Manga like Beniiro HERO

Haikyuu!!

Also known as Haikyu!!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

A chance event triggered Shouyou Hinata's love for volleyball. His club had no members, but somehow persevered and finally made it into its very first and final regular match of middle school, where it was steamrolled by Tobio Kageyama, a superstar player known as "King of the Court." Vowing revenge, Hinata applied to the Karasuno High School volleyball club...only to come face-to-face with his hated rival, Kageyama! A tale of hot-blooded youth and volleyball from the pen of Haruichi Furudate!!



Notes:
Winner of the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2017.
Chapter count includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Volleyball , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Coming of Age , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip , School , Philosophy , Twins

Chihayafuru

Also known as Chihayafuru.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sports

Chihaya is a girl in the sixth grade, still not old enough to even know the meaning of the word zeal. But one day, she meets Arata, a transfer student from rural Fukui prefecture. Though docile and quiet, he has an unexpected skill: his ability to play competitive karuta, a traditional Japanese card game.

Chihaya is struck by his obsession with the game, along with his ability to pick out the right card and swipe it away before any of his opponents. However, Arata is transfixed by her as well, all because of her unbelievable natural talent for the game. Don't miss this story of adolescent lives and emotions playing out in the most dramatic of ways!



Notes:
It won the 2nd Manga Taisho Award and the 35th annual Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shoujo.
It was nominated for the 20th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2016.

Tags: Karuta , Female Protagonist , Josei , Coming of Age , School Club , Unrequited Love , Card Battle , Love Triangle , POV , Educational , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , School , Tomboy , Heterosexual , Bullying , Slapstick

Koukou Debut

Also known as High School Debut.

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

After blindly following the advice of fashion magazines and the like, Haruna fails to win the eye of any guy. Convinced that a coach is needed (just like when she trained for softball), she recruits cute upperclassman Yoh Komiyama to instruct her on how to make herself more appealing. Yoh agrees, with one catch: Haruna had better not fall for him!



Note: The last two volume, Koukou Debut -Enrenhen-, contains oneshots and side-stories of the series.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Tomboy , Coming of Age , Baseball

Ao no Hako

Also known as Blue Box.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life , Sports

Taiki Inomata is on the boys' badminton team at sports powerhouse Eimei Junior and Senior High. He's in love with basketball player Chinatsu Kano, the older girl he trains alongside every morning in the gym. One Spring day, their relationship takes a sharp turn ... And thus begins this brand-new series of love, sports and youth!



Tags: School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Athletics , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Badminton , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Basketball , Cohabitation

Attack No.1

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sports

The story is about Kozue Ayuhara, the new girl who transferred to Fujimi College, who tried out for the school volleyball team. Her friendship with Midori would develop, and her talents would impress coach Honga more and more each day. Though she showcased extraordinary volleyball skills, she would make enemies with Yoshimura, the star of the current team. Kozue would discover that being at the top would bring stress, incompatibilities and other dilemmas into her life. Her high expectations of becoming the best volleyball player in the school, Japan and eventually the world, would set the tone for the drama to follow.



Tags: Volleyball , Shoujo , School , Female Protagonist

Men's Life

Also known as Men's Life: Her Secret Life in The Boys' Dormitory.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Sports

Mio loves radio, where she can be herself in private while still sharing her interests with the world—totally unlike her twin brother, Yuuta, the popular extrovert on the volleyball team. But when the love of Yuuta's life decides to study abroad in Australia, he asks Mio to do the unthinkable—go to school in his place! Suddenly Mio is thrust not only into the world of volleyball, but of men's dorms...and must do whatever she can to keep her secret!



Tags: Shoujo , Crossdressing , Twins , Male Harem , Volleyball , School , Gender Bending , Hikikomori , Primarily Teen Cast , Boarding School , School Club , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist

Sorairo Ageha

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Sports

When Ageha was little she watched a tennis game and was affected by a passionate young tennis player. Years later she was determined to become a number one tennis player and to join the tennis club in her new high school.

Unexpectedly, on her first day of school she finds out that her new seat mate is none other than Takeru, the tennis player she was inspired from. But her excitement lasts shortly since Takeru turns out to be a jerk and he even gave up on tennis. When things couldn't turn worser, Ageha realises that there isn’t any tennis club in her school! Despite the unlucky start, she is still determined to create the Tennis Club and she works overnight for days to clean the tennis court all on her own. She also keeps practicing alone even though her rackets had been broken days before by Takeru. But her perseverance is slowly touching the boy. Surprisingly, he shows up during her training dressed in a tennis gear. And he even gives Ageha a new tennis racket and starts coaching her. Is this the start of a new love on the tennis field?



Tags: Shoujo , Tennis , School Club

Viva! Volleyball

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Volleyball , School Club , Primarily Child Cast

Rally Game!

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

A girl joins a powerhouse volleyball team despite being average and becomes the coach.

Tags: Shoujo , Volleyball

Switch Girl!!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Tamiya Nika is a beautiful, outgoing, popular high school girl. She has just the right look, just the right fashions, and is everyone’s friend. What everyone at school does not know is how hard Nika works to keep up this perfect image, and what she is REALLY like at home. When not at school, Nika is a scary, sloppy, tight-fisted girl who wears glasses, an ugly sweatsuit, and has her hair pulled back into unattractive buns. She lays around playing video games and reading manga. Her attitude is bossy and cranky, and she travels far out of her way to shop where she won’t be recognized.

Every day, Nika “Switches On” with a strict regimen of beautification that involves primping and plucking and careful dressing. The only person who knows about Nika’s Switched On/Off modes is her best friend, who is also aware of the reasons behind the changes.

However, soon a second person finds about about Nika’s personalities - someone who has his own On/Off switch, but in reverse! His name is Kamiyama Arata, and he is a recent transfer student. He meets Nika when she is in OFF Mode, and then again at school when she is ON. However Nika can see that he has his little secret. At school, Arata wears thick swirly-eyed glasses and messy hair that make some bullies think he is an otaku. However, at home, he ditches the glasses and is downright gorgeous! He is just the opposite of Nika, but why?



Included one-shot:
Volume 3: Switch Girl!! (pilot)

Tags: Shoujo , School , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast