Manga like Saki

Akagi: Yami ni Oritatta Tensai

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

While mahjong is a game that is often played with family and friends, it is also a game that is played in the darkest corners of society. Nangou is a compulsive gambler who has accumulated debt over three million yen. In a last ditch attempt to clear his record, he decides to wager his life on a game of mahjong with the mafia. Unfortunately, as the game progresses, Nangou only moves further from the prize and closer to death.

When all hope seems lost, the game parlor is suddenly intruded upon by Shigeru Akagi, a young boy on the run from the police. Desperate to turn the game around, Nangou hands the game over to Akagi after teaching him a few of the rules. The mafia can only smirk as Akagi sits down to play. However, they soon come to learn that Akagi is a natural born gambler. An imposing figure who does not fear death. One who is destined to become a legend.



Tags: Mahjong , Gambling , Death Game , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , Kaiju , Tsundere , Anti-Hero , Yakuza , Time Skip , Historical , Afterlife , Gods , Demons , Board Game

Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

The manga follows middle school students Koyori Tsumuzikaze and Agari Kamiya as they enter the world of girls' middle school ping pong.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Table Tennis , Primarily Female Cast , Yuri , Seinen

Ten: Tenhou-doori no Kaidanji

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Takashi Ten is living his life as a rep mahjong player. A kind person at heart, he also possesses an ingenious talent in mahjong. One day Ten meets Hiroyuki Igawa, a student player who 'plays by logic'. Hiroyuki is overwhelmed at Ten's playing style which involves anything besides logic, and soon becomes one of his close friends.

Being the rep player he is, Ten had to play against some Yakuza. The chance of victory seemed to be on Ten's side, but then the yakuza decide to call their secret weapon, a legendary rep player called...

Tags: Mahjong , Seinen , Gambling , Yakuza , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Time Skip , Primarily Male Cast , Kuudere , Suicide , Tragedy , Amnesia , Board Game , Poker , Golf

Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Uma Musume Cinderella Gray is a spin-off title of the Uma Musume project by Cygames. It follows Oguri Cap through her time at Kasamatsu Training Center Academy and on her journey of becoming a legendary horse girl.

Note: Includes the one-shot "Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray Gaiden - The mermaid left behind".

Tags: Athletics , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Kemonomimi , Anthropomorphism , Historical , Seinen , Fitness , Tragedy , Idol , Disability

Mou Ippon!

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

After performing in their final middle school judo tournament, Michi and Sanae begin high school and walk in on Michi's final opponent fighting to save their new high school's judo club.

Tags: Martial Arts , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Shounen , Judo

Yamima no Mamiya

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Japan has entered a new era called "Reiwa", after moving past the Heisei Era on April 30th 2019.

It is in this era, past the time of people like the legendary Akagi Shigeru and others like him who gambled on mahjong for a living, that a new gambler has arisen known only as "Mamiya of Mahjong's Darkness".



Note: The chapter counts contains "Chapter 0".

Tags: Mahjong , Gambling , Female Protagonist , Board Game , Death Game

Wizard's Soul: Koi no Seisen

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

"Wizard's Soul" is a competitive trading card game famous the world over (based heavily on a certain real life game with the intials M, T, and G). Skilled players are popular, make a lot of money, and are even offered acceptance to prestigious universities.

Follow the story of Manaka as she struggles with love, money, and friendship in a world run by cards.

Tags: Card Battle , Primarily Teen Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual , School

Girls und Panzer: Ribbon no Musha

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

Tankathlon is a new form of tank sport gaining slowly gaining popularity among Senshado enthusiasts. While also involving tank battles, Tankathlon is distinguished by its lack of official oversight allowing any school with tanks to participate in a battle anywhere at any time, and a 10-ton weight restriction on tanks used, limiting battles to light tanks and tankettes.

Tags: Tanks , Female Protagonist , Military , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , Chuunibyou , Yuri , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Ensemble Cast

Kirenu Pai nado Anmari Nai!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Supernatural

A mahjong craze has swept Gensokyo. Youmu, a total beginner at mahjong (with a completely useless ability at that), has no choice but to go against the top players of Gensokyo for her mistress' honor and her own!

Notes:
All chapters were split into three parts in the original serialization and later combined in the volume releases.
Includes three extra chapters.

Tags: Mahjong , Super Power , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Board Game , Youkai , Ghost

Tamayomi

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

In her Junior High years, the pitcher Yomi Takeda was not able to get very far in a cross-school baseball tournament. Since the catcher on her team wasn't at her level, she couldn't use her signature move, the "Magic Throw," and eventually regretted not being able to use it. After Junior High, she decided to stop playing baseball and went to Shin Koshigaya High School, a school without a baseball club. There, she found her long lost childhood friend, Tamaki Yamazaki, who used to play catch ball​ with her when they were kids. Tamaki also played baseball during her Junior High years as a catcher, and could even catch Yomi's "Magic Throw!"

Their promise with each other during their childhood could now be fulfilled! Walking together on the road of baseball once again...

The story of the girls who love baseball will begin!

Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Baseball , School , Yuri