Manga like Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari

My Girl

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Kazama Masamune - a single 23-year-old man... has a child? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring.

Tags: Seinen , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Parenthood , Iyashikei , Work , Episodic , Tomboy

Amaama to Inazuma

Also known as Sweetness and Lightning.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Having lost his wife, math teacher Kouhei Inuzuka is doing his best to raise his young daughter Tsumugi as a single father. He’s pretty bad at cooking and doesn’t have a huge appetite to begin with, but chance brings his little family and one of his students, Kotori Iida, together for homemade adventures. With those three cooks in the kitchen, it’s no wonder this dinner table drama is so delicious.



Tags: Food , Family Life , Iyashikei , Seinen , Tragedy , Teacher , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Restaurant , School , Orphan , Parenthood

Barakamon

Also known as Barakamon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

For a certain reason, a handsome, young calligrapher by the name of Seishuu Handa uproots himself and moves to an island on the westernmost edge of Japan. "Sensei," as he comes to be known, is a city boy through and through, and has never experienced rural life until now. And by the looks of it, he has much to learn! Luckily(?), he has a willing teacher in Naru, the energetic expert islander, to help show him the ropes. But can Sensei keep up with the plucky first-grader, or will he get schooled?! Here unfolds a heartfelt island comedy about a gruff on the outside, soft on the inside urbanite teacher and his new, unfailingly kind island neighbors!



Notes: One extra and four side stories are included in volume 18+1. Original serialization was completed on 2018-12-12 with 18 volumes (139 chapters). A new limited-run serialization was started on 2023-04-12 and ended on 2023-09-12 in Monthly Shounen Gangan, in conjunction with the TV-drama adaptation. This new run adds 7 chapters and 1 volume to the total count.

Tags: Family Life , Iyashikei , Calligraphy , Rural , Work , Found Family , Male Protagonist , Coastal , Food , Rehabilitation , Teacher , Fishing , Shounen , Cars , Tomboy , Agriculture , Cycling , Crossdressing

Deaimon

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

Nagomu Irino returns to his Kyoto home for the first time in ten years when his father is hospitalized. Nagomu is eager to take over Ryokushou, the family's Japanese sweet shop, but he's instead asked to be a father figure to Itsuka Yukihira, the girl everyone calls the successor.



Tags: Food , Seinen

Uso no Kodomo

Also known as False Child.

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

Imagine if a child who had passed away suddenly reappeared, looking exactly as she did before. But what if it was all the doing of a shapeshifting tanuki? This isn't a reunion. She isn't real. And yet, her parents cling to the bittersweet lie.

Experience a poignant tale of loss and longing from the author of "My Clueless First Friend".



Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.

Tags: Shapeshifting , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Animals , Family Life , Tragedy , Shounen , Dissociative Identities

Neko no Kohana

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Daily life of Kohana the cat.

Tags: Seinen

Nukoduke!

Also known as Nukozuke!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

A pocket-sized cat-human: have you met a Nuko?

In a world where these curious creatures evolved from ordinary cats, part-timer Yuya finds two abandoned nukos on the side of the road and brings them home out of the rain. Kei needs his ducks to be in a row, while Sasame charms everyone she meets. Yuya’s got the cooking and sewing skills to take care of these adorable new housemates, but when he’s the one falling asleep in any warm spot of sunlight, who’s really taking care of who?! Kick back and let this human, his nukos, and their ameowsing life warm your heart!

Included chapters: 24.5



Tags: Shoujo , Iyashikei , Chibi , Nekomimi , Animals , Ghost , Male Protagonist , Kemonomimi

Uchi no Shishou wa Shippo ga Nai

Also known as My Master Has No Tail.

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

Mameda is a tanuki who was born in the wrong era - all she wants is to trick humans, but that age of tanuki shenanigans is over. But one woman, a rakugo master named Bunko, shows Mameda it's still possible to cast magic on humans...only with words, not illusions. Mameda is determined to become Bunko's apprentice, but can she convince the stoic master to take her on...?



Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Seinen , Rakugo , Youkai , Female Protagonist , Historical , Kemonomimi , Shapeshifting , Age Gap , Yuri , Found Family , Educational , Afterlife , Demons

Mofumofu no Kami-sama Sagashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

Two men's strange everyday parenting begins! A mysterious child appears before a bookstore employee and asks for his help to search for a god. However, this child isn't quite as human as he seems.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Family Life , Kemonomimi , Youkai

Kyou, Curry!

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

Haruse Urara is a little girl who helps her papa with his curry shop. Traveling in the car that makes up his shop, they sell curry all around a small, supernaturally quirky island. Two teenage girls--the rambunctious and cheerful Subaru, and the shyer, less adventurous Yoriko-- also work with Urara and her papa. Each day, they come up with new curry flavors and get to know the strange, friendly, and occasionally magical inhabitants of their tiny island!



Tags: Food , Iyashikei , Shounen , Restaurant , Parenthood