Manga like Terumina

Kani ni Sasowarete

Also known as An Invitation from a Crab.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life

Collecting a handful of self-published shorts along with a mix of serialized stories and essays, panpanya's English-language debut mixes art styles and narratives from a range of genres.

If you are ever fortunate enough to see a crab strolling through your neighborhood, please follow its lead. By slowing down to a crab's pace and looking around and about in this world, you too may discover life's many mysteries that are hidden in plain sight.



Tags: Denpa , Josei , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Iyashikei , Anthology , Episodic

Rapid Commuter Underground

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

Zajiro is a salaryman who draws manga during his daily four-hour round-trip commute — a perfectly appropriate activity on a subway that shuttles between fantasy and reality. Today he continues to ride that real/surreal subway, pen in hand, depicting a mysterious underground world where pens take the form of pantographs and elephants amble aboard the train.



Tags: Trains , Full Color , Drawing , Meta , Denpa , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Surreal Comedy , Autobiographical , Kemonomimi

Neko Kappa

Status: Finished
Genres: Supernatural

Silent and taciturn, a cat demon wanders through the world of humans, meeting creatures as monstrous as they are desperate. Mixing references to Japanese mythology and surrealist quotations, this collection of short stories gives a glimpse of the author's graphic acuity. Black humor, disillusioned cynicism or onirism, all rendered by a loaded black line, it is all the strength of the author that appears in Neko Kappa.

Note: Some chapters are remakes of chapters from MaMaFuFu.

Tags: Seinen

Shimeji Simulation

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

A girl who shut herself in a closet for the last 2 years of middle school realizes she has to go to high school. When she exits her closet for the first time in two years and looks at herself in the mirror, she notices that she grew shimeji mushrooms out of her head.

Tags: Meta , Surreal Comedy , Philosophy , Augmented Reality , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Denpa , Hikikomori , Yuri , 4-koma , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gods , Post-Apocalyptic , School , Episodic , Seinen , School Club , Religion , Suicide , Cohabitation , Tragedy , Trains

Chirorin Dou no Natsuyasumi

Also known as Chirorin Dou no Natsuyasumi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

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Sumikko no Sora-san

Also known as Sumikko no Sora-san.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

A boy returns to his family home in the country and strikes up an odd friendship with the young girl who lives next door, Sora, who believes the boy is God. However, it is Plato, the boy's pet turtle, with whom Sora develops a strong bond. Plato believes Sora to be the classical Greek philosopher Socrates and calls her his teacher. Together, they ponder the mysteries and wonders of life in the quiet but beautiful countryside.



Tags: Rural , Shounen , Philosophy

Yuuyake Trip

Also known as Nightfall Travelers: Leave Only Footprints.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

High schooler Ninamori Akane is assigned by the newspaper club to report on local places that are rumored to be haunted. She asks the new transfer student, Amemura Fujino, to join her, and together they discover the simple truths behind the spooky stories. Their friendship grows as they explore their town of labyrinthine paths and endless stairways.



Tags: Travel , Female Protagonist , Seinen