If you liked Grand Blue Dreaming
12 manga like Grand Blue Dreaming
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Grand Blue Dreaming (slice of life, comedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Grand Blue Dreaming
Seinen · Slice of Life1. 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.
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Readers also like it2. The Way of the Househusband
by Kousuke Oono
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it3. Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
by Haro Aso, Kotaro Takata
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
- Horror
Akira has spent three years being crushed by a company that never lets him go home. The morning zombies overrun Tokyo, his first thought is that he never has to go to work again. He writes a list of a hundred things to do before he turns into one of them, and sets about doing every single one.
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Slice of Life · Comedy4. Barakamon
by Satsuki Yoshino
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
After losing his temper, young calligrapher Seishuu Handa retreats to a remote island to rethink his work. Finding peace proves difficult when energetic Naru and the other islanders make themselves part of his daily life. Their interruptions gradually offer him something his carefully controlled practice never could: a different way to see the world.
Read on Yen PressOpen
Slice of Life · Comedy5. 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.
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Seinen · Slice of Life6. Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You
by Jinushi
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Seinen · Slice of Life7. 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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Seinen · Slice of Life8. Learning to Love My Cat-like Classmate
by Akinoko
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Timid Minato is asked to look after Nekozane, the girl who naps through every class at the next desk. When he finally wakes her, she hugs him. A sweet story of two shy teenagers becoming friends, and slowly more.
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Seinen · Slice of Life9. Skip and Loafer
by Misaki Takamatsu
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Seinen · Slice of Life10. Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible
by Nene Yukimori
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Seinen · Slice of Life11. Kounodori: Dr. Stork
by Yū Suzunoki
- Drama
- Medical
- Slice of Life (shared)
Dr. Sakura Kounotori is an obstetrician at a busy hospital — and, by night, a jazz pianist. Each chapter follows a different birth and family. A calm, moving medical drama about pregnancy, birth and the people who help.
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Seinen · Slice of Life12. 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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