Manga like Futsuu no Keionbu

Bocchi the Rock!

Also known as Bocchi the Rock!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Hitori Gotoh just wants to be popular, but the thought of interacting with her classmates makes her fall to pieces. Her solution-become a rock legend so cool that people approach her instead! However, while spending all of middle school in her closet shredding on the guitar may have earned her anonymous internet fame, it did nothing for her social skills. Now a high schooler, Hitori’s feeling ready to shrivel up and die-when she gets a sudden request to fill in for a band! It’s like her wish came true-but does this most anxious of introverts have what it takes to perform in front of a live audience?!



Tags: Band , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , 4-koma , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Rock Music , Hikikomori , Seinen , Tsundere , Urban , Yuri

Skip to Loafer

Also known as Skip and Loafer.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Excellent student Iwakura Mitsumi has always dreamt about leaving her small town, going to a prestigious university, and making positive change in the world. But she’s so focused on reaching her goals that she’s not prepared for the very different (and overwhelming) city life that awaits her in a Tokyo high school. Luckily, she makes fast friends with Shima Sousuke, a handsome classmate who’s as laid-back as she is over-prepared. Can this naive country girl make it big in Tokyo with Sousuke by her side?



Notes:
Nominated for the 2020 Manga Taisho Award.
Winner of the Best General Manga category at the 47th Kodansha Manga Award in 2023.

Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Iyashikei , Seinen , Rural , Urban , LGBTQ+ Themes , Acting , Transgender , Love Triangle

K-On!

Also known as K-On!.

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

When their high school's pop-music club is about to be disbanded due to lack of interest, four girls step up to fill the membership quota. Unfortunately, lead guitarist Yui Hirasawa has never played an instrument in her life. Ever. And although she likes the idea of being in a band, standing in front of the mirror posing with her guitar is a lot easier than actually playing it. It's gonna be a while before this motley crew is rocking out, but with their spunk and determination cranked to 11, anything is possible!



Note: Includes five extra chapters.

Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , 4-koma , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Band , Food , Rock Music , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , Seinen , Chibi , Tomboy , Slapstick , Yuri , Tanned Skin

Ruri Dragon

Also known as RuriDragon.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Well, a half dragon. Her mom admits Ruri inherited her draconic traits from her father, who, yes, is actually a dragon. As if dealing with curious classmates wasn’t already challenging enough, Ruri and her dragon genes literally turn up the heat in the middle of a lecture. Her ordinary life is about to be anything but!



Notes:
Chapters 1-6 were published in Weekly Shounen Jump from June 13, 2022 until the series went on hiatus in August 2022 due to the author’s health. It resumed with five weekly chapters from March 4 to April 1, 2024, then switched on April 22, 2024 to a bi-weekly publication on the digital Weekly Shounen Jump and Shounen Jump+.
Ranked 1st in the Nationwide Bookstore Staff Recommended Comics 2023.
Nominated for the 2023 eBookJapan Manga Award.
Ranked 9th in the Male Readers' division of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2024 guidebook.
Ranked 2nd in the Web Manga category of the 2024 Next Manga Award.
Winner of the Setting Award at the 4th Magademy Awards in 2025.

Tags: Monster Girl , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Dragons , School , Iyashikei , Urban Fantasy , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Super Power , Family Life , Slapstick

SHIORI EXPERIENCE: Jimi na Watashi to Hen na Ojisan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Music

Shiori was once a guitarist in a light music club in high school, but her first live performance was dashed when her brother ran away from home with a lot of debt to become a musician in Tokyo.

A decade later, Shiori is now a high school teacher, leading a boring, uneventful life and paying off the debt... till she runs into the ghost of none other than a famous guitarist Jim-you-know-who.

A story of a 27-year-old woman on her way to a music legend begins here.

Tags: Band , Ghost , School Club , Seinen , Coming of Age , Teacher , Female Protagonist , Tomboy , Anachronism , Rock Music , Delinquents , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Hello, Melancholic!

Also known as Hello, Melancholic!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Romance , Slice of Life

Asano Minato is a tall but stooping first-year high school student. Though she’s an awesome trombone player, she does everything she can to fade into the background. Despite her best efforts, however, Minato catches the attention of her bubbly and charismatic upperclasswoman Hibiki, who wants Minato to join the band she’s forming at school and won’t take no for an answer! Will Minato be able to let go of the past and play in a band again? Can polar opposites harmonize through music? Slow jam your way into this dulcet yuri series!



Note: Includes 4 bonus chapters.

Tags: Band , LGBTQ+ Themes , School Club , Yuri , School , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Rehabilitation , Iyashikei , Tsundere , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things

Rock wa Lady no Tashinami Deshite

Also known as Rock is a Lady's Modesty.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Music

When her mother marries into high society, Lilisa Suzunomiya is forced to leave her commoner ways behind. Now enrolled at an elite all-girls academy, she’s expected to smile politely, sip tea, and hang up her beloved guitar for (ugh…) a violin. But when she hears drums echoing from the old school building, Lilisa is dragged into a jam session with the secretly rebellious young lady Otoha Kurogane, and her passion for music is reignited! High society better watch out—the academy’s most demure maidens are teaming up to form an elegant rock band the likes of which the world has never seen!



Tags: Rock Music , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Yuri , Ojou-sama , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Band , School

BECK

Also known as BECK.

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

For the first 14 years of his life, Yukio Tanaka has been one heck of a boring guy. He has no hobbies, a weak taste in music, and only a small vestige of a personality. He yearns for an exciting life, but his shy, and somewhat neurotic personality make him his own worst enemy. Little does he know that his life will be forever changed when he meets Ryusuke Minami, a wild and unpredictable 16 year-old fresh from America, who happens to be in a rock-and-roll band named after his Frankenstein-like patched dog—Beck.



Note: Includes a one-shot ""THE LAST DAY OF EDDIE LEE".

Tags: Band , Coming of Age , Rock Music , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Foreign , Heterosexual , Work , Crime , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Bullying , Mafia , School , Guns , Swimming , Martial Arts , Language Barrier

THE BAND

Status: Releasing
Genres: Music

Tags: Rock Music , Shounen , School Club , Band , Coming of Age , Heterosexual

Shima Rock

Also known as Island Rock.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Music

Uncomplicated rock 'n' roll for the complicated heart! The curtain rises on this remote island, where a tale of youthful band life begins.



Tags: Rock Music , Coastal , Male Protagonist , School , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast