Ian, a young man with a fractured family history, travels from Australia to England to America in the hope of realizing his dreams and reuniting with his beloved sister. His story unfolds backwards through the framing narrative of Jim, a reporter driven to capture Ian’s experiences in a novel: not simple. A story within a story, a book within a book, a tale about the search for family, for an emotional home.
not simple has finished publishing and it has 14 Chapters. It is also Known as: not simple, Not Simple
Genres: Slice of Life , Drama
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Top 10 Manga Like not simple (Not Simple) [2024 List]
10. Nijigahara Holograph
Suzuki is a troubled boy. He's lived with uncaring foster parents for most of his life, alienated from the other kids at his school, owner of a cynical, unhappy mentality. Komatsuzaki is a violent, unpredictable bully whose head trauma causes him to act in mysterious, inexplicable ways.
Arakawa is a no-nonsense, normal girl who pines after Komatsuzaki but can never have him. A teacher with just one working eye. A mother who committed suicide. A daughter in an endless coma. Attempted rapes, murders, extortion, sexual deviance, and a freakish explosion in the butterfly population. All of these elements are whirled together in a story spanning 10 years, a tale of blackness, pain and apocalypse. And maybe just a bit of hope and redemption.
It's a spiritual cross between the misanthropic suburban malevolence of Kyoko Okazaki's Rivers Edge and the eerie mysticality of Donnie Darko.
Nijigahara Holograph has finished publishing and it has 15 Chapters. It is also Known as: 虹ヶ原ホログラフ, Rainbow Field Holograph
9. Nigeru Otoko
In the forest, there is a bear only children can see. If you can escape the forest after spending one day with that bear, you can become whatever you desire. A girl sets foot into the dense forest of legend and what she encounters there was…
Nigeru Otoko has finished publishing and it has 5 Chapters. It is also Known as: 逃げる男, Nigeru Otoko
8. Yakusoku Siren
A heartrending and heartwarming story about two twins: one who hates everything like himself and one who wishes to keep his promise from long ago.
Yakusoku Siren has finished publishing and it has 6 Chapters. It is also Known as: 約束サイレン, The Promise Siren
7. Apollo no Uta
Shogo is a young man who has a problem with love, not just in humans be even with animals. He is even compelled to kill animals that show each other affection, which lands him in a mental hospital. Where during therapy he has a vision where he meets a goddess that dooms him to fall in love with the same girl over and over again, but one of them will always die before they can truly be together.
Apollo's Song has finished publishing and it has 6 Chapters. It is also Known as: アポロの歌, Song for Apollo
6. La Quinta Camera
In a small city in Italy there is a cheap room for rent, great for foreign students, only if they can deal with the four middle aged men already living there. La Quinta Camera is a series of short slice of life tales interconnected by one home and the four men who live there.
La Quinta Camera has finished publishing and it has 9 Chapters. It is also Known as: LA QUINTA CAMERA ~5番目の部屋~, LA QUINTA CAMERA ~5 banme no Heya~
5. Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan
"I have something I don't want to lose"
"So much so that these terrible feelings have grown."
A pianist who attempted suicide 3 times, Juri, is taken to help her aunt at a prison where murderers who killed indiscriminately are sentenced to death. There, she meets a man named Yuu who took the lives of 3 people. A mother's antagonism--a brother's death... Together they embrace the violent rebellion in their hearts caused by the large, deep scars they carry. However, before long, they both embrace an earnest hope in their hearts. "I want to live"...
An adaptation of novel by South Korea's most popular female novelist, Gong Ji-Young.
Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan has finished publishing and it has 8 Chapters. It is also Known as: 私たちの幸せな時間, Watashi-tachi no Shiawase na Jikan, Our Happy Hours, Our Happy Time
4. Ristorante Paradiso
21 year-old Nicoletta leaves her grandparents' home in the countryside to work in Rome at a restaurant owned by her estranged mother's lover. But something sets the popular and elegant Casetta Dell'orso apart from its rivals: the entire restaurant is staffed by older gentlemen wearing glasses (as per her mother's preference). Thrown into this adult world, Nicoletta must try to find personal and professional stability - things that become increasingly difficult to achieve as she falls under the spell of Casetta Dell'orso.
Ristorante Paradiso has finished publishing and it has 7 Chapters. It is also Known as: リストランテ・パラディーゾ, Ristorante Paradiso
3. Oyasumi Punpun
Punpun is an ordinary young boy growing up in Japan whose age of innocence has reached its end after his father is arrested for spousal abuse and putting his mother in the hospital. With his uncle looking after him, Punpun grows into adulthood facing a series of events which change him, for better or worse, forcing him to contemplate just what it means to be an adult.
Goodnight Punpun has finished publishing and it has 147 Chapters. It is also Known as: おやすみプンプン, Dobranoc, Punpunie, Bonne nuit Punpun!, Boa noite, Punpun, Bona nit, Punpun, Buenas noches, Punpun, Gute Nacht, Punpun, 잘자 뿡뿡, 晚安布布, לילה טוב, פונפון, Buonanotte, Punpun, İyi Geceler, Punpun, ฝันดีนะปุนปุน
2. River's Edge
Haruna Wakakusa and Yamada become friends after she saves him several times from her boyfriend's constant bullying. Through him she gets to know Kozue Yoshikawa, a fellow student who also models professionally. The three emotionally stunted teens' lives briefly yet intensely intertwine for one semester before splintering from the aftereffects of one disastrous night. For both Wakakusa and Yamada, their emotional awakening fosters an unlikely friendship between the two battered souls.
River's Edge has finished publishing and it has 14 Chapters. It is also Known as: リバーズ・エッジ, River's Edge
1. Ningen Shikkaku
Yozo Oba is a troubled soul incapable of revealing his true self to others. A weak constitution and the lingering trauma from some abuse administered by a relative forces him to uphold a facade of hollow jocularity since high school.
Adaptation of the original work of Dazai Osamu.
No Longer Human has finished publishing and it has 12 Chapters. It is also Known as: 人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku
