Manga like Ryuu to Chameleon

Bakuman.

Also known as Bakuman。.

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

Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world?



Tags: Drawing , Work , Meta , Shounen , Educational , Writing , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Tomboy , School , Tragedy

Time Paradox Ghostwriter

Also known as Time Paradox Ghostwriter.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi

On a cold and stormy night, I decide to give up on my dream. But lightning strikes! And now I have an issue of Shonen Jump from the future! Teppei Sasaki is a passionate rookie manga artist who dreams of getting a series in Weekly Shonen Jump. One day, he gets a copy of Jump from ten years in the future. Is it all a coincidence, or is it fate? Whatever the case, destiny is about to change... Time warps! Destinies intersected! For a tomorrow that was never meant to be! The future of Jump is here!



Note: Includes the epilogue.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Drawing , Shounen , Otaku Culture , Meta , Writing , Time Skip

Blue Period

Also known as Blue Period.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…



Note: Nominated for Manga Taisho Awards in 2019, Kodansha Manga Awards in 2019 and the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020. Winner of the 13th Manga Taisho Awards. Winner of the General Manga category of the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Awards.

Tags: Drawing , Coming of Age , College , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Educational , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Tragedy , Transgender , Bisexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Suicide , Crossdressing , Gender Bending , Nudity , Tomboy

Look Back

Also known as Look Back.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Fujino is a fourth grader who draws a manga strip for the school newspaper. Her art makes her the star of the class, but one day she's told that Kyomoto, a student who refuses to come to school, would also like to submit a manga for the paper...



Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on September 3, 2021.

Tags: Drawing , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Hikikomori , Shounen , Coming of Age , Work , Meta , School , Primarily Child Cast , Philosophy , Rehabilitation

THE COMIQ

Also known as THE COMIQ.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Thriller

Ryota Sakamaki is a struggling artist who finally gets his big break when his manga series is serialized. Sakamaki’s life is thrown into turmoil, however, when he learns that his backgrounds are drawn by an inmate charged with the infamous Halloween Murder. But is his assistant truly guilty of that heinous crime?!

The manga is commemorating the 50th anniversary of Weekly Shonen Jump.



Tags: Drawing , Conspiracy , Work , Shounen , Yandere

Hoero Pen

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

The truth about the mangaka: Moyuru Honoo will show how hard and dangerous this job is. But his passion for drawing and for the supreme art of mangas can't be stopped, even by blonde assassins, alien writers, and unhappy editors!

Tags: Seinen , Drawing , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Episodic

Monochrome no Futari

Also known as Monochrome Days.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy

A reliable office worker, Hanaichi Fudo, undoubtedly had a gift for the arts but gave up on his dreams of becoming an artist to lead a normal life. One day, his senior at work, Saori Wakaba, asked Hanaichi for help in writing her manga. Will he take up the pen again?! Written by Yosuke Matsumoto, author of "The Lady Becomes an Idol", a unique new take on aspiring manga artists!

Tags: Drawing , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Shounen , Heterosexual , Office , Work , Educational

Hidarite no Tame no Nijuusou

Also known as Piano Duo for the Left Hand.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music

Shu's had a rough start to life, and doesn't think he has much of a future—until fate brings him together with talented young pianist and fellow student Akari Yuzuki, the girl with the "Angelic Left Hand" for one high-flying adventure. But when tragedy cuts their relationship short, Shu realizes he must find a way to live for them both...and realizes that something is no longer quite right with his own left hand...



Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Classical Music , Delinquents

Ryuu Okuri no Isagi

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy

A world of dragons, and a boy who lives in a prison colony thinking of the opponent he killed, until one day he has an encounter with a great general.

Tags: Dragons , Shounen

Kimi to Uchuu wo Aruku Tame ni

Also known as Spacewalking With You.

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

Kobayashi just can’t focus—not on studying, not on work—and the adults in his life think he’s in danger of becoming a worthless dropout. Then, one day, a strange new presence arrives in his class: an energetic and naïve kid named Uno. Kobayashi saves Uno from getting scammed, and that close encounter launches a new friendship. Uno’s definitely a space cadet, but Kobayashi can’t help admiring the way he floats through life, and before he knows it, he might start feeling his feet lift off the ground, too…



Note: Winner of Manga Taisho 2024.

Tags: Disability , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Astronomy , Rehabilitation , School Club , School , Delinquents , Work , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast