Manga like Subarashii Sekai

Solanin

Also known as Solanin.

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

College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude. Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Shigeo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world.



Notes:
The chapter count contains an epilogue published in October 2017 as part of the new Japanese volumes edition release.
It was nominated for the 2009 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan.
It was nominated for the 2009 Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material.

Tags: Coming of Age , Band , Seinen , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Found Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Family Life , College , Urban , Rock Music , Office Lady , Nudity

Sekai no Owari to Yoake Mae

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Collection of short stories including:
Mudai (無題, Untitled); kakioroshi
Yoakemae (夜明け前, Before Dawn); Big Comic Spirits Zoukan Casual #2007/2/15
Alfalfa (アルファルファ); Sunday GX 2005-07

4-6. Nichiyou, Gogo, 6-jihan. (日曜、午後、六時半。, Sunday, Afternoon, 6:30.); Big Comic Spirits 2006 #36+37~39
"At that time, I absolutely hated Sunday afternoons at 6:30. I hated the word 'family' to death. That's why I couldn't stand seeing them. Besides, whether or not there is an end to the escape from reality, I truly felt the visit of the tiresome days."

Chou Mousou A-ko no Nichijou to Yuuutsu (超妄想A子の日常と憂鬱, The Typical Day and Melancholy of Super-Imaginative A-ko); Sunday GX 2006-09
Kyuujitsu no Sugoshikata (休日の過ごし方, How to Spend a Day Off); Big Comic Spirits Zoukan Casual #2007/9/15
17; Big Comic Spirits Zoukan Casual #2008/2/15
Subarashii Sekai (素晴らしい世界, What a Wonderful World); Sunday GX 2008-08
Tokyo (東京); Big Comic Spirits 2008 #40
Sekai no Owari (世界の終わり, The End of the World); kakioroshi
Jikuu Taisen Snakeman (時空大戦スネークマン, Snakeman and the Great Space-time War); kakioroshi

Tags: Philosophy , Anthology , Seinen , Nudity

Oyasumi Punpun

Also known as Goodnight Punpun.

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

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town.
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back.
He wants to find some porn.
That’s what he wants, but what does he get…?



Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Tragedy , Philosophy , Denpa , Suicide , Psychosexual , Urban , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , School , Surreal Comedy , Cult , Meta , Work , Nudity , Gods , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Ghost

Hikari no Machi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The city of light is a town above a hill, called that because it's surrounded by the sun, but it hides an obscure side. There, lives Tasuku, a young kid who works as a 'messenger' for a mysterious group who organizes suicides on the phone. At the same time other youngsters like him are trying to survive the everyday's life: Satoshi changes one occasional job after another, Momoko is the daughter of a prostitute who abandoned her. Finally there's Hoichi who is always involved in dirty business, among which is the suicidal group, but at least he has a dream: earning enough money to buy the whole place and turning it back into the country village he was born in.

Tags: Seinen , Urban , Tragedy , Philosophy , Suicide , Reincarnation , Anthology

Ozanari-kun

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

Ozanari-kun is a story in the style of traditional gag manga about the titular character's adventures working in the sales promotion department of Murakami Co.

A different take on the classic office atmosphere, his boss, section chief Yabusaka has to endure Ozanaris physical and verbal abuse every day. Within his lonely heart, complicated feelings start to bloom.

Tags: Slapstick , Seinen , Work , Band , Satire , LGBTQ+ Themes , Boys' Love , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast

Centaur no Nayami

Also known as A Centaur's Life.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Being a teenager is never easy… especially for a centaur! Himeno is a sweet, shy girl, who like many teens her age, struggles with the trials and tribulations of attending high school. The difference is she’s a centaur; but she’s not alone. In fact, all of her classmates are supernatural creatures, sporting either horns, wings, tails, halos, or some other unearthly body appendage. Yet despite their fantastical natures, Himeno and her best friends-the dragon-winged Nozomi, and Kyoko with her spiraled horns-are down-to-earth, fun-loving teenagers who grapple with issues of life and love in a mostly normal daily school setting.



Note: Won the 8th Comic Ryujin Award.

Anime starts at Vol 1, Chap 0
Anime ends at Vol 10, Chap 68

Tags: Centaur , Monster Girl , Primarily Female Cast , Politics , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Satire , Kemonomimi , Terrorism , War , Nekomimi , Youkai , LGBTQ+ Themes , Archery , Yuri , Mythology , Aliens , Gore , Slavery , Nudity , Shrine Maiden , Urban Fantasy , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things

Reiraku

Also known as Downfall.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Selling copies is the only thing that matters.

So what if your first series just ended and you have no idea how to start the next one, your marriage is breaking up, your pure love of manga has been destroyed by the cruel reality of the industry and nothing seems to fill the sucking void inside you...

Find the secret combo for a new hit manga series and everything will be okay.

Right?



Tags: Drawing , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Prostitution , Heterosexual , Work , Nudity ,

Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction

Also known as Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction.

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

The Japan Self-Defense Forces are still looking for a way to combat the alien threat, but so far conventional weapons have had no effect. Maybe it’s time to try something unconventional.

Meanwhile, Kadode Koyama and her best friend avidly track the aliens’ movements on social media and less enthusiastically study for college entrance exams. When the end of the world looms overhead, you learn to take things one step at a time.



Notes:
Winner of the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.
Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Seinen , Aliens , Female Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Politics , Primarily Female Cast , Military , Time Manipulation , Bisexual , Coming of Age , Denpa , Dystopian , Language Barrier , Philosophy , Tragedy , School , Otaku Culture , Suicide , Anti-Hero , Post-Apocalyptic , Gore , Satire , Cosmic Horror , Yuri , Love Triangle

Rabuka

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

The story takes place in Japan, right now, where the Coronavirus has completely changed our way of life. In the house of a young man, his childhood friend who lost his job due to the Coronavirus moves in. However, this childhood friend is a scumbag...

The story depicts the depressing feeling of not knowing how long the coronavirus will last, and the rotten relationship between the two young men.



Note: The one-shot that was published for Young Magazine's 40th anniversary project "Wagaman".

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Pandemic , Male Protagonist , Prostitution , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity