What is Working Life manga?

The life of someone actually working on a often less than glamorous job is depicted in this anime. The job is taxing and the pay is low, not really the dream job one would choose to work in. Examples: Working as salesperson in a department store, or as a waitress in a family restaurant.

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Denki-gai no Honya-san

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7.43

Description:

Umio is a shy kid who just started his part time job at a manga store smack dab in the middle of the city. But his lifestyle isn’t as glamorous as the neon lights that illuminate the city. Umio’s closest friends are his co-workers who are all unique characters, to say the least, and although they're nice people, they have their quirks. They are a tight knit group of friends, have nicknames for each other and spend their weekends inside, sheltered from the extravagant scene happening on the outside. (Source: MU) Note: Chapter count includes 11 extra chapters
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Chapters

107

Status

finished

Started

2011-07-04

Megami no Café Terrace

(The Goddess's Cafe Terrace)

7.64

Description:

Kasukabe Hayato has been accepted to Tokyo U on his first try. Receiving news of his grandmother's death, he returns to his childhood home, Cafe Terrace Familia, for the first time in three years to find five strange girls there who claim to be "Grandma's Family"! Hayato's unexpected life in a seaside town with these five girls of fate begins here! Source: MU
Type

manga

Rating

Ecchi

Status

current

Started

2021-02-17

Working!!

7.5

Description:

Set in a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16-year-old high school student Souta Takanashi works part-time along with his strange co-workers: Popura Taneshima, a high school girl who's a year older than Souta, yet easily mistaken for an elementary/middle schooler, and Kyoko Shirafuji, the 28-year old store manager who doesn't bother to do any work at all. (Source: NIS America)
Type

manga

Volumes

13

Chapters

281

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2005-01-07

Kaketa Tsuki to Doughnut

(Missing month and doughnut)

7.96

Description:

Dress up fashionably, put on make up, fall in love…. Uno Hinako thinks that’s what “normal” means. (Source: Yuricon)
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

20

Status

finished

Started

2019-03-18

On or Off

8.23

Description:

Yiyoung is building a startup with his college friends. They get a chance to present their proposal to SJ Corporation, one of the leading companies in the country. But in the meeting room he sees Kang Daehyung, the extremely handsome company big shot that's so very much his type, and Yiyoung's heart starts to race... Can pretty-faced Yiyoung win both in love and his career? (Source: MU)
Type

manhwa

Chapters

91

Status

finished

Started

2019-05-30

Pink

(Pink)

7.69

Description:

Pink is a manga about a Japanese girl named Yumi, a beautiful girl in her early 20's. During the day, Yumi works as a regular office lady, but by night, she works as a prostitute. Yumi needs her two jobs to make ends meet. (Source: M-U)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

20

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1989-01-01

Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen

(Ascendance of a Bookworm)

8.2

Description:

Motosu Urano, a book-loving college student who just got her Librarian certification and was supposed to enter the job of her dreams after graduation, was killed during a massive earthquake crushing her underneath a pile of her own massive collection of books. Wishing for reincarnation in order to read even more, she got reincarnated to a world with a low literacy level and very few books, limited only to the nobility of the world. As she reincarnated as 5-year-old daughter of a lowly soldier, Maine, no matter how much she wants to read, there is no way there are any books around. If there are no books then what do you do? You make them yourself of course... What her goal is, to become a librarian no matter what, and to live a life surrounded by books. For starters she begins from making them. (Source: MU)
Type

novel

Volumes

33

Status

finished

Started

2015-01-25

Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu!

(Yuri Is My Job!)

7.41

Description:

Hime is a girl who has developed her cuteness as a deliberate act with the plan of marrying a billionaire. One day she is more or less forced to work as a replacement for a girl injured by bumping into her in the street. The place of work is a concept cafe where the waitresses put on a show as though the cafe were run by the yuri cliche ojousama school. There's a large contrast between the performances and the off-duty staff.
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2016-11-18

Tsuki 50 Man Moratte mo Ikigai no Nai Tonari no Onēsan ni 30 Man de Yatowa Rete `Okaeri. Kyō mo Ganbatta ne’ tte Iu Oshigoto ga Totemo Tanoshī

(It's Fun Having a 300,000 Yen a Month Job Welcoming Home an Onee-san Who Doesn't Find Meaning in a Job That Pays Her 500,000 Yen a Month)

6.92

Description:

Matsutomo is a salariman at a black company who's being overworked to death by a chief who's a pro at dumping all his work on him. What's more, no one seems to remember his name and they all call him Matsumoto. One night, coming home late once more, he runs into his beautiful yet distant neighbor, Saotome-san. It seems that she had left her phone, wallet, and the apartment key in her bag at a supplier's place 3 hours away. And in the apartment she can no longer get into, she has some important documents that she must have for tomorrow's meeting! Ever a gentleman, Matsutomo helps her out, saving her from the predicament, and moved, she makes him an offer he never gets a chance to refuse.
Type

manga

Volumes

6

Chapters

30

Status

finished

Started

2020-04-17

Still Sick

7.66

Description:

Shimizu Makoto, a well-paid R&D lead for an industrial firm, has a secret: she draws and sells GL doujinshi as a hobby! But when her sweet summery colleague, Maekawa, accidentally enters her forbidden world of girls who like other girls, Shimizu has to face some serious realisations… And deal with just how much of a weirdo Maekawa really is! (Source: Sexy Akiba Detectives Translations) Note: Chapter count includes an extra story from each volume.
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

26

Status

finished

Started

2018-12-10

Uchi no Kaisha no Chiisai Senpai no Hanashi

(Story of a Small Senior in My Company)

7.43

Description:

Shinozaki is an office worker who is taken care of and coddled by his senior team member Shiori Katase, who is a gorgeous, profoundly kind, loving, and diminutive woman. Shinozaki certainly hopes that she's not doing it out of duty... but her joy of doing so increasingly exposes her feelings! (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2020-04-03

Hwataga Doen Oegwauisa

(I Reincarnated as a Legendary Surgeon)

7.82

Description:

Because of being just, before even becoming a specialist, Jisoo Han, a 3rd year of general surgery, has died. Was it an angel, demon, or some unknown system of the world? Because of his good deeds, he got a chance to live again. But he was resurrected as a dead man who was killed by mountain bandits. But this body… Is it the body of a great legendary surgeon?! A generation of heroes with an endless battle, around the year 200. As a great legendary surgeon of the 200’s, he tries to stand up to it. An unexpected and extraordinary journey of a young surgeon, who fell into the world of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, has began! Source: MU
Type

manhwa

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2022-01-31

Majo-Senpai Nichijou

(Daily Report About My Witch Senpai)

7.53

Description:

The office stories of a kind hearted, weak willed, witch senpai and her relatable, simple but nice kouhai that started over a cup of magically warmed coffee. (Source: Boredom Society) Notes: Originally published on Pixiv and collated by Akita Shoten for print release. Now serialised in Akita Shoten's Manga Cross. Original serialization finished 2020-11-19 with 42 chapters in two volumes. Serialization restarted with new chapters on 2022-04-25.
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2018-08-30

Naje Tteuneun Byeol

(Daytime Star)

8.24

Description:

A struggling, no-name actress of seven years, Yu-Ra Hwang. She barely lands a minor role in a movie that’s bound to be a success. A celebrity’s celebrity, Seung-Hyeon Kang, keeps running into Yu-Ra, who always seems to be shedding tears every time he comes across her. As these two reunite in the new movie, “Time,” will Yu-Ra finally seize the moment to make her name known? And will Seung-Hyeon figure out why he can’t get Yu-Ra out of his mind? Only time will tell.
Type

manhwa

Chapters

77

Rating

13 teens or older

Status

finished

Started

2021-06-25

Perfect Surgeon

(Perfect Surgeon)

7.85

Description:

When he was a child, his father was said to have died from a car accident. But what actually caused his death was ‘Medical Negligence’. Ever since that, his dream was to become a ‘Perfect Doctor’ that would never deny or mistreat a patient. However, reality was harsh. His mother was inflicted with an incurable disease, which required a lot of money. He quit his university hospital internship and became a sell-out dermatologist. While he had stopped in his tracks due to the harshness of reality, a state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence, ‘A.I. – Ronnie’, came to him. And thus, his journey to become a perfect doctor started once again. (Source: MU)
Type

manhwa

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2022-03-18

Sekitou Elegy

7.71

Description:

Satoshi Yanagawa is working part-time controlling traffic at work sites, and works with a beautiful girl that he likes at first sight. But she has a pretty bad character. Are there any prospects for romance? Read on to find out, the story is hilarious at certain moments, and touching at others. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

15

Chapters

165

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2004-01-01

Senpai Kara Me ga Hanasenai To Aru Kaishain no Nichijou

(The Daily life of A Certain Office Employee Who Can’t Take His Eyes Off His Senpai)

7.38

Description:

This story is about a Kouhai who tries to cover for a Senpai who is full of openings. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

Status

current

Started

2018-04-30

Seija Musou: Salaryman, Isekai de Ikinokoru Tame ni Ayumu Michi

(The Great Cleric)

7.81

Description:

One moment, a certain salaryman is on cloud nine, that promotion finally within his grasp, and the next, he’s keeled over pain, and that was all she wrote. Luckily for him, fate had a bit more to say. A world of magic, monsters, and other such life-shortening entities await his newly reincarnated self for a second shot at life. With nothing but his past-life experiences and sharp business skills to guide him in the foreign lands of Galdardia, he takes up the name Luciel and vows that his (next) demise will be from naught but old age. And what better way to avoid a(nother) gruesome death, than by taking up a nice, cushy job as a healer? But getting by in another world doesn’t come easy, or cheap. It’ll take a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to hone the skills he needs to make his way. But make it he will...or die (again) trying! (Source: J-Novel Club)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2017-01-28

Itai Onee-san wa Suki Desu ka?

(Do you like a cringeworthy older woman?)

7.51

Description:

Shiori Itai, 26 years-old is an office lady who has gone through her entire life boyfriendless. She might look apathetic, but she still wants to be loved as much as anyone. Never letting a hot tip go to waste, constantly challenging herself. However, her natural awkwardness and cringeyness tend to lead to unfortunate results. An unfortunate but lovable OL's daily life! (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

7

Chapters

100

Status

finished

Started

2016-09-12

Nietzsche-sensei: Conveni ni, Satori Sedai no Shinjin ga Maiorita

(Mr. Nietzsche in the convenience store)

0

Description:

A new part-timer in a convenience store started working. There have been a ruckus going on one night. The customer said to him, “Customer are Gods” but he replied with a straight face that “God is dead.” What will happen to him and his everyday life working in the convenience store? Will he ever be convenient?
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2013-08-12

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