Manga like Houkago no Salome

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Status: Finished

"Can you help me paint after school?" asks my classmate Naomi. Our feet carry us to the art storage room that no one goes to. I quietly become her assistant in producing artworks. Naomi suddenly arrived at an Osaka art high school. The pride of the gifted, hardworking Renji gets torn to shreds by her ominous talent. Renji bluffs "I can come up with something like that too." But, he gradually finds himself enthralled by her talent. He writhes in-between his self-consciousness and inferiority complex. Is she his rival or is she...?! They produce eccentric, sensual works after school. A striking story of art and youth released by a brilliant newcomer.

Tags: Seinen , School , Male Protagonist , Drawing , Female Protagonist

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Comic Action

Blue Period

Also known as Blue Period.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…

Note: Nominated for Manga Taisho Awards in 2019, Kodansha Manga Awards in 2019 and the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020. Winner of the 13th Manga Taisho Awards. Winner of the General Manga category of the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Awards.

Tags: Drawing , Coming of Age , College , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Educational , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Tragedy , Transgender , Bisexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing , Gender Bending , Suicide , Nudity , Tomboy

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K MANGA

Comic Days

INKR

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Look Back

Also known as Look Back.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Fujino is a fourth grader who draws a manga strip for the school newspaper. Her art makes her the star of the class, but one day she's told that Kyomoto, a student who refuses to come to school, would also like to submit a manga for the paper...

Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on September 3, 2021.

Tags: Drawing , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Hikikomori , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Work , School , Meta , Autobiographical , Primarily Child Cast , Philosophy

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Shonen Jump Plus MANGA Plus

Viz

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Houkago Play

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

A 4koma about a typical geek of a guy and his tsundere girlfriend. As the two talk about and play games, they slowly grow closer.

Note: Contains an extra chapter titled "Houkago Replay".

Tags: Shounen , 4-koma , Tsundere , Video Games , Otaku Culture

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Muse no Shinzui

Also known as The Essence of Being a Muse.

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

Twenty-three-year-old art school reject Miyuu Seno has a blue print for the future, but it's not her own. Instead, she's stuck on the "secure"path her mom has laid out for her—from her office job, to her clothes, to the guys she meets—and it's making Miyuu more miserable by the day. When things come to a head between them, Miyuu leaves home with a blank canvas in tow, holding on to the hope that painting can somehow undo the phony she's become...

Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.

Tags: Drawing , Estranged Family , Seinen , Female Protagonist

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ComicWalker Nico Nico Seiga

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Nude Model

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

As the result of a punishment game, the boy Momose was forced to volunteer himself as a nude model for Natsume, an eccentric girl who devotes herself to art.

Tags: Nudity , Drawing , Heterosexual , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , School

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Imouto no Ane

Also known as Sisters.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

Mitsuko is a third year at an art high school. In the hallway, she found a painting which had won the school competition and would be hung up for a whole year; a nude painting of herself done by her little sister, even though Mitsuko had never posed for her. About sibling who draw naked drawing of each other.

Tags: Drawing , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Family Life , School , Shounen

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