Manga like Fantasista

Genres: Sports

What is Fantasista about?

Status: Finished

Teppei Sakamoto is a boy at the country-side. He was a soccer lover and all his soccer skills are taught by his sister. Finally his sister wants him to join in Mizumoto High School Soccer team. Teppei's life turn has come!! How will this soccer newbie fare in the new environment?

Tags: Football , Shounen
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Captain Tsubasa

Captain Tsubasa

Also known as Captain Tsubasa.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

11-year-old Tsubasa Ohzora transfers to his new school where he quickly becomes the star of the school's soccer team. His Brazilian coach, Roberto Hongo, notices the potential of the young athlete and soon offers him a chance to come with him to Brazil. Young Tsubasa trains more and more and is with each passing game more confident in his abilities. Old enemies become his friends and the World Cup seems closer and closer for him. Note: The chapter count reflects the original serialization before chapters were merged in the volume releases.

Tags: Football , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Primarily Child Cast
BE BLUES!: Ao ni Nare

BE BLUES!: Ao ni Nare

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

Ryuu Ichijou, a boy who dreams of joining Japan's national soccer team. Ryuu is called a genius soccer player, and his aspirations seem within his reach, but when he is in elementary school he gets hit by a car while protecting his friend, and must face two years of grueling rehabilitation. Story focuses on Ryuu as he joins high school soccer club and works through the remnants of his injuries to achieve his goal.

Tags: Football , School , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , School Club , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Time Skip , Female Harem , Love Triangle
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Shoot!

Shoot!

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Toshihiko Tanaka is a boy who entered Kakegawa High School with his friends Kenji & Kazuhiro, in order to play soccer with Yoshiharu Kubo, a great soccer player whom they have idolized. While his other two friends were reluctant to play again, "Toshi" eventually convinces them to play for the team. The team soon find themselves in the midst of a quest to the All-Japan High School Championship, while overcoming obstacles along the way.

Tags: Football , School Club , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Tragedy , Love Triangle
Aoashi

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 , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , School , Bullying , Love Triangle
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Captain Tsubasa: World Youth-hen

Captain Tsubasa: World Youth-hen

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Enthusiastic soccer-loving youngster Shingo Aoi, whom Tsubasa once played against while in the high school national championships, leaves Japan to play soccer in Italy, where he hopes to play for a major Italian professional team. After arriving in Italy, however, Shingo gets tricked by a man who gives him fraudulent promises of getting him selected for an Italian team, but after Shingo is taken to a badly-furnished field, the man runs away, stealing all his money in the process. Shingo realizes that he is swindled, and tries hard to get his money back, doing such jobs as shoe shining, and his enthusiastic attitude catches the eye of one of the coaches of one of the local teams, Inter Milan, who sign him to play for their squad as an attacking midfielder. Note: The chapter count includes the original 163 serialized chapters and the two extra epilogue chapters.

Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Foreign
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Giant Killing

GIANT KILLING

Also known as Giant Killing.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

A truly great coach makes the game of soccer interesting! Tatsumi Takeshi is 35 and has spent the last few years coaching in England before being brought back to Japan to coach his old team. His favorite pastime? Causing giant upsets—aka Giant Killing!



Tags: Football , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast
Bambino!

Bambino!

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Shogo Ban, a college student from Fukuoka, likes to cook. Thanks to the owner of the restaurant where he works part-time, he finds himself working at the line of Roppongi's best Italian restaurant, Trattoria Baccanale, and discovers that the real deal isn't quite as easy as he'd thought. The manga follows Ban as he struggles to keep up with the hectic workload and his co-workers, along with issues outside the kitchen like his relationship with his girlfriend Eri, who he left behind in Fukuoka.

Note: Received the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga.

Tags: Food , Work , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Restaurant
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Viva! Calcio

Viva! Calcio

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports



Tags: Seinen , Football
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Catenaccio

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 , Male Protagonist
Oretachi no Field

Oretachi no Field

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

A soccer loving boy Takasugi Kazuya dreams of playing soccer with his Japan League star father at the National Yoyogi Stadium. The story follows Kazuya's life as he travels to Argentina, plays for Yamaki, and goes to the 1998 World Cup in France.


Tags: Shounen , Football , Foreign , Coming of Age
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