Manga like Tokidoki

Jumyou wo Kaitotte Moratta. Ichinen ni Tsuki, Ichimanen de.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

A twenty-year-old with little hope for the future discovers a shop that buys lifespan, time, and health. This is a story dealing with the ensuing consequences.

Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Coming of Age , Tragedy , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Suicide , Shounen , Drawing , Photography , Mopeds

Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai

Also known as I Want to Eat Your Pancreas.

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

One day, I – a high schooler – found a paperback in the hospital. The “Disease Coexistence Journal” was its title. It was a diary that my classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, had written in secret. Inside, it was written that due to her pancreatic disease, her days were numbered. And thus, I coincidentally went from Just-a-Classmate to a Secret-Knowing-Classmate. It was as if I were being drawn to her, who was my polar opposite. However, the world presented the girl that was already suffering from an illness with an equally cruel reality…

Tags: Tragedy , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , School , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Heterosexual , Travel , Love Triangle

Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan

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

"I have something I don't want to lose"

"So much so that these terrible feelings have grown."

A pianist who attempted suicide 3 times, Juri, is taken to help her aunt at a prison where murderers who killed indiscriminately are sentenced to death. There, she meets a man named Yuu who took the lives of 3 people. A mother's antagonism--a brother's death... Together they embrace the violent rebellion in their hearts caused by the large, deep scars they carry. However, before long, they both embrace an earnest hope in their hearts. "I want to live"...

An adaptation of novel by South Korea's most popular female novelist, Gong Ji-Young.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Seinen , Rehabilitation , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Prison , Suicide , Nun , Religion , Classical Music

Koe no Katachi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A story about a grade school class that accepts a girl with impaired hearing.

Winner of the 80th Weekly Shounen Magazine Newbie Best Mangaka Award.

Tags: Bullying , Language Barrier , School , Shounen , Disability , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Time Skip , Suicide , Primarily Child Cast

Sayonara Eri

Also known as Goodbye, Eri.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

With his mother dying, Yuuta attempts to capture her last days on his phone. After her death, Yuuta heads to the roof of the hospital to commit suicide, but a meeting with a strange girl leads him on the path to making a movie.



Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on July 4, 2022.

Tags: Meta , POV , Filmmaking , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Acting , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Vampire , Family Life , Time Skip , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , Disability , Suicide

Koe no Katachi

Also known as A Silent Voice.

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

Based on a one-shot that won the 80th Weekly Shounen Magazine Newbie Best Mangaka Award.

Shouya is a bully. When Shouko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shouya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shouko is forced to leave the school, and Shouya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shouya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?



Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Rehabilitation , Language Barrier , Bullying , Coming of Age , Disability , Time Skip , Denpa , School , Heterosexual , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Kuudere , Filmmaking , Shounen , Tomboy , Tragedy

Nidome no Natsu, Nidoto Aenai Kimi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Moriyama Rin was born with an incurable disease. I came to love the girl who spent her high school life hiding that fact. At our last cultural festival, we had our live concert and spent the last moments of the festival together—After that, Rin died. Then, I experienced a time leap...

Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Band , School , Tragedy , Age Regression , Time Skip

Nisekoi

Also known as Nisekoi: False Love.

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

As a child, Raku Ichijou made a secret promise with his childhood sweetheart, keeping a pendant as a memento while his love took the key. He dreams of one day meeting his past love, but years later, reality smashes his hopes when Chitoge Kirisaki accidentally knees him in the face...

Though Raku’s a normal high schooler, his family heads the notorious yakuza gang the Shuei-Gumi faction! And he’s dragged into family affairs when he’s forced into a relationship with Chitoge, the daughter of a rival gang’s boss!

Despite their constant spats, the two somehow fool everyone with their false relationship. Raku then discovers that Chitoge has a mysterious key from her past, which she can’t remember... Plus, two other girls appear with keys as well—Kosaki Onodera and Marika Tachibana!

Caught in the midst of this love maelstrom, even more complications arise for Raku when his class decides on Romeo and Juliet as the class’s play for the school festival. Can the two false lovebirds pull off the impossible and make the play a success?



Note: Chapter count includes 229 regular chapters and 11 extras.

Tags: Love Triangle , Female Harem , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Tsundere , School , Coming of Age , Fake Relationship , Yakuza , Gangs , Time Skip , Chibi , Nudity , Arranged Marriage , Animals , Crossdressing , Police , Amnesia , Marriage , Gender Bending

Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso

Also known as Your Lie in April.

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

Kosei Arima was a piano prodigy until his cruel taskmaster of a mother died suddenly, changing his life forever. Driven by his pain to abandon piano, Kosei now lives in a monotonous, colorless world. Having resigned himself to a bland life, he is surprised when he meets Kaori Miyazono, a violinist with an unorthodox style. Can she bring Kosei back to music, and back to life?



Note: Nominated for the 2012 Manga Taisho Awards.

Tags: Tragedy , School , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Rehabilitation , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Classical Music , Shounen

Tsuka no Ma no Ichika

Also known as A Brief Moment of Ichika.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

At the age of 16, Ichika Sendawara learned that she only had two years left to live. Now a sophomore college student, she lives a busy, upbeat life, despite never knowing when the end will come.

Everything changes when Ichika meets Professor Yurugi—for the first time, she feels she has something to live for. But then Yurugi quietly leaves the university, and Ichika is left wondering why, and what could have been...

A gentle love story that grapples with the deepest existential questions we face in life. As the Shuji Terayama poem quoted in the text says, "If life is nothing but goodbyes, who needs life?"



Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Tragedy , Age Gap , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Shoujo , Philosophy