If you liked Tokyo These Days
12 manga like Tokyo These Days
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Tokyo These Days (slice of life, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Tokyo These Days
Also by Taiyo Matsumoto1. Sunny
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- Slice of Life (shared)
The children of a small residential home find an escape in an abandoned car they call Sunny. Within it, imagined journeys offer room for anger, hope and longing for their families. Their daily lives form a quietly observed story about growing up together while feeling apart.
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Readers also like it2. Look Back
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Fujino draws the comic strip in her school paper and thinks she is the best in town, until a strip by a girl who never comes to school appears beside hers. A single long chapter from the creator of Chainsaw Man about two girls, drawing, and the years that follow.
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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto3. 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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Readers also like it4. Bakuman
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- 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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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto5. GoGo Monster
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- Supernatural
Yuki believes his school is home to presences that other children cannot see. As a new classmate tries to understand him, everyday school life takes on a stranger, more unsettling shape. A story poised between imagination and the supernatural, seen through a child's intensely private world.
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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto6. Ping Pong
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- Sports
Peco plays table tennis with dazzling confidence; his friend Smile hides his talent behind indifference. As stronger opponents test them, both must decide what competing means to them. A sports drama in which friendship, effort and the burden of natural ability matter as much as winning.
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Readers also like it7. Oshi no Ko
by Aka Akasaka, Mengo Yokoyari
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- Psychological
A country doctor is reborn as the son of Ai Hoshino, the idol he adored, with his memories intact. When tragedy strikes her, he grows up with one aim: to find out who was behind it. A sharp, dark look at the entertainment industry, from idols and reality TV to the stage, wrapped around a mystery.
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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto8. Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- Supernatural
Black and White are two street children fiercely attached to Treasure Town and to each other. When outsiders arrive with plans to remake their neighbourhood, their freedom comes under threat. An urban fable about violence, change and the fragile balance between two very different companions.
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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto9. No. 5
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Action
- Adventure
- Psychological
- Sci-Fi
In a desert-dominated future, a member of an elite group of peacekeepers abandons his post and becomes its target. The hunt draws the other numbered guardians into a conflict shaped by their loyalties and doubts. An eccentric science-fiction journey through a world of striking landscapes and unstable ideals.
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Slice of Life · Drama10. Skip Beat!
by Yoshiki Nakamura
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- 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.
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Slice of Life11. Barakamon
by Satsuki Yoshino
- Comedy
- 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.
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Slice of Life12. Yotsuba&!
by Kiyohiko Azuma
- Comedy
- 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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