Shouwa Monogatari TV - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 12
• 1994

KNOW THY FATHER The book opens with some childhood thoughts of Yoichi Yamashita spurred by a phone call at work informing him of his father’s death. So, he journeys back to his hometown after an absence of well over a decade during which time he has not seen his father. But as the relatives gather for the funeral and the stories start to flow, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. The Spring afternoons playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mother’. Through confidences and memories shared with those who knew him best, Yoichi rediscovers the man he had long considered an absent and rather cold father.

• Vol: 5
• 2012

• Vol: 16

A wacky comedy about a man from a noble ancestry of long ago, but who in modern times is just a lowly salary man that is constantly being humiliated by his family and co-workers.

• Vol: 2+; Ch: 48+
• 2020 - ?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 14
• 2020 - 2021

Poverty, domestic violence, abuse, abandonment of parenting... Exhausted people who lose their hope for tomorrow and cannot face the reality. There was a strange "camouflaged family" who kindly spoke to those people and reached out for salvation.

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 40+
• 2019 - ?

As the daughter of a mom who is always working, Satono lives a lonely life. She's so afraid of being left alone that she self-isolates to prevent anyone from leaving her. But when her mom suddenly remarries, she gains an older stepbrother, Ryo. All Satono wants is a family, but all Ryo wants is to hang out with his friends. Can this pair work out their differences?

• Vol: 11; Ch: 64
• 1995 - 2001

Katsuyuki, a gifted, petty and egocentric high schooler, intends to work in the high financial world. His well regulated life explodes when his mother remarries his worst nightmare: a traveller writer, unproductive, nice and completely unpredictable and father of a son who looks like him. All his opposite. Consequently begins the subtle contamination of his entourage by their terrible joie de vivre. Even Nagasawa "the female brain of the high school", the only one for which he had respect for decided to find anew his peace... Katsuyuki feverishly seeks a way for returning these aliens on their planet and he's not sparing with spite.

• Vol: 1
• 2011

A 19th century tale of four very different sisters, each harboring her own hopes and ambitions for the future as their family collectively struggles to carry on in spite of their hardships.

• Vol: 1
• 2019

• Vol: 1
• 2003