Manga like SKET DANCE

Genres: Comedy Drama

What is SKET DANCE about?

Status: Finished

The hilarious misadventures of the "Sket Dan"; a couple of high schoolers who help out people as part of their club activity: Himeko, the hot-headed ex-delinquent with a soft spot for cute things and a taste for strange food; Switch, the brainy otaku who only talks via a computerized speech-application; and Bossun, the atypical leader of this looney bunch, with the amazing power to... concentrate very hard!

Note: Won the 55th annual Shogakukan Manga Award in 2009 for best shounen manga.

Tags: School Club , School , Parody , Shounen , Tragedy , Twins , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Ensemble Cast , Transgender , Time Skip , Adoption , Primarily Teen Cast , Delinquents , LGBTQ+ Themes , Magic
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Gin Tama

Gintama

Also known as Gin Tama.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi

The samurai didn't stand a chance. First, the aliens invaded Japan. Next, they took all the jobs. And then they confiscated everyone's swords. So what does a hotheaded former samurai like Sakata "Gin" Gintoki do to make ends meet? Take any odd job that comes his way, even if it means losing his dignity.



Included Bonus Chapters:
Volume 1: Dandelion (One-shot).
Volume 2: Shirokuro (One-shot).
Volume 24: 13 (One-shot).
Volume 38: Bankara-san Ga Tooru (One-shot).
Volume 41: Special Lesson.

Tags: Samurai , Found Family , Parody , Meta , Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Aliens , Philosophy , Shounen , Episodic , Tragedy , Space , Historical , Anachronism , Ensemble Cast , Time Skip , Police , War , Dystopian , Robots , Ninja , Ghost , LGBTQ+ Themes , Homeless , Assassins , Crossdressing , Fugitive , Idol , Shrine Maiden , Body Swapping , Gender Bending , Judo , Drawing , Gangs , Female Harem , Dissociative Identities , Afterlife , Amnesia , Cult , Military , Reincarnation , Nekomimi , Conspiracy , Politics
WITCH WATCH

Witch Watch

Also known as WITCH WATCH.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life

Morihito, a boy with the strength of an ogre, is about to start living together with his childhood friend Nico, who is training to be a witch. Nico's magic leads to all sorts of unpredictable trouble, and with two teens under one roof... Let the fantastical antics begin! Magical comedy series by Kenta Shinohara creator of SKET DANCE and Astra Lost in Space.



Notes:
Ranked 2nd place for the Next Manga Award in the Print Category in 2022.

Tags: Magic , Witch , Episodic , Urban Fantasy , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Heterosexual , Youkai , Found Family , Dissociative Identities , Parody , Primarily Teen Cast , Werewolf , Vampire , Shapeshifting , Cohabitation , Otaku Culture , Age Regression , Meta , Fashion , Gore , Conspiracy , Dragons
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan

Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan

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

Saiki Kusuo has a wide array of superpowers at his command, including telepathy and telekinesis. This might sound awesome, but, in Kusuo's experience, superpowers are not all they're cracked up to be. He tries to live a normal life, despite his annoying abilities.

Tags: Super Power , School , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Aromantic , Surreal Comedy , Ensemble Cast , Ghost , Asexual , Parody , Chuunibyou , Meta , Alternate Universe , Time Manipulation , Post-Apocalyptic , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Animals , Shapeshifting
Astra Lost in Space

Kanata no Astra

Also known as Astra Lost in Space.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Itʼs the first day of Planet Camp, and Aries Spring couldnʼt be more excited! She, along with eight other strangers, leave for Planet McPa for a weeklong excursion. Soon after they arrive, however, a mysterious orb appears and transports them into the depths of space, where they find an empty floating spaceship…



Notes:
Includes 4 sets of bonus pages, where each set is considered a chapter; Volumes 2 - 5 each contain a set.
Won the Manga Taisho Award 2019.
Nominated to the 23rd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Tags: Space , Conspiracy , Survival , Found Family , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Clone , Shounen , Transgender , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Aliens , Alternate Universe , LGBTQ+ Themes , Adoption , Agender , Wilderness , Nudity
Beelzebub

Beelzebub

Also known as Beelzebub.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Supernatural

The story follows the "strongest juvenile delinquent", Oga Tatsumi, a first year in "Ishiyama High" the school for delinquents. One day while sleeping next to a river he sees a man floating down it, he pulls him to shore and the man splits in half revealing a baby boy. This boy is the son of the demon king and he has been chosen as the one to raise it with the baby's demon maid Hilda. The story follows his life with the child and at the delinquent school.

Note: Includes 12 extra chapters.

Tags: Delinquents , Shounen , Demons , Primarily Male Cast , Adoption , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Parenthood , Urban Fantasy , Coming of Age , Maids , Magic , Body Swapping , Battle Royale , Dragons , Amnesia , Ghost , Meta , Family Life
Kaguya-sama: Love is War

Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensaitachi no Renai Zunousen

Also known as Kaguya-sama: Love is War.

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

As leaders of their prestigious academy’s student council, Kaguya and Miyuki are the elite of the elite! But it’s lonely at the top… Luckily for them, they’ve fallen in love! There’s just one problem—they both have too much pride to admit it. And so begins the daily scheming to get the object of their affection to confess their romantic feelings first… Love is a war you win by losing.



Notes:
The first 10 chapters were published in Monthly Miracle Jump. It switched to Weekly Young Jump starting with Ch. 11, with the chapter count being reset. This entry still includes the first 10 chapters from Miracle Jump.
Winner of the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for "Best General Manga" category in 2019.

Tags: School , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Ojou-sama , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Seinen , Parody , Meta , Love Triangle , Episodic , Politics , Conspiracy , Philosophy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bullying , VTuber , Foreign , Crossdressing
Flunk Punk Rumble

Yankee-kun to Megane-chan

Also known as Flunk Punk Rumble.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Romance

Shinagawa Daichi is a high school delinquent who just wants to be left alone. However, class rep Adachi Hana will stop at nothing to get him to go on the upcoming Social Studies field trip. What are her true motives behind getting a "yankee" like Shinagawa to go on such a thing?

Notes:
Includes 9 extra chapters.
Includes the one-shot "Fairy Megane"

Tags: School , Shounen , Delinquents , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Hikikomori
Phantom Busters

Phantom Busters

Also known as Phantom Busters.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life , Supernatural

High school freshman Eugene Korekishi is an honor student with zero psychic powers who does not believe in ghosts! However, his high school life takes an unexpected turn when he meets a maverick boy named Mogari Shishikuno, who exorcises ghosts by eating them!

Set in Kamakura, this coming-of-age comedy about a high school boy who dispels evil spirits begins!



Tags: Exorcism , Ghost , School , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , School Club , Coming of Age , Coastal , Bullying , Delinquents , Otaku Culture , Meta
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Agravity Boys

AGRAVITY BOYS

Also known as Agravity Boys.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi

The year 2118... Four young astronauts head out to the stars to find humanity's new frontier...or so they thought! Two days after they depart, earth is devoured by a black hole! Plunged into a destiny they cannot escape, these unique young men reach their destination of Alpha Jumbro and plan to live out the rest of their lives there. How will humanity survive in this wacky space-survival comedy?!



Notes:
Sixth place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.
Includes the epilogue, 6 extra chapters, and the one-shots "Kempa Trick" and "Genar-Diversion 3 to 1."

Tags: Space , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Survival , Surreal Comedy , Shounen , Aliens , Gender Bending
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Also known as Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The boy of her dreams...is a girl's manga artist?! To the eyes of high school student Chiyo Sakura, classmate Umetarou Nozaki--brawny of build and brusque of tongue--is a dreamboat! When Chiyo finally works up the courage to tell Nozaki how she feels about him, she knows rejection is on the table...but getting recruited as a manga-ka's assistant?! Never in a million years! But for someone who makes a living drawing sweet girly romances, Nozaki-kun is a little slow on the uptake when it comes to matters of the heart in reality. And so Chiyo's daily life of manga making and heartache begins!



Tags: Drawing , Parody , 4-koma , Ensemble Cast , Work , School , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Unrequited Love , Tomboy , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , School Club , Educational , Bisexual , College

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