Manga like Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru

Yotsuba to!

Also known as Yotsuba&!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai...um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving's fun 'cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made friends to play with (one of 'em acted like one of those bad strangers Daddy told Yotsuba not to go with, but it was okay in the end). I hope we get to play a lot. And eat ice cream! And-and-and...oh yeah! You should come play with Yotsuba too!



Notes:
Includes an interlude.
Won the Excellence Award for Manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006 and the Grand Prize of the 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2016.
Was nominated for the Manga Taishō award in 2008 and for the 12th and 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2008 and 2016.
Was nominated for the Eisner Award in the "Best Publication for Kids" category.

Tags: Family Life , Iyashikei , Episodic , Parenthood , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Slapstick , Shounen , Outdoor Activities , Rural , Adoption , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Fishing

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Also known as Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Set hundreds of years in the future after an environmental catastrophe, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (also known as Yokohama Shopping Log) centers on the simple life of Alpha, an android who runs a small coffee shop in coastal Japan. Alpha stands witness to chronicle the end of humanity’s days with coffee, a slice of watermelon, and the sound of her moon guitar backed by distant seagulls. Quiet and bittersweet, this tale is about the melancholy beauty that can be found even as the end approaches.



Note: Includes four extra chapters.

Tags: Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Coastal , Philosophy , Rural , Coming of Age , Robots , Seinen , Lost Civilization , Time Skip , Artificial Intelligence , Episodic , Travel , Mopeds , Work , Family Life , Restaurant , Motorcycles , Nudity

Azumanga Daiou

Also known as Azumanga Daioh.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

It's not manga, it's Azumanga! − smart, fun and totally addictive. Created by the iconoclastic Kiyohiko Azuma, Azumanga Daiou is strongly character driven, taking the reader through the daily tribulations of Miss Kurosawa, Miss Yukari, the wild Tomo, hair-triggered Yomi, ditzy Osaka, brash Kagura, cute Chiyo-chan and athletic (but girly) Sakaki.



Notes:
A great number of chapters are divided into several parts that have been included in the final chapter count.
Includes five extra chapters.

Tags: School , 4-koma , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Teacher , Shounen , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Tomboy , Ojou-sama , Kuudere

Ponkotsu Ponko

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

The near future, in a quiet seaside town. Yoshioka, who had recently lost his wife, just wants to spend the rest of his days in peace. However, Yoshioka's children, worried about their father's health, sent a housekeeping robot to help him. Yoshioka's quiet life is about to change.



Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Robots , Iyashikei , Maids , Rural , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Philosophy , Disability , Memory Manipulation , Episodic

Dainana Joshikai Houkou

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Takagi and Kanemura are two normal high-school students in a near-future Japan where many things are different but taken in stride. Technology has evolved to the point where items like face-blurring necklaces, sleep-control devices, and Willy Wonkaish meal-flavored gum are treated as fads. New services also dot the landscape, such as businesses that can help you reclaim memories and places that can upload dead people to the internet to continue living their lives in virtual reality. The two girls also treat encounters with androids, strange monsters, and aliens as somewhat normal occurences. Dainana Joshikai Houkou is a fantastical slice of futuristic life that proves that while society can change, people seem to stay the same.

Note: Includes 14 extra chapters.

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , Aliens , Robots , Afterlife , Time Manipulation , Virtual World , Meta , Alternate Universe

Nichijou

Also known as Nichijou.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou.



Tags: Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , School , Primarily Female Cast , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Parody , 4-koma , Robots , Teacher , Time Skip , Go , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Tanned Skin

Hinamatsuri

Also known as Hinamatsuri.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Nitta is an ambitious, young member of the Ashikawa-gumi yakuza syndicate. One day, a mysterious, oval-shaped object falls out of thin air into his apartment, and suddenly changes everything! Inside of the object is an expressionless young girl named Hina. The girl has formidable telekinetic powers that she uses to threaten Nitta, forcing him to allow her to live in his apartment. Dangers abound as the yakuza member and young psychic begin their life together as roommates!



Note: Includes 32 extra chapters.

Tags: Adoption , Surreal Comedy , Found Family , Slapstick , Family Life , Super Power , Yakuza , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Parenthood , Coming of Age , Work , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , Time Skip , Male Protagonist , Homeless , Primarily Female Cast , Urban , Bar , School , Time Manipulation , Crossdressing

Hirayasumi

Also known as Hirayasumi.

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

With a carefree outlook on life, Hiroto knows better than anyone that slowing down is sometimes the best way to move forward.

At 29 years old, carefree Hiroto Ikuta doesn’t have a girlfriend, a full-time job, or a plan for the future—and he couldn’t be happier. Hiroto’s breezy attitude isn’t easy for everyone to understand, though. In a world filled with anxiety, confusion, and grief, Hiroto and the people who surround him are all just doing their best to figure out this thing called life.

After developing an unlikely friendship with the grouchy old granny who lives in his neighborhood, Hiroto suddenly finds himself inheriting not just her house, but some rather difficult emotions as well. His 18-year-old cousin Natsumi moves in with him, but as a struggling art student, she has her own troubles to deal with and may just put Hiroto’s easygoing lifestyle to the test.



Tags: Seinen , Iyashikei , Family Life , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Work , College , Drawing , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Filmmaking , Love Triangle , LGBTQ+ Themes

ARIA

Also known as Aria.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

On the planet Aqua, a world once known as Mars, Akari Mizunashi has just made her home in the town of Neo-Venezia, a futuristic imitation of the ancient city of Venice. In pursuit of her dream to become an Undine — a gondolier who leads high-end tours around the city — Akari joins as a trainee with the Aria Company, one of the three most prestigious water-guide companies in Neo-Venezia. There, she explores the beauty of the city and the world along with other trainees from Aria and rival companies, working hard for her dreams and making new friends along the way.



Note: Includes seven extra chapters.

Tags: Iyashikei , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Work , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Urban Fantasy , Episodic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Foreign , Heterosexual , Coastal , Animals , Ships

Hyouka

Also known as Hyouka.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Mystery , Slice of Life

Oreki Houtarou is an "energy-saver" kind of guy, who expends as little energy as possible to do only things he has to. When he starts high school, his older sister sends him a letter asking him to join the Classics Club. The club meant a lot to her, and its number of members has been reduced to zero.
Houtarou reluctantly signs up for the club, only to find that someone else has joined, too! She's Chitanda Eru, a cute, big-eyed girl with an overwhelming sense of curiosity. A mystery crops up that catches Eru's interest, and also draws in Houtarou's friend, Fukube Satoshi. They continue solving mundane mysteries together, and soon they draw in Satoshi and Houtarou's friend, Ibara Mayaka, as well. Mayaka has had a blatant crush on Satoshi since middle school, but he always fends off her advances. Together, they search for the truth in a mystery that involves the history of the Classics Club.

Tags: School , Shounen , Classic Literature , Male Protagonist , Detective , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , Otaku Culture