Manga like Gekiman!

"Gundam" wo Tsukutta Otoko-tachi.

Also known as The Men Who Created Gundam.

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

An fiction based story involving Yoshiyuki Tomino's trials and tribulations in attempting to create the next generation in Japanese anime. This is the story of the events surrounding the creation of the Mobile Suit Gundam series and its shaky and turbulent foundation. While this story is mainly fictional, the central elements and characters are indeed real which gives some factual basis for the story.

Was first serialized as Gundam Sousei (ガンダム創世), part of the Gundam-san series.
Also includes the side story Tomino Den (トミノ伝) and two extras.

Tags: Biographical , Work , Parody , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Ai no Jidai: Ichigoichie

Status: Finished
Genres:

The story is a semi-autobiographical fiction.

Tags: Autobiographical , Shounen

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

Kantoku Fuyuki Todoki

Also known as Insufficient Direction.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

A natural match between the manga queen Moyoco Anno and the patron saint of otaku, Hideaki Anno! When Moyoco Anno, the widely successful creator of women's manga, married Hideaki Anno, creator of Evangelion and a director known to be the very model of an otaku, she held one important doubt: "Am I really ready to be an otaku's wife?" Taking up that challenge, Moyoco Anno launched herself into the deep and beautiful world of married life. This comic essay, an account of the private lives of two of Japan's most high-profile creators, is raw, unfiltered, and unforgettably hilarious



Tags: Autobiographical , Josei , Otaku Culture , Marriage , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast

Shissou Nikki

Also known as Disappearance Diary.

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

In 1989, comic artist Hideo Azuma succumbs to the pressures of deadlines and tries (unsuccessfully) to hang himself using the slope of a mountain. He leaves his family, wandering as a dumpster bum looking for scraps of food, cigarette butts or discarded alcohol. After several months he is arrested as a vagrant and returned to his home. He then repeats the cycle in 1992 this time becoming a gas pipe fitter in another town. Later, in 1998, his alcohol dependence is so bad he is forced into rehab. This book is his expression of those three periods of his life told, not in a deep or depressed way but, as befits his nature, in a buoyant and cheerful cartoon art.



Tags: Autobiographical , Male Protagonist , Disability , Non-fiction , Rehabilitation , Seinen , Food , Work , Homeless , Suicide

Aoi Honoo

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

In this story set in the early 1980s, a young man dreams of becoming a renowned comic writer in years to come. His name is HONOO Moyuru. He has no money, only a dream. Then, he feels overwhelmed by his lack of ability, and buys some sake, although he has no head or stomach for alcohol. This is a tortured elegy for any dashing young art student who spends his days careening around in burning ambition.

Tags: Autobiographical , Otaku Culture , Seinen

Rensai Shuuryou! Shounen Jump Ougon-ki no Butaiura

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

An autobiographical manga detailing Kouji Maki's struggle in the manga industry during the 80s, the "Golden Age of Shounen Jump."

Tags: Autobiographical , Drawing , Male Protagonist , Meta , Seinen , Work

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 , Marriage , Love Triangle

Shuukan Shounen Hachi

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Fresh out of high school, Yasaka "Hachi" Hachiki enters the infamous Onigahama manga academy in the hope of becoming a pro mangaka. Well aware of his lack of talent, Hachi soon meets Mikeya Touma, a young prodigy who nonetheless thinks he has a long way to go. Despite the gap in their abilities, an incident suddenly sparks a rivalry between the two of them. Thus begins the tale of Onigahama's students and their merciless struggle to achieve their common dream.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Drawing , School , Shounen

Gekiman! Cutie Honey-hen

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi

An autobiographical manga about the creation of Cutie Honey.

Tags: Henshin , Nudity , Gore , Seinen , Gender Bending , Autobiographical