Books like Solanin by Inio Asano

Goodnight Punpun follows boy‑turned‑bird Onodera Punpun as he navigates a dysfunctional family, complex friendships, a budding romance, and the surreal, often unsettling, turmoil of adolescence.

In the fourth volume of Inio Asano’s acclaimed manga, newcomer Punpun faces solitude after his mother’s death and a distant father, navigating part‑time jobs while grappling with the complexities of growing up.

Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 2 follows the surreal, bird‑shaped protagonist Punpun Onodera as he navigates adolescence, love, and a dysfunctional home, blending intimate drama with fantastical elements in a manga format.

Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 6 continues the surreal coming‑of‑age tale of a teenager navigating the blurred lines between reality, dreams, and inner turmoil.

"This is the end, Punpun"-- Taken from publisher.

An orphanage teems with life as three boys escape their bleak routines in a battered Nissan Sunny 1200, blending slice‑of‑life drama with the gritty reality of a working‑class Japanese setting.

The fourth volume of Haruko Ichikawa’s manga series Land of the Lustrous.

An innocent girl falls prey to the darkness in a world of sensuality.

This shojo manga revolves around the relationships between a group of humans and members of a genetically engineered race called Unicorns.

In this manga, acclaimed cartoonist Asano tells a complex, oblique tale about how an tense atmosphere, symbolized by proliferating butterflies, lead schoolchildren to "sacrifice" a fellow student, and how that act impacts various characters across two timelines. Fantagraphics is proud to welcome the great Inio Asano (Solanin, What a Wonderful World!) to its acclaimed literary manga line. Even as butterflies ominously proliferate in town, the rumor of a mysterious creature lurking in the tunnel behind the school spreads among the children. When the body of Arié Kimura's mother is found by this tunnel's entrance, next to apparently human traces, the legend seems to be confirmed. Is the end of the world coming? In order to appease the wrath of the beast, the children decide to offer it a sacrifice: The unfortunate Arié, whom they believe to be the cause of the curse, is shoved into a well that leads to the Nijigahara tunnel — an act that in turns pushes Komatsuzaki, the budding thug who has carried a torch for Arié for a while already, entirely over the edge. But this is only the beginning of the complex, challenging, obliquely told Nijigahara Holograph, which takes place in two separate timelines and involves the suicidal Suzuki; Higure, his stalkerish would-be girlfriend; and their teacher Miss Sakaki, whose heavily bandaged face remains a mystery; and many more — brothers, sisters, parents, co-workers, teachers, aggressors and victims who are all inextricably linked to one another and all will eventually — ten years later — have to live with what they've done or suffered through.

Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most celebrated and influential comics artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs—used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with. Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan. Accompanied by an essay from the translator Ryan Holmberg which discusses Tsuge’s importance in comics and Japanese literature, The Man Without Talent is one of the great works of comics literature.