Manga like Ryuuou no Oshigoto!

Hi Score Girl

Also known as Hi Score Girl.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

When one game-crazed boy's arcade winning streak is cut short by a girl from his class, a rivalry for the ages is assured...but an unlikely friendship isn't too far behind either!



Note: Includes 7 extra chapters.

Tags: Video Games , Love Triangle , Coming of Age , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Historical

Ro-Kyu-bu!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Sports

Hasegawa Subaru enters a basketball club of Nanashiba High School, but the activity of the club gets suspended because the club leader falls in love with an 11 year old daughter of the coaching teacher. Subaru's aunt asks him to coach a basketball club of elementary school girls. At first, he is reluctant to teach small girls, but he devotes himself to the club as he knows the complex circumstances of them.

Tags: School Club , Basketball , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Child Cast , Shounen

THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: U149

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

Spin-off manga of THE IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls, focusing on younger idols. The manga centers around girls under 149 centimeters tall (under about 4-feet, 11-inches) who aspire to be idols despite not having a producer or gigs. However, maybe with a marvelous dress, a marvelous stage, and a marvelous prince ... The new Cinderella story follows these small idols and their small rookie producer.



Note: The chapter count includes 152 chapters released in magazine and 33 extra chapters.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Idol

Saki

Also known as Saki.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Ecchi , Slice of Life , Sports

Saki's never been a big fan of mahjong. A lifetime of being forced to play with family at holidays (and losing her money as a consequence...) has left a foul taste for the game in her mouth. When she's convinced, though, to play a game with her classmates, she discovers that not only has fending off her family left her with an uncanny ability for the game but, more surprisingly, that it can even be fun!

Is this revelation enough to cleanse Saki's distaste for the game? Can her classmates convince her to join their club, or is there just too much baggage to make it worth her while?



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Mahjong , Female Protagonist , School Club , Super Power , Ensemble Cast , School , Yuri , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Magic , Shrine Maiden , Gods , Seinen , Time Manipulation , Board Game

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

Tenshi no 3P!

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

Nukui Kyou is a high school student who tends to skip school due to a trauma in his past. Kyou secretly creates songs using vocal song synthesis software as his hobby. Three girls who just entered fifth grade - the crybaby Gotou Jun, the strong-willed Momijidani Nozomi, and the somewhat sleepy Kaneshiro Sora who takes life at her own pace - email Kyou. These three girls, who were raised together like sisters since childhood, want Kyou to help them break into music in this loli & pop symphony story.

Note: The chapter count includes 6 extra stories.

Tags: Band , Seinen , School

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 , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Age Gap , Adoption , School Club , Love Triangle

Shion no Ou

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Yasuoka Shion lost her parents, and her voice, when she was young...in a murder.

She was found amidst a blood-soaked room, and the only hint for the suspect was a Shougi board and one piece: the King. Now, Shion steps into the world of female professional Shougi players. As her popularity and fame slowly rises, so do the questions about her past, particularly the murder case that was never solved.

Tags: Shogi , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Board Game , Disability , Adoption

Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru

Also known as When Will Ayumu Make His Move?.

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

Ayumu is in love with his senpai Yaotome, but he's sworn not to confess his feelings until he can beat her at the board game shogi… The problem is, his love is obvious to Yaotome, and she can't stop trying to trick him into breaking his vow!



Notes:
Includes 15 extra chapters.
The manga is based on a series of comics the author previously released on Twitter.
Ranked third place in the 2020 Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards comic category.

Tags: Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , School Club , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Shogi , Slapstick , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Tsundere , Love Triangle , Board Game

81 Diver

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Kentarou failed at entering the professional league of shogi board game competition. However, he continues to play the game for a living by gambling at amateur shogi clubs. His encounter and defeat by the shogi player known as Akihabara's "Ukeshi" shocks him and, combined with his financial crisis, reinvigorates him to take shogi more seriously. He also finds out by chance that the Ukeshi offers a part-time maid cosplay house cleaning service, another side of her which further intrigues him.



Tags: Shogi , Gambling , Seinen , Cosplay , Board Game