Top Estranged Family Manga Recommendations

Na Honjaman Level Up

Also known as Solo Leveling.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

In a world where awakened beings called “Hunters” must battle deadly monsters to protect humanity, Seong Jin-U, nicknamed “the weakest hunter of all mankind,” finds himself in a constant struggle for survival. One day, after a brutal encounter in an overpowered dungeon wipes out his party and threatens to end his life, a mysterious System chooses him as its sole player: Jin-U has been granted the rare opportunity to level up his abilities, possibly beyond any known limits. Follow Jin-U’s journey as he takes on ever-stronger enemies, both human and monster, to discover the secrets deep within the dungeons and the ultimate extent of his powers.



Note: Includes 22 extra chapters.

Tags: Dungeon , Male Protagonist , Super Power , War , Full Color , Magic , Necromancy , Urban Fantasy , Gods , Primarily Adult Cast , Politics , Demons , Post-Apocalyptic , Video Games , Foreign , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Anti-Hero , Time Manipulation , Bullying , Estranged Family , Long Strip , Age Regression , Assassins , Heterosexual , Chimera , Language Barrier , Time Skip , Snowscape , Marriage

Kuroshitsuji

Also known as Black Butler.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

In Victorian era Europe, a young boy loses everything he once held near and dear to a vicious plot. In his moment of death, he strikes a deal with a demon: his soul, in exchange for revenge. Ciel Phantomhive is now the head of the Phantomhive corporation, handling all business affairs as well as the underground work for the Queen of England. His new partner is a demon butler, Sebastian Michaelis, whose prowess as a butler is only surpassed by his strength as a demon.

The story follows the two along with their other servants, as they work to unravel the plot behind Ciel's parents' murder, and the horrendous tragedies that befell Ciel in the month directly after.

Tags: Demons , Revenge , Tragedy , Crime , Historical , Butler , Anti-Hero , Orphan , Male Protagonist , Twins , Royal Affairs , Foreign , Cult , Detective , Shounen , Steampunk , Magic , Found Family , Circus , LGBTQ+ Themes , Mythology , Maids , Assassins , Travel , Medicine , Zombie , Fugitive , Anachronism , Transgender , Crossdressing , Boarding School , Estranged Family , Musical Theater , School , Torture , Swordplay , Witch , Disability , Idol , Urban Fantasy

Agyeogui Ending Jugeumppun

Also known as Villains Are Destined to Die.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Romance

This game’s got me obsessed! It’s like it’s taken over my life... wait—HARD MODE ACTIVATED. No-no-no-no-no! It has literally taken me and thrown me into the part of Penelope Eckhart. Love is easy as the heroine, but as the hated villainess, I’m trying very hard not to die… at the hands of my brothers… the prince… a fork… every possible ending is death! This world is stacked against me, but can my wits and insider game knowledge score the affection of these male characters? Or the reset button???



Tags: Female Protagonist , Villainess , Full Color , Isekai , Reincarnation , Tragedy , Ojou-sama , Adoption , Video Games , Bullying , Male Harem , Royal Affairs , Long Strip , Primarily Adult Cast , Estranged Family , Heterosexual , Magic , Yandere , Suicide , Slavery , Tsundere , Espionage , Unrequited Love

Fruits Basket

Also known as Fruits Basket.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out...into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own--when touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac!



Note: Volume 9 includes the bonus chapter "Rain Shelter of Terror".

Tags: Shoujo , Mythology , Animals , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Shapeshifting , Philosophy , Rehabilitation , Heterosexual , Reincarnation , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Male Cast , School , Family Life , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Age Gap , Tsundere , Estranged Family , Youkai , Curses , Love Triangle , Memory Manipulation , Disability , Orphan , Unrequited Love , Incest , Crossdressing , Henshin , Delinquents , Cohabitation , Monster Boy , Revenge , Dissociative Identities , Teacher , Marriage , Transgender

Taiyou no Ie

Also known as House of the Sun.

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

As a child, Mao spent all her time at Hiro’s house across the street. Going to his house always made her feel cheerful. A few years later, Mao’s father gets remarried and Mao finds herself with nowhere to call home. Hiro ends up letting her stay with him in the house he’s been occupying alone since the death of his parents. A love story unfolds, between two childhood friends of different ages.



Note: Includes 20 extra chapters.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Family Life , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Shoujo , Age Gap , Tsundere , Tragedy , Heterosexual , School , Adoption , Primarily Teen Cast , Orphan , Estranged Family , Cohabitation

Kono Oto Tomare!

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance

Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members into the club, or the club will become terminated. Out of nowhere, a new member barges into the near-abandoned club room, demanding to join the club. How will Takezou be able to keep his club alive and deal with this rascal of a new member?

Tags: School Club , School , Band , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Bullying , Male Protagonist , Delinquents , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Found Family , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Female Protagonist , Estranged Family , Teacher , Nudity , Maids

Sangsurinamu Arae

Also known as Under the Oak Tree.

Status: Hiatus
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

A flawless love story of the flawed. Stuttering lady Maximilian is forced into a marriage with Sir Riftan, but he leaves on a campaign after their wedding night. 3 years later, he triumphantly returns, ready to cherish her. As life with her husband finally begins, she only has one question — does she deserve this love and happiness?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Marriage , Arranged Marriage , Medieval , Disability , Magic , Full Color , Swordplay , Bullying , Royal Affairs , Estranged Family , Tanned Skin , Long Strip

Pocket Monsters SPECIAL

Also known as Pokémon Adventures.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy

Red is just a normal kid living in the rural Pallet Town, when he decides to go out on his own adventure, along with his rival since childhood, Green. In this world of Pokemon, he makes many friends, humans and Pokemon alike. However, all is not well. Team Rocket is trying to capture Mew, a very rare Pokemon, and is performing experiments on other Pokemon, trying to increase their power. Red and his friends must battle against Team Rocket to stop their cruel experiments and unlock the secrets of Pokemon.


Tags: Travel , Animals , Primarily Child Cast , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Proxy Battle , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Tomboy , Criminal Organization , Urban Fantasy , Creature Taming , Video Games , Kids , Gangs , Coastal , Ojou-sama , Cult , Detective , Slapstick , Super Power , Time Skip , Time Manipulation , Estranged Family , Shapeshifting , Acting , School , Tragedy , Environmental

Rosario to Vampire: Season II

Also known as Rosario+Vampire: Season II.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

Average human teenage boy Tsukune accidentally enrolls at a boarding school for monsters--no, not jocks and popular kids, but bona fide werewolves, witches, and unnameables out of his wildest nightmares!

On the plus side, all the girls have a monster crush on him. On the negative side, all the boys are so jealous they want to kill him! And so do the girls he spurns because he only has eyes for one of them--the far-from-average vampire Moka.

On the plus side, Moka only has glowing red eyes for Tsukune. On the O-negative side, she also has a burning, unquenchable thirst for his blood...



Tags: Vampire , Shounen , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Terrorism , Clone , Estranged Family , Monster Girl , Demons , Youkai , Mythology , Magic , Female Harem , Succubus , Dissociative Identities , School , Urban Fantasy , Boarding School , Triads , Martial Arts , Tanned Skin , Monster Boy , School Club , Bullying , Bisexual , Dungeon , Age Regression

Fukakai na Boku no Subete wo

Also known as Love Me for Who I Am.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Mogumo is a cute but lonely high school student who just wants a few loving friends. Fellow student Iwaoka Tetsu invites Mogumo to work at his family’s café for “cross-dressing boys,” but he makes an incorrect assumption: Mogumo is non-binary and doesn’t identify as a boy or a girl. However, Mogumo soon finds out that the café is run by LGBT+ folks of all stripes, all with their own reasons for congregating there.



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Transgender , Agender , Coming of Age , Estranged Family , Crossdressing , Seinen , Found Family , Work , Restaurant , Femboy , Maids , Cosplay , Love Triangle , Yuri , Boys' Love , School , Suicide

Sunny

Also known as Sunny.

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

The story of an orphanage, the children who live in it, and the beat-up old Nissan Sunny 1200 which provides them with a means of escape from their boring everyday lives.

Note: Winner of the Best Manga of the Year award at the 2016 Shogakukan Manga Awards.

Tags: Family Life , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Seinen , Estranged Family , Tragedy , Autobiographical , Rural , Adoption , Episodic , Cars , Delinquents , Heterosexual , Baseball , Time Skip

Agnyeoneun du Beon Sanda

Also known as The Villainess Lives Again.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

From childhood, Artezia Rosan's happiness was dependent on ensuring the success of her brother. As a master manipulator and schemer, she became his most valuable ally in seizing the empire’s throne. That’s exactly why her brother's betrayal cut so deeply when Artezia was imprisoned as punishment for all of her crimes. Soon after being rescued by Grand Duke Cedric Ebron, she vows to help him overthrow the cruel new emperor by sacrificing her own life with forbidden magic. Now waking up several years earlier back in time, she will forsake her own family to help Cedric at all costs. They say that blood is thicker than water, but can Artezia destroy her brother while her own romance blossoms amidst the chaos?



Tags: Villainess , Politics , Full Color , Female Protagonist , Kingdom Management , Ojou-sama , Estranged Family , Time Manipulation , Conspiracy , Royal Affairs , Magic , Heterosexual , Marriage , Parenthood

Grappler Baki

Also known as Baki the Grappler.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

A seventeen-year-old boy with a white belt enters a karate tournament and shakes the foundations of Japan’s martial arts scene. As he effortlessly defeats his opponents, the world’s top fighters are left to ask: just who is this bizarrely strong young man, and what is he trying to achieve?



Tags: Martial Arts , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Primarily Male Cast , Gore , Shounen , Estranged Family , Achronological Order , Nudity , Tragedy , Sumo , Ensemble Cast , Yakuza

Natsume Yuujinchou

Also known as Natsume's Book of Friends.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

When Reiko was Takashi's age, she bound the names of demons and spirits in her Book of Friends, enslaving them to her capricious whim. Now Takashi is the owner of the book, and the creatures will do anything to get their names back.



Tags: Adoption , Youkai , Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , Rural , Episodic , Shoujo , Outdoor Activities , Primarily Teen Cast , Estranged Family , Rehabilitation , Primarily Male Cast , Found Family , Shapeshifting , Orphan , School , Exorcism , Gender Bending

Ichinose-ke no Taizai

Also known as The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Tsubasa Ichinose is a middle schooler who loses his memory in an accident. He is able to safely reunite with his family, but is soon faced with a new shocking reality... What is going on with this family?!

Note: Chapter count includes two one-shots included in vol. 6.

Tags: Tragedy , Amnesia , Family Life , Time Loop , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Conspiracy , Time Manipulation , Bullying , Coming of Age , Shounen , Estranged Family , School , Found Family , Rehabilitation , Photography

Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsunomanika Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken

Also known as The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten.

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

Amane Fujimiya lives alone in a messy apartment—right next door to Mahiru Shiina, a veritable "angel" who's the smartest, prettiest girl at school. When a chance encounter on a rainy day draws them together, Mahiru finds herself spending more and more time helping Amane get his life in order. And though they both insist they have no intention of dating the other, slowly but surely, something more than friendship begins to blossom.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Heterosexual , Iyashikei , Shounen , School , Food , Primarily Teen Cast , Estranged Family , Cohabitation , Kuudere

Harukaze no Étranger

Also known as Seaside Stranger: Harukaze no Étranger.

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

Shun and Mio connected on their small island near Okinawa, leading to a friendship and eventual romance. But Shun’s quiet home by the seaside started with pain–he left his hometown after his parents disowned him for being gay. That inescapable fact still haunts him, especially now that his father is ill. Shun is ready to go back to Hokkaido to see his parents again, but this time, he has Mio by his side. Mio has complicated feelings about this himself, as he was devastated by the loss of his own parents and now might not be accepted by Shun’s–what will this trip mean for him?



Tags: Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Iyashikei , Time Skip , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Writing , Age Gap , Coastal , Family Life , Estranged Family , Adoption , Orphan

Asper Kanojo

Also known as That's My Atypical Girl.

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

Yokoi Taku has trouble getting along with people, so he moved to Tokyo as soon as he graduated from high school. He now lives alone, making a living by delivering newspapers and drawing doujinshi, though people totally ignore his non-erotic works. One day, a girl named Saitou Megumi suddenly shows up at his door, claiming that she came all the way from Tottori to meet him because she's a big fan of one of his doujinshi. It ends up that she has faced many hardships herself, and with no intention of leaving, she ends up living with him.

Note: Current chapter count is based on the original serialization. Several chapters were combined into 100 chapters in the physical release.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation , Bullying , Disability , Suicide , Heterosexual , Seinen , Philosophy , Psychosexual , Drawing , Male Protagonist , Writing , Estranged Family , Female Protagonist , Language Barrier , Tragedy

Tatoe Todokanu Ito da to Shite mo

Also known as If I Could Reach You.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In this heartwrenching new yuri manga, a teenage girl comes to terms with her own sexuality through her crush on her brother’s wife. Hopelessly in love, high schooler Uta must navigate living with her brother and Kaoru, her crush … and sister-in-law. Desperate to get over her unrequited feelings, Uta pulls away, but when the cracks in her brother’s marriage begin to show, Kaoru begins to confide in her new teenage sister, which just makes matters worse!



Note: Includes 6 extra chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Love Triangle , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Age Gap , Time Skip , Ensemble Cast , School , Estranged Family , Work

Geu Kkeute Inneun Geot

Also known as At The End of The Road.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

After a car accident, Tae-Min finds himself in the body of Si-Won, who was a victim of bullying at school. No longer a pushover, he starts standing up for himself but then meets Woo-Jin, an old friend from the past. Somehow, Woo-Jin immediately picks up Tae-Min's 'scent' from Si-Won. What happened between these two in the past and how will it affect their future?



Note: Includes two special chapters and six side story chapters.

Tags: Body Swapping , Reincarnation , Male Protagonist , Full Color , Boys' Love , Suicide , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Twins , Bullying , School , Delinquents , Yandere , Tsundere , Amnesia , Estranged Family , Revenge , Tragedy