High schooler Akiko has big plans to become a popular mangaka before she even graduates, but she needs to get much better at drawing if she ever wants to reach her goal. Looking for an easy fix, she signs up for an art class, thinking all her problems will soon be solved. She’s in for a surprise: her new instructor is a sword-wielding taskmaster who doesn’t care about manga one bit. But maybe this unconventional art teacher is just what she needs to realize her dreams!
Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey is finished and has 5 Volumes and 34 Chapters. It is also Known as: かくかくしかじか, Kakukaku Shikajika
Genres: Slice of Life, Josei
Top 10 Manga Like Kakukaku Shikajika [2022 List]
10. Hirayasumi
29-year-old freeter Ikuta Hiroto is a carefree young man without a love life, regular job and no real worries about the future. Thanks to his kind disposition, he inherits an old house from the neighbourhood granny, where his 18-year-old cousin, Natsumi moves in with him to study art in Tokyo. This is a story about Hiroto and the people around him who struggle with life.
Hirayasumi is currently publishing . It is also Known as: ひらやすみ, Hirayasumi
9. Logick
Every day is boring, too boring... Until a witch casts her spell on it? Masa, a second-year student at a third-rate art school, draws because he doesn't know what else to do with his life. Then he meets Aoi, an attractive first-year girl, who seems, somehow, like she might be a witch. Will Aoi and her secrets light the fire in the gloomy Masa's heart? Though it doesn't seem much like living, life goes on, as young men yearn only for yearning. Though every day seems so inconsequential, the special spark of that time of life defines what it means to be young.
Logick is finished and has 0 Volumes and 48 Chapters. It is also Known as: ロジック, Logick
8. Gekiga Hyouryuu
Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary stories about the private lives of everyday people. He has been called "the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics" and has influenced generations of cartoonists around the world. Now the visionary creator of "The Push Man and Other Stories" and "Good-bye" has turned his incisive, unflinching gaze upon himself. Over ten years in the making, "A Drifting Life" is Tatsumis' most ambitious, personal, and heart felt work: an autobiographical bildungsroman in comics form.Using his life long obsession with comics as a frame work, Tatsumi weaves a complex story that encompasses family dynamics, Japanese culture and history, first love, the intricacies of the manga industry, and most importantly, what it means to be an artist. Alternately humorous, enlightening, and haunting, this is the masterful summartion of a fascinating life and a historic career.
A Drifting Life is finished and has 2 Volumes and 48 Chapters. It is also Known as: 劇画漂流, Gekiga Hyouryuu
7. Arte
The story takes place in 16th-century Florence, a time when women were relegated to the roles of wives and caretakers. A young noble girl named Arte dreams of being an artist’s apprentice. One day, she stumbles upon the workshop of the eccentric Maestro Leo, who decides to accept her as his student. Follow Arte on her journey as she discovers the joy and struggles on the path to becoming a maestro.
Arte is finished and has 21 Volumes and null Chapters. It is also Known as: アルテ, Arte
6. Natsu no Zenjitsu
The only thing in Tetsuo's mind is art. The beauty, the nature, and the quality of art. One woman watches him handle his art. Her name is Akira. She watches as he constantly tries to draw day after day, and she oversees the completion of his work at a local art exhibition. Akira apparently has become interested in Tetsuo's love for art and his work. One rainy night, Tetsuo notices that Akira left her umbrella and he decides to deliver it to her. He finds her and gives her the umbrella and doesn't use it as he claims that the umbrella isn't his. As Tetsuo leaves, Akira tells him to wait. He turns around and finds Akira bringing her lips towards his... Love has bloomed in the middle of a rainy night.
Natsu no Zenjitsu is finished and has 5 Volumes and 38 Chapters. It is also Known as: 夏の前日, The Day Before Summer
5. Dasei 67 Percent
This comedy manga takes place in the room of a college girl named Yoshizawa. Her friends, Itou, Kitahara, and Nishida often stop by, and they run into funny adult-level problems. For instance, there is the day when her friends drop by while Yoshizawa's hungover in bed, and she suddenly realizes that she doesn't have on any underwear under the covers. Yoshizawa also has unusual problems, like her need for advice on drawing realistic penises in her manga, since she's never encountered one in real life before. There are a lot of quirky things that can happen in a college girl's home!
67% Inertia is finished and has 9 Volumes and 96 Chapters. It is also Known as: 惰性67パーセント, Inertia 67%, Inertia 67 Percent, 67 Percent Inertia
4. Sabishisugite Lesbian Fuuzoku ni Ikimashita Report
A hugely popular comic on Pixiv, My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness offers readers an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman’s exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age.
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is finished and has 1 Volumes and 6 Chapters. It is also Known as: さびしすぎてレズ風俗に行きましたレポ, The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
3. Blue Period
Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It’s an effortless performance, and, ultimately…a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst — and he’s about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!
Blue Period is currently publishing . It is also Known as: ブルーピリオド, The Blue Period., النقطة الزرقاء, 藍色時期, Blue Period.
2. Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
Kosei Arima was a piano prodigy until his cruel taskmaster of a mother died suddenly, changing his life forever. Driven by his pain to abandon piano, Kosei now lives in a monotonous, colorless world. Having resigned himself to a bland life, he is surprised when he meets Kaori Miyazono, a violinist with an unorthodox style. Can she teach Kosei not just how to play, but how to start living again?
Your Lie in April is finished and has 11 Volumes and 44 Chapters. It is also Known as: 四月は君の嘘, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
