Manga like Hanaotoko

Tekkon Kinkreet

Also known as Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Supernatural

Orphaned on the mean streets of Treasure Town, lost boys Black and White must mug, steal and fight to survive. Around them moves a world of corruption and loneliness, small-time crooks and neurotic police officers, and a band of sadistic yakuza who have plans for their once-fair city. Can they rise above their environment?

Won the Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan for the Eisner Award in 2008.



Tags: Seinen , Gangs , Denpa , Urban , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Yakuza , Primarily Child Cast , Mafia , Orphan , Nudity

Straight

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Baseball story about a 19 year old relief pitcher. Straight is Matsumoto's first manga debut.

Tags: Baseball , Seinen

Ping Pong

Also known as Ping Pong.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sports

Makoto “Smile” Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka “Peco” Hoshino have been playing table tennis since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game has changed. Seeing potential in them that they themselves don’t fully realize, the coach recruits them for the school team. Bringing out their best will mean challenging the top players from rival schools in the summer tournament, including an ace Chinese exchange student who almost made the Olympic team. With the pressure on, can Smile and Peco take the heat and make it into the finals?



Tags: Table Tennis , Coming of Age , Seinen , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , School Club , Teacher , Primarily Male Cast , School , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Bullying , Time Skip

Sunny

Also known as Sunny.

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

The story of an orphanage, the children who live in it, and the beat-up old Nissan Sunny 1200 which provides them with a means of escape from their boring everyday lives.

Note: Winner of the Best Manga of the Year award at the 2016 Shogakukan Manga Awards.

Tags: Family Life , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Seinen , Estranged Family , Tragedy , Autobiographical , Rural , Episodic , Adoption , Cars , Delinquents , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Baseball

Moriyamachuu Kyoushuujo

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

The manga centers on Kiyotaka Saitou—an apathetic college student who does things at his own pace—and Todoroki, a poker-faced cool yakuza member. Kiyotaka and Todoroki were classmates in high school, and both men attend an unofficial driving school one summer thanks to a certain incident.


Tags: Seinen

Kyojin no Hoshi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

The story is about Hyuma Hoshi, a promising young baseball pitcher who dreams of becoming a top star like his father Ittetsu Hoshi in the professional Japanese league. His father was once a 3rd baseman until he was injured in World War II and was forced to retire. The boy would join the ever popular Giants team, and soon he realized the difficulty of managing the high expectations. From the grueling training to battling the rival Mitsuru Hanagata on the Hanshin Tigers, he would have to take out his best pitching magic to step up to the challenge.



Tags: Shounen , Baseball , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Tragedy

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

Hand's

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Sports

The main character wants to be a hero, but his father is a bum that loses all of their money in gambling, but he was once the ace of the Japanese team in handball. He goes to a coach and asks him to take care of his son because he got into debt and is running from the yakuza. The coach thinks he's an outstanding talent that has been given to him to coach, and he sends his daughter to pick him up. Daigo (the main character) then ends up living with them.

Tags: Handball , Shounen , Yakuza , School

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Also known as Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.

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

Set hundreds of years in the future after an environmental catastrophe, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (also known as Yokohama Shopping Log) centers on the simple life of Alpha, an android who runs a small coffee shop in coastal Japan. Alpha stands witness to chronicle the end of humanity’s days with coffee, a slice of watermelon, and the sound of her moon guitar backed by distant seagulls. Quiet and bittersweet, this tale is about the melancholy beauty that can be found even as the end approaches.



Tags: Iyashikei , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Rural , Lost Civilization , Robots , Time Skip , Coastal , Artificial Intelligence , Seinen , Episodic , Work , Mopeds , Travel , Yuri , Restaurant , Family Life , LGBTQ+ Themes , Motorcycles , Nudity

Tensai Bakabon

Also known as The Genius Bakabon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Follow the madcap adventures of Japan's most outstanding idiots as they attempt to re-create their world in their own ludicrous image.
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Tags: Shounen , Family Life , Male Protagonist