Manga like Irregulars

Rookies

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Koichi Kawato is the new Japanese teacher at the ill-famed Futakotamagawa high school, whose baseball club is composed of thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions, for causing a brawl during an official match. The newly appointed teacher finds that the club members left are only interested in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under Kawato's guidance, they discover a new dream called the Koshien. However, the road to the Koshien is far from easy as many obstacles await them.

Tags: Baseball , Delinquents , Coming of Age , Shounen , Teacher , School , Ensemble Cast

Sankyuu Pitch

Also known as Strikeout Pitch.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Sports

From the author of "Hyperinflation," Kyu Sumiyoshi, comes a baseball story unlike anything you've ever read before!!



Tags: Baseball , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , School Club , School

Embers

Also known as Embers.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Middle school brawler Noboru Haitani has never lost a fight. But the bitter taste of a soccer defeat gradually warms him up to the sport, until one day Haitani finds himself in a match against a team featuring middle school soccer prodigy Takami. An outlaw fights his way into the world of soccer!



Tags: Football , Shounen , Delinquents , School , Male Protagonist

Diamond no Ace

Also known as Ace of the Diamond.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Eijun Sawamura had his heart set on the middle-school national baseball championships. But his team is eliminated thanks to a wild pitch thrown by Eijun himself. He’s planning to go to high school with his teammates and try again next year when he’s scouted by the famous Seido High School baseball team. When he goes for a campus visit, he finds himself on the receiving end of a baptism by fire! His experience forming a battery with up-and-coming catcher Miyuki rekindles his passion for baseball!!



Note: Includes six extra chapters.

Tags: Shounen , Baseball , School Club , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School

Aoku Somero

Status: Releasing
Genres: Sports

The older brother was a genius. At just 15 years old, he was already receiving offers from top teams around the world — a true “treasure of Japanese soccer.” Would it be Madrid or Barcelona? Or perhaps a prestigious club in England? The entire country was watching with anticipation to see where he would go.
But the young prodigy made a surprising choice: he decided to attend “a Japanese high school where his underachieving younger brother would be enrolling.”
“Because there’s someone amazing there that I want to play with!”
With the “genius older brother” and the “underachieving younger brother,” let them stir up a storm in the world of soccer!



Tags: Football , Shounen

Blue Lock

Also known as Blue Lock.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match...and to do so, they've gathered 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team...and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?



Note: Winner of the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2021.

Tags: Athletics , Battle Royale , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Fitness , Anti-Hero , Football , Foreign , Super Power , Augmented Reality , Tragedy , Suicide , Language Barrier , Revenge