Manga like Zassou-tachi yo Taishi wo Idake

Kagome Kagome

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

This quiet, subtle drama shows the interactions between the various nuns and apprentices, and nearby townsfolk, in a nunnery in late 18th-century France.

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Foreign , Primarily Female Cast , Full Color , Iyashikei , Heterosexual

Sakura no Sono

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

The drama club of an all girl high school puts on the play "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov for the anniversary of the school's founding.

Each chapter follows the life of one of the club members while the preparations for the play go on.



Tags: Shoujo , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , School , Episodic , Acting , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Yuri , Delinquents , LGBTQ+ Themes

Skip to Loafer

Also known as Skip and Loafer.

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

Excellent student Iwakura Mitsumi has always dreamt about leaving her small town, going to a prestigious university, and making positive change in the world. But she’s so focused on reaching her goals that she’s not prepared for the very different (and overwhelming) city life that awaits her in a Tokyo high school. Luckily, she makes fast friends with Shima Sousuke, a handsome classmate who’s as laid-back as she is over-prepared. Can this naive country girl make it big in Tokyo with Sousuke by her side?



Notes:
Nominated for the 2020 Manga Taisho Award.
Winner of the 47th Kodansha Manga Award in the Best General Manga category in 2023.

Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Iyashikei , Urban , Acting , Love Triangle , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes

Majo to Neko no Hanashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life

When witches turn thirteen, they summon a guardian "cat" who stays with them and supports them their entire life. This is a story of witches and cats, a story of four friends at magic school -- Suzu, Kei, Mary, and Nina -- who all learn something about life as they turn thirteen and meet their cats.

Tags: Witch , Animals , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Magic , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Iyashikei , Josei , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , School

Araburu Kisetsu no Otomedomo yo.

Also known as O Maidens in Your Savage Season.

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

When Kazusa enters high school, she joins the Literature Club, where she leaps from reading innocent fiction to diving into the literary classics. But these novels are a bit more…adult than she was prepared for. Between euphemisms like fresh dewy grass and pork stew, crushing on the boy next door, and knowing you want to do that one thing before you die–discovering your budding sexuality is no easy feat! As if puberty wasn’t awkward enough, the club consists of a brooding writer, the prettiest girl in school, an agreeable comrade, and an outspoken prude. Fumbling over their own discomforts, these five teens get thrown into chaos over three little letters: S…E…X…!

Note: Includes 2 epilogue chapters and 2 extras.

Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , School Club , Love Triangle , School , Shounen , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Age Gap , Teacher

Tenkousei, Ridatsu suru

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

A resigned girl remembers something she’d forgotten after being forced to spend time with a rather odd transfer student.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Female Protagonist , Bullying

COCOON

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

San and Mayu are two schoolgirls living in Okinawa during the closing months of the Pacific War. Together with their classmates, the two friends are drafted into the war effort as nurses for wounded soldiers. When ordered to die for their country, the remaining members of the group escape only to face the harsh environment of a tropical paradise that has become a hellish battlefield.

Tags: War , Tragedy , Historical , Survival , Female Protagonist , Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Suicide , Gore , Primarily Female Cast , Rural , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing , Medicine

Onnanoko wa Yoyuu!

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Tomomi is secretly in love with her classmate Sawada. But her love couldn't be fulfilled as Sawada is in love with another girl. Meanwhile, Ojika, the head of the broadcast club, is trying to win Tomomi's heart with his handsome voice. Finally Tomomi's gloom is driven away. She starts to see the hidden beauty of the things around her which she has never noticed before.

Note: Includes the one shot Hitsuji-tachi no March (羊たちのマーチ)

Tags: Shoujo , School , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual

Onna no Sono no Hoshi

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hoshi-sensei, homeroom teacher of class 4 of second-grade at an all-girls high school. At the mercy of the students' shiritori picture games they draw in their class journals, suddenly made to take care of a dog in the classroom, giving advice to an aspiring manga artist...not to mention drinking sessions with colleagues...what an uninteresting life, yet why is it so enjoyable and loveable?! An unexperienced manga that will make you smile no matter what.



Tags: School , Teacher , Josei , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Work

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