Manga like Fighting Girls

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 , Philosophy , Primarily Child Cast , Rehabilitation , Yuri

Takopii no Genzai

Also known as Takopi's Original Sin.

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

Takopi travels from his home of Happy Planet to spread happiness across Earth, but meets the unsmiling Shizuka upon landing. Her friends at school and home life seem to be the source of her somber expression—and the pure-hearted Takopi is determined to change things for the better! But what truths await him when the curtains rise in this shocking drama?!



Tags: Bullying , Tragedy , Aliens , Time Manipulation , Denpa , Primarily Child Cast , Suicide , Female Protagonist , Crime , Shounen , Memory Manipulation , Coming of Age , Magic , Philosophy , Clone

Hanareta Futari

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Tags: Football , Coming of Age , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen

Sayonara Eri

Also known as Goodbye, Eri.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

With his mother dying, Yuuta attempts to capture her last days on his phone. After her death, Yuuta heads to the roof of the hospital to commit suicide, but a meeting with a strange girl leads him on the path to making a movie.



Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on July 4, 2022.

Tags: Filmmaking , Meta , POV , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Acting , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Vampire , Time Skip , Primarily Teen Cast , Family Life , School , Suicide , Shounen , Disability

Ashita no Joe

Also known as Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow.

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

Joe Yabuki is a troubled young man who runs away from an orphanage. Wandering through the Tokyo slums, he meets former boxing trainer Danpei. Joe is later arrested and goes to a temporary jail where he fights Nishi, his future best friend, ​and leader of a group of hooligans. He and Nishi then go to a juvenile prison miles away from Tokyo. There Joe meets Rikiishi, a former boxing prodigy, and a rivalry develops between them. They face each other in a match in which Rikiishi dominates Joe until the latter hits him with a cross-counter, resulting in both being knocked out. This inspires the other prison inmates to take up boxing. Joe and Rikiishi vow to fight again.



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

Chihaya Restart!

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Sports

Sakurazaka Chihaya is a girl whose only skill is her quick legs. Chihaya jumped into the world of athletics when she first met her long-time rival, Mio Koshimizu, back in junior high. She promised Mio, who went to another school, that they would meet again in the Inter-Highs....

Tags: Athletics , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Time Skip