Manga like Batuque

Usogui

Also known as Usogui.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological , Thriller

Driven by his desire for quick money, young Kaji gets involved with a loan shark and soon finds himself hounded by debt collectors. One day, a mysterious man named Baku Madarame appears before him. Calling himself a gambler, Baku boldly declares that he’ll help Kaji repay his debt—and descends into the world of underground casinos…



Tags: Gambling , Death Game , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Crime , Philosophy , Martial Arts , Amnesia , Memory Manipulation , Poker , Mafia , Primarily Male Cast , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Gore , Fairy Tale , Terrorism , LGBTQ+ Themes , Guns , Aliens

Isshou Senkin

Also known as ST✰R: Strike it Rich.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Sports

After retiring from public fighting and getting fired from underground fighting, 27 year old Tenma Nozomi's zest for life is gradually dwindling away. It's hard to be at the bottom with nowhere to go, and that's exactly where she and her two friends are. However, Nozomi hits upon an idea that may just solve all of their problems: they could make their own underground fighting circuit for women, and tap into an underexplored market. As good as that sounds, her insistence on including the unknown quantity Hongou Hina may prove to be more than she bargained for...



Tags: Martial Arts , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Cult , Yakuza , Shounen

Saotome-Senshu, Hitakakusu

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Sports

High-Schooler Tsukishima Satoru gets confessed to by local female High-School boxing-talent Saotome Yae. He rejects her initially because he does not want to impede her boxing career (and prevent getting beaten up by her fans). Her female coach, Shioya hears about this and decides to install him as Saotome's trainer so that they can secretly date each other. This situation is also aided by his extensive boxing knowledge.

Tags: Tomboy , Boxing , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , School Club , Seinen , School , Love Triangle , Nudity , Time Skip

Ori no Naka no Soloist

Also known as Soloist in a Cage.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Chloe and her baby brother Locke were born in a prison the size of a city: a walled-off collection of ramshackle buildings full of dangerous criminals who live bleak and isolated lives. Their parents are gone, leaving Chloe to care for her brother. When a trio of soldiers manage to break out of the prison, Chloe goes with them but loses Locke during the escape. After years of training, Chloe returns to the prison city with one goal: to find her now 11-year-old brother and get him out of that hellhole, no matter what it takes.



Tags: Dystopian , Survival , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Robots , Time Skip , Prison , Gore , Shounen , Drugs , Guns

Genikasuri

Also known as Genikasuri.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Sports

After one fateful match, former professional boxer Ryo Harima awakens from a two-year vegetative state to find out his career is over, his father has died, and he's been betrayed by his gym… Broken and fueled by rage, he vows to make it to the top of the boxing world, but this time as a promoter. Prepare yourself for a story about manipulation and money from the dark corner of the boxing world!!!



Tags: Boxing , Seinen , Martial Arts , Revenge , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist

Favela no Mangaka

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama

Manga artist Takei Hiroto, after failing to get serialized, decides to give up on his dreams and goes on a trip to Brazil to get over everything. When he accidentally wanders into a favela, Hiroto meets Joao, a poor boy with a sharp gaze. Joao lives on the other side of the world, but he also dreams of becoming a manga artist...!! No matter who you are or where you live, you don't have to give up. The beginning of a story about two manga artists chasing their dreams from the slums!!

Tags: Drawing , Foreign , Criminal Organization , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Crime , Tragedy

Holyland

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological

Yuu is a high school kid who doesn't really fit anywhere. To find a place he can belong, be accepted, he will do anything. However one thing leads to another and he is forced to fight to keep his place, his holyland.

Tags: Martial Arts , Gangs , Delinquents , Philosophy , Boxing , Coming of Age , Primarily Male Cast , Bullying , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Educational , Drugs , Suicide , Tragedy , Meta , Urban

Teppuu

Also known as Teppu.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

It's not easy being good at everything. First-year high school student Natsuo Ishido has always been a gifted athlete, and her ability to easily master every sport has not only bought her a life of boredom, but the resentment of everyone else who has had to work hard for their achievements. Not that Natsuo cares what anyone else thinks. All she longs for is a break from the monotony...for a real challenge worthy of pouring all her efforts into. A rival—an equal—worth beating down, crushing, and demoralizing… That all seems like a pipe dream until a pair of annoyingly peppy transfer students arrive from Brazil and start up a brand-new club that teases the challenge she craves—Mixed Martial Arts.



Tags: Martial Arts , Female Protagonist , Tomboy , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , Wrestling , Anti-Hero , School Club , School , Tanned Skin

Kenji

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

Kenji is a manga about a Japanese teenager named Kenji, who practices the martial art Bajiquan, and his encounters with other martial artists, some of which are from real life, e.g. Adam Hsu and Liu Chia-Liang. This series primarily features Baji Quan, but also gets into Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Bagua Zhang, Chen Taiji Quan, Pi Quan, Xingyi Quan, Xin Yi Liu He Quan, Shaolin Quan, Hung Ga, Daito Ryu Aikijujutsu, Shotokan Karate and numerous other styles. Kenji's nemesis is a gangster named Tony Tan who practices Hung Gar and later Xinyiliuhequan.

Tags: Martial Arts , Shounen

Rikudou

Also known as Rikudo.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

After losing his father, young Riku Azami encounters Kyosuke Tokorozawa, a former boxer now working as a debt collector. In a world overflowing with injustice, what do people cling to in order to survive? Do they fight? This is the extraordinary boxing story of Riku Azami as he walks the thorny path of life. The boy has nothing. Nothing but his fists.



Tags: Boxing , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Yakuza , Prostitution , Gore , Time Skip