that her youth and cuteness are her only merits, so she is seeking to find a partner by going to mixer after mixer, perceiving her time as "running out" while feeling empty and lonely. A certain incident leads her to finding out about Kyouko's double life as a belly dancer, and she slowly begins admiring Kyouko.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Josei , Dancing , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Urban , Office

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

Aoki Kaoru is a 26-year-old woman who has never had a boyfriend. Normally unattached and unmotivated in her own life, Kaoru decides to start up a nail salon as a side business in addition to her regular job as a medical clerk. Although having a severe adversity to physical touch, she is forced to confront that fear when she meets a man who can’t help but touch others.

Tags: Age Gap , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Work , Medicine , Heterosexual , Office , Nudity , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Time Skip , Software Development

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Pixiv Comic

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Umi ga Hashiru End Roll

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

After turning 65 and bereaved of her husband, Umiko visits a cinema for the first time in decades. A shocking, life-changing event awaits her. When she meets Kai, an art student majoring in film, Umiko realises that she wants to make a film. She realises that she is on the side of "the people who want to make films"... Lured by the waves that stir her heart, the 65-year-old dives into the sea of film!

Tags: Female Protagonist , Filmmaking , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Photography , Shoujo , Iyashikei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Elderly Protagonist , Aromantic , Asexual

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Young Champion Web

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Yawao to Katako

Also known as A Queen and an Old Maid.

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

Campy queen vs. Miss forever-alone: this defeat-your-insecurities (romantic?) comedy goes out to all you folks full of self-loathing!! Unpopular with men, unattractive, and unsure of herself...... At a mixer one night, insecure and forever-alone Fujiko found her soulmate- No, wait, it was a femme guy playing mother hen?! Fujiko has never been confident in herself as a woman, but with help from prettyboy queen Koyanagi, now she's going to give femininity another shot...!

Tags: Heterosexual , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bisexual , Fashion , Love Triangle

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Pixiv Comic MangaPlaza

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

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Ashita Shinu ni wa,

Also known as Since I Could Die Tomorrow.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Sawako Honna, 42, single; she works hard at a film promotion company. One night, all of a sudden, her heart palpitates, and her body goes cold... Could it be that she's going through menopause!?

Not as hard-working as in your 20s. Not as flippant as in your 30s. The mental and physical changes, and the obstacles you face in your 40s. Sudden illness, menopause, fatigue you can't get rid of, changes in working patterns, money worries, life plans for the future...

"What will happen to me tomorrow?"

Note: 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award winner. Nominated for the 2020 Manga Taisho Award.

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Office Lady , Urban , Office

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INKR

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Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Michiko is an unemployed 30-year-old. She has just broken up with a younger boyfriend whom she supported financially until she drained all of her savings. Michiko then has a chance meeting with a former boss she used to dislike.

Note: Includes four bonus chapters.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Office Lady , Heterosexual , Restaurant , Work , Love Triangle , Food , Urban , Estranged Family , Matchmaking , Marriage , Gangs

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