Manga like RAINBOW: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin

Buraiden Gai

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

The story revolves around Kudou Gai, a mischievous 13-year-old all alone in the world. He despises his classmates who live by their free will, although supported by parents, but taking it for granted. Gai soon finds out he is contradicting himself for he is being raised at an orphanage as well, and makes an attempt for independence. His actions lands him in trouble, where he is framed for murder and sent to a place in an unknown location called the "human institute".

Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Survival , Fugitive , Bullying , Primarily Male Cast , Gore

Banana Fish

Also known as Banana Fish.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...



Tags: Mafia , Tragedy , Gangs , Noir , Drugs , Conspiracy , Primarily Male Cast , Foreign , Crime , Revenge , Criminal Organization , Shoujo , Delinquents , Urban , Male Protagonist , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Adoption , Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Politics , Police , Cars , Bisexual

Bakuon Rettou

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

In the 80s, the parents of Kaze Takashi move to a quiet area of ​​Tokyo in order to save the young man from the bad influence of his friends. In class, Takashi does not take long to make new friends and they soon invite him to meet with their gang, the Zeros. Takashi comes to love motorcycles and gets involved with the gang. What has he got himself into and is he ready to face the consequences?

Tags: Gangs , Delinquents , Coming of Age , Motorcycles , Seinen , Autobiographical , Tragedy , Yakuza , School , Revenge , Class Struggle , Anti-Hero , Prison , Bullying , Criminal Organization , Drugs ,

GANGSTA.

Also known as GANGSTA..

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama

In the city of Ergastulum, a shady ville filled with made men and petty thieves, whores on the make and cops on the take, there are some deeds too dirty for even its jaded inhabitants to touch. Enter the "Handymen," Nic and Worick, who take care of the jobs no one else will handle. Until the day when a cop they know on the force requests their help in taking down a new gang muscling in on the territory of a top Mafia family. It seems like business (and mayhem) as usual, but the Handymen are about to find that this job is a lot more than they bargained for.



Tags: Gangs , Dystopian , Urban , Crime , Seinen , Drugs , Disability , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Guns , Swordplay , Gore , Anti-Hero , Nudity , Medicine

GREEN BLOOD

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological , Thriller

The end of the civil war signaled the start of the industrial revolution in the United States and immigrants from all over the world traveled to find their American dream. But what awaited the majority of them was poverty, discrimination, and hopelessness. Manhattan, New York was full of immigrants flooding through the ports and the 6th district, Five Points, was considered at the time, the world’s worst slum. The mobsters corrupted the entire area, including the police by paying them off; Five Points was the mob’s territory and they were the law.

But even in Five Points, where there seemed to be nothing but robbery, prostitution, and murder, showed some signs of hope. Luke Burns was an honest and righteous teenager who realized that the mob was the cause of the harsh lifestyle and that joining the mobsters would not bring him the American dream. But his older brother, Brad Burns, had become the assassin to the biggest mob group of Five Points, the Grave Diggers, a secret he kept from Luke for his own protection. Brad was known as the Grim Reaper and his reputation preceded him as a ruthless and skilled killer.

Tags: Historical , Seinen , Guns , Primarily Male Cast , Mafia , Gangs , Revenge , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Assassins , Anti-Hero , Cowboys , Foreign , Nudity , Tragedy , Police , Time Skip

Holyland

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological

Yuu is a high school kid who doesn't really fit anywhere. To find a place he can belong, be accepted, he will do anything. However one thing leads to another and he is forced to fight to keep his place, his holyland.

Tags: Martial Arts , Gangs , Delinquents , Philosophy , Boxing , Bullying , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Educational , Drugs , Suicide , Tragedy , Meta

Shuujin Riku

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

"Born into a world beyond imagination, imprisoned for a crime he never commited. Young Riku's life couldn't sink any lower...or so he thought. Determined to survive no matter the circumstances, Riku now faces the impossible task of outliving a prison sentence in Earth's worst penitentiary."

Tags: Shounen , Martial Arts , Prison , Boxing , Male Protagonist , Dystopian , Primarily Male Cast

Manshuu Ahen Squad

Also known as Manchuria Opium Squad.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Mystery , Thriller

There is little documentation on the shadow of Japan, particularly on the actions of the pre-war army. However, due to the financial situation at the time, financial difficulties in Manchuria were chronic. Opium thus became the starting point for a war under the British dynasty and the Qing yoke. But opium was also widely used in China. The size of this market was extraordinary, and its funds enormous. An economy that included warlords, officials and merchants, as well as underground organizations. Against this tense backdrop, a young farmer opts for opium to finally earn enough money to care for his mother. But in doing so, he takes the first step in a spiral that will take him right into the middle of the mafia war.

With a fascinatingly realistic stance, the authors document a little-known historical period. Nothing is spared in this raw, violent title, where the oppression brought to bear on the young hero proves suffocating.

(Source : Vega Dupuis, translated)

Tags: Drugs , Historical , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Gangs , Guns , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Tragedy , Military , Gore , Nudity , Torture

Shamo

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Sports

At the age of sixteen Ryo Narushima was a genius and looked to have no trouble of getting into Tokyo University and joining the elite of society. However, that summer something cracked inside Ryo's head. With a small knife he brutally murdered both of his parents only leaving his sister alive and cowering in a corner. It is at this grotesque incident that our story begins.

Note: At volume 20, the series changed publishers, which created a restart of the chapter numbers. Starting from chapter 61 in volume 26, the first chapter from when the series returned from a long hiatus, the series has been completely written & drawn by Tanaka Akio. While Hashimoto Izou did write the series in the beginning, he had been doing less and less work starting from volume 4. Tanaka and Hashimoto reached a settlement and Shamo continued.

Tags: Martial Arts , Anti-Hero , Rehabilitation , Seinen , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Gore , Survival , Boxing , Coming of Age , Prison , Gangs , Yakuza , Swordplay , Delinquents , Triads , Bullying , Drugs

Real

Also known as Real.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sports

A motorcycle accident, bone cancer, a speeding truck crashing into a boy on a stolen bicycle--tragic life-changing events turn the worlds of three young men upside down. These three very different personalities have only one thing in common--their passion for basketball.



Note: Won an Excellence Prize for manga at the 2001 Japan Media Arts Festival.

Tags: Disability , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Rehabilitation , Basketball , Tragedy , Primarily Male Cast , Athletics , Fitness , Delinquents , Philosophy , Bullying , Meta , Wrestling