Top Snowscape Manga Recommendations

Fire Punch

Also known as Fire Punch.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Orphaned siblings Agni and Luna, like the Ice Witch who cursed their world, are two of the “blessed,” humans who hold special abilities. However, not all who are blessed are friendly, and after another of their kind attacks Agni and decimates the orphans' village, Agni fights to survive, vowing revenge.



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Suicide , Tragedy , Dystopian , Revenge , Philosophy , Cult , Anti-Hero , Super Power , Survival , Religion , Body Horror , Meta , Torture , Cosmic Horror , Gore , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Acting , Time Skip , Cannibalism , Urban Fantasy , Incest , Filmmaking , Transgender , Slavery , Surreal Comedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Denpa , Gods , Memory Manipulation , Snowscape , Politics , Heterosexual , Shounen , Orphan

Golden Kamuy

Also known as Golden Kamuy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama

In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.



Note: Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016 and the 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018. Nominated for the 20th and 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Tags: Historical , Conspiracy , Military , Outdoor Activities , Seinen , Politics , Ensemble Cast , Educational , Surreal Comedy , Food , Travel , Found Family , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Survival , Guns , Revenge , LGBTQ+ Themes , Language Barrier , Anti-Hero , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Slapstick , Crime , Male Harem , Snowscape , Trains , Prison , Animals , Indigenous Cultures , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Swordplay , Disability , Archery , Suicide , Tanned Skin , Transgender , Twins , Cannibalism , Zoophilia , Heterosexual , Yakuza , Time Skip , Dissociative Identities , Crossdressing , Wilderness , Gender Bending

Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou

Also known as Girls' Last Tour.

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

Civilization is dead, but Chito and Yuuri are still alive. So they hop aboard their beloved Kettenkrad motorbike and aimlessly wander the ruins of the world they once knew. Day after hopeless day, they look for their next meal and fuel for their ride. But as long as the two are together, even an existence as bleak as theirs has a ray or two of sunshine in it, whether they're sucking down their fill of soup or hunting for machine parts to tinker with. For two girls in a world full of nothing, the experiences and feelings the two share give them something to live for…



Note: Winner of the Best Comic Award at the Seiun Awards in 2019.

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Lost Civilization , Survival , Iyashikei , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Episodic , Travel , Seinen , Snowscape , War , Urban , Artificial Intelligence , Chibi , Cosmic Horror , Military , Tanks , Denpa

Tomodachi Game

Also known as Tomodachi Game.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

Play a game that costs a lot of money with your best friends! The key to clearing the game is "don't doubt your friends." However, one betrayal raises suspicion, and the game becomes a psychological warfare! Money or friends?

The ultimate intellectual game manga that shakes people's hearts has been born!



Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.

Tags: Anti-Hero , Death Game , Male Protagonist , Battle Royale , Survival , Crime , Tragedy , Revenge , Shounen , Yandere , Ships , Snowscape , Torture , Gambling , LGBTQ+ Themes , Adoption , Card Battle , Ensemble Cast , Prison , School , Gangs , Poker

Boku dake ga Inai Machi

Also known as Erased.

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

Twenty-nine-year-old Satoru Fujinuma is floundering through life. Amid his daily drudgery, he finds himself in the grip of an incredible, inexplicable, and uncontrollable phenomenon that rewinds time, a condition that seems to only make his drab life worse. But then, one day, everything changes. A terrible incident forever changes Satoru's life as he knows it...and with it, comes a "Revival" that sends Satoru eighteen years into the past!

In the body of his boyhood self, Satoru encounters sights he never imagined he would see again--the smile of his mother, alive and well, his old friends, and Kayo Hinazuki, the girl who was kidnapped and murdered when he was a boy the first time around. To return to the present and prevent the tragedy that brought him back to his childhood in the first place, Satoru begins plotting a way to change Hinazuki's fate...But up against the clock and a faceless evil, does eleven-year-old Satoru even stand a chance?



Note: Was nominated for the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Reader Award in 2014 and for the 7th, 8th and 9th Manga Taisho Award between 2014 and 2016. Also nominated for the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Volume 9 contains the 5-chapter “Boku Dake ga Inai Machi:Re” side story.

Tags: Crime , Primarily Child Cast , Age Regression , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Time Skip , School , Seinen , Detective , Fugitive , Tragedy , Revenge , Bullying , Rehabilitation , Writing , Amnesia , Snowscape , Photography

Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi

Also known as Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!.

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

City boy Tsubasa Shiki has just moved from Tokyo out to the sticks in Hokkaido—and right in the middle of winter! Despite being dressed in many, many layers, Tsubasa is quick to find the blistering cold inescapable and unbearable. Stumbling around trying to find his way, Tsubasa makes a beautiful discovery: A Hokkaido Gal, buxom but barely covered in the freezing weather! Minami Fuyuki is a Hokkaido local who takes an immediate interest in Tsubasa, wanting him to tell her all about city life. Tsubasa tries to resist falling for the blonde beauty—after all, he’s supposed to be into prim, proper, raven-haired girls!—but there’s no resisting Minami’s electric and boisterous personality.

But will his strict grandmother also be able to appreciate her charms, or will Tsubasa be forced to part ways with his first Hokkaido friend?



Note: Includes the original one-shot and 3 extra chapters.

Tags: Gyaru , Coming of Age , Large Breasts , Snowscape , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , School , Shounen , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Rural , Female Protagonist , Marriage , Nudity , Urban , Video Games , Time Skip

Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE

Also known as Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

"The world is a very small place, but for those who know it...it is very, very large. And the world, when it is viewed by those who 'know'— is far larger than just one world can hold!"

The famous CLAMP brings back the characters from all their creations for an ultimate showdown in this multi-dimensional tale.

This is the story of four travelers, bound by fate and by prophesied future. Sakura is the princess of Clow Country, and possessor of a strange power that promises to change the world. Syaoran is an aspiring archaeologist and her childhood friend. When Sakura is endangered by the plan a certain man has for the future, the princess' memories are scattered across dimensions in the form of feathers, and Syaoran is forced to go on a desperate journey to retrieve them. They are accompanied by Fay D. Flourite, a magician running from the horrible truth of his past, and Kurogane, a rough-mannered ninja trying to get back to his world. However, the ability to cross worlds demands a great price, and each of them must pay the Dimensional Witch with what he or she values most. In order to save his princess, Syaoran must give up his relationship with her. Even if he gathers all of Sakura's memories, she will never remember their past together...

But the world is not so simple. The very moment these four made this decision, their destinies are sealed into a tragic course...as everyone in the group has their own secrets. Visions of the future are seen, and prophesies are made. The cruel future which lies ahead reads only of betrayal, abandonment, devastation and anguish.

Tags: Travel , Alternate Universe , Magic , Crossover , Amnesia , Memory Manipulation , Found Family , Clone , Tragedy , Achronological Order , Curses , Ensemble Cast , Time Manipulation , Heterosexual , Shounen , Body Horror , Reincarnation , Post-Apocalyptic , Swordplay , Lost Civilization , Dissociative Identities , Boys' Love , Vampire , Desert , Urban , Snowscape , Twins , Cannibalism

Koisuru Kiseichuu

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Romance

The story is about a man whose compulsive tendencies make it impossible for him to keep a job and a young girl who skips school and loves insects. The two meet, come to support each other in reintegrating into society and fall in love. There’s a problem, however: namely, the parasites in their heads.

Tags: Philosophy , Heterosexual , Denpa , Tragedy , Suicide , Disability , Hikikomori , Urban , Rehabilitation , Age Gap , Primarily Adult Cast , Orphan , Shounen , Software Development , Snowscape

Youjo Senki

Also known as The Saga of Tanya the Evil.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Fantasy

High above the blood- and mud-soaked trenches, a young girl pits herself against army mages in high stakes aerial duels with bullets, spells, and bayonets. Her name is Tanya Degurechaff and she is the Devil of the Rhine, one of the greatest soldiers the Empire has ever seen! But inside her mind lives a ruthless, calculating ex-salaryman who enjoyed a peaceful life in Japan until he woke up in a war-torn world. Reborn as a destitute orphaned girl with nothing to her name but memories of a previous life, Tanya will do whatever it takes to survive, even if she can find it only behind the barrel of a gun!



Tags: Military , Historical , War , Gender Bending , Politics , Philosophy , Gods , Guns , Reincarnation , Foreign , Religion , Anachronism , Snowscape , Language Barrier , Magic , Revenge , Isekai , Female Protagonist , Meta , Tanks , Anti-Hero , Economics

Ningyou no Kuni

Also known as APOSIMZ.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

This story takes place on the frigid, massive artificial planet known as Aposimz. Eo, Biko and Etherow, residents of the White Diamond Beam, are in the middle of combat training when suddenly a girl appears, Rebedoan Empire soldiers in hot pursuit. The girl asks for their help in keeping safe a “code” and seven mysterious “bullets.” This chance encounter marks a major shift in the fate of the entire planet...



Tags: Cyberpunk , Primarily Adult Cast , Robots , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Cyborg , Dystopian , Lost Civilization , Male Protagonist , Henshin , Shounen , Super Power , Post-Apocalyptic , Snowscape

Misu Misou

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror

Nozaki Haruka's family moves to a small town following her father's new job. Unfortunately, Haruka becomes the target of bullying in the new school, which is set to close in a few months due to the lack of students. As a strong girl, who doesn't want to worry her family, Haruka tries to ignore the bullies, but the case is steadily growing out of proportion. And since the teachers are not willing to deal with bullying during the final school months, nothing is stopping an appalling tragedy that is looming over Haruka.

Tags: Revenge , Bullying , Tragedy , School , Anti-Hero , Gore , Denpa , Rural , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Josei , Snowscape , Heterosexual , Yandere , Love Triangle

Tonari no Metaller-san

Also known as The Metalhead Next Door.

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

Impoverished graduate student Kento nearly freezes to death outside his new cheap (unheated) apartment during a blizzard. Luckily, he's saved by neighbor Soushi, a quiet and somewhat frightening young man who dresses in all black. Although he exudes an aura that screams "keep away," his eyes, hidden behind long rocker hair, plead for something else. Over the following year, the two share meals together, but as the time passes, the closeted Kento finds it increasingly difficult to ignore his growing feelings. Will he choose to maintain the peaceful, happy times he's grown to love or risk it all for the possibility of something more?



Tags: Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Food , Metal Music , Disability , Nudity , Snowscape

D.N.Angel

Also known as D.N. Angel.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

Daisuke Niwa is an ordinary, if slightly unlucky, middle school student. On his fourteenth birthday, he comes down with a 'condition' that has plagued the men in his family for three hundred years. When he sees his crush, Risa, he transforms into his alter ego, the phantom thief Dark Mousy. Unfortunately, when Dark Mousy sees his crush, Risa's twin Riku, he transforms back into Daisuke. The only cure for this craziness is if Daisuke can get Risa to fall in love with him ...



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Namaiki no 'N' (N is for Nishiki)
Volume 2: OumagaAGAIN (The Demon Returns)
Volume 4: Kanno-ke wa Kanai Anzen. (Protecting The Kanno House)

Note: Includes 5 extra chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , Dissociative Identities , Angels , Unrequited Love , Anthropomorphism , Shapeshifting , Curses , Drawing , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Detective , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Crime , Twins , Adoption , Tomboy , Ojou-sama , Police , Urban Fantasy , Snowscape , Butler , Maids

Mama Yuuyuu

Also known as MamaYuyu.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy

An era of peace between the hero and demon lord is upon us! In this peaceful world, the hero Corleo is nothing but an empty suit. But one day, a hero and demon lord from another world appear before him! How will Corleo deal with the chaos these invaders bring to his world?! A new type of fantasy epic now begins!

Notes:
-Volume 3 contains two extra chapters.
-Volume 4 contains three extra chapters.

Tags: Demons , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Female Harem , Idol , Shapeshifting , Kemonomimi , Swordplay , Snowscape

Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e

Also known as To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy

During a protacted civil war that pitted the North against the South, the outnumbered Northerners used dark magic to create monstrous super-soldiers called Incarnates. Now that the war has ended, those Sacred Beasts must learn to make their way in a peaceful society, or face death at the hands of a Beast Hunter. Nancy Schaal Bancroft, the daughter of an Incarnate, turns to hunting the hunter herself. But once she catches up with her quarry, she discovers hard truths about the lives of these Sacred Beasts.



Tags: War , Monster Boy , Monster Girl , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Adoption , Body Horror , Gore , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Rural , Travel , Vampire , Military , Shounen , Werewolf , Guns , Foreign , Historical , Swordplay , Centaur , Class Struggle , Dragons , Estranged Family , Fugitive , Politics , Urban , Archery , Cowboys , Religion , Snowscape , Spearplay , Urban Fantasy

Hokuou Kizoku to Moukinzuma no Yukiguni Karigurashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

This story tells the life of two people, a noble only in name and an older wife from the army, married on a tentative agreement. In the bone-chilling cold, they spend their time hunting, gutting, and cooking by the fireplace. Their daily life passes peacefully. This is the warm love story recounting it.

The story that was 3-time award-winner of the Narou-Con competition has been adapted to manga!

Tags: Iyashikei , Marriage , Food , Primarily Adult Cast , Rural , Foreign , Family Life , Royal Affairs , Josei , Environmental , Heterosexual , Agriculture , Educational , Ensemble Cast , Tomboy , Gender Bending , Travel , Snowscape , Language Barrier , Guns , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Animals

Koisuru Kiseichuu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

The story is about a man whose compulsive tendencies make it impossible for him to keep a job, and a young girl who skips school and loves insects. The two meet, come to support each other in reintegrating into society, and fall in love. There’s a problem, however: namely, the parasites in their heads.

Tags: Hikikomori , Age Gap , Tragedy , Rehabilitation , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Urban , Suicide , Denpa , Disability , Software Development , Snowscape

Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi

Also known as Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!.

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

High school boy Tsubasa moves to Kitami City up in Hokkaido, where he meets a "gal" at a bus stop. The sight of her standing alone against the white snowscape, bare-legged despite the freezing cold, captures his heart.



Note: Referred to as Chapter 0 in the serialized version.

Tags: Gyaru , Rural , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Urban , Snowscape , Female Protagonist , Shounen

Yuki no Yousei

Also known as Snow Fairy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

When famous wildlife photographer Narumi comes to Hokkaido to take photos of the elusive "snow fairies," he ends up stranded in a snow storm. After being rescued, he takes up residence in local farmer Haruki's house for the winter. As polar opposites, sophisticated and outgoing city slicker Narumi and country boy Haruki have a lot to learn from one another.

After Haruki shows an interest, Narumi teaches him about photography... and before he realizes it, he finds himself the sole subject of Haruki's new hobby. After a winter spent so close together, what will the spring thaw bring?



Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Boys' Love , Photography , Rural , Cohabitation , Male Protagonist , Environmental , Snowscape , Primarily Adult Cast , Outdoor Activities , LGBTQ+ Themes , Agriculture , Work , Age Gap

DOGSRED

Also known as Dogsred.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Sports

The stage is the proud land of the north--Hokkaido. The year is 2010. Rou Shirakawa has just received the highest score in history at the All-Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships! But suddenly, he loses control and starts destroying the stage. He is quickly disqualified and banned from the skating world for life. Now nicknamed "the Rabid Prince," Rou ends up in Tamakomai, an ice hockey town in northern Japan. And on a hockey rink on a frozen lake, he meets the ruthless Genma brothers! Rou will soon learn of the famous Oino-kami high school and their quest to win an unprecedented 20th straight national hockey championship. And also the strong, yet beautiful battle sport--ice hockey! Change, grow, evolve! Turn defeat into victory in this red-hot redemption story!

Tags: School Club , Ice Skating , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Slapstick , Snowscape , Twins , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Natural Disaster