Drowning Love - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2011 - 2012

A city boy transfers to a country school.

• Vol: 16; Ch: 120
• 2009 - 2021

Welcome to the most isolated school in all Japan: Asahigaoka Branch School. With only five students enrolled and cows roaming through the town, the term "boonies" doesn't even begin to describe it. But this doesn't mean Asahigaoka is void of adventure. Whether it's outfoxing a crafty rabbit, surviving an ever-escalating sibling battle, or impressing the cool new transfer student, the endearing kids at Asahigaoka Branch School prove you don't need the big city to have a big-hearted story. Join the precocious first-grader Miyauchi Renge, squabbling sisters Koshigaya Natsumi and Komari, and ultra-sophisticated transfer student Ichijo Hotaru as they explore the funny, strange, and adorable world of Non Non Biyori.

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 9+
• 2021 - ?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 21
• 2016 - 2019

Kurumizawa wants to get back to the land, so he leaves Tokyo, buys a ramshackle house in a mountain village, and starts farming. He has a lot to learn, though, so he’s lucky to meet local furniture maker Usa, who shows him around and helps him renovate his house.

• Vol: 3
• 1987 - 1988

The story follows Shijou Fumio, whose life radically changes when her mother dies. Although they lived in poverty, it turns out that Fumio's father was unbelievably wealthy and her older brother, who had been kept by the grandmother who threw her pregnant mother out, now wants Fumio in his life. Fumio transfers to St. Michael's and instantly, due to her good grades, excellent athleticism and general down-to-earth qualities, is immediately escalated to the rank of star of the school, nicknamed "The Saviour." She joins Saiki Kazune, know as "Oscar-sama," and Sarashina Yuzuko called, hysterically, "the Colobockle."

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2015 - 2016

After his mother’s death, Kanji goes to live with her side of the family in the countryside. It’s hard enough having to adjust to a new environment, but Kanji can also see monsters and spirits, who are everywhere. To top it off, his eccentric uncle Benjirou—though prone to bouts of sickness—is always up to some shenanigans!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 2021

• Vol: 5; Ch: 33
• 2019 - 2022

Terio Kubo has been extolled as a "genius" ever since she debuted as a violinist at the age of 10, and won a junior music competition. She thought her future life as a performing musician was a sure-thing, but she sadly reaches her limits once she starts her first year of middle school. Now carrying doubt about her own "sound", Terio ultimately develops stage fright that runs her body down to the point where she can no longer handle the atmosphere of the big city, so she escapes to the rural town where her mother was born and raised... There, she meets Ten Asakura, a boy with special hearing who is searching for the "sound" of his deceased mother. This female violinist who lost her sound, and a naturally spacey boy who's an amateur musician looking for his mother's sound... Alone, there's nothing special about them. But when they meet under the vast skies of the country, they resound in harmony!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2006

Having just transferred to a rural school, somehow he got engaged. Also, he suddenly attacked a girl at a rural ceremony....?!

• Vol: 2; Ch: 18
• 2011 - 2012

Amano Hinata, a high-school boy, lives a quiet life in the country. One day, a light-haired transfer student, Kazama Ayato, arrives from Tokyo. In such a small town, it's not long before Hinata runs into the laid-back, absent-minded Ayato, along with his lively younger siblings: Hayato, Ikuto, and Chiyoko. It's going to be quite a challenge for the Kazama family to assimilate into their new community out in the country!