That Time the Manga Editor Started a New Life in the Countryside - Recommendations

• Vol: 4; Ch: 21
• 2000 - 2001

A city girl from Tokyo goes to the countryside for vacation. Being delusional about the romantic country life, she wanders off on her own and meets a young, troubled farmer. Needless to say that she falls head over heels for him. She offers to help him out as a live-in part-timer. Will something sprout...?

• Vol: 8; Ch: 39
• 2011 - 2014

Her dad, remarried, has moved Inageshi from the city to the country side village of Ogawara where agriculture is very abundant. As a new member of the Nozawa family, she learns the ins and outs of farming which Inageshi finds exciting. But what is more incredible is having new sisters in her life. Yashiro is the oldest, beautiful and seems innocent but has a wild side to her. Mayu is vibrant and vocal but is scared to death of insects. Ringo is the youngest but by far the brains of the group and is an encyclopedia of important and sometimes unimportant information. Their sisterly bonds are still little saplings but with each day passing it becomes stronger

• Vol: 5; Ch: 66
• 1994

Wild, and bound by nothing, the large-framed young man Taiji returns to his home town for the first time in 10 years, where the main industry is dairy farming. In the mountain forest that is his inheritance from his grandfather, Taiji - with a sidelong glance for the dairy farmers around him, who blithely proceed to industrialize the act of obtaining the breast milk of the creatures known as cows - settles into his own pace to begin the process of setting up his own farm.

• Vol: 1
• 2013

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 2021

• 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: 14+; Ch: 304+
• 2019 - ?

In this slapstick comedy-filled biography of a cartoonist who begins cultivating new land, Yokoyama-sensei has earnestly moved to the Tokachi district of Hokkaido... Will he be able to grow delicious vegetables and make the best curry in all of Japan?!

• Vol: 4; Ch: 25
• 2018 - 2021

20-year-old university student, Sara Moritani, rushes back to the countryside to help her grandfather with his farm after he’s been injured. There, she meets a veteran strawberry farmer named Minori Sugiura, who is 13 years older than she is. He teaches Sara the ropes of strawberry farming. At first, she was frightened by Minori’s intimidating demeanor. But after discovering many surprising sides to him, she could feel love taking roots within her heart. On the other side of the relationship, Minori finds himself attracted to Sara. But due to their age difference, he finds it difficult to express his feelings to her... Thus begins a pure and touching love story between these two awkward lovebirds.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 33
• 2002 - 2005

Ichiko lives alone in a forest surrounded by the majesty of nature. Each chapter features a dish or meal scavenged or harvested from Ichiko's surroundings in rural Komori ("little forest").