Manga like Genikasuri

Usogui

Also known as Usogui.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological , Thriller

Driven by his desire for quick money, young Kaji gets involved with a loan shark and soon finds himself hounded by debt collectors. One day, a mysterious man named Baku Madarame appears before him. Calling himself a gambler, Baku boldly declares that he’ll help Kaji repay his debt—and descends into the world of underground casinos…



Tags: Gambling , Death Game , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Crime , Philosophy , Martial Arts , Amnesia , Memory Manipulation , Poker , Mafia , Primarily Male Cast , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Gore , Fairy Tale , Terrorism , LGBTQ+ Themes , Guns , Aliens

Batuque

Also known as Batuque.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Ichiri Sanjo, a middle school student raised in a typical household, lives under a persistent shadow of loneliness and suffocating restriction. One day, after school, while caught in the middle of a convenience store robbery, she is swept into a surreal experience—the very moment her journey of discovery and liberation ignites. Music, combat, dance, philosophy, and religion... Through the lens of Capoeira—a martial art encompassing every facet of human expression—visionary creator Toshio Sako pours his technical mastery into this extraordinary, coming-of-age violent epic. A genre-defying saga of youth begins.

Tags: Martial Arts , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Seinen , Mafia , Revenge , Crime , Adoption , Ghost , Historical

The Boxer

Also known as The Boxer.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

While searching for a final prodigy to train, legendary boxing coach K stumbles across a bewildering scene—an apathetic teenager simply standing still as his bullies throttle him. But Coach K sees more than this, sees the precision, grace, and uncanny perceptiveness in the boy’s movements. He knows right away that this is the fighter he’s been waiting for. Yet when he tries to recruit him, the boy with the lifeless eyes only asks one question: “Is it any fun? Hitting people…Is it fun?”



Note: Includes 30 extra chapters.

Tags: Boxing , Philosophy , Martial Arts , Athletics , Male Protagonist , Full Color , Primarily Male Cast , Tragedy , Religion , Bullying , Time Skip , Meta , Military , School , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Long Strip

Rikudou

Also known as Rikudo.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

After losing his father, young Riku Azami encounters Kyosuke Tokorozawa, a former boxer now working as a debt collector. In a world overflowing with injustice, what do people cling to in order to survive? Do they fight? This is the extraordinary boxing story of Riku Azami as he walks the thorny path of life. The boy has nothing. Nothing but his fists.



Tags: Boxing , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Yakuza , Prostitution , Gore , Time Skip

Hajime no Ippo

Also known as Hajime no Ippo: Fighting Spirit!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Sports

Makunouchi Ippo has been bullied his entire life. Constantly running errands and being beaten up by his classmates, Ippo has always dreamed of changing himself, but never has the passion to act upon it. One day, in the midst of yet another bullying, Ippo is saved by Takamura Mamoru, who happens to be a boxer. Ippo faints from his injuries and is brought to Takamura boxing gym to recover. As he regains consciousness, he is awed and amazed at his new surroundings in the gym, though lacks confidence to attempt anything. Takamura places a photo of Ippo’s classmate on a punching bag and forces him to punch it. It is only then that Ippo feels something stir inside him and eventually asks Takamura to train him in boxing. Thinking that Ippo does not have what it takes, Takamura gives him a task deemed impossible and gives him a one week time limit. With a sudden desire to get stronger, for himself and his hard working mother, Ippo trains relentlessly to accomplish the task within the time limit. Thus Ippo’s journey to the top of the boxing world begins.



Tags: Boxing , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Disability , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Bullying , Delinquents

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

BLACK-BOX

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

His father is doing time for murder. His brother was arrested for murder. The second son of the family, Ryoga Ishida, is under suspicion of being involved with his brother. Under his fathers order he takes on his boxing pro test.

Tags: Seinen , Boxing , Primarily Adult Cast

BOX

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Ichizu Tsuchida was abandoned by his parents at the age of 5 along with his older sister and entered an institution.

In order not to be thrown away from the world with the trauma of being abandoned by his parents, he entered the ring as a professional boxer and challenged the fight.

However, as soon as he went up to the ring, his head turned white and he couldn't move his body all the time and lost the match.

It was Hideki Takayama, a senior in the same gym and Japanese featherweight champion, who encouraged him in his despair. Such a respected Takayama loses to Kihara in a defensive battle.

Tags: Boxing

TOUGH

Also known as TOUGH.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

In underground matches where hundreds of millions of yen are on the line, a man who finds meaning only through combat steps into the ring. Kiichi Miyazawa, 19 years old, the fifteenth head of the Nadashinkage-ryu. Two years after the brutal, life-and-death battle between his father Seiko and Kiryu, Kiichi continues to fight powerful opponents, driven by the hope that his broken father might one day recover. A colossal martial-arts saga begins!


Tags: Martial Arts , Seinen

Ao no Senshi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

The story tells of Reggae, a young boxer devoted to alcohol, known as "King of defeat", a nickname he earned by a great number of lost matches. But the boy has a primordial ferocity and a talent that former middleweight champion Dreddy D'Angelo notices immediately.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Noir , Crime , Boxing