Manga like SWIM

Inter-High Yuushoukou no Hoketsu no Hanshi

Also known as The Story of a Benchwarmer of the National High School Champions.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

The Sumida East High School basketball team achieves a dramatic victory in the Inter-High School Championships. While the first-year students shine, third-year student Nakano, dropped from the starting lineup just before the tournament, has mixed feelings...

A coming-of-age drama sharply portrayed by a promising young talent.



Tags: School , Coming of Age , Basketball , Shounen

Real

Also known as Real.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sports

A motorcycle accident, bone cancer, a speeding truck crashing into a boy on a stolen bicycle--tragic life-changing events turn the worlds of three young men upside down. These three very different personalities have only one thing in common--their passion for basketball.



Note: Won an Excellence Prize for manga at the 2001 Japan Media Arts Festival.

Tags: Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Disability , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Rehabilitation , Basketball , Tragedy , Primarily Male Cast , Delinquents , Athletics , Fitness , Philosophy , Wrestling , Bullying , Meta

DIG IT

Also known as DIG IT.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Sports

Gaku is the son of former Japanese national volleyball star Kei Shishiya. Through middle school, he's played as his team's ace hitter, though part of him wonders if that's a title he earned, or one he was simply given. One day, Kei meets Noboru, a generational volleyball talent with a monstrous spiking arm, and vows to turn him into the next national standout. In the wake of that choice, Gaku realizes he can't play the style his father demands, but swears he'll defeat both Kei and Noboru with a game that's entirely his own.



Tags: Volleyball , Revenge , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , School , Ensemble Cast

Hyaku M.

Also known as 100 Meters.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

He was born fast. He had nothing else, only the ability to run fast. It gave him "a place at school" and "a bridge between friends." That was all the boy had. Then he met another boy who ran to forget the hardships in life. He was not fast by any means, but he had passion. The passion was infectious, and he gradually came to feel the same excitement. But that was the beginning of the "abnormality." The mad dash for that "100m"— Note: Chapter count includes 2 extras.

Tags: Athletics , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen