Manga like Shibuya Near Family

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 , Work , Meta , Drawing , Satire , Tragedy , Episodic , Shounen , Parenthood

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Also known as Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Nozomu Itoshiki is depressed. Very depressed. He's certifiably suicidal, but he’s also the beloved schoolteacher of a class of unique students, each charming in her own way: The stalker. The shut-in. The obsessive-compulsive. The girl who comes to class every day with strange bruises. And Kafuka, the most optimistic girl in the world, who knows that every cloud has a silver lining. For all of them, it's a special time, when the right teacher can have a lasting positive effect on their lives. But is that teacher Itoshiki, a.k.a. Zetsubou-sensei, who just wants to find the perfect place to die?



Tags: Satire , Teacher , School , Philosophy , Ensemble Cast , Meta , Parody , Primarily Female Cast , Anachronism , Dissociative Identities , Tragedy , Suicide , Politics , Female Harem , Shounen , Ghost

Hayate no Gotoku!

Also known as Hayate The Combat Butler.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Hardworking Hayate has a plan to pay back the yakuza—who are now the legal owners of his body parts: he’ll kidnap someone and ransom them for a mountain of money! But things get tricky when his would-be kidnappee—who as luck would have it is the daughter of a mind-bogglingly wealthy family—mistakes Hayate’s actions for a confession of love, and subsequently hires him to be her personal servant. At least his employment future is secure, or so he thinks…



Tags: Butler , Female Harem , Shounen , Parody , Meta , Hikikomori , Crossdressing