If you liked Silver Spoon
12 manga like Silver Spoon
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Silver Spoon (slice of life, comedy, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Silver Spoon
Readers also like it1. 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
Readers also like it2. Blue Period
by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
- Drama (shared)
- 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
Readers also like it3. 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 it4. 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 it5. Daemons of the Shadow Realm
by Arakawa Hiromu
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Mystery
Yuru lives happily in a mountain village watched over by two stone guardians, close to the only family he has left: his twin sister Asa, who serves the village from inside a cage. One night the village's secrets come out all at once. The new series from Hiromu Arakawa, the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist.
Read on MANGA UP!Open
Cooking · Animals6. Red Cat Ramen
by Angyaman
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Also by Hiromu Arakawa7. The Heroic Legend of Arslan
by Yoshiki Tanaka, Hiromu Arakawa
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
Prince Arslan of Pars is fourteen, gentle and unsure of himself when his father's undefeated army is betrayed and destroyed in a single battle. With a handful of loyal companions he sets out to take back his kingdom — Yoshiki Tanaka's epic, drawn by the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist.
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Cooking · Animals8. Hakumei & Mikochi: Tiny Little Life in the Woods
by Takuto Kashiki
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Slice of Life (shared)
Two tiny women share a home inside a tree, working and exploring in a woodland community. Repair jobs, cooking, journeys and lively neighbours fill their days with small adventures. A richly detailed fantasy that finds its pleasures in skilled work, good food and the rhythms of ordinary life.
Read on Yen PressOpen
Animals · Slice of Life9. 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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Slice of Life · School Life10. Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You
by Karuho Shiina
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Sawako's shy manner and resemblance to a horror-film character make classmates keep their distance. A friendly boy's kindness gives her the courage to reach out, beginning friendships she never thought possible. This school romance follows the awkward, rewarding work of letting other people know who you are.
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Animals · Slice of Life11. Cats of the Louvre
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Slice of Life (shared)
- Supernatural
Away from the museum's daytime crowds, a hidden community of cats inhabits the Louvre. One small white cat's fascination with its paintings opens a path between everyday life and the worlds inside the artwork. A dreamlike tale about belonging, imagination and the things people overlook.
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Animals · Slice of Life12. 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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