Manga like Tokyo Kaido

Asper Kanojo

Also known as That's My Atypical Girl.

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

Yokoi Taku has trouble getting along with people, so he moved to Tokyo as soon as he graduated from high school. He now lives alone, making a living by delivering newspapers and drawing doujinshi, though people totally ignore his non-erotic works. One day, a girl named Saitou Megumi suddenly shows up at his door, claiming that she came all the way from Tottori to meet him because she's a big fan of one of his doujinshi. It ends up that she has faced many hardships herself, and with no intention of leaving, she ends up living with him.

Note: Current chapter count is based on the original serialization. Several chapters were combined into 100 chapters in the physical release.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation , Disability , Bullying , Suicide , Heterosexual , Seinen , Philosophy , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Drawing , Writing , Estranged Family , Female Protagonist , Language Barrier , Tragedy

Sunny

Also known as Sunny.

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

The story of an orphanage, the children who live in it, and the beat-up old Nissan Sunny 1200 which provides them with a means of escape from their boring everyday lives.

Note: Winner of the Best Manga of the Year award at the 2016 Shogakukan Manga Awards.

Tags: Family Life , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Seinen , Estranged Family , Tragedy , Autobiographical , Adoption , Rural , Episodic , Cars , Delinquents , Heterosexual , Baseball , Time Skip

Chiisakobee

Also known as Chiisakobee.

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

After a fire burns down his family business and claims the lives of his parents, the young heir and master carpenter Shigetsugu vows to rebuild the failing venture with his late father's words in mind: “No matter how much the times change, what's important is for our kind to have compassion and dedication.”

And then Ritsu, a housemaid with no relatives to rely on, comes rolling into his life with a group of children from a welfare facility who have nowhere to go, thus begins the dramatic last-ditch way-of-life story of a shaggily bearded carpenter!



Tags: Seinen , Classic Literature , Found Family , Family Life , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Surreal Comedy

Himizu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Every day in Japan, 2500 people die due to any number of causes. Do you think you'll be one of the ones to die? No, of course not. Do you think you'll win the lottery? You'd like to think so, we all would. But Sumida is different. He wants the status quo to remain in every way; live a normal life, get a normal job, have normal kids, never to be anyone fortunate or unfortunate, content in normalcy. Anyone who doesn't agree is foolish, doomed to live their life scraping up a mountain that they can never conquer, fated to die in despair wishing things had been better.

When his mother kicks his father out of the house and onto the streets, he thinks he'll be fine. When his mother leaves him to live with her boyfriend, he makes the best of it. When he realizes that he's no longer average, he strives to make his life worthwhile the only way he knows how. When the demons in the back of his mind speak to him, he tries his best to ignore them.

Tags: Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Denpa , Suicide , Crime , Seinen , Psychosexual , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Yakuza , Nudity

Doumu

Also known as Domu: A Child's Dream.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological , Supernatural

A twisted old man, gifted with extrasensory powers, holds silent sway over an entire block of apartments, its occupants puppets for him to control. Life is his to give...and to take. But suddenly there is a new voice in his head, and before he knows it, a young girl with her own battery of psychic abilities arrives to challenge him. Soon, the sprawling complex becomes a battleground between two minds possessing incredible, unimaginable power.

Note: Won the 15th Seiun Award for Best Comic (1984).

Tags: Detective , Police , Tragedy , Seinen , Gore , Super Power , Suicide , Urban Fantasy , Ghost , Guns

EVOL

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy

The story of "Evol" begins in a village occupied by an armed group when a young girl, driven by despair, attempts suicide. She survives and wakes up, but when a man tries to drive her into a corner, a strange phenomenon occurs. The place changes, and something also happens to the boy who wakes up in the hospital after committing suicide.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Super Power , Superhero , Anti-Hero , Seinen , Suicide , Crime , Dystopian , Bullying , Estranged Family , Torture , Aliens

Chobits

Also known as Chobits.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

After moving from the countryside into the big city, poor college student Hideki Motosuwa finds himself down on his luck. All he wants is a good job, a girlfriend, and his very own “persocom” - the latest and greatest in humanoid computer technology. Hideki’s luck changes one night when he finds Chi - an adorable, but seemingly broken, persocom thrown out in a pile of trash. After taking her home, Hideki discovers that Chi is more responsibility than he expected - and that there’s much more to his cute new persocom than meets the eye.



Tags: Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Urban , Dissociative Identities , Heterosexual , Amnesia , Philosophy , Age Gap , Nudity , Chibi , Work , Asexual , Memory Manipulation , Crossover