Manga like Ichinose-ke no Taizai

Takopii no Genzai

Also known as Takopi's Original Sin.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Takopi travels from his home of Happy Planet to spread happiness across Earth, but meets the unsmiling Shizuka upon landing. Her friends at school and home life seem to be the source of her somber expression—and the pure-hearted Takopi is determined to change things for the better! But what truths await him when the curtains rise in this shocking drama?!



Tags: Bullying , Tragedy , Denpa , Aliens , Time Manipulation , Suicide , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Crime , Memory Manipulation , Magic , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Clone

Kiss Shitai Otoko

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Tags: Shounen , Tragedy , Male Protagonist

Kimi ga Bokura wo Akuma to Yonda Koro

Also known as Back When You Called Us Devils.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

Yusuke Saito is a normal high school kid...well, normal enough, though there's six months missing out of his memory. But when he starts to get confronted by people who insist they're from his past, who allege that he did horrible things to them...suddenly Yusuke realizes that those missing six months may be crucial to remember. Otherwise, the skeletons in his closet may just make him a skeleton, too...



Tags: Bullying , Crime , Male Protagonist , School , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Amnesia , Shounen , Anti-Hero , Revenge , Gore , Police , Detective , Tragedy , Drugs , Suicide

Hero Complex

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

As the track stretches out before star runner Kei, so too does a bright future. What awaits his shy, self-effacing younger brother Akira?

Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing , Urban

Shounen no Abyss

Also known as Boy's Abyss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

In a town with nothing, in the middle of a daily life with seemingly no signs of change, high schooler Reiji Kurose was "just" living. Family, dreams for the future, childhood friends. All of them were binding him down to that city. He thought he would "just" keep on living like that. Until he met her. Is there hope in living? Is there light waiting ahead? It's the start of a boy meets girl series which reflects the "now".

Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Tragedy , Suicide , Seinen , Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Crime , Yandere , Age Gap , Nudity , Heterosexual , Teacher , Idol , LGBTQ+ Themes , Ensemble Cast , Female Harem , Rural , Bullying , Incest , Marriage , Hikikomori , Time Skip , Natural Disaster , Boys' Love , Transgender

Happy Happy Endorphin

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Tags: Amnesia , Shounen , Rehabilitation , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Tragedy

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: JoJolion

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

This part will take place in Morioh-Cho (the same town in Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable), but in the alternative universe in which Steel Ball Run takes place.

Following the Great East Japan earthquake, Morioh has been stricken by vast earthen protrusions known by the locals as Wall Eyes. Despite investigation, professional estimations are left empty. Meanwhile, the young girl Yasuho Hirose discovers a man buried within the ground, he possesses a distinctive star-shaped birthmark together with deeply penetrating bite marks. The man, who has contracted a staple case of amnesia is taken in by a local family and given the name Jousuke Higashikata, however mysterious events cannot stop from piling one upon the other and soon that enigma known as stands emerges to complement the great cloud of confusion.

Tags: Coming of Age , Super Power , Seinen , Amnesia , Tragedy , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Family Life , Alternate Universe , Agriculture , Medicine , Body Horror , Cultivation , Gore , Nudity , Memory Manipulation , Animals , Gambling , Suicide , Crossdressing

Ryouta wa Otouto wo Koroshita

Also known as Ryota Killed His Brother.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological , Supernatural

When their mother dies, junior high school student Ryota takes care of his toddler brother Chika and their home. Overwhelmed by all the work, he begins neglecting himself. Without any time to himself, Ryota comes to resent his little brother and soon the resentment turns into murderous thoughts. Little by little the pressures of childrearing make Ryota lose his mind. But is Ryota truly the issue? Or…



Tags: Shounen , Tragedy , Monster Boy , Family Life , Gore

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

Bokutachi ga Yarimashita

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life , Thriller

Although satisfied with his average lifestyle, Tobio Masubuchi wishes for a long and fun existence, hoping that nothing will get in his way. Alongside his good friends Sho Isami, Yuki "Maru" Maruyama, and Hidero "Paisen" Kosaka, the group passes each day worry free, doing as they please. But when delinquents from a neighboring school overhear Maru saying that they should die, their troubles begin.

After being kidnapped and brutally assaulted, Maru is found by his friends, who are shocked to see what has been done to him. Angry, Tobio proposes that they take immediate revenge, and after deciding how they should do so, the four put their plan into action. But when what should have been just a prank turns deadly, Tobio's aspirations for an undisturbed life are shattered forever.



Tags: Seinen , Tragedy , Terrorism , Philosophy , Primarily Male Cast , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Satire , Revenge , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Delinquents , Ensemble Cast , Suicide , Nudity , Time Skip , Crime , Age Gap