Slice of Life

Slice of life shoujo and josei manga that take a slower pace that’s more realistic.

Screenshot from Josei Manga Sekines Love

Sekine’s Love

Name: Sekine’s Love
Mangaka: Kawachi, Haruka

Volumes: 5 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.05 Ch.32 (Complete)
Scanlator: Stiletto Heels
Type: Manga
Genre: Slice of Life/Romance
Age Group: Mature

Summary: Sekine Keiichiro is handsome, intelligent, and popular. He’s a jack-of-all-trades who’s loved by women. Loved, that is, until they find out he’s passionless and stoic and completely lacking in conviction. In a moment of self-reflection he starts hunting- can anything make him feel? He’s about to find out.

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Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Otoko no Isshou

Name: Otoko no Isshou
Manga-ka: Nishi, Keiko

Volumes: 3 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.10 (Hiatus)
Scanlator: Stiletto Heels
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Josei/Slice of Life
Age Group: Mature

Summary: Douzono Tsugumi, who works for a major electrical company, spends her vacation at her grandmother’s home in the country. Her grandmother soon passes away during hospitalization, and Tsugumi decides to continue living in her grandmother’s house. However, a mysterious man shows up holding the key to the rear house, and despite not fully comprehending the relationship he had with her grandmother, they begin living together.

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Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Suppli

Name: Suppli
Manga-ka: Okazaki, Mari

Volumes: 10 (Complete)
Licensed: Yes (Tokyopop – 5 Volumes Cancelled)
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.01 (Discontinued)
Scanlator: Shoujo Manga Maniac
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Slice of Life/Josei
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Minami Fujii is an employee at a high-powered advertising firm. She’s good at her job but finds herself torn between the pressure and expectations of her career and her attraction to two of her coworkers: the younger, arty Ishida, and the classy, put-together Ogiwara!

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Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 5/5

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Chihayafuru

Name: Chihayafuru
Manga-ka: Suetsugu, Yuki

Volumes: 50 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha Comics
Licensed Releases: 33 Volumes (Ongoing)
Type: Manga
Genre: Sports/Slice of Life
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: All her life, Chihaya’s dream was to see her model sister become Japan’s best… That is, until a quiet, unassuming transfer student named Arata tells her otherwise. A dream, he explains to her, is something she needs to work at herself.

Arata plays a competitive version of a traditional Japanese card game–known as Hyakunin Isshu–in a way Chihaya has never seen before. After taking Arata’s place in a game, Chihaya discovers she has a passion for it. Now Chihaya wants to become number one in the world, the Queen of Karuta.

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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 5/5

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14 Sai no Koi

Name: 14 Sai no Koi
Manga-ka: Mizutani, Fuka

Volumes: 11 (Ongoing)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.11 Ch.45 (Ongoing?)
Scanlator: Playground
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Josei
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: A story about two unusually mature young people. They are both smart, very together and they are in love. But, as grown-up as they act, they are still just 14 and their feelings for each other are captured with tenderness and lack of nostalgia, but very cutely.

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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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