Manga like Tenohira Size.

Ano Ko no Ie

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

A slice-of-life manga that follows a little girl who leaves her childhood home to live in the woods after her neighbor is orphaned and she decides she too comfortable living her day-to-day peaceful life.

Tags: Rural , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Coming of Age , Animals , Seinen

Kodomo wa Wakatte Agenai

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

A narrative of self-discovery masquerading as a coming of age romance, a family composition drama, a procedural detective story, and a superpowered thriller. Sakuta Minami openly professes the many loves of her life: Matsumoto Leiji anime, her family, swimming, Magical Plastering Girl Buffalo Koteko, but the unanswered questions surrounding her mother's separation from her natural father have nagged her all her life. Moji Shouhei, an anime geek with prodigious talent for calligraphy, holds in his gifted hands both a physical key to the school roof of their high school as well as the figurative key to finally unraveling the mystery of Minami's father.

Tags: School , Rural , Swimming , Seinen , Coming of Age , Calligraphy , Cult , LGBTQ+ Themes

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 , Episodic , Adoption , Cars , Delinquents , Heterosexual , Baseball , Time Skip

Kin no Hitsuji

Also known as The Golden Sheep.

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

Winter of junior year. Not quite able to become adults, we couldn't stay as we were as children, either. Our tale explores a group of teenagers and their impatience and rebirth. "They say if you write down your wish, bury it under Sheep Tower and then dig it up after 7 years and 7 months, your wish will come true..."

Tsugu Miikura, a high schooler who loves to play guitar, had moved away due to family circumstances from the rural town where she spent her childhood. After several years, she's back in her old hometown. She reunites with her childhood friends—Sora, Yuushin, and Asari—the friends she'd buried a time capsule with back in elementary school. Tsugu is overjoyed to be with her friends once more, but the bonds that she thought would never change have in fact started to grow major cracks...



Included one-shots:
Volume 3: Love Letter
Volume 3: 100m Run

Tags: Bullying , Seinen , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , School , Food , Boxing , Work , Suicide

Musume no Iede

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

The remarried mother. After their divorce, the father who lives with his "boyfriend".
Living surrounded by such family, highschooler Mayuko is now at the height of her adolescence. Beginning from Mayuko's "runaway", intersecting various life, these are the runway story which will dye in to your heart.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Episodic , School , Family Life , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Hikikomori , Primarily Female Cast , Idol , Bullying , Age Gap , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Yuri , Boys' Love

Hibari no Asa

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

Teshima Hibari is a 14 year old girl with a body that is more sensual than most girls her age. Her story includes the opinions and reactions of all of the people around her, as well as the actions of her own life. The chapters explore the thoughts and feelings of classmates and adults, men and women. The males often have romantic or sexual feelings for Hibari, while the women sometimes have feelings of inferiority or jealousy. Whether positive or negative, it seems everyone has a reaction to Hibari.



Tags: Tragedy , Josei , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , POV , Philosophy , Psychosexual , Bullying , Survival , School , Ensemble Cast , Urban , Suicide , Heterosexual

Soshite, Hare ni Naru

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

Life does not always go as planned. Noriko fell in love, got engaged, and imagined a bright future. Instead, her fiance fell in love with her older sister, Eiko. Noriko refused to let go, and they ended up getting married despite this significant problem. Some years of marriage and two children later, Noriko became a single mother. She returned to her family home, with her daughters Eri and Madoka. Her life continued, alongside Eiko (who ended up never marrying or leaving home), and their now elderly mother. Years later, Eri and Madoka are entering the time of life where they have their own problems with love. This manga follows the lives of this house of women.



Included one-shot:
Volume 2: Cotton no Ashioto (コットンの足音); Be-Love 2010 #21

Tags: Family Life , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist

Ohana Holoholo

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Maya, who works as a translator, lives with her bisexual former girlfriend, Michiru, and Michiru's son, Yuuta. Residing in the same apartment building is an actor called Nico, who drops by for a visit almost everyday, and knows about Michiru's past. Somewhat like family, and somewhat not, their lives interweave full of warm days.

Note: Includes five side stories and an extra.

Tags: Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Family Life , Bisexual , Parenthood , Found Family , Yuri , Female Protagonist , Acting , Suicide , Primarily Adult Cast

How Are You?

Also known as How are you?.

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

Everyone always thought the Masaoka family was a family straight out of the movies - a movie-star beautiful wife, her kind husband, and their cute daughter, enjoying their perfect garden. One day, Lisa's husband never comes home - Lisa and her daughter's life changes forever.



Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Josei