Do you guys know any manga that only has kana and only a few kanji?

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1. I believe Crystal Hunters is what you’re looking for.

2. Yotsuba would be a great pick. It doesn’t have any kanji at all, and it’s a very cute, down-to-earth read.

3. Read children book,

4. have you tried any shounen manga that has furigana?

5. Check out the app “PIBO – Japanese picture books” (App store) Almost all the books are in hiragana and there is also a native reader, so you can read along with it! And majority of the books are free to read. Good luck with your Japanese studies!

6. Doraemon. Basically anything made for kids will have small hiragana above the kanji, because kids are still learning to read.

7. You can’t go wrong with Doraemon, it’s a classic. It has some kanji, but with full furigana so that you can read them if you know the kanas

8. Teasing Takagi San manga was pretty decent, iirc. Grammar is simpler than some other manga. I think Flying Witch is another relatively easier one.

   Check http://learnjapanese.moe/resources/#manga and particularly the bilingual manga site, which has furigana for everything, iirc

9. Try Crystal Hunters? Not quite only Kana but is written for people starting from near zero.

   Has grammar guides etc.

10. Any particular reason to go for something entirely without kanji as opposed to something with furigana?

11. Mitsuboshi colors.

12. I training with one piece.

13. If you are just starting to learn hiragana and katakana you’re not going to be able to make sense of any native materials (whether for children, or manga, etc.), and using incomprehensible things to practice kana is pretty inefficient and doesn’t work that well.

14. Urusei yatsura! Actually I think all of Rumiko Takahashi’s have furigana

15. I recommend Yotsubato! and Doraemonn

16. Aside from crystal hunters, which has been mentioned, a lot of Shounen manga has full furigana for every kanji (or nearly every kanji, One Piece for example has furigana for everything except counters I believe). That means that you don’t need to know any kanji to read them (at least in principle).

17. In my experience, it has been much harder to read without kanji because of parsing. But I’d recommend the original Pokemon manga.

18. Manga aimed to kindergarden kids or early elementary school children.

    Doraemon, yotsubato, etc.

19. The absence of kanji isn’t going to make it easier for you if you don’t know the words.

    If it’s just for the ease of looking up unfamiliar words, virtually all shonen manga have furigana.