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The life of Kaya Takada, who grew up in an intentional community.

An autobiographical manga depicting the harsh life experienced by Keisuke Itagaki in the JGSDF 1st Airborne Brigade that consumed his youth!! The fierceness of the most elite unit in the Self-Defense Forces far exceeds people's common shambling impression of the SDF...! (Source: Akita Shoten, translated)

An autobiographical manga detailing Akiko Morishima's struggles after being diagnosed with ADHD.

Included one-shot: Volume 1: Kichijouji Shounen! (pilot)

A manga artist and her manga artist husband live with their cat Gen, who is always causing trouble. Based on the author's own experiences, this is a slice-of-life manga full of cute cat antics.

Fujoshi no Tsuzui-san is about the main character and author, Tsuzui, along with her friends, as they "ship" males together, and shows how their imaginations get wildly "creative" for the purposes of their hobby. (Source: pixivision)

Milo always dreamt of owning a big dog. They're protective, cuddly, playful. Som the Samoyed, on the other paw, is anything but. She barks all night, sheds hair bombs, steals the Wi-Fi password, and might just be a supervillain?! Som the EXTREME Samoyed is un-leashed! (Source: Tapas Media)

Is it possible to have your manga serialized in Japan as a person from overseas who can't speak Japanese...?! The manga artist for Matagi Gunner, Juan Albarran, shares the ups and downs of his days on the path to debuting as a mangaka in Japan in this hard-hitting essay manga! (Source: Kodansha)

The Iwamichi house has a large, rambunctious family—mother and daughter, ten cats, and one dog. Can this little family keep up with the mess that is sure to follow these many pets with their distinct personalities? (Source: Home-sha)

Autobiographical 4-koma of the mangaka. In 2002 he moves to Tokyo from Osaka and finds himself out of work. The story follows his struggles at employment.

The autobiographical manga utilizes both drawings and photos of cats to chronicle the life of a woman who lives by herself in order to live with her cats. She is described as a "himono-onna," a Japanese slang word that means "a woman who is proper in public but lazy at home." (Source: ANN)

A Japanese woman moves to the Bavarian countryside! But while she gets to know the advantages of German cuisine, she also longs for the food of her homeland... Can she cook Japanese dishes with the help of cheese sausage, sauerkraut, and steam noodles? The result of her efforts: a world of Japanese fusion cuisine with German ingredients opens up before her. A culinary comic strip unlike anything seen before, with 30 recipes to copy! (Source: Mahoroba Verlag, translated)

A memoir about the author's struggles with erectile dysfunction as a gay man in his 30s.

Doumu Kobayashi. 40 years old. Job: Mangaka. After three years of working on the calorie-filled gourmet manga, Meshi ni Shimashou, he is now "splendidly" overweight! "I should just use my need to lose weight as an idea for my manga then!" The time limit is half a year and the target amount of weight to lose is 15kg! A diet plan to lose weight by eating fatty food, intermittent fasting, the GLP-1 injection diet that was the talk of the town, 3 months of full-blown Rizap lifestyle and etc. This is a nonfiction diet manga of Kobayashi using himself as a guinea pig where he diligently tests the various diet plans and how he gets closer to the mysteries of dieting as his half a year comes closer to an end! (Source: Kodansha, translated)

Yuuko is an average 5th grader from the late 1960s whose friend gives her a brown tabby kitten. She names her Tiger. Yuuko and Tiger grow up together, although Tiger is, of course, much quicker to mature. From 1967 to 1970, Yuuko goes through a formative four years from childhood to young adulthood where she learns about time and space travel, sports, and... where babies come from! Just wait till she tells Tiger about this! What Yuuko doesn't know, however, is that Tiger understands everything she is saying and looks after her more than she will ever realize... (Source: Fantasista Inc.)