{"id":1122,"date":"2026-08-25T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmanga.kodansha.com\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2026-08-21T19:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:39:34","slug":"adulting-in-black-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmanga.kodansha.com\/blog\/article\/adulting-in-black-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Adulting, In Black & White"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now, I don’t know about you, but I do love a good shonen manga. Sometimes, though, I crave a story with characters who are a bit more relatable. You know, other working adults. Here are some of the K MANGA team’s favorite manga from a few different genres featuring protagonists with jobs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saku is an ordinary young woman who works long hours and lives alone with her cat, Yukichi. Yukichi, however, is not an ordinary house cat. For one, the temperamental feline towers over Saku and walks around on two legs. Instead of playing with toy mice, he scours supermarket flyers for good deals and keeps the house spotless. With a pet like that, it’s hard to tell who’s taking care of who!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matcha Made in Heaven<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chako Hananoki thought she\u2019d found happiness in a handsome fianc\u00e9, but when she realized a marriage to him would mean a total erasure of herself, she broke it off and moved back into her childhood home in the country\u2014only to find a strange man and young woman living there? She finds a way to coexist with them, but when her stalker fianc\u00e9 follows her home, she declares to him (and accidentally to the whole village as well) that this new man in her life is her husband?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweat and Soap<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Don\u2019t miss a romcom manga like no other! In an office romance, there\u2019s a fine line between sexy and awkward \u2026 and that line is where Asako\u2014a woman who sweats copiusly\u2014met Koutarou\u2014a perfume developer who can\u2019t get enough of Asako\u2019s, er, scent. Asako\u2019s living her dream, working at the toiletry maker Lilia Drop. Little do her coworkers know, the reason she loves the company so much is that she\u2019s ashamed of her body odor, and their soap is the only thing that does the trick. So when the company\u2019s lead product developer, a perfuming genius, approaches her in the lobby and wonders what \u201cthat smell\u201d is, she\u2019s terrified \u2026 but could it be \u2026 that he likes it? And, even more surprising to Yae \u2026 does she like him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Abu)Normal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eiko Abu, 29 years old and single. She divides everything in the world into two categories: “normal” or “not normal.” In her quest for normalcy, her obsession slowly destroys the relationships she had built. What is normal? What is abnormal? Logic is questioned and normalcy challenged in this psychological suspense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lonely Deaths Lie Thick as Snow<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Detective Jin Saeki of the Fujiyama South police precinct heads to a mansion in the hills after receiving an innocuous report of a burglary\u2026but as the investigation unfolds, a horrific discovery sends shockwaves through the department and beyond. Thus begins a dark, heady suspense manga unlike any other, pulsing with raw emotion, as Detective Saeki is forced to confront the blood-soaked face of true madness…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, I don’t know about you, but I do love a good shonen manga. Sometimes, though, I crave a story with characters who are a bit more relatable. You know, other working adults. Here are some of the K MANGA team’s favorite manga from a few different genres featuring protagonists with jobs! The Masterful Cat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kmanga_work_term":[],"kmanga_creator_term":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t