Manga like Yuru Yuru

Ritou no Umi

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

In a faraway archipelago to the south, a lush, peaceful landscape can be found amidst an ocean of corals. This is the story of a beautiful island bathed in sun, its inhabitants and a girl who was reared by the ocean.



Note: Includes 2 extra chapters

Tags: Full Color , Swimming , Female Protagonist , Coastal , Seinen , Outdoor Activities , Scuba Diving , Tomboy

Non Non Biyori

Also known as Non Non Biyori.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Welcome to the countryside village of Asahigaoka, a quaint town far-removed from the hustle-and-bustle of the big city. You couldn’t imagine a more isolated setting in all of Japan. So when Tokyo-raised elementary school student Hotaru Ichijou transfers to the tiny Asahigaoka Branch School due to her father’s job, she’s in the for the culture shock of her life!

Join Hotaru and her new friends, the eccentric Renge, and the mischevious sisters Natsumi and Komari, as they share daily adventures in the idyllic Japanese countryside.



Note: Chapter count includes 6 extras.

Tags: Iyashikei , Primarily Female Cast , Rural , Primarily Child Cast , Ensemble Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Seinen , Achronological Order , Episodic , School

Yuru Camp△

Also known as Laid-Back Camp.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Setting up a tent, starting a fire, and eating noodles with Mt. Fuji in view...Rin and Nadeshiko absolutely love to camp! Enjoy their zest for travel and maybe even pick up a tip or two about roughing it in the great outdoors. You might just want to go camping yourself!



Tags: Outdoor Activities , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Iyashikei , Travel , Rural , Educational , Camping , School Club , Food , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Environmental , Mopeds , Wilderness

mono

Also known as mono.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Slice of Life

From Afro, the creator of Laid-Back Camp, comes a new comedy adventure manga! The Photography Club is in danger of shutting down?! And the Cinema Club too?! Fret not, for they shall merge and become…Cinephoto Club! Now club members Satsuki, An, and Sakurako are asked to be the main characters for manga artist Haruno's latest work that's centered around action cameras. The girls head out to capture the lovely sights of Japan, experimenting with gadgets beyond photography and film equipment, and of course, chomping on the local delicacies along the way!



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Photography , School Club , 4-koma , Yuri , Seinen

Yotsuba to!

Also known as Yotsuba&!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai...um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving's fun 'cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made friends to play with (one of 'em acted like one of those bad strangers Daddy told Yotsuba not to go with, but it was okay in the end). I hope we get to play a lot. And eat ice cream! And-and-and...oh yeah! You should come play with Yotsuba too!



Notes:
Includes an interlude.
Won the Excellence Award for Manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006 and the Grand Prize of the 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2016.
Was nominated for the Manga Taishō award in 2008 and for the 12th and 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2008 and 2016.
Was nominated for the Eisner Award in the "Best Publication for Kids" category.

Tags: Family Life , Iyashikei , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Parenthood , Rural , Adoption , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Fishing

Komorebi no Kuni

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Manga about the everyday lives of Lulu and her little adventures in the late industrial revolution era.

Tags: Full Color , School , Seinen , Food , Female Protagonist

ARIA

Also known as Aria.

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

On the planet Aqua, a world once known as Mars, Akari Mizunashi has just made her home in the town of Neo-Venezia, a futuristic imitation of the ancient city of Venice. In pursuit of her dream to become an Undine — a gondolier who leads high-end tours around the city — Akari joins as a trainee with the Aria Company, one of the three most prestigious water-guide companies in Neo-Venezia. There, she explores the beauty of the city and the world along with other trainees from Aria and rival companies, working hard for her dreams and making new friends along the way.



Tags: Iyashikei , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Work , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Urban Fantasy , Episodic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Foreign , Shounen , Heterosexual

Kamichu!

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

Yurie Hitotsubashi was just an average middle school student living in the city of Onomichi on Japan's inland sea. She spent her days worrying about exams and trying to get Kenji, the clueless boy she likes, to notice her. Then during lunch one day she suddenly announces to her friend Mitsue that she had become a goddess the night before. Their classmate Matsuri quickly latches on to Yurie's newfound divinity as a way to promote her family's financially struggling Shinto shrine. She hopes that in replacing Yashima-sama, their ineffective local god, with Yurie, it will make the shrine more popular. Now all Yurie has to do is figure out what she's supposed to do with her power.

Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Magic , Iyashikei , Shrine Maiden , Gods , Seinen

Houkago Teibou Nisshi

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

Hina Tsurugi is a first year student at a coastal high school and regards herself as an indoorsy sort of person. Walking along the embankment, she runs into an older schoolmate, Kuroiwa, who invites her to join the “Teibou” club and start fishing! Surrounded by eccentric club members, how will Hina’s high school life turn out?

Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Fishing , Rural , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Educational , Coastal , Seinen , School , Primarily Teen Cast

Umiiro March

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

The story of the girls who met at Okinawa's sea. Amane who invites her neighbor living next door Sango to the sea. While bringing about a stormy mood, the two of them also head for the sea today!

Tags: 4-koma , School , Seinen , Coastal