Manga like Show-ha Shou-ten!

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

Akane-banashi

Also known as Akane-banashi.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama

Rakugo--the ultimate form of storytelling, where everything in a story is expressed with just your body and words. Shinta and his daughter Akane have been seduced by this wonderful form of classical entertainment. Having observed her father strive to pass the shin'uchi rakugo test, Akane will take her own steps into this unique world!



Notes:
Ranked 3rd in the 8th Next Manga Awards print manga category in 2022.
Ranked 4th in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023 guidebook for male readers.
Ranked 3rd in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2023.
Ranked 2nd in the 16th Manga Taisho in 2023.
Nominated for the 47th Kodansha Manga Award in the shounen category in 2023.
Included in the New York Public Library's 2023 Best Books for Teens.
Included in YALSA's 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens.

Tags: Rakugo , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Coming of Age , Acting , Work , Philosophy , Shounen , Found Family , Revenge , Family Life , Time Skip , School

Someone Hertz

Also known as Someone Hertz.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Mimei shares the hobby of listening to a late-night comedy radio show with the funny and mysterious Kurage from his class. And she's famous for sending in hilarious comments that are read on the show? But Mimei wants to be just as funny as her! Are they friends, are they rivals, are they something more...? This radio rom-com is on the air!



Tags: School , Manzai , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Shounen , Iyashikei , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist

Kakeau Tsukihi

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Tsuki Arito and Yo Kamikoma move to Tokyo to become comedians. With a 9 m² apartment and just 300 yen for food expenses, the two best friends begin to chase their big dream.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Manzai , Shounen

Beshari Gurashi

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

A story about a stand-up comedian to-be.

The manga's story centers around Agatsuma Keisuke, a high school student with a great sense of comedy. A student named Tsujimoto Jun transfers to his school. Both share ideas and form a plan to make a stand-up comedian duo. They aim to become pro together, despite the many hardships they will face.



Tags: School , Shounen , Manzai

Rec

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

Fumihiko Matsumaru, a single 26-year-old average salaryman, invited a girl to the movies but was stood up. Right at the moment he was about to toss his tickets into the trash, a cute girl appeared and asked him not to waste them. After movie and dinner, he escorted her home, only to find her apartment was burning. Having nowhere else to stay, 20-year-old rookie seiyuu Aka Onda moved into Matsumaru's place, and the two started a "more than friends but not yet lovers" relationship under the same roof—with many obstacles waiting for them.

Note: Volume 1 contains a two-chapter story titled, "Silver Street Romance" about a girl who confesses to another girl. The girl confessed to sets up the other girl with her (annoying) brother, who looks like her. What predicament awaits the young girl and the brother?

Tags: Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Seinen

NHK ni Youkoso!

Also known as Welcome to the N.H.K..

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

Sato Tatsuhiro is a drug-addled "hikikomori" (a Japanese shut-in) who thinks a sinister organization, NHK (Nihon Hikikomori Kyoukai), is the cause of all his problems! He falls in love with a girl, Misaki, who he thinks is trying to assassinate him, but doesn't know how to talk to her or if he can trust her. The more he stay in his house watching anime porn, reading manga and doing drugs, the harder it is for him to leave. Only Misaki can keep him from rotting away in his own apartment!



Tags: Hikikomori , Otaku Culture , Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation , Tragedy , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Denpa , Suicide , Drugs , Bullying , Nudity , Shounen , Disability

Tatarashido

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

A one-shot by the creators of "Akane-Banashi", about a boy who is ridiculed at school and dreams of becoming a manzai comedian, while his friend worries about him.

Tags: Manzai , Shounen

act-age

Also known as ACT-AGE.

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

Lights! Camera! ACTION! Kei Yonagi wants to be an actress! But an already-difficult dream to achieve has become much harder since her father left and her mother died. She's now taking care of her two little siblings on her own.

Without much money left, will she have to give up her dream?!



Tags: Acting , Work , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Filmmaking , Philosophy , Shounen , Educational , Primarily Adult Cast , Twins

Demekin

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Slice of Life

In the first years of elementary school, Sata Masaki was bullied and called "demekin" (pop-eyed goldfish). Ｈe became conscious of his strength from the 3rd year on, started looking up to delinquents and now he's about to make his middle-school debut...!?

Tags: Seinen , School