Manga like Beshari Gurashi

Show-ha Shou-ten!

Also known as Show-ha Shoten!.

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

Reach the Top of the Comedy World, One Laugh at a Time!

Shy Azemichi Shijima has secretly been studying the art of comedy. His outgoing classmate Taiyo Higashikata has big dreams of being funny but no follow-through. When the two team up, they just might take the comedy world by storm!

Higashikata ropes Shijima into performing in a comedy duo with him at a school show. Inspired by their guaranteed success, Higashikata asks Shijima to join him in an audacious dream—to rise to the top of Japan’s comedy scene by winning major events in both stand-up and sketch comedy!



Tags: Coming of Age , Slapstick , Male Protagonist , Manzai , Shounen , Educational , Acting , School , Heterosexual

Akane-banashi

Also known as Akane-banashi.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama

Rakugo--the ultimate form of storytelling, where everything in a story is expressed with just your body and words. Shinta and his daughter Akane have been seduced by this wonderful form of classical entertainment. Having observed her father strive to pass the shin'uchi rakugo test, Akane will take her own steps into this unique world!



Notes:
Ranked 3rd in the 8th Next Manga Awards print manga category in 2022.
Ranked 4th in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023 guidebook for male readers.
Ranked 3rd in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2023.
Ranked 2nd in the 16th Manga Taisho in 2023.
Nominated for the 47th Kodansha Manga Award in the shounen category in 2023.
Included in the New York Public Library's 2023 Best Books for Teens.
Included in YALSA's 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens.

Tags: Rakugo , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Coming of Age , Acting , Work , Philosophy , Shounen , Found Family , Revenge , Family Life , Time Skip , School

Manzai Gang

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

A man ( Kurosawa ) who has been part of a manzai (stand up comedy) duo for ten years, finds himself in trouble after his partner quits due to their declining popularity. He attempts to drink his problems away but finds himself locked up in a detention center. At the detention center the man meets a deliquent (Onizuka) who has an uncanny knack for comedy. Thus a new manzai duo is created!

Tags: Manzai

Demekin

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Slice of Life

In the first years of elementary school, Sata Masaki was bullied and called "demekin" (pop-eyed goldfish). Ｈe became conscious of his strength from the 3rd year on, started looking up to delinquents and now he's about to make his middle-school debut...!?

Tags: Seinen , School

Setoutsumi

Also known as Seto Utsumi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

This manga has been made into a movie and a TV drama in japan. "I wish we could just spend all our high school days sittin' and chattin' by this river." This seven chapter volume is a collection of the funky, off-the-wall, and sometimes cynical after-school conversations between Seto and Utsumi, two high-schoolers from the Kansai region of Japan.



Note: Includes 17 extra chapters.

Tags: Achronological Order , School , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Shounen , Revenge , Animals , Disability