Manga like Megumi no Daigo

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 , Shounen , Time Skip , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist

Iryuu: Team Medical Dragon

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Dr. Katou is an ambitious woman who seeks to revolutionize the corrupt and inefficient Japanese medical system from within by becoming a professor in a teaching hospital. She enlists a maverick surgeon, Dr. Asada Ryuutarou, to help her with research that would catapult her to a professorship should they succeed and publish. However, Asada's refusal to conform to the system soon threatens to destroy not only her plans but her entire career. Katou is prepared to do anything, including going along with the system, in order to achieve her end goal, but she begins to question whether she has gone too far as Asada's actions bring many of the system's shortcomings to light.



Tags: Medicine , Politics , Work , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Family Life

Uchuu Kyoudai

Also known as Space Brothers.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Two brothers looked to the starry skies as children and made a promise ... Now, in the year 2025, the younger brother, Hibito, is carrying his out. He is an astronaut who has been selected as a crew member for mankind’s first long-term base on the moon. Meanwhile, the older brother, Mutta, has just been fired from his job and is unemployed, but decides to trust himself just one last time. A text message from Hibito sends him applying to be an astronaut too and shooting for the stars …



Notes:
Nominated for the 2nd and 3rd Manga Taisho Award
Won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award
Won the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in the General Category.

Tags: Space , Educational , Seinen , Work , Astronomy , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Tragedy , Aviation , Time Skip , Episodic , Iyashikei , Nudity

Black Jack ni Yoroshiku

Also known as Give My Regards to Black Jack.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

"What is a doctor?"- a young intern faces the dark side of the medical world.
The reality awaiting intern Eijirou Saito at the ultra-prestigious Eiroku University hospital turns out to be brutally long hours of work for a paltry salary of less than $500 a month. 3 months after his graduation from the university, his patients-first idealism crashes head-on into a medical system that's a veritable tangle of contradictions and competing interests.



Note: Won Excellence Prize for Manga in Japan Media Arts Festival (2002) and Grand Award in Japan Cartoonist Association Award (2004).

Tags: Medicine , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Rehabilitation , Educational , Work , Disability , Episodic , Nudity , Heterosexual , Suicide

Waga na wa Umishi

Also known as Master of Sea.

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

Salvors are men responsible for towing wrecked ships and handling the cargo. They are different from rescue teams as they usually ask for money before offering help. Nanba Rintarou's father was the owner of such a company, but Rintarou really hated the way they operate and decided to work in a proper rescue team.

However, Rintarou's father died right after Rintarou completed his training. In his will he asked Rintarou to take over his company. What's worse is he left his son a debt of 1.5 billion yen...

Tags: Seinen , Work , Scuba Diving , Coastal

Tokkyuu!!

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

It's about the coastal lifeguard, Hyogo Kanbayashi, as he tries to make his way to enter Tokkyu, the elite lifeguard team.

Tags: Scuba Diving , Shounen , Coastal

Dr. DMAT: Gareki no Shita no Hippocrates

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

General Practitioner Yakumo Hibiki found himself assigned to the DMAT: Disaster Medical Assistance Team, a special unit of the exceptional methods rescuers. Called only on accidents under extreme conditions, its members must react quickly and must know always keep their composure. Immersed in this new life that he never imagined, Hibiki will face this harsh new reality, its doubts and its fears. One hesitation would cost the death for the victims present at the scene of accidents.

Tags: Medicine , Work , Seinen

Umizaru

Status: Finished
Genres: Thriller

Umizaru, the Sea Monkey, is about the Maritime Safety Agency. The main character is Daisuke Senzaki age 19, a newbie navigation officer aboard the Nagare. He has a trauma from the past and hates to over look at lives he could save even if it means risking his own. See what kind of troubles arise and how Daisuke moves from just a navigation officer to an Umizaru!

Tags: Seinen

Enen no Shouboutai

Also known as Fire Force.

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

Terror has paralyzed the clockwork metropolis of Tokyo! Possessed by demons, people have begun to burst into flame, leading to the establishment of a special firefighting team: the Fire Force, ready to roll on a moment's notice to fight spontaneous combustion anywhere it might break out. The team is about to get a very unique addition: Shinra, a boy who possesses the unique power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous "devil's footprints" (and destroying his shoes in the process). Can the Fire Force discover the source of this strange phenomenon and put a stop to it? Or will the city burn to ashes first?



Note: Includes the prologue and two epilogue chapters.

Tags: Cosmic Horror , Super Power , Shounen , Religion , Gods , Post-Apocalyptic , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Firefighters , Meta , Cult , Demons , Alternate Universe , Urban Fantasy , Military , Dragons , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Nun , Swordplay , Female Harem , Crossover

NARUTO

Also known as Naruto.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Supernatural

Before Naruto's birth, a great demon fox had attacked the Hidden Leaf Village. A man known as the 4th Hokage sealed the demon inside the newly born Naruto, causing him to unknowingly grow up detested by his fellow villagers. Despite his lack of talent in many areas of ninjutsu, Naruto strives for only one goal: to gain the title of Hokage, the strongest ninja in his village. Desiring the respect he never received, Naruto works towards his dream with fellow friends Sasuke and Sakura and mentor Kakashi as they go through many trials and battles that come with being a ninja.

Tags: Shounen , Ninja , Coming of Age , Revenge , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Martial Arts , War , Tragedy , Found Family , Full Color , Time Skip , Orphan , Cultivation , Kaiju , Magic , Philosophy , Necromancy , Anachronism , Henshin , Love Triangle , Travel , Espionage , Demons , Aliens , Animals