Manga like Go

Aoi Haru

Also known as Blue Spring.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

This dark and intense drama is set in a boy's high school where Kujo becomes the official leader of a gang. Kujo must constantly defend his position by playing a dangerous rooftop game with the other boys vying for his position. This manga has also been made into a film which has shown in various festivals throughout the world.



Tags: Delinquents , Coming of Age , School , Gangs , Yakuza , Seinen , Guns , Anthology , Mahjong

BE-BOP-HIGHSCHOOL

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

The story revolves around the lives of two rough-and-tumble high school friends, Hiroshi Kato and Toru Nakama, who frequently cause trouble and start fights. In keeping with the spirit of the manga, Toru and Hiroshi style their hair in punch perms and also adopt exaggerated swaggering gaits. The manga also features an assortment of outlandish characters who also sport unusual fashions and hairdos.



Note: Won the 12th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1988.

Tags: School , Delinquents , Shounen , Bullying , Nudity

Rokudenashi BLUES

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

Maeda is a new student in the Teiken High School. He stutters when he's nervous and he's rather clumsy. He gets noted immediately because he hits a teacher during the entrance ceremony. Some clubs search to enlist him as they see in him a force they can use to get even with other clubs. But Maeda is a loner and has only one dream: becoming boxing champion. His first objective is to beat the leader of the boxing club. "Rokudenashi" translates as "good for nothing".

Tags: Delinquents , School , Boxing , Shounen , Episodic , Primarily Male Cast

Bakudan

Also known as Bakudan.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

The story follows Baku Ryosuke, also known as "Bakudan" a fresh-out-of-juvy punk and a dangerous street-fighter who is scouted by a yakuza syndicate and dreams of becoming the greatest yakuza in Japan. However, to teach Bakudan a lesson, the yakuza send him to the gym of a retired heavyweight boxer named Ken Tamaki to get him to sign away his property. But after fighting Bakudan for the property, Tamaki becomes impressed by Bakudan’s fighting skills, and from then on devotes himself to helping Bakudan follow his true destiny… to become the first heavyweight world champion boxer from Japan!

Tags: Shounen , Yakuza , Male Protagonist , Language Barrier , Boxing

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Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

Growing up a target of bullying, a senior high student, Shiroishi Hajime, is a skilled karateka, but goes completely weak at the knees with fear when it comes to fighting. Among all this, a power junkie and classmate of Ichi who does nothing but fighting, Akakuma Dai, sets his eyes on Ichi!! When Ichi starts to shed tears, all of a sudden a violent impulse that resided inside him is unleashed!!!! This is the complete collection composing of the prelude to the masterpiece: "Ichi The Killer," and for the first time ever in book form: "Ichi The Killer - The Birth!!"

Tags: Seinen , School , Martial Arts , Bullying , Delinquents , Gore , Nudity , Male Protagonist