Papa Told Me - Recommendations

• Vol: 3+; Ch: 76+
• 2014 - ?

The daily life of Awako in his city, where the border between extraordinary and ordinary is so tenuous.

• Vol: 13; Ch: 77
• 2001 - 2006

The story centers on its straightforward and energetic protagonist Kanna Suzuki, who remains happy even with an unreasonable boss and a no-good husband and mother-in-law. She is a "super housewife" who takes care of the house and raises her kids while working as a fashion designer.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 32
• 2020 - 2022

Two young women–one an overworked manga artist, the other a complete slacker–try to escape the realities of adult responsibilities. Whether it's running off on a day trip instead of being productive or going into debt for an epic meal, the two always have fun when they're together!

• Vol: 14; Ch: 56
• 2001 - 2016

• Vol: 6+; Ch: 77+
• 2018 - ?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 12
• 2016

The setting is a high-rise in the midst of remodeling, so the old and new are mixed in. Adults and children, the wealthy and poor, those lonely and warm. Through all those windows and doors, each and every one of them lives their own life. “This Year’s Fireworks”, a young couple who moved in when they got married have their first summer together and their second fireworks display. “Walk the Night”, a young office worker misses the last train of the night, and has a long, long night walk before he reaches his apartment. “My Apartment Complex”, a widower has lived there for many years. With the complex being so completely remodeled, what will his daughter think of the new place?

• Vol: 5+; Ch: 26+
• 2020 - ?

"I don't want to fall in love again!" Due to unfortunate circumstances, 31-year-old single mother Yuki has to live with her daughter's younger handsome kindergarten teacher?

• Vol: 5; Ch: 28
• 2018 - 2021

Ryuusei Osaki, a new student at Yashima University's College of Arts, wants to enter the novel seminar, but he is assigned to the haiku seminar. Though he knows absolutely nothing about haiku, Ryuusei takes it in stride and embraces the poetry world. Ryuusei begins to learn about haiku, including their seasonal and punctuation words, with his various classmates.

• Ch: 10
• 2019 - 2020

Ikumi Nakamura is an up-and-coming writer with a bright future ahead... or she was two years ago. Now she's desperately trying to write her next book. She needs to prove herself after the short stories she had written since her award-winning novel flopped. The only person who still seems to have faith in her is her editor who decides he's going to help by sending his friend Renji Uenozaka to play housekeeper for Ikumi. Ikumi won't have it, though. She's a strong independent woman, and she can do this on her own! Or, so she thinks...

• Vol: 3; Ch: 11
• 2020 - 2022

After losing her parents at a young age, Uiko comes to find solace in exchanging letters every Christmas with a picture book author known only by the pseudonym “Kuma-san”. 10 years later, unable to pay her university’s tuition fees and on the brink of having to drop out, she comes in contact with a popular novelist named Fujimiya Hiiro, and now works as his assistant to save up enough money. What does the future have in store for her?