Manga like Shiroi Suna no Aquatope

What is Shiroi Suna no Aquatope about?

Status: Finished

The story takes place at Gama Gama Aquarium, a small aquarium in Okinawa, an hour's bus ride from Naha. Kukuru Misakino is an 18-year-old high school student who works there, and she knows about the "secret" of the aquarium: sometimes you can see mysterious things. One day Kukuru meets Fuuka, standing in front of a water tank with flowing hair and a tear rolling down her cheek. Fuuka has given up on her dream of becoming an idol and she has run away from Tokyo to Okinawa. Wanting to find a place to belong, Fuuka earnestly asks to work at the aquarium. The story follows Kukuru and Fuuka as they deal with the issues of the secret of the aquarium and a looming crisis of its possible closure.

Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist

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Nettaigyo wa Yuki ni Kogareru

Also known as A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow.

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

Konatsu is doing her best to adapt to her new school, but being required to join a club has introduced additional pressures. Her friendly classmate Kaede invites her to join the Home Ec Club, but Konatsu hasn’t even had time to consider which club she’s interested in. Meanwhile, Koyuki is like a ray of sunshine in Konatsu’s cloudy world. Will Konatsu join the Aquarium Club?

Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , Animals , School , Coastal , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Yuri , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Fishing

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ComicWalker

Pixiv Comic

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Nagi no Asu Kara

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

A story between the Sea and the Earth. Childhood friends Hikari and Manaka, who live in the sea, together with their friends Kaname and Chisaki, are forced to attend school on land after their own school undersea is closed. But due to a special encounter, their lives gain a new twist.

Tags: School , Shounen , Coastal

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Utakata no Minato

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

While everyone knows the story of the sea, no one knows the story of the deep sea.
Minato Wadatsumi was born and raised in a port town. But unfortunately for him, he has an extreme phobia of fish. One day, Minato comes across a fish out of water that changes his life.

Tags: Monster Girl , Mermaid , School , Female Harem , Dissociative Identities , Coastal

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MagMell Shinkai Suizokukan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

A tale about a modern deep-sea aquarium employee in Tokyo!

What's living in the overwhelming darkness deep within the sea? Take a glimpse into this strange world about a boy working at a deep sea aquarium.

Tags: Animals , Educational , Work , Seinen , Iyashikei , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Environmental , Transgender , Disability

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Kurage Bunch

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Anemone wa Netsu wo Obiru

Also known as The Anemone Feels the Heat.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

After failing to get into her desired high school, studious Nagisa is resolved to keep her chin up and move on. That is, until she meets a sickly girl named Mashiro at her new school, who throws a wrench into her plans—as she's the very reason Nagisa flunked her exams in the first place. But Nagisa decides she won't let it get her down, and to upend her negative feelings, she vows to warm up to Mashiro...Delve into this clever but clumsy girl's captivating love story.

Tags: Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Teen Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Seinen , Disability , Age Gap

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Comic Fuz

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Hanasaku Iroha

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

Matsumae Ohana was a fairly ordinary high school girl who is suddenly sent to live with her grandmother when her mother and mother’s boyfriend decide the want to be alone for a while. This catches her completely off guard, but she goes to the Onsen her grandmother own only to discover that she’s expected to work there as well. At first she rejects the idea, but then decides to turn herself into that perfect Onsen hostess.

But it’s not quite going exactly as planned…

Tags: Shounen , Inn

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Odoriba ni Skirt ga Naru

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance

Kiki Haruma always dreamed of doing ballroom dance as the feminine "partner" role, but as she aged she grew taller and taller, eventually causing her to give up ever looking good in a dress or anything girly. Now in the second-year of high school, she specializes in the masculine "leader" role—until one day, her partner suddenly leaves her. When Michiru Toribami, a petite and pretty first-year student, comes to join the ballroom dance club, Kiki asks her to be her new partner, but Michiru told her that she only dances the leading role—and she wants none other than Kiki to be her partner.

Tags: Dancing , Yuri , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love

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Pixiv Comic Pocket Magazine Nico Nico Seiga

Comic Days

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Sakura Quest

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The story centers on five girls who work in the tourism bureau of their small provincial town. The town revives its "micro-nation" tourism program, which originated from a nationwide movement during Japan's bubble economy period, and hires the five girls as "monarchs" (tourism ambassadors). The anime will depict one year in their jobs in the tourism industry, and show how they change and grow.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Work , Rural , Primarily Adult Cast

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Kaijuu no Kodomo

Also known as Children of the Sea.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does.

Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish.

Tags: Philosophy , Mythology , Environmental , Seinen , Swimming , Female Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Ensemble Cast , POV , Astronomy , Kaiju , Male Protagonist , Urban , Amnesia , Coastal , Scuba Diving , Monster Boy , Educational , Nudity , Work , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Cannibalism , Body Horror , Ships , Animals

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Viz

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Abyss Azure no Zainin

Also known as A Sinner of the Deep Sea.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

The ocean covers about 70 percent of the earth's surface—a whole world, yet unknown to humanity… And in its depths, a nation, thousands of meters beneath the waves. There, the mermaid Jo has been whiling away her days in peace. But that tranquility is shattered when her friend Ryuu is locked away for breaking the gravest of undersea laws: that humans must never know of the world below.

But why would Ryuu let the secret slip? And who did she tell? The curtain rises on Jo's adventure to save her friend—and on her love..!?

Tags: Environmental , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Shapeshifting , Fugitive , Mermaid , Coastal , Politics , Dragons

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