Manga like Waga na wa Umishi

Tokkyuu!!

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

It's about the coastal lifeguard, Hyogo Kanbayashi, as he tries to make his way to enter Tokkyu, the elite lifeguard team.

Tags: Scuba Diving , Shounen , Coastal

Megumi no Daigo

Also known as Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Fire, smoke, adrenaline, and fear--when everyone is running to escape from a fire, a few courageous people are running to jump right into the thick of it. Firefighters put their own lives on the line to protect others and Daigo Asahina has always dreamed of becoming one. He's fresh out of the training academy and has been newly assigned to Medaka-Ga-Hama fire station. Cocky and overconfident, Daigo responds to a few calls and is quickly humbled and put in his place--he's still got a lot to learn before he can call himself a true firefighter.



Tags: Firefighters , Work , Urban , Survival , Primarily Male Cast , Rescue , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Outdoor Activities , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Time Skip

Uchuu Kyoudai

Also known as Space Brothers.

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

Two brothers looked to the starry skies as children and made a promise ... Now, in the year 2025, the younger brother, Hibito, is carrying his out. He is an astronaut who has been selected as a crew member for mankind’s first long-term base on the moon. Meanwhile, the older brother, Mutta, has just been fired from his job and is unemployed, but decides to trust himself just one last time. A text message from Hibito sends him applying to be an astronaut too and shooting for the stars …



Notes:
Nominated for the 2nd and 3rd Manga Taisho Award
Won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award
Won the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in the General Category.

Tags: Space , Educational , Seinen , Work , Astronomy , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Iyashikei , Foreign , Tragedy , Aviation , Time Skip , Episodic , Nudity

DEEP

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

Retired deep-sea diver Albert goes on one final job to recover a unique, once in a lifetime treasure, which is said to be inside the safe of a U-Boat, 620 meters under sea. Together with his old team, the treasure hunters known as DEEP, the mission to recover the safe begins...?

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Scuba Diving

Golden Kamuy

Also known as Golden Kamuy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama

In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.



Note: Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016 and the 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018. Nominated for the 20th and 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Tags: Historical , Conspiracy , Military , Outdoor Activities , Indigenous Cultures , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Politics , Surreal Comedy , Food , Educational , Snowscape , Travel , Primarily Male Cast , Found Family , Gore , Primarily Adult Cast , Survival , Guns , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Male Harem , Revenge , LGBTQ+ Themes , Anti-Hero , Language Barrier , Slapstick , Crime , Wilderness , Prison , Trains , Animals , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Archery , Swordplay , Disability , Suicide , Tanned Skin , Transgender , Twins , Cannibalism , Heterosexual , Zoophilia , Yakuza , Crossdressing , Dissociative Identities , Time Skip