Manga like Crows

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

OUT

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

17-year-old Iguchi Tatsuya has just been released from juvenile detention and is on probation. He's been relocated to a new area, away from the bad influence of his old friends, and is under the care of his aunt. He is determined not to be sent back to lockup, and he works hard in his aunt's restaurant. However, he still has the same personality, the same tendency to violence, and still falls in with the same sort of people. It's going to be difficult for him to stay out of trouble.

Tags: Delinquents , Seinen , Gangs , Autobiographical , Gore , Conspiracy , Philosophy

Kyou kara Ore wa!!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

After Takashi's family moves into a new neighborhood, he decides to use the opportunity to become a delinquent. Upon meeting Itou, he finds out that he wasn't the only one who had this idea. Making friends and foes along the way, will these two take over their school or just end up as wannabes?



Tags: Delinquents , School , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , Slapstick , Gangs , Surreal Comedy

Clover

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

Misaki Hayato returns to his hometown and enrolls in the same high school as his two childhood friends. A lot has changed in the years he has been gone, his former best friends are seemingly distant from each other and leading relatively normal high school lives. Hayato's sudden arrival soon changes that and sends shockwaves through the entire town's delinquent population with his willingness to do anything for his friends and his love for a good fight.

Tags: Delinquents , Shounen , Coming of Age , Primarily Male Cast , School

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 , Bullying , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Educational , Drugs , Suicide , Tragedy , Meta

BE-BOP-HIGHSCHOOL

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

The story revolves around the lives of two rough-and-tumble high school friends, Hiroshi Kato and Toru Nakama, who frequently cause trouble and start fights. In keeping with the spirit of the manga, Toru and Hiroshi style their hair in punch perms and also adopt exaggerated swaggering gaits. The manga also features an assortment of outlandish characters who also sport unusual fashions and hairdos.



Note: Won the 12th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1988.

Tags: School , Delinquents , Shounen , Nudity , Bullying

Bakuon Rettou

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

In the 80s, the parents of Kaze Takashi move to a quiet area of ​​Tokyo in order to save the young man from the bad influence of his friends. In class, Takashi does not take long to make new friends and they soon invite him to meet with their gang, the Zeros. Takashi comes to love motorcycles and gets involved with the gang. What has he got himself into and is he ready to face the consequences?

Tags: Gangs , Delinquents , Coming of Age , Motorcycles , Seinen , Autobiographical , Tragedy , Yakuza , School , Revenge , Class Struggle , Anti-Hero , Prison , Bullying , Criminal Organization , Drugs ,

Kiku

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

Endou Kiku, a delinquent lone wolf, is pissed off with the world and everyone in it. Until he meets Senji and Sanji, who were just like him until they met each other. This one volume story follows Kiku as he finds out what it means to have friends and not be alone in the world, while also kicking ass and taking names in the meantime. This is the original Takahashi Hiroshi delinquent manga, predating his more famous works Crows, QP and Worst.

Tags: Shounen , Delinquents , Primarily Male Cast , Coming of Age , School

Tokyo卍Revengers

Also known as Tokyo Revengers.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Hanagaki Takemichi was once a low-life punk, but after biting off more than he could chew with a gang in middle school, he ran away from his old life. Now that he’s an adult, the gang that once terrorized him has grown into the largest gang in Tokyo, and they’ve started killing people–including his old girlfriend! After learning this news, a mysterious force on a train platform shoves Takemichi right in front of an approaching train. As his life flashes before his eyes, he blinks to find himself transported back to middle school, before he fled from the gang! Now he has the chance to right what went wrong all those years ago. Can he save his girlfriend’s life in the future–and what else might he change if he’s rewriting the past?



Notes:
Winner of the Shounen Manga category of the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Awards.
Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Delinquents , Gangs , Time Manipulation , Time Skip , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Conspiracy , Crime , Shounen , Age Regression , Urban , Ensemble Cast , Motorcycles , Heterosexual , Suicide , LGBTQ+ Themes , Boys' Love , Love Triangle , Espionage , Mopeds , Gore , Age Gap , School , Guns , Adoption

Shonan Junai Gumi!

Also known as GTO: The Early Years - Shonan Junai Gumi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Before Eikichi Onizuka would become the "greatest teacher in the world," he and Ryuji Danma were members of the infamous biker gang, Oni Baku. When they weren't out riding around and getting into trouble, this duo could be found in school. Doing what you ask? Picking up young women of course!



Tags: Delinquents , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Gangs , Urban , Slapstick , Heterosexual , Motorcycles , Age Gap , School , Female Harem , Transgender , Dissociative Identities , Nudity