Remember a time before cell phones could be found in every pocket? Or when even accessing the world wide web was something only readily available in a library? Back then letters still filled up postboxes and moments just felt so much more precious when captured on Polaroid film. Now life seems to move at the speed of light. Our memories are captured and shared with the world on social media platforms. And love, which is already capricious, can feel like it is moving at terminal velocity.
In Makoto Shinkai’s defining work, the internationally renowned director and animator unfolds a love story that is as timeless as it is fleeting. Yukiko Seike’s rendition of this modern classic adds a new level of emotion and intimacy that is unique to its source material.
5 Centimeters Per Second has finished publishing and it has 11 Chapters. It is also Known as: 秒速5センチメートル, 5 cm per second - a chain of short stories about their distance
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Top 9 Manga Like 5 Centimeters Per Second (Byousoku 5 Centimeter) [2024 List]
9. Hotarubi no Mori e
A collection of four one shots, one for each season.
1) Overhearing a Flower Song
2) Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light (Hotaru no Mori E)
3) The Fallling of Autumn Leaves
4) Deepening the Scar
To the Forest of the Firefly Lights has finished publishing and it has 4 Chapters. It is also Known as: 蛍火の杜へ, Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light, The Light of a Firefly Forest, Hanauta Nagaruru, Kurukuru Ochiba, Hibi, Fukaku
8. Vitamin
High school student Sawako is caught in a compromising situation. As a result, the other students in her school bully and ostracize her to the point she looks to suicide and drops out of school. She starts drawing manga and the hobby becomes her "vitamin." (From ANN)
Vitamin has finished publishing and it has 3 Chapters. It is also Known as: ビタミン, Vitamin
7. Kimi ni shika Kikoenai
A timid schoolgirl imagines owning the ideal cellphone in her head, but one day, there is a connection; the phone rings in her head, and someone is on the line!
Note: Tsuzuki Setsuri also did a manga based on the same novel.
Nobody Can Hear Me But You has finished publishing and it has 5 Chapters. It is also Known as: きみにしか聞こえない, Calling You, Can You Hear Me?, Nobody Can Hear Me But You
6. 3 Level Combination
In a dystopian future in which robots are becoming increasingly commonplace, a young boy named Hogu lives in near poverty with his grandmother and sister. Though he innately possesses a kind soul, he is ostracized by his classmates and frequently bullied. At the beginning of the story, we find Hogu, friendless and alone - until he meets a robot girl...and our story begins.
3 Level Combination has finished publishing and it has 25 Chapters. It is also Known as: 3단합체김창남, 3-Part Transformation, Kim Chang-Nam
5. Ingènuo
Ding Jiayu dreams of being a photographer. Her idol is none other than Yung Jo. When Yung Jo’s photography company holds an audition to find a new photographer, Jiayu decides to take a chance. The thing is, Yung Jo’s company doesn’t hire women, so Jiayu has no choice but to dress up as man and enter. Yung Jo takes great interest in Jiayu's talent and makes her his apprentice. It may seem like a dream to work with your idol, but for Jiayu, it's nothing of the sort. She takes a beating from Yung Jo everyday, and since all the crew members think she is a guy…
has finished publishing and it has 80 Chapters. It is also Known as: 恋影天使 Ingènuo, Ingenuo, Lian Ying Tianshi
4. Jumyou wo Kaitotte Moratta. Ichinen ni Tsuki, Ichimanen de.
A twenty-year-old with little hope for the future discovers a shop that buys lifespan, time, and health. This is a story dealing with the ensuing consequences.
Note:
Volume 2 contains the side story "Sonzai no Iu made mo Nai Karusa".
Volume 3 contains the side story "Chiisana Negai".
I sold my life for ten thousand yen per year. has finished publishing and it has 18 Chapters. It is also Known as: 寿命を買い取ってもらった。一年につき、一万円で。, Mikkakan no Koufuku, Three Days of Happiness
3. Hoshi no Koe
To what distance would you go for your one true love? In the midst of an alien invasion, Mikako joins the resistance, leaving behind the one young man she loves. As she goes deeper into space, Mikako's only connection with her boyfriend is through cell-phone text messages. The war rages on and years pass, but Mikako barely ages in the timelessness of space while Noboru grows old. How can the love of two people, torn apart by war, survive?
Voices of a Distant Star has finished publishing and it has 10 Chapters. It is also Known as: ほしのこえ, The Voices of a Distant Star
2. Love Calendar
Kouki and Shiori are high school students who fall in love for the first time in the month of April among the dancing sakura. But their experience with these new feelings is as tentative as the slightest wind of the changing seasons.
Even so, never a day goes by that isn't stirred by their first love. The scenery they view from inside the Ferris wheel, walking on the streets together through the rain—in this fashion, the red thread that ties these two together grows stronger as time passes. This is the story of how they live their lives through the first six months of their relationship.
Love Calendar has finished publishing and it has 12 Chapters. It is also Known as: ラブカレンダー, Love Calendar
1. Kimi no Na wa.
Based on the hit animated film! Mitsuha, a high school girl from a town deep in the mountains, dreams of an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy from Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As the two change places in their dreams, their encounter sets a miraculous story into motion.
Your name. has finished publishing and it has 9 Chapters. It is also Known as: 君の名は。, Kimi no Na wa.
