Top 4-Koma Manga Recommendations

Komi-san wa, Komyushou desu.

Also known as Komi Can't Communicate.

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

Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. But all that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly realizes she isn’t aloof—she’s just super awkward. Now he’s made it his mission to help her on her quest to make 100 friends!



Notes:
- Winner of the 67th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2021.
- Chapter count includes 37 extra chapters.

Tags: School , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Love Triangle , Slapstick , Disability , Heterosexual , Shounen , Meta , Yandere , 4-koma , Gyaru , Surreal Comedy , Chuunibyou , Agender , Crossdressing , Football

Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko!

Also known as Tomo-chan is a Girl!.

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

Boyish high school girl Aizawa Tomo finally manages to tell her childhood friend Jun that she’s got a crush on him. Unfortunately, her confession goes right over his head—he didn’t even realize she was a girl until junior high, and even now, Jun still thinks of her as a bro! How can Tomo-chan possibly convince him otherwise and win Jun’s heart?



Notes:
- Originally published daily on Twi4. The volume release compiled the series into 51 chapters.
- Includes 8 sets of bonus pages, where each set is considered a chapter; each volume contains a set.

Tags: Tomboy , 4-koma , Female Protagonist , School , Heterosexual , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Tsundere , Episodic , Athletics , Shounen , Judo , Martial Arts , School Club

Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta

Also known as The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Music , Romance

Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya falls head over heels for an employee at a local CD shop. He's got an air of mystery about him, great style, and an impeccable music taste. Little does she know—this supposedly male employee is actually her female classmate Mitsuki! Mitsuki generally keeps to herself, but since her seat is right next to Aya's, she can't help but be extremely aware of the other's crush. Revealing the truth is out of the question for Mitsuki—but perhaps getting closer to Aya wouldn't be so bad...



Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tomboy , Rock Music , Josei , Primarily Teen Cast , Gyaru , Primarily Female Cast , Work , School , Fashion , Iyashikei , 4-koma

Kengan Ashura

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

Since the Edo periods of Japan, gladiator arenas exist in certain areas. In these arenas, wealthy business owners and merchants hire gladiators to fight in unarmed combat where winner takes all. Tokita Ohma, nicknamed "Ashura", joins these arenas and devastates his opponents. His spectacular ability to crush his enemies catches the attention of the big business owners, including the Nogi Group chairman, Nogi Hideki.

Includes 24 extras/side stories.

Tags: Martial Arts , Ensemble Cast , Wrestling , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Boxing , Tragedy , Athletics , Shounen , Revenge , Gore , Yandere , Gambling , 4-koma , Historical

19 Tian

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

A group photo in kindergarten is the start of a lifetime friendship between Jian Yi and Zhan Zhengxi. They grew up together, and met good friends like He Tian and Mo Guanshan on campus.

"19 Days" not only shows the relaxed and happy school days of the four, but is also a story in which the boys come to understand each other and help each other grow up.



Tags: Male Protagonist , School , Full Color , Coming of Age , Slapstick , Boys' Love , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , 4-koma , Ensemble Cast , Time Skip , Episodic , Delinquents , Tsundere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gangs , Bisexual

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Also known as Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The boy of her dreams...is a girl's manga artist?! To the eyes of high school student Chiyo Sakura, classmate Umetarou Nozaki--brawny of build and brusque of tongue--is a dreamboat! When Chiyo finally works up the courage to tell Nozaki how she feels about him, she knows rejection is on the table...but getting recruited as a manga-ka's assistant?! Never in a million years! But for someone who makes a living drawing sweet girly romances, Nozaki-kun is a little slow on the uptake when it comes to matters of the heart in reality. And so Chiyo's daily life of manga making and heartache begins!



Tags: Drawing , Parody , Ensemble Cast , 4-koma , Work , School , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Tomboy , Tsundere , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Educational , Bisexual

Tsurezure Children

Also known as Tsuredure Children.

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

This manga is for those of you who just can't seem to say, "I love you." Toshiya Wakabayashi's acclaimed school-romance is jam-packed with frustration, embarrassment, and awkwardness!



Tags: 4-koma , School , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Age Gap , Kuudere , Love Triangle , Yandere

Sasaki to Miyano

Also known as Sasaki and Miyano.

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

Miyano spends his days peacefully reading Boys' Love comics and worrying about how girly his face is-until a chance encounter leads to a scuffle with his senior Sasaki. Intrigued by his feisty junior Miyano, delinquent Sasaki uses every opportunity he can to get closer...



Tags: Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Primarily Male Cast , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Otaku Culture , Meta , Shoujo , Primarily Teen Cast , Bisexual , 4-koma , Crossdressing

Azumanga Daiou

Also known as Azumanga Daioh.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

It's not manga, it's Azumanga! − smart, fun and totally addictive. Created by the iconoclastic Kiyohiko Azuma, Azumanga Daiou is strongly character driven, taking the reader through the daily tribulations of Miss Kurosawa, Miss Yukari, the wild Tomo, hair-triggered Yomi, ditzy Osaka, brash Kagura, cute Chiyo-chan and athletic (but girly) Sakaki.



Notes:
- A great number of chapters are divided into several parts that have been included in the final chapter count.
- The chapter count includes 5 extra chapters.

Tags: School , 4-koma , Ensemble Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Teacher , Shounen , Coming of Age , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Tomboy , Ojou-sama

Bocchi the Rock!

Also known as Bocchi the Rock!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Hitori Gotoh just wants to be popular, but the thought of interacting with her classmates makes her fall to pieces. Her solution-become a rock legend so cool that people approach her instead! However, while spending all of middle school in her closet shredding on the guitar may have earned her anonymous internet fame, it did nothing for her social skills. Now a high schooler, Hitori’s feeling ready to shrivel up and die-when she gets a sudden request to fill in for a band! It’s like her wish came true-but does this most anxious of introverts have what it takes to perform in front of a live audience?!



Note: Includes three extra chapters.

Tags: Band , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , 4-koma , Primarily Teen Cast , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Rock Music , Hikikomori , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tsundere , Seinen

Fechippuru: Bokura no Junsui na Koi

Also known as What I Love About You.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

Yunoki has not only found himself in bed with a woman he doesn't know, but she insists they're already a couple?! The woman, Kotoka Hatsushima, is a charming, 23-year-old writer...who has one heck of a back fetish, and Yunoki fit the bill! And when she tells Yunoki that it was her hair that sealed the deal for him, he realizes the truth—she knows about his hair fetish, AND she's absolutely right! He's mortified, but Kotoka sees reason—if they float each others' boats and already know about each other's predilictions...why not start a relationship? And Yunoki can't argue with that...thus the back/hair (not to be confused with back hair!) hijinks ensue!



Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , 4-koma , Shounen , Heterosexual , Cars , Transgender

Shimeji Simulation

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

A girl who shut herself in a closet for the last 2 years of middle school realizes she has to go to high school. When she exits her closet for the first time in two years and looks at herself in the mirror, she notices that she grew shimeji mushrooms out of her head.

Tags: Meta , Surreal Comedy , Philosophy , Augmented Reality , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Denpa , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , 4-koma , Post-Apocalyptic , Hikikomori , Yuri , School , Episodic , Suicide , Gods , School Club , Tragedy , Religion , Trains , Cohabitation , Seinen

Do Chokkyuu Kareshi x Kanojo

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

Shinichi Honda is a student with no filter for his words or his actions. A first-year high school student, he is noble and kind but as blunt as a brick, tending to speak his mind with no hesitation. Attending the same school is Mako Wakamiya, a member of the public morals committee with an incredible sense of duty. From a distance, she appears to be cool and collected, but hidden in plain sight is the fact that she is a total klutz with a maiden's heart.

The first time Shinichi and Mako lock eyes, they are each wholeheartedly caught up in their own awkward situation. The brief moment when they pass by each other only leaves them dumbstruck at the other's strange appearance.

Months later, disaster strikes when Mako, on committee duty, must confiscate an adult manga from Shinichi. Hilarity ensues as Shinichi leads Mako on a thunderous chase all over the school. As the deafening pair happen to meet up more and more often, maybe there is hope that the two can get along?



Notes:
- Originally serialized in Comic REX, it was later discontinued and then acquired by Akita Shoten, restarting publication on their Manga Cross web platform on December 10, 2019. It was then moved to Monthly Shounen Champion on March 6, 2020.
- Includes 18 extra chapters.

Tags: School , Slapstick , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , School Club , Shounen , Athletics , Coming of Age , Fitness , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , 4-koma

Nichijou

Also known as Nichijou.

Status: Hiatus
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

Boku no Kanojo wa Saikou desu!

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

The many different stories between two lovers -- a normal young man and a outgoing, passionate friend-come-lover.

Tags: 4-koma , Slapstick , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Tomboy , Shounen , Heterosexual , Tsundere

Senryuu Shoujo

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

Yukishiro Nanako is a cute, cheerful high school girl with one peculiar trait – instead of verbal communication, she writes senryu (a type of haiku) poems to relay her thoughts. Together with ex-delinquent Busujima Eiji, they are budding freshmen of the school’s Literature Club.

Even though Nanako doesn’t talk, with the power of senryu, the adorable pair has no problem enjoying their fun school-life through the tune of 5-7-5 syllables.

Note: Includes 15 extra chapters.

Tags: School Club , 4-koma , Heterosexual , School , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Language Barrier , Primarily Teen Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Delinquents

Mousou Telepathy

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Nakano-san is a high school girl who can look into people's minds. Because of that, she finds out that the mind of the popular Toda-kun is full of wild fantasies about her!

Included chapters: 102.5, 209.5, 277.5, 311.5, 416.5, 512.5, 612.5, 717.5, 717.6, 717.7

Tags: Female Protagonist , 4-koma , Super Power , School , Heterosexual , Nudity , Full Color , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle , Football , Shounen , Yuri

Akarui Kioku Soushitsu

Also known as Cheerful Amnesia.

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

When Arisa loses her memories from the past three years, her girlfriend, Mari, worries it might mean the end of their budding relationship. A needless concern, it turns out, because when Arisa lays eyes on her, she falls in love all over again! Arisa’s not about to let a little severe brain damage get her down, because she has a chance to relive all their firsts for a second time—from dates, to kisses, and even beyond…!!



Note: Chapter count includes 3 extras.

Tags: Yuri , Amnesia , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , 4-koma , Marriage , Age Gap , Seinen , Cohabitation

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

Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hitori Bocchi suffers from extreme social anxiety, she’s not good at talking to people, takes pretty extreme actions, is surprisingly adept at avoiding people, her legs cramp when she overexerts herself, gets full of herself when alone, will vomit when exposed to extreme tension and often comes up with plans. Now she is entering middle school and her only friend, Yawara Kai, is attending a different school. This leaves Bocchi alone, surrounded by new classmates with whom she must make friends before Kai will talk to her again.

Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: School , 4-koma , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Ensemble Cast , Hikikomori , Primarily Child Cast , Seinen , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Iyashikei , Coming of Age , Ninja , Episodic , Teacher , Ojou-sama