Manga like Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby - Star Blossom

Status: Releasing
Genres: Sports

The popular cross-media content "Uma Musume Pretty Derby" features "Uma Musume" who have inherited the names and souls of numerous racehorses! A new legend begins with the indomitable horse girl "Sakura Laurel" as the main character.

Tags: Athletics , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Disability , Kemonomimi , Fitness

Medalist

Also known as Medalist.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sports

Inori is a little girl who dreams of becoming a figure skater. Yet, the obstacles to this dream feel insurmountable: Inori’s already “too old” (she’s 11); she’s always had trouble at school; and, worst of all, her older sister’s skating dreams ended in failure, so her mother is dead set against putting her other daughter through a similar experience. Still, the rink is the only place Inori can be herself, and she’s out on the ice when a fateful meeting takes place. Tsukasa, a frustrated coach on the edge of giving up competitive skating himself, will join Inori to form an unstoppable duo powered by hard work, transcendent joy, and an unshakeable belief that they can prove everyone wrong.



Notes:
Winner of the 8th Next Manga Award in the Print Manga Category in 2022.
Winner of the 68th Shogakukan Manga Award in the General Category in 2022.

Tags: Ice Skating , Seinen , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Teacher , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Ballet , Found Family

Starting Gate!: Uma Musume Pretty Derby

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

A manga part of the Uma Musume Project by Cygames, a game and an anime. It follows Special Week, an aspiring horsegirl athlete-idol, as she transfers in to the Traincent Academy to follow her dreams. But will she be able to withstand the competitive environment that awaits her there?

Tags: School , Kemonomimi , Primarily Female Cast

Blue Lock

Also known as Blue Lock.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match...and to do so, they've gathered 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team...and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?



Note: Winner of the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2021.

Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , Battle Royale , Athletics , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Anti-Hero , Super Power , Fitness , Foreign , Augmented Reality , Tragedy , Language Barrier , Suicide , Revenge

Girls und Panzer: Ribbon no Musha

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

Tankathlon is a new form of tank sport gaining slowly gaining popularity among Senshado enthusiasts. While also involving tank battles, Tankathlon is distinguished by its lack of official oversight allowing any school with tanks to participate in a battle anywhere at any time, and a 10-ton weight restriction on tanks used, limiting battles to light tanks and tankettes.

Tags: Tanks , Female Protagonist , Military , Seinen , Primarily Female Cast , Chuunibyou , Yuri , School , Ensemble Cast

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

Hanebado!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Tachibana Kentarou is a high school badminton coach who has a lot more enthusiasm than some of the members of his very small team. One day, he meets the quiet-voiced student Hanesaki Ayano, who is effortlessly physically capable and experienced in badminton. He tries to recruit her, but she seems to have no interest in the sport at all. Due to a series of circumstances, she eventually ends up joining the team. Coach Tachibana is determined that with her on board, they'll be champions!

Tags: Badminton , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Tomboy

Hyaku M.

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 , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast

Grappler Baki

Also known as Baki the Grappler.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

A seventeen-year-old boy with a white belt enters a karate tournament and shakes the foundations of Japan’s martial arts scene. As he effortlessly defeats his opponents, the world’s top fighters are left to ask: just who is this bizarrely strong young man, and what is he trying to achieve?



Tags: Martial Arts , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Primarily Male Cast , Gore , Shounen , Estranged Family , Achronological Order , Nudity , Tragedy , Sumo , Ensemble Cast , Yakuza

Saki

Also known as Saki.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Ecchi , Slice of Life , Sports

Saki's never been a big fan of mahjong. A lifetime of being forced to play with family at holidays (and losing her money as a consequence...) has left a foul taste for the game in her mouth. When she's convinced, though, to play a game with her classmates, she discovers that not only has fending off her family left her with an uncanny ability for the game but, more surprisingly, that it can even be fun!

Is this revelation enough to cleanse Saki's distaste for the game? Can her classmates convince her to join their club, or is there just too much baggage to make it worth her while?



Tags: Mahjong , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , School Club , Super Power , Ensemble Cast , School , Yuri , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Magic , Seinen , Gods , Shrine Maiden , Board Game , Time Manipulation