Top 20 Working Life manga you should read right now. [2024 List]

20. [Oshi no Ko]

"In the world of showbiz, lies are weapons." Goro works as an OB-GYN in the countryside, a life far removed from the entertainment industry. Meanwhile, his favorite idol, Ai Hoshino, has begun her climb to stardom. The two meet in the "worst possible way," setting the gears of fate in motion! The amazing Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari team up to depict the world of showbiz from a completely new perspective in this shocking series!

【OSHI NO KO】 is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 【推しの子】, My Favorite's Child, Favorite Girl, My Idol's Child, Oshi no Ko, [Mein*Star], เกิดใหม่เป็นลูกโอชิ

19. Hwataga Doen Oegwauisa

Because of being just, before even becoming a specialist, Jisoo Han, a 3rd year of general surgery, has died. Was it an angel, demon, or some unknown system of the world? Because of his good deeds, he got a chance to live again. But he was resurrected as a dead man who was killed by mountain bandits. But this body… Is it the body of a great legendary surgeon?! A generation of heroes with an endless battle, around the year 200. As a great legendary surgeon of the 200’s, he tries to stand up to it. An unexpected and extraordinary journey of a young surgeon, who fell into the world of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, has began!

Source: MU

I Reincarnated as a Legendary Surgeon is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Hwataga Doen Oegwauisa

18. Saotome Shimai wa Manga no Tame nara!?

A screwball ecchi romantic comedy about an up and coming mangaka and his assistants, who also happen to be his sisters.

Saotome Shimai wa Manga no Tame nara!? has finished publishing and it has 90 Chapters. It is also Known as: 早乙女姉妹は漫画のためなら!?, Saotome Shimai Ha Manga no Tame Nara!?, If Saotome sisters are for manga !?

17. Megami no Café Terrace

Kasukabe Hayato has been accepted to Tokyo U on his first try. Receiving news of his grandmother's death, he returns to his childhood home, Cafe Terrace Familia, for the first time in three years to find five strange girls there who claim to be "Grandma's Family"! Hayato's unexpected life in a seaside town with these five girls of fate begins here!

Source: MU

The Goddess's Cafe Terrace is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 女神のカフェテラス, Megami no Kafeterasu, The Cafe Terrace of the Goddesses

16. Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari

At age forty-five, office worker Sasaki has had enough of the corporate grind. His only solace is smoking-and the friendly smile of supermarket cashier Yamada. When Sasaki can't find Yamada after a particularly trying day, a striking woman invites him to smoke with her. The despondent man thinks he's made a new smoking buddy in the cool, teasing Tayama, but Sasaki doesn't realize he already knows her!



Note: On June 23, 2022 it was announced that the manga got licensed by Square Enix. It started being published in the magazine Big Gangan on August 25, 2022.
Winner of the Next Manga Award 2022 in the Web Manga Category.

Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: スーパーの裏でヤニ吸うふたり, A Story About Smoking at the Back of the Supermarket, スーパーの裏でヤニ吸う話, Super no Ura de Yani Suu Hanashi, Behind the Supermarket, Smoking with You.

15. Noa-senpai wa Tomodachi.

Sometimes, when life is hard, you just need a "friend."

Working at a game company, Rihito Otsuka (23), is a "normal" guy who is a steady presence on and off the job. Noa Saotome (27) is a "hard-core" woman who likes to go all out at everything she does. Two people who usually wouldn't get along become "friends" by chance...? The is the start of an workplace "friendship" comedy that's a little sweet but also a little heavy!

Noa Is My Senior, and My Friend. is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: のあ先輩はともだち。, Noa-senpai wa Tomodachi.

14. Kono Kaisha ni Suki na Hito ga Imasu

"Why don't the two of us date?......In secret"

Tateishi, who works in accounting at a snack making company, has a secret. That secret is the existence of his cute lover that he's had since yesterday. Why keep it a secret, you ask? Because his lover is his unyielding colleague from the planning department of the same company: Mitsuya!

A pure office romance story about a couple who started their relationship in secret, and want to keep it that way!

Kono Kaisha ni Suki na Hito ga Imasu is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: この会社に好きな人がいます, Can You Keep a Secret?, The Person I Like Works at the Same Company

13. Salaryman ga Isekai ni Ittara Shitennou ni Natta Hanashi

Uchimura Dennosuke is just an ordinary Japanese salaryman, until he’s sent to work in Vietnam where he dies in a hit-and-run accident. Uchimura is reincarnated and summoned to another world by the Demon King, who offers him a new job–as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of his army! Uchimura is faced with an offer he can’t refuse, but can he do the job?

Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four! is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: サラリーマンが異世界に行ったら四天王になった話, Story About a Salaryman Who Became one of the Four Heavenly Kings When he Went to Another World, Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Heavenly King!

12. Monochrome no Futari

A reliable office worker, Hanaichi Fudo, undoubtedly had a gift for the arts but gave up on his dreams of becoming an artist to lead a normal life. One day, his senior at work, Saori Wakaba, asked Hanaichi for help in writing her manga. Will he take up the pen again?! Written by Yosuke Matsumoto, author of "The Lady Becomes an Idol", a unique new take on aspiring manga artists!

Monochrome Days is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: モノクロのふたり, Monokuro no Futari

11. Kekkon suru tte, Hontou desu ka: 365 Days to the Wedding

The "new generation wedding" manga features the tagline, "Will getting married really bring happiness? Isn't getting married a risk?"

Are You Really Getting Married?: 365 Days to the Wedding has finished publishing and it has 110 Chapters. It is also Known as: 結婚するって、本当ですか 365 Days To The Wedding, 365 Days to the Wedding, Are You Really Getting Married?, Is It True That You're Getting Married?, Kekkon Surutte, Hontou desu ka?

10. Otagai Sukoshi Zutsu Kawatteiku Kyouikugakari to Shinnyuu Shain

The Mentor and the New Employee Who Gradually Change Each Other has finished publishing and it has 79 Chapters. It is also Known as: お互い少しずつ変わっていく教育係と新入社員, The Mentor and the New Employee Who Gradually Change Each Other

9. Level-Up Doctor Choe Gi-Seok

Growing up as an orphan, Jeong He-Jin didn’t open his heart to anyone.

After giving his all to become a cardiothoracic surgeon, he got into an unfortunate accident, after which he woke up not as ‘Jeon He-Jin’ but as ‘Choe Gi-Seok’. And on top of that, he has to using his skills…?

The accident changed his fate drastically… Can he become the Greatest Cardiothoracic Surgeon as Choe Gi-Seok?

Level-Up Doctor Choe Gi-Seok has finished publishing and it has 111 Chapters. It is also Known as: Level Up Doctor Choi Kiseok, Level-Up Doctor, Level-Up Doctor Choi GiSeok, 레벨업 닥터 최기석

8. Maseongui Sinibsawon

Taking lunch orders and cleaning up after your coworkers is all part of the rookie experience. But Jieun takes it all in stride, and as the newcomer at Rendezvous Cosmetics, she’s excited just to learn the ropes while earning a modest wage. But this office is far from sunshine and rainbows, and the company’s president, Ma Seongjun, is a venomous terror within its walls. After she makes a mortifying love confession in his presence, Jieun is caught in Mr. Ma’s web of torture. But that confession wasn’t meant for him! It was for her true love--Mr. Kang from the department over! Unfortunately for Jieun, there’s no turning back once the boss sets his sights on her. Will Mr. Ma eventually sink his fangs into Jieun? Or is there actually a gentle soul hidden underneath her boss’s cruel exterior?

His Devilish New Hire is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: The Devious New Employee

7. Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii

Narumi Momose has had it rough: every boyfriend she’s had dumped her once they found out she was an otaku, so she’s gone to great lengths to hide it. When a chance meeting at her new job with childhood friend, fellow otaku, and now coworker Hirotaka Nifuji almost gets her secret outed at work, she comes up with a plan to make sure he never speaks up. But he comes up with a counter-proposal: why doesn’t she just date him instead? In love, there are no save points.

Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku has finished publishing and it has 86 Chapters. It is also Known as: ヲタクに恋は難しい, It’s Difficult to Love an Otaku, Love is Hard for Otaku, Otaku ni Koi a Muzukashii, WotaKoi, 阿宅的戀愛太難, ♂taku ♀taku

6. A Man of Virtue

What’s it like spending your whole life coming in second place? Ask Nam Jinwoo, he’s been living in the shadow of his rival, Ma Sangtae, his whole life. From high school to college, and now in the office. But passion is strange, it can start as envy or hate and turn into something… erotic. Now Jinwoo’s head is filled with the dirtiest and most erotic thoughts, none of which are in his control. More than anything, he wants them to stop. But the only way to stop them might just be the last thing he wants to do…

A Man of Virtue has finished publishing and it has 131 Chapters. It is also Known as: Mideog-ui Salam

5. Naje Tteuneun Byeol

A struggling, no-name actress of seven years, Yu-Ra Hwang. She barely lands a minor role in a movie that’s bound to be a success. A celebrity’s celebrity, Seung-Hyeon Kang, keeps running into Yu-Ra, who always seems to be shedding tears every time he comes across her. As these two reunite in the new movie, “Time,” will Yu-Ra finally seize the moment to make her name known? And will Seung-Hyeon figure out why he can’t get Yu-Ra out of his mind? Only time will tell.

Daytime Star has finished publishing and it has 77 Chapters. It is also Known as: Star Rising, Star's Rise Day, Starlight (Chae-eun), The Star that Rises in the Day, Ánh Sao Ban Ngày (Chae-eun), 白昼之星, 白晝之星

4. Kuuki ga "Yomeru" Shinnyushain to Buaiso na Senpai no Hanashi

New employee Shiho Satoko has a special skill. Rather than being able to read the mood, it would be better to say she can "see" it. With this special skill, what kind of hidden side can she see behind her senior's unfriendly exterior?



Note: This work began as a web comic on the author's Twitter account on April 11, 2019. It was then serialized on Zero-Sum Online since April 17, 2020.

Kuuki ga "Yomeru" Shinnyushain to Buaiso na Senpai no Hanashi is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 空気が「読める」新入社員と不愛想な先輩の話, Kuki ga "yomeru" shunnyushain to buaiso na sempai no hanashi

3. Isekai no Sata wa Shachiku Shidai

When the efficiency freak corporate slave continued to work even in the other word—
He won the heart of the Knight Captain!?

Kondou Seiichirou was a salaryman who chased after work. When he was dragged into a saint summoning and transferred to another world, he still didn’t change and continued to work. But as he did so, he seemed to have unexpectedly raised a love flag with the “Ice Prince”...

The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 異世界の沙汰は社畜次第, The Affairs of the Other World Depend on the Corporate Slave, This World's Affairs Are up to the Corporate Slave

2. Kasane to Subaru

Kasane Shibata, a graphic designer at a toy development company, was feeling troubled. It began when she accidentally touched the buttocks of her colleague, Subaru Enokida. Kasane was intrigued, as Enokida's butt felt like the costume of her favorite character. But at the same time, she couldn't shake the feeling that she might have made Enokida felt uncomfortable. Enokida said that he didn't mind, but his face looked frightened and distressed... "I have to apologize properly!" Kasane thought to herself, not knowing Enokida was hiding something himself...

Kasane to Subaru has finished publishing and it has 43 Chapters. It is also Known as: かさねと昴, かさねとすばる

1. Ase to Sekken

Asako’s living her dream, working at the toiletry maker Lilia Drop. Little do her coworkers know, the reason she loves the company so much is that she’s ashamed of her body odor, and their soap is the only thing that does the trick. So when the company’s lead product developer, a perfuming genius, approaches her in the lobby and wonders what “that smell” is, she’s terrified … but could it be … that he likes it? And, even more surprising to Yae … does she like him?

Sweat and Soap has finished publishing and it has 98 Chapters. It is also Known as: あせとせっけん, Ase to Sekken