Manga like Tekkon Kinkreet

Sunny

Also known as Sunny.

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

The story of an orphanage, the children who live in it, and the beat-up old Nissan Sunny 1200 which provides them with a means of escape from their boring everyday lives.

Note: Winner of the Best Manga of the Year award at the 2016 Shogakukan Manga Awards.

Tags: Family Life , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Seinen , Estranged Family , Tragedy , Autobiographical , Rural , Adoption , Episodic , Cars , Delinquents , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Baseball

No. 5

Also known as No. 5.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

A science-fiction thriller set in a powerfully imagined multicultural future landscape that resembles the current Middle East, NO. 5 is the latest work from the acclaimed creator of BLACK & WHITE, Taiyo Matsumoto.

No. 5 battles against the forces of the Rainbow Council. In a world that has become 70% harsh desert, the Rainbow Council of the International Peace Keeping Forces, a team of super-powered global security guardians, have a growing crisis on their hands. No. 5, one of their own and known within the council as their top marksman, has left his post and gone rogue.

It's up to the other guardians to track him down--but No. 5, with his mysterious companion Matroshka, won't go down without a fight.



Tags: Philosophy , Superhero , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Super Power , Politics , Desert , Crime , Ensemble Cast , Revenge , Travel , Meta , Post-Apocalyptic , Military , Anti-Hero , Seinen , Achronological Order , Fugitive , Cult , Twins , War

GOGO Monster

Also known as GoGo Monster.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Slice of Life

Third grader Yuki Tachibana lives in two worlds. In one world, he is a loner ridiculed by his classmates and reprimanded by his teachers for telling stories of supernatural beings that only he can see. In the other world, the supernatural beings vie for power with malevolent spirits who bring chaos into the school, the students' lives, and nature itself.



Tags: Coming of Age , School , Primarily Child Cast , Chuunibyou , Seinen , Philosophy , Male Protagonist

Mu-Town no Kodomo-tachi

Also known as Children of Mu-Town.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Stylistically intermingling themes of gentrification and rebirth within the setting of a classic yakuza crime drama, Children of Mu-Town follows the course charted by youths of an aging residential housing complex who are struggling for their lives: burdened by financial issues, peer pressure, and uncertain futures, ensnared in the clutches of organized crime, they are searching for a way to survive. When a municipal renovation project seems to offer a future of stability for their dilapidated town, the mysterious and far-reaching consequences that their actions set into motion may leave Juichi and his friends with no option but annihilation…..

A stunning modern “tenement masterpiece” work of manga, Mu-Town is a story of small-town gang intimidation, escalating immigration tensions, political intrigue, and the yearning desperation of youth.

Tags: Yakuza , Politics , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast

Aoi Haru

Also known as Blue Spring.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

This dark and intense drama is set in a boy's high school where Kujo becomes the official leader of a gang. Kujo must constantly defend his position by playing a dangerous rooftop game with the other boys vying for his position. This manga has also been made into a film which has shown in various festivals throughout the world.



Tags: Delinquents , Coming of Age , Gangs , School , Yakuza , Seinen , Anthology , Guns , Mahjong

Hanaotoko

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Shigeo is a high strung elementary school student living with his mother. His only concern is getting ahead in life by doing well in school. He despises his father Hanao (who is separated from them), who's an idealistic free spirit and a kid at heart, infatuated with the sport of baseball.

Shigeo's mother forces Shigeo to take time to visit his father, and so begins Shigeo's lessons that there's more to life than excelling academically (courtesy of his very childish father).

Tags: Baseball , Rural , Philosophy , Iyashikei , Family Life , Coming of Age , Seinen

Mother Cosmos

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Satoru and Scoop head to Gargoyle City in search of their childhood friend Paula. It was a phantom city that Gargoyles continue to protect even after the inhabitants have died!!!

Tags: Seinen

Takemitsu Zamurai

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Early one New Year's morning, the rounin Senou Souichirou appears in Edo's Katagi tenements.

Initially, the inhabitants regard him with fear and suspicion: Kankichi, the carpenter's son, thinks he may not be human; the neighbourhood cats remark that he reeks of blood. But soon Souichirou pawns his sword, and, with a bamboo replica at his waist, settles down to a quiet life as the neighborhood school-teacher.

Months pass, and all appears to be well. But trouble will not leave the Katagi tenements alone...

Notes:
Won the Grand Prize at 15th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2011. Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Seinen , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Samurai , Historical , Ghost , Coming of Age , Martial Arts

Louvre no Neko

Also known as Cats of the Louvre.

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

The world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris contains more than just the most famous works of art in history. At night, within its darkened galleries, an unseen and surreal world comes alive—a world witnessed only by the small family of cats that lives in the attic. Until now…



Tags: Animals , Seinen , Anthropomorphism , Work , Foreign , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Adult Cast , Coming of Age , Cosmic Horror , Urban , Tragedy , Mythology , Time Skip

BAMBi

Also known as Bambi and Her Pink Gun.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

Follow the adventures of a punk girl with a pink gun as she rampages across the land. The word is out on the streets: a reward of five million dollars to the opportunist that wastes the courier calling herself Bambi and returns the kid called Pampi she leads around on a leash. Can Bambi's huge ego and formidable gun skills hold off an army?

Featuring awesome art by Kaneko Atsushi and a story that's hard-edged, fast paced and loaded with action, chaotic courier Bambi delivers the goods.



Tags: Seinen , Anti-Hero , Female Protagonist , Gore , Assassins , Nudity , Sadism , Guns , Cyborg , Bondage , Travel