Interest Stacks

Susumu Nakoshi is a middle-aged man who spends his days between a lavish first-class hotel and a park full of homeless people. One day, an eccentric young man approaches Nakoshi in search of subjects willing to partake in trepanation—the procedure of drilling a hole in the skull. This mysterious person claims that Nakoshi is the perfect man for the experiment. Initially rejecting the offer, he doubles back on his decision after his car gets towed off. Nakoshi agrees to let Manabu Ito, a 22-year-old medical student, drill a hole in his skull in exchange for 700,000 yen. The procedure bears no results at first, with Nakoshi showing no abnormalities. This normalcy comes to an abrupt end, however, when Nakoshi begins seeing the homunculus in every person. With his perception distorted, how will Nakoshi face these homunculi? [Written by MAL Rewrite]

It is 23 years after Akagi Shigeru's deadly battle with Washizu Iwao. Ten Takashi is living his life as a rep mahjong player. A kind person at heart, he also possesses a ingenious talent in mahjong. One day Ten meets Igawa Hiroyuki, a student player who 'plays by logic.' Hiroyuki is overwhelmed at Ten's playing style which involves anything besides logic, and soon becomes one of his close friends. Being the rep player he is, Ten had to play against some Yakuza. The chance of victory seemed to be on Ten's side, then the yakuza decides to call their secret weapon, a legendary rep player called...

44 years old, single, working in a construction company for his entire life. All Kurosawa wants is a little respect from his co-workers. And a little popularity won't hurt. Unfortunately Kurosawa's plans fail miserably from time to time and one day, he finds himself right in the middle of a fight against...delinquent middle schoolers?

There is one cat at the local pet shop that has been waiting a long time for someone to bring him home. He has reached adulthood alone in his cage, avoided by potential owners for petty reasons like not being cute enough or being snotty. His fortune changes one day when an elderly gentleman named Kanda comes into the store and chooses to take him home. As a widower left behind by his grown-up children, Kanda seeks a feline companion to alleviate his solitude. At times humorous and others heartwarming, Ojisama to Neko follows Kanda and the newly named Fukumaru as they experience the joys of living together and learning about each other. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

The sole thing that gets the middle-aged Sasaki through his soul-sucking job is a cheerful smile from Yamada—the young woman who works at a nearby 24-hour supermarket he frequents. After every tiring day of getting berated by his boss, Sasaki stops by the store to have his spirit healed by his favorite cashier. After a particularly grueling day, Sasaki shows up at the supermarket, only to find that Yamada's shift has already ended. Disappointed, he searches for a place to smoke when a woman from behind the store calls him over to join her. The bold and dangerously playful Tayama is quick to call out Sasaki's peculiar habit of always seeking out her coworker—even going as far as telling Yamada about Sasaki's vested interest in her. Now, in addition to seeing his adored cashier Yamada, Sasaki also visits the store to see if his new smoking partner Tayama is around. But there is more to Tayama's mischievousness than she initially lets on. With every cigarette, an unlikely friendship begins to blossom. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

After the funeral of an old friend, Dukchul Shim resolves to pursue something he had always wanted to try: ballet. Much to the surprise (and maybe~ horror) of his wife, children, and other acquaintances, this 70-year-old throws himself into following his heart and his passion. With the help of his young instructor Chaerok and others hoping for their own ambitions to take flight, Dukchul shows the importance and joy of pursuing one's dream... even in the face of hardships and our own mortality. (Source: Tapas)

Ichinoi, a 75-year-old woman living a peaceful life, unwittingly buys a Boy's Love manga one day... and is fascinated by what she finds inside. When she returns to the bookstore to buy the next volume, the high school girl working there—Urara, a seasoned BL fan—notices a budding fangirl when she sees one. When Urara offers to help Ichinoi explore this whole new world of fiction, the two dive into BL fandom together, and form an unlikely friendship along the way. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

Living in poor neighborhoods of Osaka, Kumada watch over his wife and two young children. He is huge and riddled with scars and he works hard, smokes and drinks of sake as if it were mere water, gruff and scary, he talks little. But Kumada deeply loves his family and will protect it at the peril of his life when members of a yakuza clan set on fire to his house to facilitate a real estate transaction. Jailed for the murder of those who failed to burn his people alive, Kumada was released fifteen years later and found his family. He will have to face the distrust of his children who know nothing of their father except that he had abandoned them. But he is determined to regain control of their education, starting with his son, a urchin abused by the tough guys of the district.

Umiko Chino, a 65-year-old widow, has no noteworthy hobbies to speak of. When her VCR stops working, Umiko decides to pay a visit to the cinema, like she once did with her husband on their first date. However, instead of focusing on the movie, her gaze is fixed upon the audience—and on one young-looking person in particular. After the credits roll, the mysterious person introduces themself to Umiko as Kai Hamauchi—a male college student majoring in film. Umiko asks him to fix her VCR, and Kai obliges. Yet, before Kai leaves, he asks Umiko a question that changes the course of her life: would she like to make a movie with him? [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Ichirou Inuyashiki is an old father worn down by the hardships of life, rendering him helpless and weak. Although he is friendless, unloved by his family, and diagnosed with cancer, he decides to try living his best life and adopts a dog. However, while walking his dog one night, the reality of his hopeless situation settles in and he breaks into sobs in a park. But that sadness is short-lived as an encounter with an extraterrestrial object leaves him with a healthy yet mechanical body. Unsettled by the foreign body and his inability to cry anymore, Inuyashiki starts to believe he has lost his humanity. However, one night, he saves a homeless man from death, and the sight of the happy and grateful man moves him to tears—proving to him that he is still a human. From that moment onward, Inuyashiki resolves to put his new power to use for the purpose of saving those in need. Unfortunately, his joy doesn't last for long, for he finds that there is a new threat determined to revel in its own newfound power through horrifying means. Thus, Inuyashiki's mission turns from being a small-time neighborhood hero to a guardian against a thriving monster. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Takeda is diagnosed with cancer and feels that he has nothing to live for. Hopeless, he decides to end his life. But when he is about to hang himself, the phone rings: the police have just found the corpse of his daughter, Sawako, who disappeared more than 14 years ago. Under Japanese law, the statute of limitations for murder only lasts 15 years. Takeda has only six months left: six months to live, six months to find his daughter's killer and deliver him to the authorities. After 14 years of silence and obscurity, the family ties are reborn... (Source: ANN)

A 50s x 60s BL. We met when we were 18 and 28, from that time... until now, I've always loved you. "I'll wait no matter how long, even 10 years or 20 years. Even when we've become old men." Following the life path of two people from different generations—this is a tender life story. Akihiko, an employee in his 50s and Makoto, who's 10 years older than him, are lovers, sons and family. From when we meet as tutor and pupil, things that have changed, and things that are unchanged... (Source: Sankosha, translated)

Middle-aged salaryman Uematsu was surprised to learn that the restaurant part time-worker Asahikawa knows about his food habits. When Uematsu got promoted to department head, he thought his life would be smooth sailing from then on but very soon his wife left him. After reaching his forties, he feels like his stamina, energy, everything has been depleted, so he tries to avoid anything troublesome. But strangely, he feels a sense of ease whenever he is with Asahikawa and starts warming up to him, but it feels like Asahikawa wants to get closer to him more than he could have ever imagined... (Source: MU)

Shirou Kakei, a straitlaced lawyer, cooks gourmet dinners for himself and his longtime gay lover, Kenji Yabuki, a carefree, hippie-ish hairdresser. The story is told through the lens of dinner preparation. (Source: Entropy)

Kenzou Okada, 60 years old, is fired after a whole life spent to work. His wife and children leave him without money. He tries to commit suicide without success and decides to live a new life in the forest that doesn't let him die.

Narumi Rokurou is still adrift in life in his forties, unmarried, and working as an editor at a publishing company while writing hardly lucrative literary fiction. His days enjoying life at his own pace are brought to an end one summer night, when a strange twist of fate brings Rokurou together with a mysterious beauty, beginning the story of their crazed love. (Source: Batoto)

The manga centers on 80-year-old veteran novelist Mariko Kouda, who lives with the families of both her son and her grandson in one house. Feeling like she no longer has any place in her home, she decides to leave the house and strike out on her own, beginning with living in a manga cafe in the city. (Source: ANN)

Meet Taki Takanosuke, an elderly gentlemen who likes taking walks. Along the way, he also manages to capture the hearts of many women. (Source: MU)

Mitsutaka Oji is a 40-year-old, handsome office worker that is admired by his colleagues. Of course, he has a secret he is trying to hide from everyone: he loves cute things. But with his son going to his apartment, Mitsutaka's secret is now in danger! (Source: MU)

Tokizou Kanda is 42 years old. He has been in unrequited love with his best friend from high school, Ryuuji Shiba, for 25 years. He has always depended on Shiba, but there is no possibility of his telling his straight friend about his feelings. "To live my life with my best friend at my side isn’t so bad." But now, at the age of 42, there is an unexpected chance. Could their relationship possible change...? (Source: Printemps Shuppan, translated)

Kurosawa, a 44-year-old underpaid construction worker, sustains a head injury during a brawl. He then lives a peaceful life in heaven for eight years, immobile on his hospital bed, until he comes to a startling realization: there are no women in heaven. As a headstrong man, Kurosawa choses to leave the luxuries of the afterlife behind to pursue his lifetime goal: to date a woman. Although Kurosawa returns to Earth with an objective in mind, he finds himself in many undesirable situations caused by his own straightforward behavior. Groping women, fighting, and acting petty are just a few things that a soul from heaven should not be doing. As a result, Kurosawa's misdeeds earn him only society's disdain. However, Kurosawa's mistakes are due to his strong human impulses—he also benefits from the positive sides of his nature. He is introspective, and his battles are opportunities for lessons to be learned. Despite starting his mid-life crisis as nothing more than a desperate soul searching for a woman, Kurosawa soon finds other worthy reasons to live and gains a new perspective on moral virtues. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Who takes the time these days to climb a tree in bare feet to rescue a child's toy? To stop and observe the birds? To play in the puddles after a storm? To go down to the sea to put a shell back? The Walking Man does as he strolls at random through urban Japan—often silent, often alone—with his vivid dreams that let time stand still. (Source: Ponent Mon)

A group of young girls possess a mysterious power known as "Alice's Dream," which gives them the ability to turn their thoughts into reality. Detained and experimented upon, these youths are locked away in secret until one of them manages to escape. Her name is Sana—a girl with the power to ignore the very laws of physics. When this willful powerhouse crosses paths with a stubborn old man named Zouroku, his carefully-ordered life will never be the same again! (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

In an era of space travel, there is a small restaurant in Jupiter's orbit named after its owner, Motoka. People coming to or leaving the stars come through her small restaurant, and she always has something to serve that speaks to her customers' hearts and memories. Some may say that the universe itself conspires for the curious encounters to happen at the tiny asteroid, it being in the proverbial fringe between the pale blue dot and the space beyond for the travelers, who while visiting find answers that they may have not been looking for, but whose questions lingered in silent vigilance, ever present in the back of their minds. (Source: MangaHelpers)

Though its title logo resembles a certain light novel, and his younger sister is particularly cute, the student council president doesn't have any mystery to solve about it. It is just as it says, a comic about a grandpa telling his grandson a strange story. What is strange about it and why is something you'll have to read the comic to find out! You'll find yourself chuckling while you read, as you enjoy the charming world of this grandpa. (Source: MangaBox)

A pure angel descends from the heaven to carry a dying old man to the afterlife. What she doesn't know is that this is not your typical feeble grampa. No, he is much more... charming. Thus, their misadventures begin as the angel realized what type of man she's dealing with. This old man won't die anytime soon. (Source: MangaDex)

Set around the year 20xx, where Black Jack is nearly 60 years old.

The story centers on 73-year-old Seitarou Asao, who runs a tea plantation. Due to a god's mistake, he gets transported to another world in the place of his grandchild. He then starts a second life 10 years younger as 63-year-old Seitarou. Through his wisdom of an old man and "assistance magic," he is able to live a leisurely life in his new home. (Source: ANN)

Inspired by Cervantes' Don Quixote, the author criticizes heartless individualism and indifference in modern Japan, as seen through the eyes of an old man, who, although childish with age, sees the truth of things.

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The manga centers on Hanayo, an elderly woman whose husband of many years has only recently died. After finishing a Buddhist service for her husband, she finds herself walking out in town alone for the first time in a long time. She stumbles onto a cosmetics store, and meets a beautiful woman named Yoshiko Doujima, and falls in love at first sight. Hanayo had long given up on makeup after her husband nagged her about it, but putting some on with Yoshiko's help brightens her heart. (Source: ANN)

A man walks the same route every day. Things generally stay the same, but there's always something a little bit different.

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Sawako Honna, 42, single; she works hard at a film promotion company. One night, all of a sudden, her heart palpitates, and her body goes cold... Could it be that she's going through menopause!? Not as hard-working as in your 20s. Not as flippant as in your 30s. The mental and physical changes, and the obstacles you face in your 40s. Sudden illness, menopause, fatigue you can't get rid of, changes in working patterns, money worries, life plans for the future... "What will happen to me tomorrow?" (Source: Tokyopop)

At a certain late-night convenience store, an old man who was a little unreliable, but a little reliable, had a part-time job. (Source: MU)

The final moments of the Edo Period approach! The American fleet known as "The Black Ships," with Admiral Matthew Perry at the helm, demand the end of the shogunate's isolationist policy and the opening of Japan to western trade. In a last attempt to stop the war, Abe Masahiro, the chief councilor to the shogun, tasks his men with finding Sawamura Jinzaburou, one of the last shinobi in the land. How will the aging ninja complete the secret mission assigned to him and prove the ways of the shinobi are not obsolete? A new tale of the last ninja begins! (Source: MU)

"A craftsman's morning starts early." Everyday, Jack, a Siamese cat, never fails to look after his master's needs so as to make sure that his master, Leon can leave the house as a "handsome man" who will look good anywhere. Jack diligently performs his duties amidst Leon's grumblings and his figure at work is definitely that of a cool cat. This is the elegant life of Jack and Leon in the country of England. (Source: Flex Comix, translated)

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Eiji and Koichi are such good friends their colleagues think they're dating. Since being roommates in the same dormitory some 20 years ago, they've gone through the same university, the same company, and living the married life under the same building. One day, they both find out that their wives want a divorce. While drunk and consoling each other, Eiji shares his troubles "down there" and it turns into a competition of who gets to make the other come first. (Source: Otometika Shuppan, translated)

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Adult-only side stories of Kinou Nani Tabeta?

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Shikabane never knew his mother. Abandoned by his father, he lived alongside his grandmother as a child in poverty. But thanks to the kindness of the latter, despite a difficult daily life and the blessings of his comrades, he managed to grow and build himself. As an adult, he finally believed he could enjoy life. Unfortunately, when his grandmother seems to show signs of senile dementia, Shikabane loses his footing and doesn't know how to react... (Source: Akata, translated)

On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he's ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing with an incorrigible manga creator who used to be edited by Shiozawa and now refuses to work with anyone else. For Shiozawa, Tokyo these days is full of memory and is cocooned in the inescapable bonds among manga creators, their editors, art, and life itself. (Source: VIZ Media)

This is a manga where the 35-year-old bride (the author), describes the daily life between her and her 55-year-old husband. This includes the unique 20 years of age gap, parents' reaction to their marriage, distressed with child-making, and anxiety about the future due to the husband's old age.

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In a city which should be familiar, there is the feeling of something a little different. Odokawa is a taxi driver who lives an ordinary life, taxing some quirky customers around. A slightly eccentric stranger who has no relatives nor any relations with other people, Odokawa's hobby is to listen to Rakugo on the radio before going to bed. For the time being, the only people he can consider as friends are his family doctor Gouriki, and his high school classmate Kakihana. Kabasawa, a college student who wants a buzz, Shirakawa, a nurse who's hiding something, comedian group Homo Sapiens, who isn't selling well, the city hoodlum Dobu, and the rookie idol group Mystery Kiss—the conversations with these people, which should not have meant much, lead to a girl who disappeared. (Source: MAL News)

Follows a middle-aged bank employee who sees a small man running whenever something bad is about to happen. (Source: Comic Natalie, translated)

Akio has changed his job for some reason, just as he is about to leave middle age. His new job is at a small detective agency, run by his childhood friend, Hirose. Akio and Hirose are curious buddies and they heal the hearts of their clients while solving difficult requests. (Source: Shogakukan, translated)

Former matagi, Hitonari Yamano, lives a lonely life in the countryside. He once put down his gun, but what he found in his hands was a "FPS" battle royal game! A unique sniper game was created by combining the latest e-sports with the traditional skills of the matagi. An unprecedented legend of the greatest sniper ever created begins in rural Japan! (Source: Kodansha, translated)