Manga like Imouto no Ane

Look Back

Also known as Look Back.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Fujino is a fourth grader who draws a manga strip for the school newspaper. Her art makes her the star of the class, but one day she's told that Kyomoto, a student who refuses to come to school, would also like to submit a manga for the paper...



Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on September 3, 2021.

Tags: Drawing , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Hikikomori , Shounen , Coming of Age , Work , Meta , Autobiographical , School , Primarily Child Cast , Philosophy , Yuri , Rehabilitation

Yogen no Nayuta

Also known as Nayuta of the Prophecy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Supernatural

A tale about a prophecy involving a girl with horns who is said to bring destruction upon the world, and her brother.

Tags: Language Barrier , Magic , Family Life , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist

Nude Model

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

As the result of a punishment game, the boy Momose was forced to volunteer himself as a nude model for Natsume, an eccentric girl who devotes herself to art.

Tags: Nudity , Drawing , Heterosexual , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , School

Blue Period

Also known as Blue Period.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…



Note: Nominated for Manga Taisho Awards in 2019, Kodansha Manga Awards in 2019 and the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020. Winner of the 13th Manga Taisho Awards. Winner of the General Manga category of the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Awards.

Tags: Drawing , Coming of Age , College , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Educational , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Tragedy , Transgender , Primarily Teen Cast , Bisexual , Crossdressing , Gender Bending , Suicide , Nudity , Tomboy

Sayonara Eri

Also known as Goodbye, Eri.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

With his mother dying, Yuuta attempts to capture her last days on his phone. After her death, Yuuta heads to the roof of the hospital to commit suicide, but a meeting with a strange girl leads him on the path to making a movie.



Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on July 4, 2022.

Tags: Meta , POV , Filmmaking , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Acting , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Vampire , Family Life , Time Skip , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , Disability , Suicide

Fire Punch

Also known as Fire Punch.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Orphaned siblings Agni and Luna, like the Ice Witch who cursed their world, are two of the “blessed,” humans who hold special abilities. However, not all who are blessed are friendly, and after another of their kind attacks Agni and decimates the orphans' village, Agni fights to survive, vowing revenge.



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Suicide , Tragedy , Dystopian , Revenge , Philosophy , Cult , Anti-Hero , Super Power , Survival , Religion , Body Horror , Meta , Cosmic Horror , Gore , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Torture , Acting , Time Skip , Cannibalism , Urban Fantasy , Incest , Filmmaking , Transgender , Slavery , Surreal Comedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Denpa , Gods , Memory Manipulation , Snowscape , Politics , Heterosexual , Shounen

Alabaster no Kisetsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

Maeda Gin is a student who enjoys drawing graffitis at an abandoned apartment complex building near his school, with his friends and acolytes, Teppei and Kon-chan. One night, while they're at work on one of their masterpieces, they're interrupted by a mysterious ghastly pale-skinned woman who scares them. In the process of fleeing, Gin loses his sketchbook to her and then from this point onwards, his life will change in a major way! Some nude painting with his beautiful and attractive art teacher? Welcome to Season of Alabaster.

Tags: Drawing , Teacher , School , School Club , Nudity , Age Gap , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love

Hero Complex

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

As the track stretches out before star runner Kei, so too does a bright future. What awaits his shy, self-effacing younger brother Akira?

Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing , Urban

Choukoku Otome

Also known as Sculptor Girl.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

While working on her summer project, Yui from the Sculpture Department hatched an outrageous plan to dethrone Yukishiro, the department's top student...?!



Tags: School Club , Female Protagonist , School , Shounen

Basashi ga Tabetai

Also known as I’m So Hungry I Could Eat Basashi.

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

Kaede, a high school student, has won first place in an art contest with a painting of her favorite food, basashi. The painting was hung up at her school, making her instantly become the talk of the town. Even the scary-looking boy, Satomi, has taken notice of her work. Satomi actually has a secret he can't tell anyone…! Could basashi really be the thing that brings these two together?!



Tags: Drawing , Food , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , School , Male Protagonist , Time Skip