Manga like Karasu no Itoshi Kyoto Meshi

Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Within the winding streets of Kyoto's geisha district, there lives a 16 year old girl named Kiyo. After failing to become a Maiko, an apprentice traditional Japanese performer, Kiyo works as the caterer for her troupe. This is the story of her daily life.

Tags: Food , Female Protagonist , Iyashikei , Primarily Female Cast , Work , Educational , Shounen , Episodic , Yuri

Wakako-Zake

Also known as Wakako Zake.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

Murasaki Wakako, who is twenty-six years old, loves going out alone to enjoy eating and drinking, especially when something unpleasant happens at work. This manga follows Wakako through many solitary outings, where she enjoys different combinations of food and drink.

Tags: Food , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Iyashikei , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen

Gohan no Otomo

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Recipes to warm your heart, all in full colour. Goes well with rice. Based on a doujinshi of the same name released by the author at Comitia 104.

Tags: Food , Ensemble Cast , Iyashikei , Full Color , Seinen , Episodic , Educational

Samenai Machi no Kissaten

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

One day, Suzume finds herself unable to wake up, lost in a place known as the "Unwaking Town," Lutetia. There, she works at a coffee shop named "Quatre".

Tags: Iyashikei , Work , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Twins , Chibi , Amnesia , Memory Manipulation

Little Forest

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The story of a girl called Ichiko, who lives alone in a forest. Each chapter features a dish or meal scavenged or harvested from Ichiko's surroundings in rural Komori ("little forest"). While there are no wild flights of fancy as in Witches or Hanashippanashi, the organic linework and majesty of nature featured within tap into that same source of magic. Little Forest is a very acquired taste on its own, but just another piece of the stunning tapestry Daisuke Igarashi continues to weave today.

Tags: Iyashikei , Agriculture , Seinen , Food , Rural , Female Protagonist

Isekai Izakaya "Nobu"

Also known as Otherworldly Izakaya "Nobu".

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy

A Japanese style pub called "Nobu" exists in a back alley of the fictional medieval European city of Eiteriach. Its customers? A pair of slacker soldiers, a spoiled heiress, an uptight tax collector, and more... When the citizens of this strange world sit down to enjoy some unfamiliar Japanese cuisine, their troubles simply melt away...



Tags: Food , Iyashikei , Bar , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Isekai , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist

Uchi no Shishou wa Shippo ga Nai

Also known as My Master Has No Tail.

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

Mameda is a tanuki who was born in the wrong era - all she wants is to trick humans, but that age of tanuki shenanigans is over. But one woman, a rakugo master named Bunko, shows Mameda it's still possible to cast magic on humans...only with words, not illusions. Mameda is determined to become Bunko's apprentice, but can she convince the stoic master to take her on...?



Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Seinen , Rakugo , Youkai , Female Protagonist , Historical , Kemonomimi , Shapeshifting , Age Gap , Yuri , Demons , Afterlife , Educational , Found Family

Golden Kamuy

Also known as Golden Kamuy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama

In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.



Note: Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016 and the 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018. Nominated for the 20th and 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Tags: Historical , Conspiracy , Military , Outdoor Activities , Indigenous Cultures , Seinen , Politics , Ensemble Cast , Surreal Comedy , Food , Educational , Travel , Found Family , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Survival , Snowscape , Guns , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Male Harem , Revenge , Language Barrier , Anti-Hero , LGBTQ+ Themes , Slapstick , Crime , Prison , Trains , Animals , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Wilderness , Archery , Swordplay , Disability , Suicide , Tanned Skin , Transgender , Twins , Cannibalism , Heterosexual , Zoophilia , Yakuza , Time Skip , Dissociative Identities , Crossdressing