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 , Baseball , Time Skip

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 , Anti-Hero , Military , Post-Apocalyptic , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Super Power , Politics , Desert , Crime , Ensemble Cast , Revenge , Superhero , Travel , Meta , 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 , Chuunibyou , School , Philosophy , Primarily Child Cast , Seinen , 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 , Seinen , Coming of Age , Family Life , Iyashikei , Philosophy , Rural

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 one 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 , Foreign , Work , Anthropomorphism , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Adult Cast , Coming of Age , Urban , Cosmic Horror , Tragedy , Mythology , Time Skip

Hitokui Mansion to Ooya no Maison

Also known as Maison and the Man-Eating Apartment.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

The clock strikes at the single second before the end of the world. Yet humanity has escaped extinction and carry on with their daily lives in the strange and terrible apartment where time stands still. A young girl Maison, Landlord by birth, is on the brink of revealing its secrets… An astonishing sci-fi fantasy saga brought to you by a visionary duo!



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Time Manipulation , Survival , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Urban , Tokusatsu , Primarily Female Cast , Cosmic Horror , Robots

Punk Gun

Also known as Punk Gun.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama

On the outskirts of the crime-infested Dead City, a young boy named Aiboba and his band of orphans become involved in a dangerous incident.



Tags: Orphan , Urban , Primarily Child Cast , Dystopian , Seinen , Crime , Guns