Manga like Starting Over

Mikkakan no Koufuku

Also known as Three Days of Happiness.

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

HOW MUCH IS LIFE TRULY WORTH?
Kusunoki used to believe he was destined for great things. Ostracized as a child, he held on to a belief that a good life was waiting for him in the years ahead. Now approaching the age of twenty, he's a completely mediocre college student with no motivation, no dreams, and no money. After learning he can sell his remaining years-and just how little they're worth-he chooses to divest himself of all but his last three months. Has Kusunoki truly destroyed his last chance to find happiness...or has he somehow found it?



Tags: Tragedy , Philosophy , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Urban , Seinen , Hikikomori , Heterosexual , Writing , Suicide , Photography , Drawing , College , Mopeds , Autobiographical , Amnesia

Itai no Itai no, Tonde Yuke

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

The plot involves a young man who becomes a killer (by accident) – but his victim has the power of “postponement,” temporarily delaying her death.

Tags: Gore , Time Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Revenge , Suicide , Memory Manipulation , Bullying , Tragedy , Philosophy , Torture

Koisuru Kiseichuu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

The story is about a man whose compulsive tendencies make it impossible for him to keep a job, and a young girl who skips school and loves insects. The two meet, come to support each other in reintegrating into society, and fall in love. There’s a problem, however: namely, the parasites in their heads.

Tags: Hikikomori , Age Gap , Tragedy , Rehabilitation , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Urban , Suicide , Denpa , Disability , Software Development , Snowscape

Kimi ga Denwa wo Kakete Ita Basho

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

The Place You Called From & The Place I Called From are novels by Sugaru Miaki, also known as Fafoo, writer of Starting Over, Three Days of Happiness, and Pain, Pain, Go Away.

The story is about a boy entering high school, who answers a strange call from a public phone one night. The caller challenges him to a bet: She’ll remove the birthmark which he sees as the cause of so many problems, and he’ll have fifty days to win the heart of a girl he’d considered far beyond his reach. And with this, a very strange summer begins.

Volume 1: The Place You Called From
Volume 2: The Place I Called From

Tags: Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Mythology , Philosophy , School , Heterosexual , Amnesia , Suicide , Bullying , Love Triangle , Astronomy

Jisatsu suru ni wa Mukanai Kisetsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy

One morning, Nagase witnesses the moment his classmate, Tsubasa Amamiya, jumps in front of the oncoming train. He starts thinking about why she'd choose to die but arrives at no answer. Seeing this his friend Fukai hands him a capsule which he claims is a miniature time machine. Nagase, half-in-doubt, takes the capsule and wakes up 2 weeks in the past. He then meets Amamiya on the rooftop under the rain...

First Prize winner of Kodansha Ranobe Bunko's 6th Rookie of the Year award​.

Tags: Suicide , Time Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation

Nidome no Natsu, Nidoto Aenai Kimi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

This summer, I lost you a second time. Surely, the words 'I like you' were a crime. Moriyama Rin was born with an incurable disease. I came to love the girl who spent her high school life hiding that fact. At our last cultural festival, we had our live concert and spent the last moments of the festival together--After that, Rin died.

In her final moments, I told to her 'I like you' --I told her the message that I should have never conveyed. When I arrived at the her hospital room, I received a slip of paper with only the words 'I'm sorry'. I shouldn't have told those feelings. Someone like me shouldn't have gotten close to Rin.

Then, I experienced a time leap. At the riverside where we first met, I met her once more, the Rin who I always wanted to see again, to see that radiant simile once more... That's why this time I won't make the same mistake. Because I definitely cannot convey these feelings. I decided that to the very end, I must repress my own feelings. In hopes she would always be smiling in her one short life.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Primarily Teen Cast , Band , School , Tragedy

Natsu e no Tunnel, Sayonara no Deguchi

Also known as The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Kaoru Touno heard a rumor: The laws of space and time mean nothing to the Urashima Tunnel. If you find it, walk through and you’ll find your heart’s desire on the other side…in exchange for years of your own life. On the night Kaoru just so happens to find himself standing in front of a tunnel that looks suspiciously like the one the rumor describes, he finds himself thinking of Karen, the sister he lost in an accident five years ago. To Kaoru’s surprise, he’s been followed by the new transfer student Anzu Hanashiro, who promises to help him experiment with the mysterious tunnel–but what does she want from Kaoru in exchange? And what will he have left to give, after the tunnel’s done with him?



Tags: Male Protagonist , Rural , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban Fantasy , School , Tragedy , Time Manipulation , Bullying , Philosophy , Time Skip

Sakurada Reset

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

Nearly half the population of Sakurada, a small town near the Pacific Ocean, has some sort of unique power. These powers range from being able to enter the mind of a cat, to resetting the world back to a certain point in time in the past. There is a group known as the "Kanrikyoku" that controls and monitors the use of these powers. Asai Kei and Haruki Misora work for their school's club called "Houshi" club, which execute any missions received from the Kanrikyoku. Misora has the ability to reset the world 3 days. This means that all events and any memory of the past 3 days that "could have" happened, never happened. Kei has the ability to "remember" the past. Even after Misora uses her powers to reset the world back 3 days, Kei will retain those 3 days in his memory. Combining their powers, these two solve missions issued by the Kanrikyoku.

Tags: School , Super Power , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Achronological Order , Philosophy , Love Triangle , Kuudere

Bokutachi no Remake

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

Kyouya Hashiba, who worked at a game company, had his dream shattered and decided to return to his parents’ home, but after waking up, it was ten years ago…… For some reason, he was attending the arts college that he was supposed to have given up on, furthermore, the creators that he admired in the future were his classmates!?

Tags: Time Manipulation , Otaku Culture , Age Regression , School , College , School Club , Filmmaking , Love Triangle , Time Skip , Male Protagonist , Software Development , Work , Female Harem , Tragedy

Ookami to Koushinryou

Also known as Spice & Wolf.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

The life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft Lawrence is well acquainted. Wandering from town to town with just his horse, cart, and whatever wares have come his way, the peddler has pretty well settled into his routine—that is, until the night Lawrence finds a wolf goddess asleep in his cart. Taking the form of a fetching girl with wolf ears and a tail, Holo has wearied of tending to harvests in the countryside and strikes up a bargain with the merchant to lend him the cunning of “Holo the Wisewolf” to increase his profits in exchange for taking her along on his travels. What kind of businessman could turn down such an offer? Lawrence soon learns, though, that having an ancient goddess as a traveling companion can be a bit of a mixed blessing. Will this wolf girl turn out to be too wild to tame?



Tags: Economics , Kemonomimi , Heterosexual , Travel , Rural , Seinen , Medieval , Foreign , Gods , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , Age Gap , Slavery , War