Manga like Ore wa Teppei

Ashita no Joe

Also known as Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow.

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

Joe Yabuki is a troubled young man who runs away from an orphanage. Wandering through the Tokyo slums, he meets former boxing trainer Danpei. Joe is later arrested and goes to a temporary jail where he fights Nishi, his future best friend, ​and leader of a group of hooligans. He and Nishi then go to a juvenile prison miles away from Tokyo. There Joe meets Rikiishi, a former boxing prodigy, and a rivalry develops between them. They face each other in a match in which Rikiishi dominates Joe until the latter hits him with a cross-counter, resulting in both being knocked out. This inspires the other prison inmates to take up boxing. Joe and Rikiishi vow to fight again.



Tags: Boxing , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Class Struggle , Anti-Hero , Orphan , Urban , Athletics , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Delinquents , Prison , Foreign , Yakuza , War

YAIBA

Also known as YAIBA: Samurai Legend.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

Upon enrolling in school, Yaiba quickly crosses swords with his soon-to-be rival, Onimaru. When Onimaru is transformed into a demon by the cursed power of Fujinken, the Wind God’s Sword, Yaiba embarks on a quest to Mount Tengu to find his own enchanted sword. But Yaiba lacks the skill and knowledge to use such a powerful weapon. If he can’t control himself, it will control him!



Tags: Shounen , Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Anthropomorphism , Animals , Demons , Aliens , Shapeshifting

Yuki no Taiyou

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Yuki is a 10-year old girl living in an orphanage, until she is adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Iwabuchi. Yuki's new stepsister Sanae is a nice girl who has a heart disease.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Adoption , Shoujo

Musashi no Ken

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

This is a great old school classic about a young boy raised from even before birth to become the greatest Kendo champpion in all of Japan. With a martial arts expert for a father and a mother with an enthusiasm streak you’ve rarely seen – their son Musashi is born to be super strong, fast, and trains harder than anyone – so how can he not become a champion?

Source: The Animeraider

Tags: Shounen , Swordplay , Martial Arts , Time Skip

Kurogane

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Supernatural

Kurogane Hiroto is in high school, where he is academically the top of his class but literally the worst in physical activity. Born with a weak body, he has no endurance, speed nor strength and Hiroto wants nothing more than to be a hero. Fate teases him by giving him phenomenal eye sight, which allows him to see well beyond anyone else in sports, but his body is not able to react to any of it.

He learns from his friend Shiratori, who wants to recruit him for the Kendo team, about a rumor about a ghost named Tojo Sayuri, who wields a katana and haunts an ally in the city. Half curious, Hiroto goes there only to find that the ghost is real and that Tojo Sayuri has been looking for a successor to her Sakura sword style for 150 years. Sayuri chooses him as the successor after being able to dodge her attack and forces him to learn the Sakura style. Even with the help of the ancient swordsman ghost, Hiroto has to overcome his poor motor skills in order to be the hero he always wanted to be.

Tags: Shounen , School

Captain

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

A hot-blooded sports comic about the members of a small-time baseball team who, through great effort and practice, develop into a star team. After transferring schools to Sumiya High, protagonist Taniguchi Takeo decides to participate in baseball practice at his new school. He changes into his previous schools's uniform, and the other team members notice that this is the uniform of Aoba Academy, famed for their baseball team. Because of this, they believe that Takeo is an amazing player; however, while he was at Aoba Academy, he was only a lackluster second-string player...!?

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

Harris no Kaze

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Tags: Shounen

Play Ball

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

After fracturing a finger in a junior high school game, Takao Taniguchi is unable to play baseball. After entering Sumitani High School, he is constantly watching the baseball club even though he is unable to play. He catches the eye of the captain of the soccer club, and while he still has lingering hopes of joining the baseball club, he decides to join the soccer club. While he's a complete beginner, Taniguchi developed a strong spirit of hard work while in junior high school and his new teammates begin to see his potential. While he focuses all of his energy on soccer, he is unable to forget his youthful zeal for baseball and he begins umpiring baseball games in secret.



Tags: Shounen , Baseball , School Club

4P Tanaka-kun

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Tags: Shounen

Eleven

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

The story of Shigeru Aoba, former Japan National Team soccer player Yousuke Aoba's son.

Tags: Shounen , Football