After the Child Sleeps - Recommendations

• Vol: 2; Ch: 13
• 2008 - 2010

Yoshioka is a regular at Oosawa's restaurant, and always seems to be bringing in yet another boyfriend to enjoy Oosawa's delicious cooking. As a single parent, Oosawa works very hard and doesn't have time to make many close friends, or even consider dating. But when his beloved daughter Mizu falls ill and Yoshioka offers his help, Oosawa finds he must accept this frivolous seeming person's outstretched hand. Yet, sometimes people are not quite what they seem, as Oosawa discovers.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2011 - 2012

Azuma is a skilled French chef working at a top-notch hotel. One day, he's requested to offer his culinary skills at a shop he frequents. Not only are the customers varied of age and profession, but some regular patrons have quite the demand too! Furthermore, a love story instead of a dessert order?! By way of declining the strange request, Azuma inadvertently revealed that he's gay! In addition to that, the editor Kumoi is also having a long-distance lover's tiff here!

• Vol: 4; Ch: 31
• 2020 - 2022

On his way home from work, the 26 year old salaryman, Kawakita Osamu, encounters an alien named Lilin. She and her species plan on invading the earth but she ended up getting stranded on this planet. Can Osamu raise her to become a kind-hearted kid before her species eradicates humanity in five years?

• Vol: 10; Ch: 120
• 2005 - 2012

Makoto is an ordinary office worker in every sense but one: in front of Takashi, his stepchild, he has disguised himself as a woman and played the role of a beautiful mother. While leading this life of a "fatherless family", he falls in love with a woman. One morning he happens to see her on a crowded train, but…

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2021

The three lived together under a single roof. Takaomi is a single father, raising his only son. For some reason, he is persistently being hit on by his colleague, Nomura, who so happens to be able to do both work and housework. Taking overly good care of them, Nomura repeatedly visits Takaomi’s house uninvited and proposes that Takaomi should go out with him, telling him all about the advantages of doing so. Takaomi was perplexed since he’s never even dated another man before. But as they spent more time together, going out for meals and visiting amusement parks, Takaomi came to realise that he enjoyed the time spent together as a three and that it felt precious to him… 

• Vol: 2; Ch: 11
• 2010 - 2014

This is a really cute, sweet story about two single dads Asakura and Kentarou, whose young sons happen to go to the same daycare.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 12
• 2019 - 2020

Three years have passed since Kentaro gave birth to his son Kotaro, and he finds himself struggling to balance his career with raising a child on his own. Papa & Kids, the cafe that he started for pregnant men and fathers, is in peril of being shuttered as business declined in the wake of waning interest in the struggles of pregnant men. Meanwhile, a male pop idol who’s gotten pregnant—and who must keep the identity of the mother secret from the prying fans and press—seeks out his help, and Kentaro’s complicated relationship with Kotaro’s mother Aki hits a few new bumps.

• One Shot
• 2009

All men in the office know that the new employee, Tsujimura, is gay. However, they keep it a secret from the girls. This isn't only because they are relieved to know they don't have to deal with such a great competition...

• One Shot
• 2018

"Working part-time in the family restaurant doesn't take much! I just need to take orders and bring the food, right?" said Chiharu, a 29-years-old housewife, casually before even started yet. But, everything is not going as what she thought!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 33
• 2012 - 2016

6th grader Shima lives with her middle-aged father, Chihiro. Shima is constantly either annoyed by what her father says, while Chihiro tries to figure out the fickle nature of a young girl. Even though there are many cases where they disagree with each other, in the end, they find each other to be tolerable.