Twenty-three-year-old Yuriko Togawa dropped out of college six months ago. In the past, her classmates envisioned her as a reliable and independent person even though she saw herself as the opposite. Yuriko wants someone to provide for her needs, not the other way around. Thus, when she meets her former colleague Horita Tomotsugu, she hopes that romance will spark between them.
Horita had a great ambition of debuting his band together with Yuriko. However, as time progressed, he slowly succumbed to reality and became an office worker instead. Encountering Yuriko reminds him of what was once his dream, and he aspires to reignite it with her. Despite the two having different motives, Yuriko decides to lend him a helping hand after going through a myriad of events.
Yuriko and Horita's story is just one of the compelling narratives in Subarashii Sekai. Entwined with their tale are several other short stories, each depicting the arduous, painful, and realistic hardships of mundane life.
What a Wonderful World! has finished publishing and it has 19 Chapters. It is also Known as: 素晴らしい世界, WaWW
Genres: Thriller , Slice of Life , Drama , Seinen
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Top 10 Manga Like What a Wonderful World! (Subarashii Sekai) [2024 List]
10. Natsu wo Oboeru
A story illustrating the relationship between Ota and his teacher Aiko.
Natsu wo Oboeru has finished publishing and it has 4 Chapters. It is also Known as: 夏をおぼえる, Natsu o Oboeru, Se Souvenir de L'été, To Remember Summer
9. Undecided
A collection of shorts by Byungjun Byun, artist of young sensible works on the life in the city, including "Princess Anna" and "Run, Bonggu". Many included shorts have received renowned awards from Korea and Japan.
Undecided has finished publishing and it has 7 Chapters. It is also Known as: 미정, Undecided
8. Keyaki no Ki
Keyaki no Ki is a collection of eight stories, selected from nearly two hundred of the great storyteller Ryuchiro Utsumi, these are the solid rock on which Taniguchi builds a deep, complex and mature reflection on daily life in Japanese society that has always been dominated by very strict schemes. Another masterpiece by Taniguchi, an author too huge to not be read.
Keyaki no Ki has finished publishing and it has 8 Chapters. It is also Known as: 欅の木, Hitobito Series
7. Endou Hiroki Tanpenshuu
Hiroki Endo's Tanpenshu is a two tankōbon series long collection of various short manga by Hiroki Endo. "Tanpenshu" is Japanese for "short stories".
Volume 1:
"The Crows, the Girl and the Yakuza" Originally published in 1996 in Monthly Afternoon. A lone yakuza member takes refuge from a gang war with a young woman who seems to have formed a strange relationship with crows. During his time with her, he comes to reconsider the course of his own life.
"Because You're Definitely a Cute Girl" Originally published in 1996 in Monthly Afternoon. A young girl's bewilderment over sex is overloaded by her widower father's decision to take a lover, driving her to a sudden swing from passive indifference to reactionary violence.
"For Those of Us Who Don't Believe in God" Originally published in 1997 in Monthly Afternoon. Centers around a group of college drama students preparing and performing a play depicting a conversation between a serial killer and the sister of one of his victims. The process causes the group to reflect and ultimately confront their own individual problems.
Volume 2:
"Hang" Originally published in 2000 in Afternoon Season Special Edition.
"High School Girl 2000" Originally published in 1999 in Afternoon Season Special Edition. A semi-autobiographical story featuring Hiroki Endo being distracted from doing work.
"Platform" Originally published in 1996 in Monthly Afternoon.
"Boys Don't Cry"
Tanpenshu has finished publishing and it has 7 Chapters. It is also Known as: 遠藤浩輝短編集, Hiroki Endo's Short Stories, Hiroki Endo's Tanpenshu
6. Tamashii no Futago
Alex and Rita are two souls who died at the same moment on different ends of the earth. This is the story of their interactions with the humans who can see them as they travel towards each other.
The Twin Souls has finished publishing and it has 14 Chapters. It is also Known as: たましいのふたご, Tamashii no Futago
5. Hikari no Machi
The city of light is a town above a hill, called that because it's surrounded by the sun, but it hides an obscure side. There, lives Tasuku, a young kid who works as a 'messenger' for a mysterious group who organizes suicides on the phone. At the same time other youngsters like him are trying to survive the everyday's life: Satoshi changes one occasional job after another, Momoko is the daughter of a prostitute who abandoned her. Finally there's Hoichi who is always involved in dirty business, among which is the suicidal group, but at least he has a dream: earning enough money to buy the whole place and turning it back into the country village he was born in.
City of Light has finished publishing and it has 9 Chapters. It is also Known as: ひかりのまち, Sun Village, City of Light
4. 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
3. 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
2. Panty Stocking no Youna Sora no Shita
1-2. Panty Stocking no Youna Sora no Shita (Under the Sky Such as Pantyhose)
3. Heisei no Daikikin Yokokuhen
4. Gakkyuu Houkai
5. Watanabe-kun no Iru Fuukei
6. Itsu Hateru to mo Shirenu Natsu no Hi
7. Mirai Seiki Shibuya
8. Mendel
9-10. Asa Madaki
11-12. Yuiitsusha-tachi
Under the Sky Such as Pantyhose has finished publishing and it has 12 Chapters. It is also Known as: うめざわしゅん作品集成 パンティストッキングのような空の下, Heisei no Daikikin Yokokuhen, Gakkyuu Houkai, Watanabe-kun no Iru Fuukei, Itsu Hateru to mo Shirenu Natsu no Hi, Mirai Seiki Shibuya, Mendel, Asa Madaki, Yuiitsusha-tachi, Ushinawareta Toki wo Motomete
1. Solanin
After graduating from college, Meiko went straight to work as an office lady, but she can't help feeling there should be something more to life. Determined to find a worthier goal, she quits work, but can she actually make her neubulous dreams come true- and how will her sudden decision affect her relationship with her boyfriend Taneda?
(Note: Solanin received an epilogue chapter (ch 29) in 2017 that is included in the chapter count.)
Solanin has finished publishing and it has 29 Chapters. It is also Known as: ソラニン, Solanin
