Manga like Sayonara Piano Sonata

Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso

Also known as Your Lie in April.

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

Kosei Arima was a piano prodigy until his cruel taskmaster of a mother died suddenly, changing his life forever. Driven by his pain to abandon piano, Kosei now lives in a monotonous, colorless world. Having resigned himself to a bland life, he is surprised when he meets Kaori Miyazono, a violinist with an unorthodox style. Can she bring Kosei back to music, and back to life?



Note: Nominated for the 2012 Manga Taisho Awards.

Tags: Tragedy , School , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Rehabilitation , Male Protagonist , Classical Music , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen

ib: Instant Bullet

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Supernatural

Fukase, an outcast, a loner, a yankee has had enough of this world. He wants nothing to do with it and silently wished for the world to end. Yet during Christmas Eve, a chance encounter with an unknown creature and a girl named Sera may change him and his fate.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Tragedy , Super Power , Heterosexual , Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Philosophy , Female Harem , Yandere

Kimi no Tame ni Hiku Chopin

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Supernatural

Our protagonist, Aine, met Hiroshi by chance when she was very little, and she remembers even now how much fun she had listening to his piano performance. She has always dreamt of meeting him again, but when she does, he is called "The Piano Prince" and seems very hard to approach. And then, before her appears the spirit of Chopin himself! He will make the wheel of fate turn for the two main characters!

Tags: Josei , Classical Music

Ao no Orchestra

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Music

Hajime Aono was a prodigy violinist until he grew jaded with playing the violin due to personal reasons. Now in his third year of middle school, he struggles to decide his academic path. One day in school, he meets Ritsuko Akine, a hotheaded novice violinist who wants to enroll in a high school with a distinguished orchestra club. When he finds himself getting closer to Ritsuko and being brought back to the world of violinists, time starts moving again for him.

This is the beginning of a youthful drama where sounds and hearts alike resound in harmony.

Tags: School , Musical Theater , Seinen , Rehabilitation , Classical Music , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , School Club