Genre
Slice of Life manga
The everyday, told with care: school days, work, food, friendship and the small moments that make a life.
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Ongoing · 20191. Spy × Family
by Tatsuya Endo
- Action
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
The master spy Twilight has one mission: get close to a dangerous politician through his son's elite school. For that he needs a family, fast. He adopts Anya, who can secretly read minds, and marries Yor, who is secretly an assassin. None of them knows the others' secrets — except Anya, who knows everybody's. A warm, very funny family comedy with spy thriller trimmings.
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Completed · 20212. Blue Box
by Kouji Miura
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
- Sports
Taiki Inomata plays badminton, and he has a crush on Chinatsu Kano, the basketball star he sees training every morning in the gym they share. Then, by chance, she comes to live in his family's house. A gentle, heartfelt romance about first love, early mornings and chasing a dream.
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Completed · 20143. The Fable
by Minami Katsuhisa
- Action
- Comedy
- Crime
- Drama
Fable is a hitman of legendary skill. His boss sends him to live quietly in Osaka for a year, under a new name and with one rule: he may not kill anyone. Living like an ordinary person turns out to be his hardest job yet.
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Ongoing · 20214. The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity
by Saka Mikami
- Comedy
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Rintaro goes to a rough boys' school whose students everyone looks down on, and the elite girls' academy next door has a strict rule: stay away from them. Then a girl from that academy, Kaoruko, starts coming to his family's cake shop and treats him like nobody else does. A gentle romance about two kind people on either side of a fence, and the friends who slowly start to cross it with them.
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Ongoing · 20225. Red Cat Ramen
by Angyaman
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
Red Cat Ramen is a popular ramen shop run entirely by cats — and one tiger. Shiro Tamako, a human who loves cats, gets a job there brushing them. A warm, funny workplace comedy about running a small business, with fur.
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Ongoing · 20186. Inaka no Home Center Otoko no Jiyuu na Isekai Seikatsu
by Usapyon, Ayumu Korai
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Isekai
- Slice of Life (shared)
Masaru, 36, worked at a country hardware store until two gods made a bet and sent him to another world with nothing but crafting skills and a strong back. So he does what he knows: builds things. A relaxed do-it-yourself isekai.
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Completed · 20087. Bakuman
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Moritaka can draw; his classmate Akito can write. Akito wants them to become manga artists together, and Moritaka — who just promised the girl he likes that they will marry once his manga becomes an anime — says yes. From the creators of Death Note, a story about making manga for Weekly Shonen Jump itself: deadlines, editors, reader surveys and rivals, told like a sports series.
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Completed · 19928. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable
by Hirohiko Araki
- Action
- Comedy
- Mystery
- Slice of Life (shared)
Morioh, a quiet seaside town in 1999. High schooler Josuke Higashikata, with a pompadour he will fight anyone over, discovers that a strange bow and arrow have been giving people Stands. One of them is a serial killer who only wants a quiet life: a small-town mystery with the strangest neighbours in manga.
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Completed · 20059. Cross Game
by Mitsuru Adachi
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
- Sports
Ko grows up beside the daughters of a family who run a batting centre, with baseball woven into their shared lives. A promise and a profound loss shape the years that follow. Games on the field become part of a measured story about grief, rivalry and feelings left unspoken.
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Ongoing · 201810. The Way of the Househusband
by Kousuke Oono
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
The Immortal Dragon was the most feared yakuza in town. Now he has left that life to keep house for his wife, and he brings the same terrifying intensity to bargain sales, bento boxes and the neighbourhood watch. Short, very funny chapters in which nobody can quite believe the man in the apron is harmless.
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Ongoing · 201711. Blue Period
by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
- Drama
- Slice of Life (shared)
Yatora is a popular student with good grades who feels nothing about any of it. Then he paints Tokyo at dawn the way it looks to him — blue — and for the first time he feels something. He sets his sights on Japan's hardest art university: a story about the hard work behind talent.
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Ongoing · 201712. Magus of the Library
by Mitsu Izumi
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Slice of Life (shared)
Theo is a poor, half-elf boy in a small town who loves books and is not allowed to read them. Then the librarians of the great library of Aftzaak come to visit, and he decides to become one. A richly drawn fantasy about knowledge, exams and a boy finding his way into a world of stories.
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Ongoing · 201913. Whisper Me a Love Song
by Eku Takeshima
- Drama
- Girls’ Love
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
On her first day of high school, Himari hears an older student, Yori, sing on stage and falls for her on the spot, as a fan. Yori hears it as a confession, and falls for Himari for real. A sweet, funny romance about a band, two girls on very different pages, and catching up.
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Ongoing · 201214. Kono Oto Tomare!
by Sakura Amyuu
- Drama
- Slice of Life (shared)
Takezou is the last member of his high school's koto club, and without new members it will be shut down. The first to burst in is Chika, a delinquent everyone avoids. What starts as a fight over a club room becomes a band of misfits learning to play the koto together, and to play it for something.
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Ongoing · 201815. Skip and Loafer
by Misaki Takamatsu
- Comedy
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Mitsumi, the top student from a tiny seaside town, moves to Tokyo for high school with a ten-year plan and no idea how the city works. On her first day she gets lost, and Shima, a charming classmate with secrets of his own, helps her out. A bright, funny story about friendship and finding your feet, with a heroine who stumbles a lot and never stays down.
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Ongoing · 202216. Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You
by Jinushi
- Comedy
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Sasaki, a tired office worker, lives for two small pleasures: a cigarette behind the supermarket after work, and the shy cashier who smiles at him every day. Then a stranger starts joining his smoke breaks, and she looks oddly like that cashier. A warm, funny romance about two grown-ups who each show the other a different face.
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Ongoing · 201717. A Man and His Cat
by Sakurai Umi
- Slice of Life (shared)
A lonely older man walks into a pet shop and takes home the plump kitten nobody else wanted. They take to each other at once. Told by both the man and the cat, a warm, funny story about two lives that were missing each other.
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Completed · 201918. Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible
by Nene Yukimori
- Comedy
- Romance
- Romantic Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
Junta Shiraishi is so unnoticeable that teachers mark him absent while he sits in class. Only Kubo, the girl next to him, can always see him — and she enjoys teasing him about it. A gentle, sweet romantic comedy about being seen.
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Completed · 199419. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
by Ashinano Hitoshi
- Drama
- Philosophical
- Sci-Fi
- Slice of Life (shared)
Long after the seas rose, Alpha, an android, runs a little coffee shop on the Japanese coast while humanity slowly fades. Coffee, watermelon, her guitar and the gulls. A quiet, bittersweet classic about finding beauty at the end of things.
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Ongoing · 201120. Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
by Izumi Tsubaki
- Comedy
- Romantic Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
Chiyo finally confesses to her crush Nozaki, and he hands her his autograph. He is a famous shoujo manga artist, it turns out, and he thinks she is a fan, so she becomes his assistant instead. A very funny comedy about drawing romance for a living and having no clue about it in real life.
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Ongoing · 202321. The Top Dungeon Farmer
by Lim Hyeong, sdcknight, Lee Ha Kyung
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Drama
Ordinary Se-Jun stumbles into a dungeon full of quests and rewards, and ends up growing tomatoes in it. With optimism, a knack for getting by and a growing band of furry friends, he farms, sells his crops and clears quest after quest. A cosy dungeon story.
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Ongoing · 201922. A Sign of Affection
by suu Morishita
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Yuki is a university student who is deaf and gets by just fine. On a train she meets Itsuomi, a well-travelled senior who speaks three languages and wants to learn hers. A tender romance about two people widening each other's worlds, one sign at a time.
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Ongoing · 201623. Drifting Dragons
by Taku Kuwabara
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Slice of Life (shared)
The crew of the airship Quin Zaza hunt dragons for a living — and sell the meat, the oil and everything else. Mika, their best hunter, mostly wants to cook what they catch. An adventure about a dangerous trade, a close crew and very good food.
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Completed · 201424. Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku
by Fujita
- Comedy
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Narumi, a secret fangirl, takes a new office job and runs straight into Hirotaka, her childhood friend and a devoted gamer. They decide dating another otaku might be the easiest option there is. A funny, warm romance about two adults who are much better at games than at feelings.
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