Manga like Tensai Bakabon

Crayon Shin-chan

Also known as Crayon Shinchan.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

Shinnosuke Nohara might look like an innocent little kid, but anyone whose dealt with kids know they're anything but innocent. Relentlessly sassing the adults around him, pulling perverted pranks, and driving people to tears with embarrassment, Crayon Shinchan's the "kindergartener from hell," a five-year-old boy whose bodily functions, offensive comments, and outrageous behavior consistently annoy everyone around him. A national phenomenon in Japan, this shocking and hilarious comic celebrates the terrible power of destruction and indecency wielded by toddlers everywhere!



Tags: School , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Family Life , Seinen , Slapstick

Kariage-kun

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Tags: Seinen

Kobo-chan

Also known as Kobo, the Li'l Rascal.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Kobo-chan is a 4-koma humor comic surrounding Kobo Tabata and his family.

Note: this entry includes chapters of "Kobo-chan" published until 2003/7. Later releases are included in the <a= href "https://anilist.co/manga/61979/">Shin Kobo-chan entry because of a change of tankoubon publisher, even if the series still continue to be released under its original name in the Asahi Shinbun

Tags: 4-koma , Family Life

Let's La Gon

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

An avant-garde comedy by gag manga legend, Fujio Akatsuka. The stories revolve around a young boy Gon, his dad, and the other crazy personalities in town.

Tags: Shounen , Episodic , Slapstick , Surreal Comedy

Dokonjou Gaeru

Also known as The Gutsy Frog.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

This classic 70's manga by Yasumi Yoshizawa is about a young middle-schooler named Hiroshi, who accidentally slips while running around one day and squishes a wide-eyed frog onto his shirt. To his surprise, the frog is still alive and can actually speak. Pyonkichi the mischievous grof causes mayhem for Hiroshi and his friends at every turn. As a spirit living on Hiroshi's shit this gutsy frog is certainly ready for some fun adventures!



Tags: Shounen , Animals , Male Protagonist

Otoboke Kachou

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Otoboke Kachou is another 4-koma offering from Ueda Masashi-sensei. It began serialization in Manga Time in 1981 and continues till this day. The series follows the comical trials and tribs of the titular, yet simultaneously pompous and klutzy section chief Otoboke.

Tags: Seinen

Jun: Shotaro no Fantasy World

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological

A experimental manga series about a boy named Jun and his surreal voyages. The character is a alter-ego of Ishinomori himself.

Tags: Meta , Drawing , Autobiographical , Philosophy , Seinen , Achronological Order , Male Protagonist , Magic , Tragedy , Nudity

Jun

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

When Takahashi Atsuho, the son of a fisherman, changed classes in his third year of junior high school, he found himself in the same class as Miyamoto Jun, whom he has had a crush on since he entered school. Miyamoto became gradually attracted to Atsuho, who appears rough on the outside but is kind at heart... The two seemed to be getting closer little by little, but...?



Tags: Boys' Love , Rural , School , Shoujo

Hanaotoko

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Shigeo is a high strung elementary school student living with his mother. His only concern is getting ahead in life by doing well in school. He despises his father Hanao (who is separated from them), who's an idealistic free spirit and a kid at heart, infatuated with the sport of baseball.

Shigeo's mother forces Shigeo to take time to visit his father, and so begins Shigeo's lessons that there's more to life than excelling academically (courtesy of his very childish father).

Tags: Baseball , Iyashikei , Family Life , Coming of Age , Seinen , Philosophy , Rural

Shuna no Tabi

Also known as Shuna's Journey.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Shuna, the prince of a poor land, watches in despair as his people work themselves to death harvesting the little grain that grows there. And so, when a traveler presents him with a sample of seeds from a mysterious western land, he sets out to find the source of the golden grain, dreaming of a better life for his subjects.

It is not long before he meets a proud girl named Thea. After freeing her from captivity, he is pursued by her enemies, and while Thea escapes north, Shuna continues toward the west, finally reaching the Land of the God-Folk.

Will Shuna ever see Thea again? And will he make it back home from his quest for the golden grain?



Tags: Full Color , Mythology , Fairy Tale , Male Protagonist , Amnesia , Magic , Foreign , Animals , Seinen , Slavery , Coming of Age , Heterosexual