Bonobono (2016) - Recommendations

• Ch: 149
• 2009 - 2013

Come meet these happy friends in the jungle! These are the animals from the mysterious “Jingle Jungle” village. Get ready to smile as you read the story of the everyday life of these somewhat clumsy but lovable creatures.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 60
• 2006 - 2008

Deep in the Crescent Forest, numerous woodland creatures work, play, and have plenty of fun in the process. Clover the bunny, along with Mallow, Kale, Shallot, Blackberry and even a flying tree squirrel named Hickory always find themselves in a variety of adventures. Whether it's investigating a cursed spring to chatting with a seasoned traveler, there's always a good time to be had in the Crescent Forest!

• Vol: 3
• 2008 - 2009

When Sasha is forced to leave her kittypet home, she must forge a solitary new life in the forest. Life on her own is exciting at first but quickly gets lonely. Then Sasha meets Tigerstar, leader of ShadowClan, and wonders whether she would be better off joining the ranks of his forest Clan. But Tigerstar has many secrets, and Sasha isn’t sure she can trust him….

• Vol: 6+; Ch: 30+
• 2017 - ?

Deep in the forest where ferocious beasts and magical creatures dwell, a cat takes in an orphaned baby dragon as one of her own.

• Vol: 5
• 2001 - 2003

Uruno, a failure of a wolf, is currently traveling to find himself a new place to call home; but upon chancing across a rabbit, he attacks it only to realize that this particular rabbit is stronger than any predator! Soon afterwards he discovers that this entire forest he has come across is home to similar 'useless animals' that are atypical of their species. He decides to stick around when he meets his love interest in the form of a clumsy cheetah, and with his new friends, he meets the rest of the animals in the forest, causing much hijinx and fun in the process!

• Ch: 124+
• 2020 - ?

A story about a wolf, his encounter with a small puppy, and their life together following.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2017

In the protected forest of the guardian deity, Yoichi the tanuki, arises a new guardian deity, Tsugumo. After dying as a fox cub, he was reborn for the sake of becoming a god and is still yet at a very tender age. While he is taught about the laws of life and the usage of divine forces, he innocently takens to Yoichi. "I love you, Yoichi. I want to be by your side forever and ever." To Yoichi who has continued protecting the forest heftily in solitude, Tsugumo revives his long ceased feelings back, however...

• Ch: 74
• 2011 - 2013

In the middle of the forest, there is a all-boys school. Students learn and live regular lives…that is if they can survive to the end! This school isn’t just some ordinary school for humans, but rather a place animals go to educate themselves in the art of being human. We follow Oh Daram (name meaning Squirrel) as he starts classes in the first year they finally integrate herbivores into the student body. Insanity ensue as his best friend, Kim Neukdae (meaning Wolf) continually tries to get a little taste of Daram’s tail, a new baby duckling joins his family, and his classmates behave like the rambunctious animals they are. Is anyone really ready to be human?

• Vol: 1
• 2014

It has been 700 years since Elaine's brother, the fairy king Harlequin, disappeared from the forest. Since then the girl has guarded the precious Fountain of Youth alone, protecting it from soldiers and thieves. Experiencing countless farewells, the lonely fairy felt withered, her tears exhausted... until one day another young man appeared seeking the Fountain of Youth.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2017

The Jungle Book(s) includes Mowgli’s Brothers, the story of Mowgli, the abandoned man-cub who was raised by animals in the Indian jungle, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the heroic mongoose, and Toomai of the Elephants, the tale of a young elephant-handler, and in The White Seal, we meet Kotick, a rare white-furred northern fur seal as he searches for a home where his family will not be hunted by humans.