Flat - Recommendations

• Vol: 10; Ch: 62
• 2005 - 2011

Daikichi's grandfather dies, leaving behind a young daughter named Rin. However, as most of the family is embarrassed at the idea of a 79-year-old man having a six-year-old child, they can't seem to figure out what to do with her. Disgusted by this behavior, Daikichi decides to take care of her himself, but he's a bachelor, has no idea how to raise a child, and doesn't even like kids! Now, Daikichi must do the normal things a parent does such as enroll her in school, buy her clothing and teach her about the life and world around her. But more importantly, he must also help her deal with her father's death and decide whether or not she should try to find her mother. Together, the two begin their unlikely relationship as father and daughter.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 44
• 2007 - 2010

Kazama Masamune - a single 23-year-old man... has a child? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring.

• Vol: 6
• 2000 - 2004

Kei is a young, not-so-successful screenwriter. One day, she finds an unexpected vistor at the door of her apartment. A little girl named Niko, a secret child of a famous actress Mifuyu Shibano. Niko is sent to Kei because she is the only person who knows this secret, since she used to work for Mifuyu when she was not so famous. As she begins to live with Niko, she finds the girl is very self-contained. She tries an 'exchange diary' to communicate with her.

• Vol: 24+; Ch: 136+
• 2009 - ?

When Ryuichi and his 2-year-old brother Kotaro's parents die in a plane crash, the siblings are adopted by a woman who lost her son in the same incident: the wealthy chairwoman of Morinomiya Academy. She's empathetic to the brothers' plight, but her kindness has a cost: she's opened an on-site daycare for the staff's children, but doesn't have enough people to run it. None of the students have been interested in helping, and the only adult childcare worker spends more time sleeping than caring for the children. The chairwoman's solution? Put Ryuichi to work as the very first member of the school's new "Babysitter's Club"!

• Vol: 4; Ch: 13
• 2005 - 2006

Kokoe Kusunoki is a teenager who loves taking care of children. In order to work towards her dream of becoming a childcare worker, she regularly helps out at her family's preschool. One day, her high school's idol, Mahiro Natsuna, gets a job working part-time with her at Kusunoki Preschool, and Kokoe is drawn to his shared passion for working with kids. If only they could get along.....

• Vol: 2; Ch: 9
• 2001 - 2004

A young girl must grow up quickly in the face of tragedy and care for her nephew. After the death of Yuzu and Tsubaki's parents, Tsubaki became a single mother. But when she died in a fatal car accident, her younger sister Yuzu was left to care for the little boy by herself. With only the help of her friends and a kindly landlady, will she be able to meet thechallenge of raising a baby?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 15
• 2018 - 2019

• Vol: 5; Ch: 20
• 2003 - 2007

My mama is in heaven, but… I have my sister! Hinako is a high school student who has a lot of things that she wants to do, but for her cute little sister, she will become a mother!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 1997 - 1998

Some time ago, Takanori’s wife died, leaving him to bring up their son, Kouichi, alone.  Unfortunately, trying to cope on your own isn’t as easy as it would seem, especially when your teenage son reveals that he thinks he’s got one of his classmates pregnant! But for Takanori, it’s not just his son he needs to take care of, whether escorting Kouichi’s possibly pregnant girlfriend to the doctor’s or helping his father-in-law prepare a mini feast for a gathering, the middle-aged man takes it all in his stride and does the best he can.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 15
• 2017 - 2020

Hana is a pretty serious young woman who is not interested in love and who lives in a religious sanctuary in Japan. One fine day, she finds a baby in the garden of the complex. Abandoned at the foot of a cherry tree, it holds out its arms to him; the young woman then collects it to take care of it, and suddenly, the charming Koba also appears at the temple. Hana, not really gifted with feelings, does pretty well with the young child, but can she really pretend to be in a relationship with Koba to raise him?