Manga like Kamigami no Itadaki

Kokou no Hito

Also known as The Climber.

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

On his first day of transferring to a new high school, a loner named Mori Buntarou, is cajoled by a classmate into climbing the school building. Despite knowing that one misstep could send him spiraling to his death, he moves forward, and upon finally reaching the top, Mori experiences a sense of fulfillment. That feeling, which seems to be telling him, "You're alive!" gives birth to an adrenaline for rock-climbing.

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

K

Also known as K.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama

K is a work frankly atypical when compared to most comics or sleeves that are published in our country, and is an adaptation of a famous Japanese novel written by Yumemakura Baku.

K (Ka) is the name of a mysterious climber who do not know their origin or their real name, although suspected to be Japanese. Occasionally performs functions sherpa carrier or for expeditions want to climb the Himalayan mountains. His extraordinary skill as a climber have made him a sort of legend among the locals and their services are often required to perform rescues in the most extreme situations. But K does not work for money, he sees in the mountains not only a personal challenge but a way of being part of nature itself, thus using the lessons of the tribes of the area and the observation of animal behavior to solve the difficulties it presents the mountain. So we will see, over five chapters, how K must face increasingly tough challenges and the struggle for survival and personal growth that involves climbing mountains over 8000 meters.

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

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

Joe Yabuki is a troubled young man who runs away from an orphanage. Wandering through the Tokyo slums, he meets former boxing trainer Danpei. Joe is later arrested and goes to a temporary jail where he fights Nishi, his future best friend, ​and leader of a group of hooligans. He and Nishi then go to a juvenile prison miles away from Tokyo. There Joe meets Rikiishi, a former boxing prodigy, and a rivalry develops between them. They face each other in a match in which Rikiishi dominates Joe until the latter hits him with a cross-counter, resulting in both being knocked out. This inspires the other prison inmates to take up boxing. Joe and Rikiishi vow to fight again.



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

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: Historical , Teacher , Episodic , Seinen

Miboujin Tozan

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

Tags: Outdoor Activities , Seinen , 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 , Aviation , War

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

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 , Detective , Outdoor Activities , Crime , Urban , Mountaineering