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When it comes to the topic of cancer, there is no one way to handle the news. For one young woman, Akiyama Momiji, the diagnosis leads her to reevaluate her life. Single and on her own, she's not diving into despair, instead she's ready to learn about herself and her identity in the wake of her diagnosis. Based on the real-life experience of the author's own battle with cancer. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

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

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)

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)

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)

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.)

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)

42-year-old Takayuki Utsumi works for Second Division of Hinode Advertising's Planning and Sales Department. He was transferred from the General Affairs Department one year ago, but he keeps delivering the worst sales performance. Utsumi is not eloquent, poor at dealing with things, and is a pushover too. He always gets reprimanded by his boss Shouko Douzono. His only pleasure is skipping work, going to the public bath in the day on a weekday, and gulping a beer down his dry throat after that. Utsumi cannot resist the temptation when he sees a public bath during working hours despite his sense of guilt. On this day too, he calls his company with the excuse that he has urgent business and walks through the door of a public bath in high spirits. When he pays the fee, takes off his suit and enters the bath, the best moment awaits him. (Source: MyDramaList)

After a messy break-up, the heart-broken shoujo manga artist Hirara Natsume unexpectedly meets a German man in Japan. They fall in love, live together in Japan for a few months and ultimately decide to build a life together in Germany. The adventure begins—because of the linguistic and cultural differences, Hirara is in for a culture shock and repeatedly gets into strange but also funny situations. A fulfilling comic essay that will make you laugh, teach you about some differences between Japan and Germany, and make you feel a little more positive about relationships and work. (Source: Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, translated)

Mineo Maya's daughter, Marie Yamada's autobiographical manga about growing up as a fujoshi and her father's influence on her life.