Manga like Hitori de Ikiru wa Mama Naranu

Jigoku no Girlfriend

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

The story follows the lives of three women. Kana is 31 years old: divorced, she grows by herself the four-year-old daughter, Kaede. Yuuri is an austere office employee, which makes her look much older than her actual age of 28 – but who has a dissolute past. At last, Nao, a 36-year-old fashion designer who is very popular with men. The three, not having other friends, decide to share the house.



Includes 1 bonus chapter.

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist

Sketchy

Also known as Sketchy.

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

Ako finds herself coasting along, watching her twenties pass her by. Work at the video rental store, see her boyfriend, repeat... Her days are becoming an indistinguishable, listless blur. Until she encounters a skateboarder practicing a trick—and she's a girl! For some reason, Ako feels a pull toward the sport. Slowly, all the dreams and ambitions she gave up on and the futures she imagined for herself come flooding back, and Ako resolves to change herself now, before it's too late. But is it ever really too late to discover something new?



Tags: Skateboarding , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Urban , Tomboy

Kemutai Hanashi

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

These two men are not friends, not lovers, not family. But they still want to be near each other. A chance encounter leads to two former classmates living together.

A very relaxed slice of life manga series, trying to break free from the urge to label relationships a certain way.



Note: Nominated for the 2022 Next Manga Award (Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishou) for Best Web Manga.

Tags: Iyashikei , Aromantic , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Asexual , Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Teacher , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things

Tokyo Tarareba Musume

Also known as Tokyo Tarareba Girls.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

"I spent all my time wondering 'What if?' Then one day I woke up and I was 33."

Rinko doesn't think she's that bad-looking, but before she knew it, she was thirty-something and single. Now she wants to get married by the time the Tokyo Olympics rolls around in six years, but… that might be easier said than done!



Notes:
Includes 20 extra chapters.
Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia at the Eisner Awards in 2019.
Nominated for the 9th and 10th Manga Taishou Award in 2016 and 2017, placing ninth and 12th place respectively.
Nominated for the 40th Kodansha Manga Award in the General Manga category in 2016.


Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Satire , Heterosexual , Urban , Age Gap , Primarily Female Cast , Bar , Love Triangle

Zutto Dokushin de Iru Tsumori?

Also known as Will I Be Single Forever?.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Mami is 36 and unmarried, and the entire world seems to be telling her she must be miserable. But is she? Does she really need a ring on her finger to be happy when she has a job she loves and friends who support her? A collection of interconnected stories that explores the hazards and joys of unmarried life through the eyes of three single ladies.



Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Work , Urban , Office

Kuragehime

Also known as Princess Jellyfish.

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

Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She’s loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese dolls. However, a chance meeting at a pet shop has Tsukimi crossing paths with one of the things that the residents of Amamizukan have been desperately trying to avoid—a beautiful and fashionable woman! But there’s much more to this woman than her trendy clothes! This odd encounter is only the beginning of a new and unexpected path for Tsukimi and her friends.



Note: Includes 10 extra chapters.

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Fashion , Heterosexual , Femboy , Foreign , Love Triangle , Primarily Adult Cast , Otaku Culture , Language Barrier , LGBTQ+ Themes , Found Family , Urban , Makeup , Age Gap , Male Harem , Drawing , Gender Bending , Animals , Coming of Age

Tokyo Higoro

Also known as Tokyo These Days.

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

A requiem for the anguished, lost, and wandering in life over 50.

With Japan entering a new era, the story centers on Shiosawa, a former manga editor for a major publisher. After going into early retirement, he now finds himself wondering about what the world of manga means to him: is it work, a form of expression, or friendship?

Tags: Seinen , Male Protagonist , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing , Philosophy

Colorful Antinomy

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Fumi, a 30-year-old office lady, feels frustrated about her life. One day, she tries using a dating app and matches up with someone who looks like her type, and they decide to meet up...

Tags: Office Lady , Josei , Female Protagonist , Tomboy , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri

Yawao to Katako

Also known as A Queen and an Old Maid.

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

Campy queen vs. Miss forever-alone: this defeat-your-insecurities (romantic?) comedy goes out to all you folks full of self-loathing!! Unpopular with men, unattractive, and unsure of herself...... At a mixer one night, insecure and forever-alone Fujiko found her soulmate- No, wait, it was a femme guy playing mother hen?! Fujiko has never been confident in herself as a woman, but with help from prettyboy queen Koyanagi, now she's going to give femininity another shot...!

Tags: Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Heterosexual , Bisexual , Fashion , Body Image , Love Triangle

Tokyo Alice: Fuu no wo Kaimono Nikki

Also known as Tokyo Alice.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

There are so many things she wants, but she still hasn’t found out what she’s looking for … That’s Fu Arisugawa, an office worker too busy with her shopping spoils and whose motto is “Shopping is Living.” Meanwhile, for reasons she doesn’t yet understand, she’s interested in her cool-tempered and reserved boss. And there are her friends, too. Rio, who keeps her feelings towards Fu a secret; Mizuho, who always ends up dating losers; and Enjoji, who keeps interviewing University of Tokyo grads for an arranged marriage … Each are lost in their own way while searching for happiness. These four Alices wander through their lives of love … and shopping!!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Josei , Urban , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Nudity , Yuri