Manga like DIG IT

Haikyuu!!

Also known as Haikyu!!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Shouyou Hinata is out to prove that in volleyball you don’t need to be tall to fly!

After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, “the King of the Court,” Shouyou Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy he wants to defeat ends up being his teammate?!



Notes:
Winner of the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2017.
Includes two extra chapters.

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

Aoashi

Also known as Aoashi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Ashito Aoi, a third year middle school student from Ehime, meets Fukuda Tatsuya, a J Youth League coach. Even though he's still rough around the edges, Ashito has such amazing potential that he gets invited by coach Fukuda to participate in his team's try-outs in Tokyo. The story of a boy who will revolutionize Japanese football begins to unfold.

Notes:
Nominated for the 2017 Manga Taishou Award.
Winner of the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for "Best General Manga" category in 2019.

Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Seinen , School , Bullying , Love Triangle

Catenaccio

Also known as Catenaccio.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Sports

Yataro Araki, a member of the Tojo High School soccer team, has big dreams. Within a decade, he sees himself conquering the soccer world’s loftiest peak: European “football!” Fast forward to what may be his last soccer match before graduation, the match that will make or break his dreams. Having thus far failed to attract the attention of scouts, he is now desperate do whatever it takes to prove himself. Yataro is prepared to get his hands dirty if it means winning. If it means standing at the top! Welcome to the world of international football! Nothing is sacred, no rule is left unbroken! Not when victory is on the line!



Tags: Football , Seinen , Foreign , Male Protagonist

Harigane Service

Also known as Harigane Serve: Against All Odds.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Pinch server Shimodaira Kanna enters high school with the hopes of appearing regularly in volleyball matches even though he sucks at everything aside from serving. The club he enters has three other formidable first years. But that's not all, even the older members look like a strong team. Will he get his chance to shine?

Tags: School Club , Volleyball , Shounen , Male Protagonist , School

Red Blue

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Sports

A story about the sullen Aoba Suzuki and the rising star Kenshin Akasawa making their way into the world of MMA fighting.

Tags: Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Martial Arts , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , School , Fitness , Primarily Teen Cast

Shakunetsu Kabaddi

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

The story centers on first-year high school student Tatsuya Yoigoshi, a former ace soccer player who dislikes sports. He gets invited to join a team for the contact sport kabaddi. He scoffs at the idea at first but becomes interested after watching a kabaddi practice.



Tags: School Club , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist

Kuroko no Basket

Also known as Kuroko's Basketball.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

When incoming first-year student Taiga Kagami joins the Seirin High basketball team, he meets Tetsuya Kuroko, a mysterious boy who’s plain beyond words. But Kagami’s in for the shock of his life when he learns that the practically invisible Kuroko was once a member of “the Miracle Generation”— the undefeated legendary team—and he wants Kagami’s help taking down each of his old teammates!



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: School , Basketball , Shounen , Super Power , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Tomboy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Found Family

Hanebado!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Tachibana Kentarou is a high school badminton coach who has a lot more enthusiasm than some of the members of his very small team. One day, he meets the quiet-voiced student Hanesaki Ayano, who is effortlessly physically capable and experienced in badminton. He tries to recruit her, but she seems to have no interest in the sport at all. Due to a series of circumstances, she eventually ends up joining the team. Coach Tachibana is determined that with her on board, they'll be champions!

Tags: Badminton , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Tomboy

Blue Lock

Also known as Blue Lock.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match...and to do so, they've gathered 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team...and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?



Note: Winner of the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2021.

Tags: Football , Athletics , Battle Royale , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Anti-Hero , Super Power , Fitness , Foreign , Augmented Reality , Tragedy , Language Barrier , Suicide , Revenge

Switch

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Tired of constantly being compared to his prodigious older sibling Riku, Raimu decides to take him head-on by surpassing him in the field of basketball.

Included one-shot:
Volume 15: Trick Shot

Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.

Tags: Basketball , Shounen , School Club , School , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Tragedy