Manga like Nigeru wa Haji daga Yaku ni Tatsu

Tokyo Tarareba Musume

Also known as Tokyo Tarareba Girls.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

"I spent all my time wondering 'What if?' Then one day I woke up and I was 33."

Rinko doesn't think she's that bad-looking, but before she knew it, she was thirty-something and single. Now she wants to get married by the time the Tokyo Olympics rolls around in six years, but… that might be easier said than done!



Notes:
Includes 20 extra chapters.
Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia at the Eisner Awards in 2019.
Nominated for the 9th and 10th Manga Taishou Award in 2016 and 2017, placing ninth and 12th place respectively.
Nominated for the 40th Kodansha Manga Award in the General Manga category in 2016.


Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Satire , Heterosexual , Urban , Bar , Primarily Female Cast , Age Gap , Love Triangle

Shin Kirari

Also known as Talk to My Back.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

A celebrated masterwork shimmering with vulnerability from one of alt-manga's most important female artists.

"Now that we've woken from the dream, what are we going to do?" Chiharu thinks to herself, rubbing her husband's head affectionately.

Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981-84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two daughters as they mature and assert their independence, and with her husband, who works late and sees his wife as little more than a domestic servant.



Tags: Parenthood , Marriage , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Josei , Episodic , Philosophy , Animals

Kiryuu-sensei wa Renai ga Wakaranai

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

32-year-old Futaba Kiryuu is a manga artist that writes for a weekly shounen magazine. Her latest ongoing manga is a romantic comedy, "Bocchi no Ore kara Riaju no Omaera ni Ittoku" (A Loner Like Me's Got a Lot to Say about You Normies out There) or "Bottoku" for short. It is a best-seller and has an anime adaption on the works. But the truth is, she's completely clueless about romance.

The days go on as she continues on working on her manga with her manga assistants, but soon, one of her assistants, Hiro Asakura (she dubs him as "Assassin" because of his cold and intimidating demeanor), and the anime scriptwriter for the "Bottoku" anime, Kitamura Kyosuke (social media dubs him "The Tactician" for his notoriously clever execution in the anime he's worked in) grow an interest in her and eventually make a move on her. How will Futaba fare in this love triangle when her knowledge of romance is next to nothing?

Note: Volume 3 includes one extra

Tags: Asexual , Drawing , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Work , LGBTQ+ Themes , Josei , Aromantic , Writing , Meta , Age Gap , Coming of Age

Totsuzen desu ga, Ashita Kekkon shimasu

Also known as Everyone's Getting Married.

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

Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife. After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her to pursue his own career goals, she encounters popular newscaster Ryu Nanami. Asuka and Ryu get along well, but the last thing he wants is to ever get married. This levelheaded pair who want the opposite things in life should never get involved, except…



Tags: Josei , Love Triangle , Marriage , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual

Complex Age

Also known as Complex Age.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Twenty-six year old Nagisa Kataura has a secret. By all appearances, she’s an average temp-worker, but beneath her business-casual exterior she’s a devoted cosplayer. Transforming into her favorite anime and manga characters is her passion in life, and her hard work and creativity has earned Nagisa respect amongst her cosplay cohorts. But to the rest of society, her hobby is a silly fantasy, so she has to keep her two worlds separate. However, as demands from both sides of her life begin to increase, she may one day have to make a tough choice – what’s more important to her, cosplay or being “normal”?



Note: Includes the pilot one-shot.

Tags: Cosplay , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Otaku Culture , Body Image , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual , Urban , Time Skip , Bullying

Kitai Fuku ga Aru

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

University student Mami is seen by everyone as the fashionable cool model-type but she secretly just wants to wear Lolita fashion.

While she tries occasionally to be more cute & less "stylish", she can't overcome the imagine others have of her. When she watches a new coworker at the cafe she jobs part-time leave in a extremly flashy outfit, it sparks the courage in her to express herself more truthfully too!

Tags: Fashion , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast

Sora Log

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Our protagonist, Hikaru, is a member of the astronomy club at her school. On one beautiful starry night, she encounters a tall boy with blonde hair that looks almost white. However, he turns out to be...?!

Included one-shot:
Volume 4: Melodramatic Library

Tags: Shoujo , School , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist

37.5°C no Namida

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Momoko Sugisaki works for the Little Snow Sick Child Care Service, providing in-home day care for sick children. She has a hard time making pleasant facial expressions, and she struggles with the question of when it's okay to break the rules if it's what the child needs. As she grows through her personal challenges, she is able to make a difference in the lives of the young children and parents who depend on her.

Notes:
Includes two extra chapters.
Includes the one-shot "Kanojo no Jijou".

Tags: Shoujo , Medicine , Female Protagonist

Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Michiko is an unemployed 30-year-old. She has just broken up with a younger boyfriend whom she supported financially until she drained all of her savings. Michiko then has a chance meeting with a former boss she used to dislike.

Note: Includes four bonus chapters.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Office Lady , Restaurant , Work , Food , Love Triangle , Estranged Family , Urban , Matchmaking , Marriage , Gangs , Unrequited Love

Kaseifu no Nagisa-san

Also known as My Handsome Housekeeper, Nagisa.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

"Will you be taking a bath, dinner, or...?"

The man uttering that cliched line was the middle-aged male housekeeper I suddenly ended up hiring! A man in the home of a radiant young (okay, twentysomething) maiden?! And on top of that, he’s way older than me! What gives?! The curtain rises on a heartfelt tale of the odd-couple antics between Mei, a woman devoted to her career, and Nagisa, a man overflowing with maternal(?) warmth.



Tags: Shoujo , Butler , Heterosexual