Manga like Kinou Nani Tabeta?

Bokura no Shokutaku

Also known as Our Dining Table.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Eating around other people is a struggle for salaryman Yutaka, despite his talent for cooking. All that changes when he meets Minoru and Tane—two brothers, many years apart in age—who ask him to teach them how to make his delicious food! Yutaka soon finds himself having a change of heart as he looks forward to the meals they share together.



Tags: Food , Family Life , Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Found Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Iyashikei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Time Skip , Adoption , Parenthood

Aki wa Haru to Gohan wo Tabetai

Also known as Let's Eat Together, Aki and Haru.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Two boys who share a room and love to make and eat dinner together. Aki is in charge of cooking, and Haru is tasked with cleaning up, and despite their personality differences, they come together over their love of food.



Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Food , Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Cohabitation , Unrequited Love , Iyashikei

Tongari Boushi no Kitchen

Also known as Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life

Evening falls on Qifrey’s atelier, and Coco and her fellow witches-in-training take to their beds. In the quiet of midnight, Qifrey and Olruggio are finally free to pursue their culinary experiments. The kitchen comes alive as they whip up puddings, stews, parfaits, and jellies, and when the sun rises, Coco and the gang are there to savor every bite!

Includes a variety of real sweet and savory recipes with step-by-step instructions.



Tags: Food , Iyashikei , Teacher , Foreign , Medieval , Witch , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Magic , Seinen , Educational

Futari de Okashi na Kyuujitsu wo

Also known as Confessions of a Shy Baker.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Toshimitsu Yamamura owns a real estate company and loves baking delicious, healthy snacks in his spare time. When his coworker comes to him one day with the idea of advertising their real estate agency as LGBT-friendly, Toshi realizes this little change could really help people who often face discrimination in his industry. He's terrified, though, because he worries this move will out him as gay. Joined by his boyfriend Gonta who inspired him to bake in the first place, Toshi navigates a changing world that's slowly becoming more accepting, faces his fears and discomfort, and bakes some incredibly lovely treats along the way.



Tags: Food , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Cohabitation , Josei , Boys' Love , Work , Educational , Bisexual , Yuri

30-sai made Doutei da to Mahou Tsukai ni Nareru Rashii

Also known as Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Adachi, a thirty-year-old virgin, has developed the power to read people's minds by touching them. After a brush with his very handsome colleague, Adachi realizes the guy has a raging crush on none other than Adachi himself!



Note: Originally published on Twitter and collated by Square Enix for print release.

Tags: Boys' Love , Super Power , Office , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Virginity , Primarily Male Cast , Work , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Marriage , Bisexual , Shoujo , Age Gap , Unrequited Love , Cohabitation , Writing , Food

Kashimashi Meshi

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

It's okay to use a lot of ingredients. Hold off on eating the food with your fingers. Crunch. Chew. Nibble. Swallow. Who could frown when faced with such delicious food and sake?



Tags: Food , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Suicide

Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna

Also known as She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

Cooking is how Nomoto de-stresses, but one day, she makes way more than she can eat by herself. And so she invites her neighbor Kasuga, who also lives alone. What will come out of this dinner invitation?



Tags: Food , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Estranged Family , Asexual , Cohabitation , Urban , Body Image , Agender , Transgender

Minegishi-san wa Ootsu-kun ni Tabesasetai

Also known as Manly Appetites: Minegishi Loves Otsu.

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

A delicious Boys’ Love manga series about how opposites attract!

Minegishi is a handsome, friendly salaryman rising through the ranks at work. He does have one insatiable desire at the office: he loves to feed his grumpy co-worker, Otsu. Otsu might be taking the food, but he’s not taking the bait—he thinks Minegishi’s coolness is a challenge, and refuses to be charmed like everyone else in the office! But the best way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, and Minegishi’s attention might be reflecting a hunger for something more. Can he break through Otsu’s hard shell? This sweet BL office comedy is sure to satisfy!



Note: Includes five extra chapters.

Tags: Food , Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Office , Tsundere

Uo to Mizu

Also known as Fish and Water.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Having met at a mutual friend's wedding, Akira, a business sales administrator, and Koji, a freelance writer, quickly become close buddies. One day, during a visit with a farm client, Akira is offered a case of freshly picked cabbage. Since no one at his office wants it, and he is no cook, Akira decides to see if Koji (who loves to cook) might be interested. Lonely and in the midst of pandemic-related shutdowns, Akira uses this as an excuse to come hang out at Koji's house. Once they get past how to be COVID-cautious, they become quite relaxed with each other, creating an amusing but emotionally confusing scenario. Akira and Koi grapple with deciding if they are just friends or something more.



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Food , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Pandemic , Boys' Love , Nudity

Seiyou Kottou Yougashiten

Also known as Antique Bakery.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

A high school crush, a world-class pastry chef, a former middle-weight boxing champion...and a whole lot of cake! Ono has come a long way since the agonizing day in high school when he confessed his love to handsome Tachibana. Now, some 14 years later Ono, a world-class pastry chef and gay playboy has it all. No man can resist Ono's charms (or his cooking skills!) but he has just found a new position under a man named Tachibana. Can this be the only man who resisted his charms, and if so, will the man who once snubbed the "magically gay" Ono get his just desserts? And how in the heck did a former middleweight boxing champion wind up as Ono's cake boy?



Note: Recipient of 26th Kodansha Manga Award in the shoujo manga category for 2002.

Tags: Shoujo , Food , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes