Manga like F

capeta

Also known as Capeta.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Taira Capeta was a 4th grader boy. He had lost his mother when he had been very little. Although he pretended to be tough in front of his father, actually he felt lonely. One day, his father brought junk parts home from his workplace and made a racing cart. Soon, they went to a circuit to drive the cart. However, Capeta found that its frame was bent and it could hardly run straight. But, with his technique he managed the cart. Furthermore, he followed soon after the fast cart and he could nearly leave it behind. The driver in the cart was Minamoto Naomoi, the champion of the East Japan Junior Cart. Looking at their chase, Naomi’s mother, Minamoto Nanako, advised Capeta to take part in the official race.



Tags: Cars , Time Skip , Shounen , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , School , Love Triangle

Initial D

Also known as Initial D.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Only the fearless survive in the white-hot world of street racing, as teams take on dangerous roads in the shadow of Mt. Akina. Behind the wheel of the mysterious "Ghost of Akina" is Takumi, on his way to becoming the greatest racer ever.



Note: the chapter count includes six extra chapters published in volumes 2, 3, 30, 33, 39 and 48.

Tags: Cars , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , School , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Heterosexual , Rural , Nudity

Wangan Midnight

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

When high school student Akio Asakura loses a high speed race to a Porsche 911 Turbo known as "Blackbird," he goes to a junkyard to find parts for his car - only to discover a blue first-generation Datsun Fairlady Z (S30), which he buys. Akio later discovers that not only is the Z tuned to 620 bhp, it's had a dark history of unfortunate accidents with its previous owners. Making matters more complicated is the fact that the last owner shared the same name with Akio. With the "Devil Z," Akio forms a new rivalry with the Blackbird and its driver Tatsuya Shima.



Tags: Cars , Male Protagonist , Seinen

Akage no Anne

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Miss Marilla Cuthbert and Mr. Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt an orphan boy from the asylum as a helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps, what ends up under their roof is a precocious girl of eleven named Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and quick, eager to please but dissatisfied with her name, her pale countenance dotted with freckles, and with her long braids of red hair. Being a child of imagination, however, Anne takes much joy in life, and adapts quickly, thriving in the environment of Prince Edward Island.

Tags: Tragedy , Shoujo , Historical , Adoption , Classic Literature , Family Life , Orphan , Parenthood , Coastal , Rural , Foreign , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Elderly Protagonist , School

Kirin

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

A manga about the story of a 38-year-old salaryman named Kirin who is also a street racer.

Tags: Seinen , Motorcycles , Gangs , Delinquents , Cars , Nudity

Hikaru Kaze

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Gen, while trying to escape from his traditional and conservative family, start to works in a publishing house. He will soon discover that a terrible illness that infected a Japanese village some years ago hides more than what the official version says. Trying to know more about it, he will discover a​ horrible reality...



Tags: Tragedy , Conspiracy , Body Horror , Politics , Historical , Gore , Primarily Teen Cast

Ashita no Joe

Also known as Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Sports

A young drifter named Joe Yabuki wanders through the slums of Tokyo, but when the local ruffians try to give him a hard time he teaches them a rough lesson with his fists. The spectacle sparks a gleam in the eye of an old drunk who happens to be watching—Danpei Tange, a failed boxer and former coach who sees something special in the boy. He pleads with Joe to train with him off, but the cocky young fighter brushes him. Later, though, when Joe is arrested and put in a juvenile detention facility, he realizes that he’s going to need to hone his raw fighting skills if he wants to survive. Thus is born a partnership that might just take Joe all the way to the top…



Tags: Tragedy , Boxing , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Class Struggle , Orphan , Urban , Disability , Anti-Hero , Athletics , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Delinquents , Prison , Foreign , Historical , War , Yakuza