Manga like Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan

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

Also known as Three Days of Happiness.

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

Kusunoki used to believe he was destined for great things. But now, approaching the age of twenty, he’s a completely mediocre college student with no motivation, no dreams, and no money. After learning he can sell his remaining years, he chooses to divest himself of all but his last three months. Spending this remaining time with his monitor, Miyagi, has Kusunoki truly destroyed his final chance to find happiness…or has he somehow found it?



Note: Includes two extra chapters.

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

Tokidoki

Also known as Toki Doki.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance

A heart can only beat so many times in a lifetime. Kokuhaku disease, a rare condition that weakens the heart, leaves the victim with less heartbeats and a shorter lifespan than normal. With the right device, the amount of heartbeats remaining can be measured. When Hato Iijima accidentally walks in on Hatsu Takagi changing her clothes, he sees this device attached to her chest. Hatsu has resigned herself to an uneventful and isolated life to avoid elevating her heart rate. However, she expresses her true desire—to freely and wholeheartedly experience every second she has left. Recognizing her wish, Hato swears to help her enjoy life to the fullest and make her heart beat like crazy.

Tags: Disability , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , School , Male Protagonist , School Club , Band , Rock Music , Shounen

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

Usemono Yado

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

There is an inn that you can visit where you'll find old things you thought were lost forever.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Afterlife , Josei , Amnesia , Philosophy , Episodic , Inn , Tragedy , Suicide , Age Regression , Heterosexual

Hoshi no Koe

Also known as Voices of a Distant Star.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

To what distance would you go for your one true love? In the midst of an alien invasion, Mikako joins the resistance, leaving behind the one young man she loves. As she goes deeper into space, Mikako's only connection with her boyfriend is through cell-phone text messages. The war rages on and years pass, but Mikako barely ages in the timelessness of space while Noboru grows old. How can the love of two people, torn apart by war, survive?



Tags: Space , Heterosexual , Robots , Denpa , Philosophy , Aliens , Seinen , Tragedy , Time Skip , Revenge

Bitter Virgin

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Popular high school student Suwa Daisuke has no interest in dating newcomer Aikawa Hinako, a quiet loner. That's because she recoiled from his flirtatious touch, and he took it as a personal affront. Daisuke informs one of his buddies that he wouldn't date her, not knowing Hinako was listening. Daisuke's attitude changes after he accidentally hears her confession in an abandoned church; she's been sexually abused by her stepfather and has given up a child for adoption. His former annoyance turns to compassion and concern. Hinako is unaware that he knows her terrible secret. Believing him to have no romantic interest, she becomes more relaxed and comfortable in his company. Their relationship faces a lot of obstacles, including jealous classmates.



Tags: School , Seinen , Love Triangle , Tragedy , Bullying , Rural , Male Protagonist

Apollo no Uta

Also known as Apollo's Song.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological

Apollo’s Song follows the tragic journey of Shogo, a young man whose abusive childhood has instilled in him a loathing for love so profound he finds himself compelled to acts of violence when he is witness to any act of intimacy or affection whether by human or beast. His hate is such that the gods intervene, cursing Shogo to experience love throughout the ages ultimately to have it ripped from his heart every time. From the Nazi atrocities of World War II to a dystopian future of human cloning, Shogo loses his heart, in so doing, healing the psychological scars of his childhood hatred.



Note: The Japanese version of this manga includes the one-shot "Garakuta no Uta", however the English release does not contain this story.

Tags: Dystopian , Tragedy , Shounen , Rehabilitation , Augmented Reality , Male Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Suicide , Reincarnation , Curses

Mori no Asagao: Shinjin Keimukan to Aru Shikeishuu no Monogatari

Also known as Mori no Asagao.

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

As a new prison guard assigned to death row, Oikawa Naoki faces condemned criminals every day, trying not to make a connection with men he knows are doomed to die. In the course of his duties, he strikes up a unlikely friendship with inmate Mitsuru Watase, a man sentenced to die for the revenge murder of the man who killed his parents, and slowly begins to wonder about the necessity of the death penalty and the meanings of concepts like repentance and forgiveness. Based on close and careful research, this thought provoking work tackles the serious theme of the “capital punishment system” head-on, from the view of both those who execute others and those who are executed.



Tags: Seinen , Police , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast

Hei no Naka no Biyoushitsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

In the women's prison, there is a beauty salon that is open to the general public. If you make an appointment, a prisoner will cut your hair for you. The minds of the customers are filled with anxiety about the crime the hairdresser has committed, but the blue sky painted on the walls of the salon always manage to calm them down. Spending time with the hairdresser is enjoyable, but why did she become a criminal in the first place?

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Seinen

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