Manga like Rin

Bakuman.

Also known as Bakuman。.

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

Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world?



Tags: Drawing , Work , Meta , Shounen , Educational , Writing , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Tomboy , School , Tragedy

Time Paradox Ghostwriter

Also known as Time Paradox Ghostwriter.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi

On a cold and stormy night, I decide to give up on my dream. But lightning strikes! And now I have an issue of Shonen Jump from the future! Teppei Sasaki is a passionate rookie manga artist who dreams of getting a series in Weekly Shonen Jump. One day, he gets a copy of Jump from ten years in the future. Is it all a coincidence, or is it fate? Whatever the case, destiny is about to change... Time warps! Destinies intersected! For a tomorrow that was never meant to be! The future of Jump is here!



Note: Includes the epilogue.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Drawing , Shounen , Otaku Culture , Meta , Writing , Time Skip

Aoi Honoo

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

In this story set in the early 1980s, a young man dreams of becoming a renowned comic writer in years to come. His name is HONOO Moyuru. He has no money, only a dream. Then, he feels overwhelmed by his lack of ability, and buys some sake, although he has no head or stomach for alcohol. This is a tortured elegy for any dashing young art student who spends his days careening around in burning ambition.

Tags: Autobiographical , Otaku Culture , Seinen

Moeyo Pen

Also known as Burning Pen.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

Hot blooded comic about... writing comics. There are actually a few series starting with Moeyo Pen (Burning Pen), then later on came the sequel series Hoero Pen (Shouting Pen).

Tags: Drawing , Shounen , Meta

Manga Michi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

An autobiography of the duo Fujio Fujiko, creators of Paman and Doraemon. How they become friends and developed love for manga – but their passion lead them into different ways in the end.

Tags: Shounen , Work , Drawing , Autobiographical , Non-fiction

Hope

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

Hikari is an ordinary girl who can always be found in the corner of the classroom, drawing manga. After a fateful encounter, she dashes toward her dream!
The girls’ battle begins now. Through manga.

Tags: Shoujo , Drawing , Female Protagonist , School , Bullying

Chanto Kaitemasu kara!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

As a manga author of a semi known series, Hirahara Daichi has the talent for coming up with stories, but is incredibly lazy and irresponsible. That leaves his two daughters, middle school student Ayumi and the even younger Sora, to pick up the slack. With the help of the assistant, Akane, the two kids are forced to draw and complete the series every month if they want an income for the household, a task no child should burden themselves with. On top of that, they must do this without people finding out because it will ruin the credibility of Daichi as an author and put a stop to the series. If being a teenager wasn’t hard enough, add to that the pressure of meeting deadlines for a national comic magazine.



Tags: Seinen

Baby Steps

Also known as Baby Steps.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Sports

Eiichiro Maruo is a straight-A student who decides to take up tennis as a side hobby upon entering high school. At the tennis school he runs into Natsu—a bit airheaded, but nobody can beat her in passion for the sport. Soon Eiichiro gets addicted to tennis...and when he applies his academic skills to improving his game, the results will change his life forever!



Tags: Shounen , Tennis , Male Protagonist , School , Foreign , Primarily Male Cast

Hoero Pen

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

The truth about the mangaka: Moyuru Honoo will show how hard and dangerous this job is. But his passion for drawing and for the supreme art of mangas can't be stopped, even by blonde assassins, alien writers, and unhappy editors!

Tags: Drawing , Seinen , Episodic , Primarily Adult Cast , Work

THE COMIQ

Also known as THE COMIQ.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Thriller

Ryota Sakamaki is a struggling artist who finally gets his big break when his manga series is serialized. Sakamaki’s life is thrown into turmoil, however, when he learns that his backgrounds are drawn by an inmate charged with the infamous Halloween Murder. But is his assistant truly guilty of that heinous crime?!

The manga is commemorating the 50th anniversary of Weekly Shonen Jump.



Tags: Drawing , Conspiracy , Work , Shounen , Yandere