Manga like Ashita Shinu ni wa,

Umi ga Hashiru End Roll

Also known as The Credits Roll into the Sea.

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

Umiko, a grandma, realizes that she has the same desire to make movies as university student Kai—and soon she enrolls in Kai's film school!

"It's not the movies you like…you like watching the people watching the movies."

Just what are you going to do with the rest of your life? It's the question you'll always have to answer, no matter your age. Umiko Chino is a 65-year-old retired woman in mourning for her late husband. Remembering how they used to watch films together, Umiko goes to the movie theater for the first time in years, where she meets Kai, an attractive, ambiguous young man who studies filmmaking at a nearby art school.

They would seem to have nothing in common, except for this—both of them sometimes like to look more at the way the audience reacts to a movie than the movie itself. Kai believes Umiko has the same deep desire he possesses to experience how people respond to something they made… and challenges her to stake the rest of her life discovering that thrill.

Soon Umiko surprises herself by enrolling in the same film school as Kai. But sailing into this new sea, she's suddenly inside the currents of her fellow students' lives, a much younger generation that she struggles to understand, driven by their own passions and their own relationships. Who's really experienced at life, and is it old age or observation that brings wisdom? And does what you're looking for change when you look with your eyes instead of through a camera lens…?



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

Sketchy

Also known as Sketchy.

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

Ako finds herself coasting along, watching her twenties pass her by. Work at the video rental store, see her boyfriend, repeat... Her days are becoming an indistinguishable, listless blur. Until she encounters a skateboarder practicing a trick—and she's a girl! For some reason, Ako feels a pull toward the sport. Slowly, all the dreams and ambitions she gave up on and the futures she imagined for herself come flooding back, and Ako resolves to change herself now, before it's too late. But is it ever really too late to discover something new?



Tags: Seinen , Skateboarding , Female Protagonist , Urban , Tomboy , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Sexy Tanaka-san

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

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 , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Urban , Office

Zutto Dokushin de Iru Tsumori?

Also known as Will I Be Single Forever?.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Mami is 36 and unmarried, and the entire world seems to be telling her she must be miserable. But is she? Does she really need a ring on her finger to be happy when she has a job she loves and friends who support her? A collection of interconnected stories that explores the hazards and joys of unmarried life through the eyes of three single ladies.



Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Urban , Work , Office