Manga like Otoko Ippiki Monogatari

Tobenai Tsubasa

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance

Akira Godai is a brilliant student who one day had his father, an unsuccessful painter, killed in a traffic accident, forcing him to work part-time as a door boy at a bar in Ginza to pay for his school fees.
One day, Akira found a wallet containing a large sum of money left in a jacket entrusted to him by a customer, which he took with him to the bathroom, took the money inside and threw the wallet out the window; that quickly backfires, as a passerby saw him throwing the wallet, leading to his arrest. Now, as Akira is sent to prison, he'll have to struggle to survive in this harsh environment.

Tags: Shounen , Prison

Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishou

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

This monumental manga became the driving force behind Shonen Jump, the tough kid boss of the neighborhood, Mankichi Togawa, uses his fighting skills and charm to find friends as he takes on the bad guys and the big shots who control Japan's financial world. This series, which was followed enthusiastically by the youth of the time, blazed the trail for a new class of readers. This work embodies the spirit of the magazine Shonen Jump. It had a major influence on the authors who followed. In 1969, it became the first Shonen Jump work to be turned into animation, and in 1971 it was turned into a live action film.



Tags: Delinquents , Gangs , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Rehabilitation , Economics