Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu - Recommendations

• Ch: 2
• 2018 - 2019

• Vol: 3; Ch: 15
• 2017 - 2018

• Vol: 4; Ch: 25
• 2015 - 2016

Mizuki Ikuta goes back to her hometown after struggling to find a job and place to live. She runs into her childhood friend Asahi, and is then taken in as an apprentice at his fathers studio and begins her new life as a gargoyle maker while living in the apartment next to Asahi.

• Vol: 1
• 2023

• Vol: 2
• 2012 - 2013

A story which takes place in the Meiji Era. Hozumi Kyou, a poor 13-year-old countryside girl, is leaving her town and going to Tokyo to go to apprenticeship. Kyou is determined to earn a lot of money so that she can buy medicine in to heal her mother's blindness. She gets lost in Tokyo where soon she meets a young man...who might help her with her apprenticeship? But there are some hurdles in the way...

• Vol: 3+; Ch: 24+
• 2015 - ?

At 28 years old, Nireko has worked part-time for three years at the workshop of the umbrella craftsman Kiyota. But she's had a crush on Kiyota for 20-odd years, even though he's now married. She isn't considered a "regular employee" there and is job hunting, so she sees no future for her love life or job. Then she's suddenly tapped to take over her family's brush shop? "A brush shop... that's so dull!" And so begins the apprenticeship of Nireko, youngest of three daughters, to become an artisan brush-maker.

• Vol: 12; Ch: 55
• 2019 - 2024

The time is the Taisho Era. Mameda, a tanuki girl who came to Osaka dreaming of becoming a human, meets a popular rakugo artist, Daikokutei Bunko. Mameda, who was impressed by the storyteller's way of storytelling, which is a technique taught by a human being, decided to become a disciple. Rakugo artist training has begun!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 3
• 1995

Three students find out they all share the same name--Hiiro Takumi. They quickly become friends and make up nick-names for one another. One boy will go by Takumi and the other will go by Hiiro. The girl is called Mametaku. A strong bond is formed between the three, but what happens when the two boys both start to have stronger feelings for Mametaku? Who will she choose, and will their friendship survive?!

• Vol: 10; Ch: 56
• 2003 - 2009

At twenty-seven years old, Minami has a decent life. She’s a successful employee at a large advertising firm and has a boyfriend of seven years. But when the two break up, Minami finds her once-stable situation crumbling around her. Crushed and withdrawn from being alone, she soon finds herself involved with two men from her company – the likeminded, heartbroken Ogiwara and younger peer Ishida. Through difficult jobs at work, first dates and bitter rivalries, Minami will learn that love is never easy.

• Vol: 9; Ch: 44
• 2014 - 2018

Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife. After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her to pursue his own career goals, she encounters popular newscaster Ryu Nanami. Asuka and Ryu get along well, but the last thing he wants is to ever get married. This levelheaded pair who want the opposite things in life should never get involved, except…