Manga like Shin Kirari

Dousei Jidai

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

Kyouko (21) and Jiro (23) live together in Tokyo as an unmarried couple. She was a graphic artist in an advertisement agency, and he was just starting out as an illustrator. In a world on the verge of a sexual revolution, this is the story of their daily life with friends and family, and the struggles of their relationship.

Tags: Seinen , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Office Lady , Suicide , Episodic , Sadism , Tragedy , Drawing , Incest

Nigeru wa Haji daga Yaku ni Tatsu

Also known as The Full-Time Wife Escapist.

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

What’s a girl to do when there are no jobs? Once Mikuri Moriyama got out of grad school, all she could find was a temp job, and they just laid her off! Worried about his daughter, her dad helps her get a job doing housekeeping for this guy he used to work with named Tsuzaki. Just when things are starting to go well, though, Mikuri’s parents decide it’s time to move out to the countryside. She’ll likely be unemployed for the rest of her life if she goes with them, but she doesn’t make enough money to rent her own place. That’s when Mikuri, always the daydreamer, comes up with a solution out of left field …



Notes:
Originally ended on February 25, 2017 with 43 chapters and a bonus. The series directly continued in Kiss3 on January 19, 2019 with chapter 44.
Volume 9 contains the side story "Tateba Shakuyaku, Suwareba Botan, Aruku Sugata wa Yuri no Hana" (立てば芍薬、座れば牡丹、歩く姿は百合の花). Adapted into a TV drama broadcasted on TBS starting Oct. 2016.

Tags: Josei , Work , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Parody , Marriage , Age Gap , LGBTQ+ Themes

Nagai Michi

Also known as Long Road.

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

A worthless husband and his carefree wife. 54 short stories of their heartwarming, funny, and sad life. Winner of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and Japan Media Arts Festival grand prize Kono Fumiyo gives us this heartfelt short comedy.


Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Anthology , Family Life

Yuugure e

Also known as Offshore Lightning.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Nazuna Saito began making comics late. She was in her forties when she submitted a story to a major Japanese publishing house and won an award for newcomers. She continued to work through the 1990s until she stopped drawing to take care of her ailing parents. In her sixties, she took a job teaching drawing at Kyoto Seika University and became inspired by her talented students. When she returned to teaching, her storytelling interests had shifted. Before suffering a stroke she drew “In Captivity” (2012) and “Solitary Death Building” (2015)—both focused on aging and death. Offshore Lightning collects Saito’s early work as well as these two recent graphic novellas. Stories like “Buy Dog Food and Go Home” and “Offshore Lightning” focus on middle-aged men caught in a cycle of self pity and self reflection. Saito gently pokes fun at their anguish and self-involvement while capturing the pathos of these men as they revisit childhood friendships and lost loves. By contrast, “In Captivity” follows three siblings visiting their ailing mother who is succumbing to dementia and resentful at her loss of agency. The siblings take a drive as they reckon with balancing the painful legacy of her caustic personality with attempting to honor this woman at the end of her life. “Solitary Death Building” documents an eccentric cast of elderly gossips as death descends upon the housing complex where they all live..

Toward The Sunset (夕暮れへ)
Offshore Lighting (沖の稲妻)
Parakeet God (インコの神)
Buy Dog Food, Then Go Home (ドッグフードを買ってお家に帰ろう)
Countdown (カウントダウン)
A Mother of Pearl Ship (螺鈿の舟) Gingko (銀杏) Upskirt (スカートの中)
In Captivity (トラワレノヒト)
House of Solitary Death (ぼっち死の館)



Tags: Elderly Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Anthology

Ai no Katachi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A collection of short stories by Murasaki Yamada that gently embraces women who are struggling as mothers, as women, and sometimes with life choices.

Asphalt Mizuumi (アスファルト湖)
Hirogaru Sumai (拡がる住まい)
3-4. Arashi (嵐)
Hana wo Sarau (花をさらう)
Glass Tama (ガラス玉)
Chisana Iede (小さな家出)
Umi to Ojisan (海とおじさん)
Houseki (宝石)
Mado (窓)
Kamisama (神様)
Itsumo Iru (いつも居る)


Tags: Family Life , Anthology

Ruki-san

Status: Finished
Genres:

Tags: Full Color , Josei , Office Lady

Yurari Usu-iro

Also known as Second Hand Love.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

In the end, we’re all the same…we just want to be smothered like babies against another human’s beating heart.

Through a cracked door, heartsick Emi hears a playful growl. Cautiously, she lets her lover in—a wolf of a man wielding a bouquet of roses. His shoulders must have been four inches wider than mine. As I stood behind him, I fantasized about the broadness of his chest and the thickness of his neck…and about becoming his mistress once again.

And so their story goes. For a young woman interested in love without the hassle of a traditional relationship, an affair with someone else’s spoiled husband is just what she ordered—until it’s time to move on.

Then there’s Yuko: with even less time for married men’s shenanigans, she turns her attention to her aging father and the guilt of adultery that has gnawed at his heart for years. Her mother is long dead, yet her memory is enshrined for eternity in their—both father’s and daughter’s—mirrored indiscretions.



Note: This work includes "Second Hand Love".

Tags: Heterosexual , Family Life , Philosophy , Primarily Female Cast , Marriage , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen

Akagi: Yami ni Oritatta Tensai

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

While mahjong is a game that is often played with family and friends, it is also a game that is played in the darkest corners of society. Nangou is a compulsive gambler who has accumulated debt over three million yen. In a last ditch attempt to clear his record, he decides to wager his life on a game of mahjong with the mafia. Unfortunately, as the game progresses, Nangou only moves further from the prize and closer to death.

When all hope seems lost, the game parlor is suddenly intruded upon by Shigeru Akagi, a young boy on the run from the police. Desperate to turn the game around, Nangou hands the game over to Akagi after teaching him a few of the rules. The mafia can only smirk as Akagi sits down to play. However, they soon come to learn that Akagi is a natural born gambler. An imposing figure who does not fear death. One who is destined to become a legend.



Tags: Gambling , Mahjong , Death Game , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , Kaiju , Anti-Hero , Yakuza , Tsundere , Time Skip , Historical , Afterlife , Gods , Demons , Board Game

Cat Shit One

Also known as Cat Shit One.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Kobayashi Motofumi Kobayashi's renowned war manga, filled with painstaking detail, returns to the printed page, but at full comic size for the first time ever! In this semi-fictionalized rendition of the Vietnam War, Sergeants Perky, Rats and Botasky comprise the special forces unit named Cat Shit One, risking their lives daily in recon patrol, jungle ambushes, tactical assaults, rescue operations and more. These soldiers may look soft, but their combat tales hit hard!



Includes a Volume 0 and extra chapters

Tags: Animals , Military , War , Historical , Guns , Anthropomorphism , Seinen , Tragedy

Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music

Piyohiko has a dream: He wants to be a succesfull guitar-player. Then Jaguar pops up, and forces him to play the 'recorder'. Thus ends Piyohiko's noble dream.

Tags: Shounen , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist