Manga like Aruku Hito

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Also known as Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Set hundreds of years in the future after an environmental catastrophe, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (also known as Yokohama Shopping Log) centers on the simple life of Alpha, an android who runs a small coffee shop in coastal Japan. Alpha stands witness to chronicle the end of humanity’s days with coffee, a slice of watermelon, and the sound of her moon guitar backed by distant seagulls. Quiet and bittersweet, this tale is about the melancholy beauty that can be found even as the end approaches.



Tags: Iyashikei , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Rural , Lost Civilization , Time Skip , Robots , Coastal , Artificial Intelligence , Seinen , Episodic , Work , Yuri , Mopeds , Travel , Restaurant , Family Life , LGBTQ+ Themes , Motorcycles , Nudity

Sanpo Mono

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Through the ordinary small events of his professional and personal life, a forty-year-old man lets himself go on impromptu escapades at random along the paths that the big city offers. This vagrant impulse soon takes on the appearance of a sentimental journey, punctuated by images of the walker's youth.

Tags: Urban , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Josei

Omoide Emanon

Also known as Memories of Emanon.

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

The year is 1967, and a young Japanese man is thinking about the future. On one side of the water, the war is raging in Vietnam; far away on the other side, the Apollo Project has just met with disaster as three astronauts die in a capsule fire. And here and now, on a long nighttime ferry ride back home, he will meet and fall in love with a mysterious young woman who carries a past deeper and more profound than his dreams and fears of tomorrow. Her name, she jokes, is no name—Emanon, and she can never be forgotten, any more than she can forget.



Tags: Seinen , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Reincarnation , Heterosexual , Historical , Amnesia , Time Skip , Travel , Environmental , Nudity , Ships , Super Power , Autobiographical

Yotsuba to!

Also known as Yotsuba&!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai...um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving's fun 'cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made friends to play with (one of 'em acted like one of those bad strangers Daddy told Yotsuba not to go with, but it was okay in the end). I hope we get to play a lot. And eat ice cream! And-and-and...oh yeah! You should come play with Yotsuba too!



Notes:
Includes an interlude.
Won the Excellence Award for Manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006 and the Grand Prize of the 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2016.
Was nominated for the Manga Taishō award in 2008 and for the 12th and 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2008 and 2016.
Was nominated for the Eisner Award in the "Best Publication for Kids" category.

Tags: Family Life , Iyashikei , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Parenthood , Rural , Adoption , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Fishing

Furari.

Also known as Furari.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Slowly but surely he takes a promenade through Edo. “Furari” could be translated as ‘aimlessly’, ‘at random’, ‘bend with the wind’ or ‘go with the flow’. But our stroller this time leaves nothing to chance. Jiro Taniguchi returns with this delightful and insightful tale of life in a Japan long forgotten. Inspired by an historical figure, Tadataka Ino (1745 – 1818), Taniguchi invites us to join this unnamed but appealing and picturesque figure as he strolls through the various districts of Edo, the ancient Tokyo, with its thousand little pleasures. Now retired from business he surveys, measures, draws and takes notes whilst giving free rein to his taste for simple poetry and his inexhaustible capacity for wonder.

As he did in The times of Botchan with lead character the writer Soseki, Taniguchi slips easily into the heart and mind of this early cartographer and reveals his world to us in full graphic detail so we may fully perceive and understand.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Historical , Seinen , Biographical

Kyou wo Aruku

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Slice of Life

A look into an usual Japanese suburb through an old man's eyes.

Tags: Seinen

Inu wo Kau

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Short stories by Jiro Taniguchi. Five short stories. The first one tells the death of an old dog, hence the title. The last one is a bit similar to a later work of the author, Kamigami no Itadaki.

Tags: Animals , Seinen , Tragedy , Family Life , Episodic , Primarily Adult Cast , Mountaineering

Taki Takanosuke no Sanpo Jikan

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Meet Taki Takanosuke, an elderly gentlemen who likes taking walks. Along the way, he also manages to capture the hearts of many women.

Tags: Seinen , Elderly Protagonist

34-sai Mushoku-san

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

They say that the prime of one's career happens in their mid-thirties. During that time, women plan many things and tell themselves, “I won't let this year go by without doing anything!”

And then, a 34 year-old's life begins, hearing a new vacuum cleaner hum in the night shifts her moods as the Galactic Railroad runs in her mind...

Shall we take a look at an unemployed's slow, laid-back daily life?

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

Kodoku no Gourmet

Also known as The Solitary Gourmet.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

This manga simply describes how Goro Inogashira, the main character, chooses and takes a meal. Unlike other gourmet manga, Goro likes to eat at cheap restaurants and no trivia on cuisine is given. The authors are trying to depict the essentials of the act of "eating" by Goro's monologue, which comprises most of the lines of this manga.

Notes: Nominated to the 20th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Tags: Food , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Restaurant , Primarily Adult Cast