If you liked The Way of the Househusband
12 manga like The Way of the Househusband
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with The Way of the Househusband (slice of life, comedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like The Way of the Househusband
Readers also like it1. Spy × Family
by Tatsuya Endo
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it2. 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 it3. Sakamoto Days
by Yuto Suzuki
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
- Crime
Taro Sakamoto was the greatest hitman alive — until he fell in love, retired, married and settled down to run a neighbourhood shop, a little heavier than he used to be. When a bounty lands on his head, every killer in town comes calling, and Sakamoto has to fight them off without breaking his promise to his wife: no killing. Inventive action comedy.
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Readers also like it4. Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan
by Gaku Kuze
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Uramichi Omota is the cheerful exercise host of a children's TV show. Off camera — and sometimes on it — he is a tired, cynical adult who cannot stop telling small children the truth about grown-up life. A very funny comedy about burnout.
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Readers also like it5. Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
by Izumi Tsubaki
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it6. Kindergarten Wars
by You Chiba
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
- Crime
- Romance
Black Rose Kindergarten is the safest place in the world for the children of the powerful, because its teachers are retired assassins. Rita is one of them, and what she really wants is a boyfriend. Fast action and romantic comedy, between killers at the gate and toddlers in the playground.
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Readers also like it7. 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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Readers also like it8. Police in a Pod
by Miko Yasu
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
Kawai joined the police for a stable job and is about to quit, when she is paired with Sergeant Fuji, a former detective. Together they work a small-town police box. Written by a former police officer: a funny, honest look at ordinary police work.
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Readers also like it9. Glasses With a Chance of Delinquent
by Naruki
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Romance
Momose wants a peaceful high school life with no troublemakers in it. Then quiet, bespectacled Ichikura turns out to have been a notorious delinquent in middle school. He swears he has changed, though he keeps getting into fights, and she keeps his secret.
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Cooking · Seinen10. 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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Cooking · Slice of Life11. 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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Cooking · Slice of Life12. 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.
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