Manga like Nobunaga Concerto

Ashi-Girl

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

Hayakawa Yui is totally a unmotivated, lazy girl who loves sleeping and eating. She's 16 but looks like a boy from elementary school; her one and only talent is to run really fast. After accidentally switching on the time machine which her younger brother made she travels to the Sengoku period, where luckily she joins retreating foot soldiers using the name Yuinosuke. Then she eats some amanitas and meets the man of her dreams.

Note: Includes 6 extra chapters.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Josei , Historical , Time Manipulation , Time Skip , War , Marriage , Tomboy , Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Surreal Comedy

Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan: Noukou Giga

Also known as Sengoku Komachi Kurotan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Teenage history buff Shizuko Ayanokoji is a student at a specialized agricultural high school. One day, just as she's walking home from school, she suddenly finds herself transported back in time to the Sengoku Period…and who then appears before her but warlord Oda Nobunaga himself?! Captured by Nobunaga's army, Shizuko immediately vows to prove her agricultural expertise to him, but can she really fulfill this promise?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Agriculture , Historical , Food , Samurai , Anachronism , Rural , Military , Time Manipulation , War , Archery , Ghost , Shounen , Amnesia

Gunjou Senki

Also known as War of the Youths.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery

Seitoku High School in Shiga Prefecture is a powerhouse in sports. With dreams of the national championships at Koshien, the National Stadium, and Hanazono, its students shine as they chase the glory of competing on the national stage… until now. One afternoon after regular club activities, a crimson rain suddenly pours down, and the entire school is shrouded in mist. Strange, monstrous samurai attack the campus out of nowhere?! And looming just beyond the school grounds is… Azuchi Castle?! Has the entire school been transported back to the Sengoku period?!

Far removed from the stage they’d dreamed of, the students must now adapt if they don’t want to die!! “Warlords vs. High School Athletes” — the battle begins!!



Tags: Historical , Seinen , School , Male Protagonist

Kento Ankokuden Cestvs

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Cestus, a young slave, fighting for his freedom as a bare knuckle gladiator studying under a legendary gladiator who fought and drawed with the head of the imperial guards in the Roman era.

Tags: Historical , Slavery , Boxing , Seinen , Wrestling , Nudity , Martial Arts , Male Protagonist

Kingdom

Also known as Kingdom.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama

Xin is a war orphan in a poor village in the kingdom of Qin. He has big dreams of becoming a great general, and when his best friend’s life is cut short by political machinations, Xin sets off to find a deposed ruler and help restore his place on the throne, while working his way up through the ranks of the Qin kingdom’s army to do what no one has ever done before—unify China.



Tags: Military , Historical , War , Ancient China , Politics , Royal Affairs , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Swordplay , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Foreign , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Spearplay , Fugitive , Heterosexual , Conspiracy , Archery , Ensemble Cast , Body Horror , Time Skip , Torture , Assassins , Crossdressing , Nudity , Magic

Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei Shita Hazu ga Marie Antoinette Deshita

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy

A Christmas cake office worker got pierced by an Eiffel Tower decoration, died, and got reincarnated as Marie Antoinette

Tags: Royal Affairs , Reincarnation , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Historical , Marriage , Time Manipulation

Ryuurouden

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

Middle schoolers, Shiro and Masumi, encountered a mysterious dragon that brought them back to the time of the Three Kingdoms; situated in ancient China. As soon as they arrived, they were rescued by the Han Kingdom. Not long after these events, Masumi was kidnapped and Shiro barely escaped death... Soon the story gets more complicated as they are stuck in the past.

(SourceL JanKenPon)

Tags: Shounen , Historical

Hyouge Mono

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

It was the Sengoku-era, when the warlords usurped each other. There was a man whose soul was overtaken by the ways of tea and material greed, as he worked his way up toward greater power and status. His name was Sasuke Furuta, a subordinate warrior of Nobunaga Oda. With his world broadened by Nobunaga the Genius, and his spiritual insight learned from Senno Soueki the Master of Tea, Sasuke drove the road to Hyouge Mono. To live or not to live. For the power of the art. That is the question!

Note:
Won the 14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award Grand Prize and received the Excellence Prize in Japan Media Arts Festival (2009).


Tags: Historical , Male Protagonist , Seinen , War , Educational , Politics , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Swordplay , Tragedy , Suicide , Medieval , Biographical

Saraiya Goyou

Also known as House of Five Leaves.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Masterless samurai Akitsu Masanosuke is a skilled and loyal swordsman, but his naïve, diffident nature has more than once caused him to be let go by the lords who employ him. Hungry and desperate, he agrees to become a bodyguard for Yaichi, the charismatic leader of a group calling itself “Five Leaves.” Although disturbed by the gang’s sinister activities, Masa begins to suspect that Yaichi’s motivations are not what they seem. And despite his misgivings, the deeper he’s drawn into the world of the Five Leaves, the more he finds himself fascinated by these devious, mysterious outlaws.


Chapter count includes two side stories: “Warmth” in volume 3, and “Raindrops” in volume 6

Tags: Historical , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Samurai , Gangs , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Detective , Fugitive , Swordplay , Found Family , Oiran , Tragedy , Police , LGBTQ+ Themes

Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu

Also known as Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

This multi-generational epic dives deep into rakugo, a rich form of Japanese storytelling theater. Small-time crook Yotaro has never forgotten the rakugo tale "The God of Death," which the master Yurakutei Yakumo performed for Yotaro during his time in prison. After his release, he goes to Yakumo's theater and pleads to be made his apprentice. Yakumo reluctantly accepts, but Yotaro quickly finds the world of rakugo is complex and grapples with a growing bond with Yakumo's ward, Konatsu. Meanwhile, the two young people bring reminders of Yakumo’s own inescapable past.



Note: Won the 38th Kodansha Manga Awards for Best General Manga and the New Creator Prize of the 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2017.

Tags: Rakugo , Josei , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical , Acting , Family Life , Love Triangle , Work , Afterlife , Suicide , Yakuza , Oiran , Tsundere , Crossdressing , War , Adoption , Heterosexual , Elderly Protagonist