Manga like Bakudan

Rokudenashi BLUES

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Sports

Maeda is a new student in the Teiken High School. He stutters when he's nervous and he's rather clumsy. He gets noted immediately because he hits a teacher during the entrance ceremony. Some clubs search to enlist him as they see in him a force they can use to get even with other clubs. But Maeda is a loner and has only one dream: becoming boxing champion. His first objective is to beat the leader of the boxing club. "Rokudenashi" translates as "good for nothing".

Tags: Delinquents , School , Boxing , Shounen , Episodic , Primarily Male Cast

Sakigake!! Otokojuku

Also known as Charge!! Men's School.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

Otokojuku is the kind of school that seems like it's up to no good. For most of their students, this is the only place that will take them despite or even because of their violence issues. Headmaster Heihachi Edajima believes that giving young men a military education will provide them with brighter futures, but how much is wishful thinking?



Tags: School , Shounen , Delinquents , Primarily Male Cast , Martial Arts , Ensemble Cast , Cultivation , Gangs , Language Barrier , Yakuza , Foreign , Wrestling

Riki-oh

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

In the late 1990s, society is descending into ecological collapse and totalitarianism. Saiga Rikioh, 21, finds himself in jail.

Set in the near future, at the privately-owned Tokyo State Prison. Like the chilling wind of the end of a century, a mysterious man with a six-pointed star on his fist entered the pen.

Saiga Riki-Oh--serving a term of three years, due to assault, his first offense. Riki-Oh openly antagonizes The Four Emperors, four powerful prisoners that control the prison and keep the rest of the inmates in line.

Tags: Seinen , Gore , Martial Arts , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Super Power , Prison

Ashita no Joe

Also known as Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Sports

Joe Yabuki is a troubled young man who runs away from an orphanage. Wandering through the Tokyo slums, he meets former boxing trainer Danpei. Joe is later arrested and goes to a temporary jail where he fights Nishi, his future best friend, ​and leader of a group of hooligans. He and Nishi then go to a juvenile prison miles away from Tokyo. There Joe meets Rikiishi, a former boxing prodigy, and a rivalry develops between them. They face each other in a match in which Rikiishi dominates Joe until the latter hits him with a cross-counter, resulting in both being knocked out. This inspires the other prison inmates to take up boxing. Joe and Rikiishi vow to fight again.



Tags: Boxing , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Orphan , Urban , Athletics , Class Struggle , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Delinquents , Prison , Foreign , Yakuza , War

Hito Hitori Futari

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Supernatural

After the body dies, the soul lives on. Many spirits progress toward the world of light, through the levels of the spirit world where they study how to improve their souls. These spirits are sometimes reincarnated into the physical world, and sometimes they are sent back as guardian spirits for other living people. Guardian spirits must protect their charges souls from the blackness that oozes up from the world of darkness below.

Riyon is a very laid-back spirit, who often skips her spirit classes to fool around. To train her further, she is sent back to the physical world as a guardian spirit. Instead of following a human from birth, she is helping a beleaguered man, the Japanese Prime Minister Kasuga Soichiro, in the last year and a half of his life. After an unexpected close call with death, Kasuga gains some unusual talents, including the ability to see Riyon. Will Riyon and Kasuga together be able to protect his battered soul?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Politics , Seinen , Afterlife , Environmental , Crime , Conspiracy , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy

ZERO

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Goshima is a boxer who has held the world championship title for years and never once lost a match - thus earning himself the nickname 'Zero'. His coach, Araki, describes him as 'a flower that blooms only within the ring'. But with his 30th birthday approaching, everyone begins to question Goshima's worth. Thus he decides to look for the ultimate opponent to give him his final match.

Tags: Seinen , Boxing , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Language Barrier

Go

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

"Sugihara, a North Korean, began studying at a Japanese high-school. Since his father was an ex-pro boxer, Sugihara knew how to fight other Japanese boys who challenges him to a fight because of his nationality. At one party Sugihara meets a girl who would only let him know of her family name: Sakurai..."

Tags: School , Seinen , Delinquents

Ao no Senshi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

The story tells of Reggae, a young boxer devoted to alcohol, known as "King of defeat", a nickname he earned by a great number of lost matches. But the boy has a primordial ferocity and a talent that former middleweight champion Dreddy D'Angelo notices immediately.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Noir , Crime , Boxing

0-Sen Champion

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Tetsuya Nakanishi is a trapeze artist working in a circus troupe in Hawaii. He started boxing after being discovered by former boxer Jimmy Smith, and won many fights and overcame many crises with his special punch, the "cross-shaped triple strike," which he adapted from his father, a famous Zero pilot. After winning the championship in New York, Tetsuya returned to Japan, his parents' home country, with Coach Smith, his daughter Marie, and his best friend Sanpei to make it in the Japanese boxing world.

Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Boxing