Manga like Dr. Slump

Dragon Ball

Also known as Dragon Ball.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Dragon Ball follows the adventures of Son Goku from his childhood through adulthood as he trains in martial arts and explores the world in search of the seven mystical orbs known as the Dragon Balls, which can summon a wish-granting dragon when gathered. Along his journey, Goku makes several friends and battles a wide variety of villains, many of whom also seek the Dragon Balls for their own desires. Along the way becoming the strongest warrior in the universe.

Part II of Dragon Ball is also known as "Dragon Ball Z" in North America.

Note: Chapter count includes 519 regular chapters and 1 extra. (Volume 33's "Trunks: The Story").

Tags: Martial Arts , Shounen , Travel , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Cultivation , Full Color , Time Skip , Aliens , Henshin , Coming of Age , Cyborg , Afterlife , Anachronism , Tragedy , Gods , Magic , Adoption , Military , Shapeshifting , Nudity , Robots , Rural , Dragons , Dissociative Identities

Toriyama Akira Marusaku Gekijou

Also known as Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

Compilations containing many of Toriyama's one-shots.

Volume 1 (1983)
Wonder Island (1978-1979)
Tomato the Cutesy Gumshoe (1979)
Pola & Roid (1981)
Mad Matic (1982)
Chobit (1983)

Volume 2 (1988)
Today's Highlight Island (1979)
Escape (1982)
Pink (1982)
Dragon Boy (1983)
The Adventure of Tongpoo (1983)
Mr. Ho (1986)
Young Master Ken'nosuke (1987)
The Elder (1988)

Volume 3 (1997)
Little Mamejiro (1988)
Karamaru and the Perfect Day (1989)
Soldier of Savings Cashman (1990)
Dub & Peter 1 (1992-1993)
Go! Go! Ackman (1993)

Tags: Parody , Anthology , Shounen , Police , Samurai , Cars , School , Henshin , Tokusatsu

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

Also known as Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Yoshio Sawai pushes the bounds of satire and the medium of manga itself with Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. Irreverent, silly and unpredictable--Bo-bobo is pure comic genius.

In the year 300X, a cruel dictator has mandated the hunting of all hair in the Maruhage Empire. But a single man rises to the occasion and takes a stand against this violation of human hair rights. Bo-bobo, master of Fist of the Nose Hair, uses the prehensile hairs of his shnoz to most lethal ends. Follow the nonsensical adventures of Bo-bobo and his sentient sidekick snacks as they lead their hilarious rebellion against the Empire.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Shounen , Parody , Super Power

Boku to Roboco

Also known as Me & Roboco.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The year is 20XX... A time when every household owns cute maid robots known as OrderMaids. Average grade-schooler Bondo dreams of having his very own robot. But what he got was... Unable to compute!!! Life is gonna get a whole lot weirder when Roboco, the most powerful clumsy maid ever created, shows up at his door!



Tags: Maids , Parody , Robots , Meta , Surreal Comedy , Shounen , Family Life , Love Triangle

Neko Majin

Also known as Neko Majin.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

Neko Majin is a parody of Dragonball Z by Akira Toriyama. The protagonist Neko Majin fights evil-doers and has a few other Dragonball Z-esque adventures.

Tags: Parody , Shounen , Aliens

Yotsuba to!

Also known as Yotsuba&!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai...um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving's fun 'cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made friends to play with (one of 'em acted like one of those bad strangers Daddy told Yotsuba not to go with, but it was okay in the end). I hope we get to play a lot. And eat ice cream! And-and-and...oh yeah! You should come play with Yotsuba too!



Notes:
Includes an interlude.
Won the Excellence Award for Manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006 and the Grand Prize of the 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2016.
Was nominated for the Manga Taishō award in 2008 and for the 12th and 20th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2008 and 2016.
Was nominated for the Eisner Award in the "Best Publication for Kids" category.

Tags: Family Life , Iyashikei , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Parenthood , Rural , Adoption , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Fishing

Sand Land

Also known as Sand Land.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Supernatural

In the far future, war has destroyed the entire Earth, leaving only a barren wasteland where the supply of water is controlled by the greedy king. In search of a long-lost lake, Sheriff Rao asked the king of the demons for help...and got the king's son, Beelzebub, and his assistant, Thief. Together the unlikely trio sets off across the desert, facing dragons, bandits and the deadliest foe of all... the King's army itself! It's travel adventure and tank action in this new story from Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball Z!



Tags: Demons , Post-Apocalyptic , Desert , Travel , Military , War , Conspiracy , Tanks , Shounen , Martial Arts

Ansatsu Kyoushitsu

Also known as Assassination Classroom.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Meet the would-be assassins of class 3-E: Sugino, who let his grades slip and got kicked off the baseball team. Karma, who’s doing well in his classes but keeps getting suspended for fighting. And Okuda, who lacks both academic and social skills, yet excels at one subject: chemistry. Who has the best chance of winning that reward? Will the deed be accomplished through pity, brute force or poison...? And what chance does their teacher have of repairing his students’ tattered self-esteem?



Note: Includes 7 extras and the one-shot "Tokyo Department Store War Journal".

Tags: Teacher , Assassins , School , Primarily Child Cast , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Satire , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Otaku Culture , Time Skip , Aliens

Nichijou

Also known as Nichijou.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou.



Tags: Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , School , Primarily Female Cast , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Parody , 4-koma , Robots , Teacher , Time Skip , Go , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Tanned Skin

Ranma 1/2

Also known as Ranma ½.

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

Years ago, Genma promised his old friend Soun Tendo that Ranma would marry one of Soun’s three daughters and carry on the family’s martial arts school. Except that the girl picked to be Ranma’s bride doesn’t seem to like him, Ranma keeps getting into fights…and did we mention that whole changing into a girl thing?



Tags: Gender Bending , Love Triangle , Martial Arts , Henshin , Ensemble Cast , Mixed Gender Harem , Cohabitation , Episodic , Shapeshifting , Female Harem , Femboy , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , School , Shounen , Nudity , Tomboy , Ghost , Demons , Arranged Marriage , Magic , Animals , Curses