Manga like Kizu Darake no Jinsei

Oyaji

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Living in poor neighborhoods of Osaka, Kumada watch over his wife and two young children. He is huge and riddled with scars and he works hard, smokes and drinks of sake as if it were mere water, gruff and scary, he talks little. But Kumada deeply loves his family and will protect it at the peril of his life when members of a yakuza clan set on fire to his house to facilitate a real estate transaction.

Jailed for the murder of those who failed to burn his people alive, Kumada was released fifteen years later and found his family. He will have to face the distrust of his children who know nothing of their father except that he had abandoned them. But he is determined to regain control of their education, starting with his son, a urchin abused by the tough guys of the district.

Tags: Seinen , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Gore

TOUGH

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

This is a continuation of Koko Tekken-den Tough which ran for 42 volumes and followed the main character, Kiichi, when he was younger and was training under his father Seiko Miyazawa. This is a mixed martial arts fighter manga about the Miyazawa school of martial arts. Initially, it is about Kiichi trying to heal his father after he was nearly killed by his brother Kiryu but it then goes on to be less about that as his father recovers and some tournament style fighting begins.

Tags: Martial Arts , Seinen

Tough Gaiden: Oton

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

A series dedicated to the father of Kiichi from the series Tough.

This is a side story of the Tough series based around Miyazawa Seiko (Kiichi's father) and his brother Kiryu. Much of the same elements of Tough can be found here such as Mixed Martial Arts Fighting and alot of Violence.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Seinen