Manga like Kamigami no Itadaki

Kokou no Hito

Also known as The Climber.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Psychological , Sports

Transfer student Buntaro Mori starts his first day at his new school already on the administration’s radar. He’s withdrawn and sullen, and the teachers are just waiting for him to explode. When his annoying classmate Miyamoto promises to leave him alone forever if he climbs to the top of the school, Mori eagerly takes up the challenge and shocks everyone when he makes it all the way to the roof. Flushed with the victory of his first successful climb, Mori can’t resist the lure of the local peak, despite warnings from more experienced climbers about the risks of climbing alone. But Mori doesn’t care. A little danger is nothing in the face of his new obsession.

Tags: Mountaineering , Coming of Age , Outdoor Activities , Seinen , Travel , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Wilderness , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Survival , Hikikomori , Philosophy , Classic Literature , Snowscape , Time Skip , Fitness , Suicide , Anti-Hero , Foreign , Dissociative Identities , Delinquents , School , Nudity , School Club , Marriage , Pregnancy

K

Also known as K.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama

The story of a man who challenges a towering white god. The man keeps climbing only to settle his past. An alpine epic by Taniguchi Jiro, winner of the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize.

Tags: Mountaineering , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Outdoor Activities , Gore

Gaku: Minna no Yama

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

As a mountain-rescue volunteer, Shimazaki Sanpo is a man who has scaled the world’s peaks and is well acquainted with the rigors, joys, and splendor of mountains. Many alpinists make their way up mountain trails in the hope of reaching a summit in Japan’s Northern Alps, where Sanpo lives. With comments like “You really hung in there!” and “Make sure you come again!”, he cheers up the climbers as they head back to everyday life.

Note: Winner of Manga Award 2008 and the 54th Shougakukan Manga Award.

Tags: Seinen , Mountaineering , Episodic , Male Protagonist

Climber Retsuden

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Various short stories. That revolve around the lives of mountain climbers, and the trials and tribulations they endure to realize their dreams.

Note: Won the 6th Kodansha Manga Award for shounen in 1982.

Tags: Mountaineering , Seinen , Outdoor Activities

Ashita no Joe

Also known as Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow.

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

A young drifter named Joe Yabuki wanders through the slums of Tokyo, but when the local ruffians try to give him a hard time he teaches them a rough lesson with his fists. The spectacle sparks a gleam in the eye of an old drunk who happens to be watching—Danpei Tange, a failed boxer and former coach who sees something special in the boy. He pleads with Joe to train with him off, but the cocky young fighter brushes him. Later, though, when Joe is arrested and put in a juvenile detention facility, he realizes that he’s going to need to hone his raw fighting skills if he wants to survive. Thus is born a partnership that might just take Joe all the way to the top…



Tags: Tragedy , Boxing , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Class Struggle , Orphan , Urban , Disability , Anti-Hero , Athletics , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Delinquents , Prison , Foreign , Historical , War , Yakuza

Munakata Kyouju Denkikou

Also known as Folklore Studies of Professor Munakata.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery

Munakata is an anthropology professor that studies the relationship between folklore or fairy tales and real historical events. He believes that many of these stories that most presume to be entirely fictional are actually based on real events. This manga tells the story of Professor Munakata as he follows the clues left from both the imaginary world of fairy tales and the real world historical evidence.

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Episodic , Teacher

Miboujin Tozan

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

Tags: Seinen , Outdoor Activities , Mountaineering

Eien no Zero

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Kentaro, 26 years, is a NEET. At the request of his sister Keiko, the young man plunges into his family past. Kyuzo Miyabe, his grandfather, was a fighter pilot of the Japanese imperial navy who had fought at the commands of the mythical Japanese fighter aircraftt: "Zero". But at the end of the war he die in kamikaze attack. Was he the hero whom everybody claims? Or rather a terrorist? A coward?



Tags: Military , Seinen , Historical , War , Aviation

Toudo no Tabibito

Also known as The Ice Wanderer and Other Stories.

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

An anthology of six short stories. The title story is set in the Klondike region in 1897 and recounts the American author Jack London’s fortuitous encounter with an enigmatic old man. White Wilderness is also related to Jack London - it's an adaptation of the early part of his White Fang novel in which two men and their dog team are relentlessly pursued by a pack of wolves. Our Mountains, set in Japan in the 1920s, follows an elderly hunter in his attempts to take vengeance on the enormous bear that killed his son. Kaiyose-Jima is a nostalgic tale in which a boy is sent to spend the summer with relatives on the coast after his mother is taken ill. In Shôkarô, a mangaka looks back on the strange apartment building he lived in when he first came to Tokyo as an aspiring artist and the unusual people he met there. Return To The Sea is the tale of a marine biologist working on the coast of Alaska who becomes obsessed by an elderly bowhead whale and by Inuit tales of a whale cemetery.



Tags: Classic Literature , Autobiographical , Rural , Historical , Animals , Philosophy , Seinen , Anthology , Foreign , Drawing , Primarily Adult Cast

Sousakusha

Also known as The Quest for the Missing Girl.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Shiga, a mountaineer, leaves his isolated lodge and returns to Tokyo in order to track down Megumi - the missing daughter of Tatsuko (Shiga's deceased best friend) and Yoriko (whom Shiga has secretly been in love with since before Tatsuko died). Shiga's investigation takes him into the world of "compensated dating" and disaffected teens and what he discovers there suggests that Megumi may have been abducted by a paedophile with a great deal of power and influence. In order to save the girl and regain the self-respect he lost when his best friend died, Shiga must break through the wall of silence and do what the police dare not.

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Tags: Seinen , Outdoor Activities , Detective , Urban , Crime , Mountaineering