Manga like Ryuu to Ichigo

Banjou no Orion

Also known as Orion's Board.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sports

Losing one match after another, shogi prodigy Yuhi Ninomiya became a shadow of his former glorious self. It was then that he faced his old rival Kanata Kuji in an official match. However, the record-setting match ended with Kanata winning his 27th consecutive game, and Yuhi losing his 17th consecutive game. Feeling frustrated and depressed, Yuhi stops by a bar, when he has a fateful encounter with a certain girl! Her name is Tsuki Kayamori. Although she is overbearing, self-centered, and eccentric, her sharp and unorthodox playstyle is as if she was chosen by the shogi God!


Tags: Shogi , Board Game , Male Protagonist , School , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast

Knuckle Girl

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

Ran, a high school female boxer, goes out into lawless territories of school bullies and school gangs to get revenge for her sexually assaulted younger sister.

Tags: Revenge , Boxing , Female Protagonist , Full Color , Foreign

Eisei Otome no Tatakai Kata

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sports

A manga about a 17 year-old high school girl who battles in the Ladies Professional Shogi League.



Tags: Shogi , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Female Cast , Board Game

Ban-ou

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

Tags: Vampire , Shounen , Shogi

Hikaru no Go

Also known as Hikaru no Go.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Sports , Supernatural

After stumbling across a haunted Go board, irresponsible Hikaru Shindo discovers that the spirit of a master player has taken up residence in his consciousness. In his pursuit of the "Divine Move," Fujiwara-no-Sai awakens in Hikaru an untapped interest and genius for the game, and soon the schoolboy is chasing his own dream--defeating the famed Go prodigy Akira Toya!



Note: There are 197 chapters total in the original release.

Tags: Go , Coming of Age , Ghost , Board Game , Male Protagonist , Shounen , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Tragedy , School , Work , Foreign , Urban Fantasy

3-gatsu no Lion

Also known as March Comes in Like a Lion.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Rei Kiriyama is a child prodigy. Rei Kiriyama is also an orphan who lives alone in an empty apartment. Rei Kiriyama is a teen working in an adult's world. Life is complicated for Rei. He's an up-and-coming shogi player on the verge of turning pro, but he has no homelife, or much of a life period, outside his board game, but thankfully with the help of some life-long friends he has an opportunity start all over again.



Notes:
Winner of the Grand Prize at the 4th Manga Taishou Award in 2011.
Winner of the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in 2011.
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2014.
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2021.

Tags: Coming of Age , Philosophy , Family Life , Rehabilitation , Seinen , Shogi , Found Family , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Iyashikei , Board Game , Food , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Adoption , School Club , Love Triangle