Downfall - Recommendations

• Vol: 3; Ch: 20
• 2013 - 2015

After dropping out of the art school in Hokkaido, Hibino Ryouichiro moves to Tokyo and starts a living as a novice ero-manga artist Hanabino Q-ichiro.

• Vol: 8; Ch: 50
• 2009 - 2017

A young, unemployed, seemingly unmotivated young man is moving through his life. As a teenager, he and some of his friends formed a "Boyz 4 Men" club, which was based on a hatred of sex and women. As arguably the most opinionated member, his view of sexuality as an adult is far from normal. After a highly sexual encounter in a park at night, he has decided to attempt to draw perverted fetish manga. This brings him once again to the presence of a woman from the park, Sawada Kazumi. She's a manga editor and single mother with a perverted and intense personality of her own. What will happen when their worlds collide?

• Vol: 13
• 1996 - 2005

In the manga publication industry, there is a legend: If you leave a message on a bulletin board in the train station at Shibuya, you can obtain the services of a certain man: Comic Master J, an assistant mangaka who can instantly complete any publication manuscript in any art style for the price of 5 million Yen. However, he refuses to work on manga without a "soul." But what is J's true identity? Why does he wear an overcoat lined with pens and rulers? And for what reason does a man of such artistic talent choose to live in the shadows of the industry, rather than working on a manga of his own creation?

• Vol: 4; Ch: 28
• 2010 - 2013

As a manga author of a semi known series, Hirahara Daichi has the talent for coming up with stories, but is incredibly lazy and irresponsible. That leaves his two daughters, middle school student Ayumi and the even younger Sora, to pick up the slack. With the help of the assistant, Akane, the two kids are forced to draw and complete the series every month if they want an income for the household, a task no child should burden themselves with. On top of that, they must do this without people finding out because it will ruin the credibility of Daichi as an author and put a stop to the series. If being a teenager wasn’t hard enough, add to that the pressure of meeting deadlines for a national comic magazine.

• Vol: 13; Ch: 52
• 2001 - 2004

The super excited assistant and always alert. Fiercely editor. Endless deadlines. There was no day without any surprises in Moyoru Hono’s life as a comic artist. Quite often he had to choose between idealism or his editor demands. Everything finished in his pen strokes.

• Vol: 7; Ch: 73
• 2012 - 2014

For the entirety of his life, Yokoda Takashi has been drawing erotic drawings and it has been his way of expressing his sexuality. And now, he has managed to become a successful erotic comedy manga author for a monthly magazine. His series stars a character named Aimi who is actually based loosely on his niece with the same name. He keeps his job a secret, especially from his family from the fear that using Aimi’s name in such a perverted way would cause hatred from everyone. But his manga’s popularity rises and gets moved to a weekly magazine where there are vastly more readers and it seems like only a matter of time until the truth comes out. Takashi has to struggle between protecting his secret while keeping up with the production and erotic creativeness that comes with a weekly magazine series.

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 23+
• 2023 - ?

A manga editor finally freed himself from the exhausting work on shounen weekly magazines—or so he thought, when he starts working in a shoujo magazine's editorial department. But the mangaka there turn out to be truly one of a kind!

• Vol: 8; Ch: 63
• 2008 - 2014

Kawaguchi debuted as a mangaka at the age of 13, but no longer has any work as a mangaka at the age of 19. She decides to once again be a mangaka after reading manga by someone named Sachi and since GL and BL is currently popular she decides to go out with a girl coworker named Morishita who is in love with her to gain experience for her manga. However, she finds out that Morishita is Sachi!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 18
• 2001 - 2003

Machizo's father is a successful mangaka (manga artist). Machizo feels he's living under his father's shadow, and resents his father's success.Tetsuo, who is at school with Machizo, enjoys drawing manga and is good at it. His favorite mangaka happens to be Machizo's father. The two boys strike up an alliance to draw a successful manga to win a contest, with Machizo writing the story and Tetsuo drawing the graphics.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 27
• 2010 - 2011

Akira Toudou is eager to put his past behind him and start his new life in a new apartment. With key in hand, he discovers that his new bachelor pad has been double-booked and like it or not, he’s going to have to take on a roommate. Not just any roommate though, but busty, free-spirited, adult manga artist Hina Kamiyama. Akira is going to have his hands more than full fending off his nosy boss and Hina’s entourage of randy artist friends as he tries to get his life back on track.