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12 manga like Barakamon
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Barakamon (slice of life, comedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Barakamon
Readers also like it1. Yotsuba&!
by Kiyohiko Azuma
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
For Yotsuba, moving to a new neighbourhood means discovering a world full of surprises. Shopping trips, changing weather and visits with the family next door become adventures through her curious eyes. A gentle everyday comedy about a little girl, her father and the people drawn into her boundless enthusiasm.
Read on Yen PressOpen
Readers also like it2. Silver Spoon
by Hiromu Arakawa
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Slice of Life (shared)
Yuugo Hachiken enrols at an agricultural high school hoping to leave academic pressure behind. Instead, he encounters early mornings, demanding animals and classmates who already know what they want from life. Farm work and unexpected friendships push him to question where food comes from and what kind of future he wants.
Read on Yen PressOpen
Readers also like it3. Flying Witch
by Chihiro Ishizuka
- Comedy (shared)
- Fantasy
- Slice of Life (shared)
- Supernatural
Apprentice witch Makoto moves to the countryside to live with relatives and continue her training. Between school, gardening, and finding her way around town, she encounters a quieter kind of magic: unusual visitors, hidden places, and small surprises in familiar routines. A gentle comedy about settling into a new home, where the supernatural is another part of everyday life.
Read on KodanshaOpen
Readers also like it4. 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.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Slice of Life · Comedy5. Buster Brown
by Richard F. Outcault
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A neatly dressed boy, his talking dog Tige, and a prank every Sunday — followed by a written resolution never to do it again, which never survives the week.
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Readers also like it6. Medalist
by Tsurumaikada
- Drama
- Sports
Tsukasa's figure-skating career ended before it began; he started too late. Inori is eleven, already old for the sport, and everyone tells her to give up. He becomes her coach, and the two of them set out to prove everyone wrong.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Slice of Life · Comedy7. Happy Hooligan
by Frederick Burr Opper
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A tramp with a tin can for a hat tries to do somebody a kindness and is arrested for it in the last panel. Every week, for thirty years, the same good intention and the same policeman.
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Slice of Life · Comedy8. Mutt and Jeff
by Bud Fisher
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A tall schemer and a short optimist, running a small swindle a day and losing on it. It ran daily rather than on Sundays, which almost nothing did in 1907, and every daily strip since has inherited the habit.
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Slice of Life · Comedy9. Toonerville Folks
by Fontaine Fox
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A trolley that meets all the trains, a skipper with a beard, and a suburb of people who know each other far too well. The trolley became famous enough that real towns claimed to be the original.
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Slice of Life · Comedy10. Saint Young Men
by Hikaru Nakamura
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Jesus and Buddha, after finishing their work on Earth, decide to take a holiday — sharing a cheap apartment in suburban Tokyo. They go to the bathhouse, blog, and try very hard not to work miracles in public: a gentle, much-loved comedy.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Slice of Life · Comedy11. Skip Beat!
by Yoshiki Nakamura
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Kyoko has devoted herself to helping her childhood friend become a star, only to discover how little he values her. Determined to surpass him, she enters show business with revenge on her mind. Acting gradually reveals ambitions and abilities that belong to her alone.
Read on VIZ BooksOpen
Slice of Life · Comedy12. My Love Story!!
by Kazune Kawahara, Aruko
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Takeo is strong, kind and accustomed to being overlooked in romance beside his handsome best friend. Helping a girl named Yamato changes that familiar pattern in ways he struggles to recognise. A warm romantic comedy about sincerity, friendship and learning to accept affection.
Read on VIZ MangaOpen