Manga like Shounen Houkokusho

Bokura no Shokutaku

Also known as Our Dining Table.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Eating around other people is a struggle for salaryman Yutaka, despite his talent for cooking. All that changes when he meets Minoru and Tane—two brothers, many years apart in age—who ask him to teach them how to make his delicious food! Yutaka soon finds himself having a change of heart as he looks forward to the meals they share together.



Tags: Food , Family Life , Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Found Family , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Iyashikei , Parenthood , Adoption , Time Skip

Tsukiattenai no ni Fuufu Yattemasu.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Kiichi Amakasu is a gay man and it's been three years since he started living with his straight best friend, Ryuunosuke Shibata, while raising the latter's niece, Mako together. Even though he sometimes has trouble balancing child-rearing and work, Kiichi still managed to build a family-like relationship. But there is one thing that he's been hiding and that is his years-long unrequited love for Ryuu. To make sure that Mako has a happy childhood, Kiichi had planned to keep his feelings hidden forever but one drunken night, he ended up sleeping with Ryuu?! This a heartrending story about a painful unrequited love and family bonds.



Note: Includes an extra.

Tags: Boys' Love , Parenthood , Family Life

Tadaima, Okaeri

Also known as Welcome Home.

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

Masaki lives as a househusband in the Fujiyoshi household with his loving trophy husband and breadwinner Hiromu and their two-year old Hikari, who is too cute for his own damn good. Full of doubt, the support of his family in their day-to-day lives carries Masaki through to a place of accepting himself for who he is.

A feeling, family-oriented BL between a Mr Right and a male beauty who feels like he doesn't size up.

Embracing the good times and the bad, all to be a better today than they were yesterday.



Tags: Boys' Love , Omegaverse , Family Life , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Parenthood , Age Gap

Hana Yori Ookami

Also known as The Wolf in the Flower Shop.

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

Riku Kirishima, a rough-looking high schooler, is a lover of romantic comic books who takes care of his family in place of his late mother. He has a younger brother, who he cares for deeply. One evening, he is suddenly embraced by a man in the park who offers him $300 to spend the night. Riku runs away, but soon learns that the handsome pervert who approached him is actually the guardian of his brother's friend! Enjoy this love story between a handsome florist and a romantic high school tough guy!



Tags: Boys' Love , Age Gap , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Parenthood , Family Life

Kazoku ni Nattemimasen ka?

Also known as Would You Like to be a Family?.

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

Volume includes:
1-2. Kazoku ni Nattemimasen ka? (家族になってみませんか?, Would You Like to Be a Family?)
Takemura is a distant, workaholic designer in the planning division. While most of his officemates had given up on interacting with him, his loud co-worker Masaki Natsui is persistent on breaking his indifferent demeanor. When one trip to the convenient store leads to Takemura crossing paths with Masaki and his adopted son, Mori, everything changes for Takemura as he is pulled into a somewhat makeshift family dynamic with the two.

3-4. Kuma no Kimochi (くまのきもち, Kuma's Feelings)
Hajimete no Renai Shinrigaku (はじめての恋愛心理学, The First Love Psychology)



Note: Chapter count includes one extra related to the first story.

Tags: Boys' Love , Family Life , Parenthood , Work , Anthology , School , College

Hinadori wa Shiokaze ni Madoromu

Also known as The Little Bird Sleeps by the Sea.

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

Left devastated after the tragic death of his parents and sister, Yuuichi Tachibana adopts his seven-year-old nephew, Ayumu. Seeking a new beginning, he chooses to move them to a new house with a view of the ocean, hoping for a peaceful setting where they can concentrate on their healing.

There they meet Ryou Kurebayashi, who owns a neighborhood deli, and become regular customers. As Ryou and Yuuichi grow closer, learning about each other's unfortunately similarly tragic pasts, they begin to support one another ― and Ayumu ― day by day, building a little family of their own by the sea.



Tags: Boys' Love , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Tragedy , Adoption , Food , Work , Yandere , Parenthood , Time Skip , Bisexual , School

Aikotoba wa Hallelujah

Status: Finished
Genres:

Popular composer Shu Ooka has an older lover, a beautiful bully of a man, Shizuka, who is also his cousin. They enjoy a lovefilled life, together with his son Botan... Except, their neighbour, the popular stage actor Ryujin Takamura is actually on an amorous quest targeting Shizuka! Ryujin has real talent at playing the lead role of a lover. But he has also been Shu's rival since they were students! And now, Shizuka is helping Ryujin out with his housework making Shu's heart burn!

Tags: Boys' Love , Parenthood

Gin no Kutsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

This is the story of Jun, a (nearly) six-year-old boy. Life, from the point of view of a little rascal with two loving dads and a pair of adorable friends.

Tags: Iyashikei , Family Life , Episodic , Boys' Love , Parenthood

Omega Jikenbo: Kono Ko Ore ga Umimashita

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

"A man should only feel sexual attraction to a woman." That detective who had no interest in homosexual relationships, Nogo Taichirou, is now in a big bind, as just as he enters the home of one of his main suspects, Satou Ayato, the bottom of your body begins to react. And it was about another boy! And he was a detective! But above all, next to him was a baby ?! Being the result of your research ...But more importantly, from who is the baby named Fumita ...?!

Tags: Omegaverse , Boys' Love , Primarily Adult Cast , Parenthood , Detective

Motoyan Papa to Hitsuji-sensei

Also known as Delinquent Daddy and Tender Teacher.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

In high school, studious Hitsuji had a secret crush on one of his guy friends–a friendly delinquent named Hatoyama–but never confessed. Years later, Hitsuji is a slightly anxious but responsible adult who found his calling as an elementary school teacher. One of his young students is upset with a sloppy and nonconformist dad–who turns out to be Hatoyama! When Hitsuji learns that Hatoyama is struggling to raise his son as a single parent, Hitsuji helps him out, first as a teacher and then as a friend who can teach Hatoyama how to clean his home and cook actual vegetables. As the men grow closer, some of Hitsuji’s anxieties begin to melt around the welcoming (and grateful) Hatoyama. What will become of the feelings Hitsuji used to harbor for his first love?



Tags: Family Life , Boys' Love , Teacher , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Parenthood