Manga like Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou

Grand Blue

Also known as Grand Blue Dreaming.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life , Sports

After moving out on his own to a seaside town, Iori Kitahara makes a college debut he never anticipated. A new chapter of his life unfolds, full of diving with beautiful girls and shenanigans with a gaggle of lovable bastards! Idiot-expert Kenji Inoue and au naturel authority Kimitake Yoshioka bring you a glorious college tale filled with booze-fueled antics!



Tags: Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , College , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Coastal , Bar , Scuba Diving , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Kuudere , Meta , Tsundere , Female Harem , Bisexual , Gore , Yandere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gyaru

Joshikousei no Mudazukai

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

One day out of boredom, Tanaka decided to give her classmates nicknames based on their quirks. Her friend Kikuchi became "Ota" for her nerdy interests, and her other friend Saginomiya became "Robo" because of her expressionless personality. In retaliation, her friends decided to name Tanaka "Baka". These are the ridiculous days of three high school friends claiming (or not) the height of their youth.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , School , Chuunibyou , Shounen , Twins , Teacher , Surreal Comedy , Yuri , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast

Asobi Asobase

Also known as Asobi Asobase.

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

The "surreal gag" comedy manga revolves around three classmates who play simple hand games. One of the girls is good at games, but hates them as she always lost to her older sister and forced to do chores while growing up. Another girl is of American descent, but raised in Japan, and who only pretends to be bad at Japanese. Another girl usually observes their games, and loses to the other girls.



Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , School , School Club , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Drugs , Vampire , LGBTQ+ Themes , Aliens , Alternate Universe , Twins , Slapstick , Scat , Episodic , Butler , Robots

Nan Hao Shang Feng

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

A comedy about two ordinary high school boys.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Episodic , Full Color , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Male Cast , Meta , Primarily Teen Cast , Slapstick , School , Delinquents , Parody , Drawing , Athletics , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Heterosexual , Crossdressing , Crime

Setoutsumi

Also known as Seto Utsumi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

This manga has been made into a movie and a TV drama in japan. "I wish we could just spend all our high school days sittin' and chattin' by this river." This seven chapter volume is a collection of the funky, off-the-wall, and sometimes cynical after-school conversations between Seto and Utsumi, two high-schoolers from the Kansai region of Japan.



Note: Includes 17 extra chapters.

Tags: School , Achronological Order , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Shounen , Revenge , Animals

Nichijou

Also known as Nichijou.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou.



Tags: Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , School , Primarily Female Cast , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Parody , 4-koma , Robots , Teacher , Time Skip , Go , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Tanned Skin

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 , Urban Fantasy , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Shounen , Heterosexual , Youkai , Found Family , Dissociative Identities , Parody , Primarily Teen Cast , Werewolf , Vampire , Shapeshifting , Otaku Culture , Age Regression , Meta , Fashion , Gore , Conspiracy , Dragons

Prison School

Also known as Prison School.

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

On the outskirts of Tokyo stands Hachimitsu Private Academy, an all-girls boarding school for elite young women. But as the new school year rolls around, one tradition is going out the window: For the first time in the school's long history, boys are being allowed to enroll. On the first day of school, though, it turns out only five boys have made the cut. Thrilled by this discovery, these young men's adolescent hearts leap with joy at the thought of being surrounded by all those girls, but little do the five boys suspect the shocking fate that awaits them...



Notes:
Includes 1 extra chapter and the epilogue.
Won the Kodansha Manga Award 2013 for best general manga.

Tags: Seinen , School , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Slavery , Nudity , Slapstick , Prison , Heterosexual , Bullying , Revenge , Love Triangle , Kuudere , Ensemble Cast , Femdom , Watersports , LGBTQ+ Themes

Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge

Also known as Tanaka-kun is Always Listless.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

A sigh, chin on one hand, and those tired eyes... That’s Tanaka-kun, perpetually listless as he is. He and a quiet giant, Ohta-kun, who can’t seem to turn a blind eye to Tanaka-kun, come together in this slow, leisurely, and obstinately lazy coming-of-age comedy.



Tags: School , Iyashikei , 4-koma , Episodic , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast , Tomboy , Delinquents , Anti-Hero

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