Here at Recommend Me Anime, we don’t do manga series in our recommendations, just anime. However, that doesn’t mean that anime fans don’t also like to lie in bed and read a few good chapters of manga every now and then.
And besides, where do many good anime series come from in the first place – The pages of manga.
If you want to read some good comedy manga, and want to be someone who can potentially say you enjoyed a good series before it was all cool and animated, then check out these great comedy manga recommendations that don’t have anime adaptations – yet.
Best Comedy Manga With No Anime
Shiori Experience: My Plain Self and an Odd Old Man
Shiori was once the guitarist in the light music club in high school and wanted to be a musician. However, her first live performance and dreams were both ruined when her brother ran off to Tokyo to be a musician and left the family with a ton of debt.
10 years later, Shiori is living a boring normal life as a high school teacher, paying off the debt of her brother. However, things start to change when she runs into the ghost of legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix who convinces her to walk the path to become a music legend.
Nukozuke
On his way home from his part-time job, Yuuya finds a box with two small creatures looking for an owner. These creatures are Nukos, cats that have evolved more human-like qualities that allow them to use words and display emotions.
Curiously drawn to them, Yuuya takes them home. Now, he lives his daily life with Kei, a calico often mistaken for a girl and Sasame, a black Nuko.
Useless Ponko
Yoshioka is an old man left alone after the recent loss of his wife. His children, worried for their father’s health, send him a housekeeping robot to help around the house.
However, Yoshioka’s once-quiet and peaceful life is now disrupted by the clumsy and comical young robot.
Nick and Lever
Nick and Lever are two foreign men living in Japan. With local customs that escape them, foreign habits they can’t break, and a whole variety of interactions abound, they live their daily lives comically.
Sakamoto Days
Tarou Sakamoto was once considered the greatest hitman of all time. However, after falling in love with a woman, he abandoned the underworld and now works as a convenience store clerk.
It turns out the leaving the underworld is not quite so simple. Many of his rivals turn up at his convenience store, looking for a fight. Barred from killing, he must use creative ways to non-lethally take them down to protect his family, store, and town.
Yotsubato
Yotsuba is a five year old that is fully of energy, thirsty for adventure, and unforgettably odd. Even ordinary experiences for her become an adventure and this spirit is contagious to those around her.
Happy Cafe
Short and often mistaken for an elementary student, Uru ends up working at a cafe with two men who are also different than how they look or act.
Oresama Teacher
After threatening to disown her, Mafuyu Kurosaki quits her life as a delinquent and dedicates herself to being a solid student at a new academy.
Unfortunately, with problems around every corner, this school is not giving her a quiet student life.
Sumire 16
Sumire is a lively girl, but she’s not actually alive.
Instead, she is a life-sized marionette that is controlled by a man. Weirder than that, she seems completely unaware of that fact, but everyone else seems to notice.
He Does Not Have Any Friends
Chihiro Watanuki is a transfer student to a new high school. On her first day, another student helps her find a place to park her bicycle, and she discovers she also sits next to him in class. However, her classmates inform her that he is Yuuji Yugami, ace of the Baseball team, and that she should stay away from him.
Her classmates say that he is a big weirdo who does incomprehensible things. When Chihiro tries to talk to him, she finds him hard to talk to and that he is, indeed, a bit weird.
However, after she gets into a situation with some older kids, Yuuya comes to her rescue again. She believes that there is more to him than meets the eye and is now determined to treat him unbiased.
Bonnouji
Ozawa just broke up with her long-term boyfriend and moved into a new condo.
By chance, she meets Oyomada, a guy that is mostly a loner, but all the random stuff his brother with poor impulse control keeps sending him catches the eye of Ozawa.
Paraizo
What if everyone behaved like they were characters in an H-movie, but it was really just normal life?
Father and Son
You-san is a former gangster that now is dedicated to being a father to his unexpectedly wild son, Shou.
This is the story of their life together.
Dad, The Beard Gorilla, and I
After losing her mother to a traffic accident, young tomboy finds a suspicious person moving into her house.
While she calls him “the beard gorilla,” in actuality, he is her father’s younger brother.
The Chef of Nobunaga
Ken is a modern chef that finds himself sent back in time to the Warring States period. Without any knowledge of who he was or how he got there, he has only knowledge of cooking to fall back on.
However, his supreme cooking skills attract attention and acknowledgment far and wide, even the attention of eccentric warlord Oda Nobunaga.
More Manga Recommendations
There are literally thousands of more comedy manga series out there that haven’t been animated yet. Do you have any more manga recommendations? Let comedy manga fans know in the comments section below.
