Manga like Kami no Fune de Nemuru

also known as Sleeping on Paper Boats

What is Sleeping on Paper Boats about?

Status: Finished

Kei Kitahara, a visionary screenwriter who has taken postwar Japan by storm, has made the difficult decision to lay down his pen for good after he realizes the people he's been basing his characters on have all met unfortunate ends. He spends his days in misery, waiting to die, until a reason to live finds him in the gutter, too drunk and beaten to move. Kei can't help but be attracted to his savior's bewitching innocence, and the urge to write about him grows stronger by the day. Knowing he can't take the risk, he vows to never use his pen against him, but will temptation prove too great?



Tags: Boys' Love , Tragedy , Historical , Writing , Primarily Adult Cast , Photography , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Gore , Nudity , Prostitution
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Haruka Tooki Ie

Also known as A Home Far Away.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

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Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Travel , Boys' Love , Tragedy , Fugitive , Religion , Crime , Foreign , Suicide , Prostitution , Male Protagonist , Nudity
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Gengetsurou Kitan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery

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Tags: Ghost , Historical , Boys' Love , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Demons , Oiran , Male Protagonist
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Sakura Gari

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

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It seems as though this will be the story of Tagami's life, taking us through both him growing up physically and emotionally.

Tags: Boys' Love , Josei , Yandere , Historical , Nudity , Bisexual , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes
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Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart

Gesshoku Kitan

Also known as Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Romance , Supernatural

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Tags: Reincarnation , Age Gap , Boys' Love , School , Memory Manipulation , Gore , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Revenge
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La Fede

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance



Tags: Foreign , Boys' Love , Historical , Musical Theater , Bisexual
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Aitte Yatsu wo Oshiete Kure yo

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

A man who lost love and a penniless kept man. An encounter of the direst kind, a disaster in its own right.

Note: The chapter count includes one extra.

Tags: Boys' Love , Bisexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist
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Status: Finished
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Tags: Boys' Love
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Last Summer Vacation

Status: Finished
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Tags: Tragedy , Crime , Yuri , Josei , Travel , Female Protagonist , Fugitive , Primarily Teen Cast , Gore , Revenge , Delinquents , Motorcycles , Rural , Ships
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Also known as The Yakuza's Bias.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Ken Kanashiro is one of the top lieutenants in the feared yakuza outfit the Washio Clan. He lives his life by the code of the Japanese underworld, where nothing is more important than loyalty, and ties between soldiers and their aniki are sacred bonds. Ken’s never had time for hobbies... until the boss’s only daughter Megumi drags him to a K-pop concert, and he sees the glittering, charismatic Jun for the first time. Smitten like a new recruit on his first job, Ken plunges into fandom with the solemnity and passion only a true man who walks the way of the yakuza could muster.

Tags: Josei , Idol , Yakuza , Otaku Culture , Urban , Criminal Organization , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast

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