Manga like Maku Musubi

act-age

Also known as ACT-AGE.

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

Lights! Camera! ACTION! Kei Yonagi wants to be an actress! But an already-difficult dream to achieve has become much harder since her father left and her mother died. She's now taking care of her two little siblings on her own.

Without much money left, will she have to give up her dream?!



Tags: Acting , Work , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Filmmaking , Philosophy , Shounen , Educational , Primarily Adult Cast , Twins

Kaien no Bell de Oyasumi

Also known as Curtain's up, I'm off.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Subaru Yoshii is an anxious and socially awkward boy. Upon transferring to a new school, he meets a fellow freshman, a boy known as “Prince”! Subaru doesn’t know it yet, but a new world is waiting for him behind the stage curtain in this thrilling high school theater story!



Includes seven extra chapters.

Tags: Acting , Shounen , School Club , Coming of Age

Curtain Call

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

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Camellia no Curtain

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

All actors in Tsubaki Theatre are male, regardless of whether they play male or female roles on stage, but don't let that fool you—the enchanting beauty of their performances has earned Tsubaki renown as one of Japan's foremost theatre companies. Young actors gather at Tsubaki Senior High School to train, in the hopes of one day joining the company, and it is here where Hachinoda Youichi, a once-aspiring screenwriter who gave up on his dreams, meets Hayashi Shingo, a Tsubaki trainee with looks so stunning he could pass for a girl. Shingo's performances in female roles draw praise from his teachers and peers, but something weighs heavily on his mind...

Tags: Acting , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , School Club

Bungou Akuto

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Tahei Yakuma, a second-year high school boy, is nicknamed “Bungo” because he has the looks of an older man, and he is shunned by his classmates. Tahei had already given up on his social life when a beautiful girl, Shoko, suddenly comes up to him. She forcefully takes Tahei into the world of theater! She tells him, “You are not just a bystander,” and with those words, Tahei's adolescence begins to take shape! The curtain rises on a passionate high school drama!

Tags: Acting , School Club , Seinen , Male Protagonist , School

Catcher in the Rhyme

Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Slice of Life

A yuri story about Takatsuji Satsuki, a shy depressed teenager who joins a rap battle club at her all-girls school as she tries to come out of her shell. Starts out with three main characters but later a trans girl character joins the club as well.

Tags: Transgender , School Club , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Hip-hop Music , School , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast