Top American Football Manga Recommendations

Eyeshield 21

Also known as Eyeshield 21.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Wimpy Sena Kobayakawa has been running away from bullies all his life. But when the football gear comes on, things change—Sena's speed and uncanny ability to elude big bullies just might give him what it takes to become a great high school football hero! Enjoy all the bone-crushing action and slapstick comedy that this heartwarming coming-of-age story has to offer.



Tags: American Football , Shounen , Male Protagonist , School Club , Coming of Age , Guns , Primarily Male Cast , Gambling , Primarily Teen Cast , Foreign , Bullying , School

Boku no Kanojo Sensei

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

Can sensei be the heroine? Please?

Due to a traumatic experience, I have a distrust of people called “sensei”. I, Saiki Makoto, was called by after school by the most popular and beautiful teacher at my school, Fujiki Maka-sensei.

“I… love you” Eh– a confession out of the blue!? “Until you say you love me, I will continue to pursue you”

Ever since then, I’ve been called by for “guidance counselling” after school, somehow watched AV together, being given excessive skin-ship, went on dates together. Over time, I gradually became conscious of Sensei…? But isn’t it bad for Sensei to go out with her student?

A romance that is absolutely NG, the forbidden love between us two.

Lesson start!

Tags: Teacher , School , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Age Gap , Seinen , MILF , Urban , American Football , Airsoft , Nudity , Cosplay , Gyaru

Sabikui Bisco

Also known as Rust-Eater Bisco.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

A plague-like wind blows across the arid, sandy expanse of a post-apocalyptic Japan. As it sweeps over the living and nonliving alike, rust is all that remains in its wake. The cause of the catastrophic state of the world is believed to be mushroom spores. Bisco Akaboshi, known as the "Man- Eating Mushroom," is a wanted criminal archer whose arrows instantly grow mushrooms wherever they land. However, he is in reality a "Mushroom Protector," a person who spreads fungi in order to enrich the land and return it to its previous state.



Note: Chapter count includes 1 extra.

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Heterosexual , American Football , Male Protagonist , Medicine , Primarily Teen Cast , Environmental , Archery , Robots , Dystopian

Sabikui Bisco

Also known as Sabikui Bisco.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

In the far future, a disaster known as the “Rusty Wind” has transformed the majority of Japan into a barren desert and left civilization in tatters. After his teacher falls prey to the rust, the roguish Bisco Akahoshi embarks on journey through the sandy wastes to obtain a mushroom known only as the Rust Eater, rumored to cure the ailment. Together with the dashing young doctor Milo, the pair will have to contend with the unforgiving environment and their fellow wanderers in order to make it back alive.



Note: Sabikui Bisco won Silver Prize in the 2017 Dengeki Novel Prize, and placed first in the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! ranking in the best light novel category in 2019.

Tags: Archery , Post-Apocalyptic , Male Protagonist , Super Robot , Politics , Conspiracy , Terrorism , Animals , Drugs , Cyberpunk , Heterosexual , Medicine , American Football , Boys' Love , Cult

Eyeshield 21: Brain x Brave

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Special one-shot to celebrate 21st anniversary of serialization.

The continuation of the story after the final chapter.

Tags: Shounen , American Football , School Club , College , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Shuumatsu no Tenki

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

"There are too many unnecessary people" - A story of destruction dedicated to a certain person who thought such.
25 years old, no money, no job, no girlfriend. Kurokawa, a man absorbed with an anime called "Meromero Melodies" and on the fast track to nowhere in life, grabs hold of a certain ability, "BANG".

Tags: American Football , Seinen , Super Power , Male Protagonist

Eyeshield 21

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Original two-part pilot one-shot for Eyeshield 21. It was later collected in the official databook published on October 4, 2005.

Tags: Shounen , School Club , American Football , Male Protagonist

Jikken Ningyou Dummy Oscar

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Tags: Bisexual , Gore , Foreign , Robots , Nudity , American Football , Seinen

Ashita e Kick Off

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

When Isoshita Junior High school upstart, Tetsuya Hikage, picks a fight with neighboring Hakuyou High School, he bites off more than he can chew when the Hakuyou American Football team join the fray. Losing his first ever fight, he vows to exact revenge on the rich kids of Hakuyou High by creating Isoshita's first ever American Football team and beating them. Within 24 hours, Hikage recruits an entire team as they resolve to spend their entire summer vacation training. However, when they realize they don't have a ball, or even understand the rules, it dawns on them that it's gonna be a long summer...

Tags: American Football , School

Football Taka

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Tags: American Football , Shounen

Hana no O-en Step

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Sports

Hiromi is a girl who often gets mistaken for a boy, and she winds up connected romantically with a young man with some girlish mannerisms after he gets assigned to the girl's dorm at their high school due to over-crowding issues.



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Senaka ni Hana wo Shotte, Kibun wa Mou Seihoukei
Volume 7: Zenmaijikake no Shinzou no Oto
Volume 8: Kin no Lame Furu Escort, Manhattan Syndrome

Tags: Shoujo , School , American Football , Cheerleading

No Huddle

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Tags: American Football , Shounen

Dead End

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

1. Dead End (デッド・エンド)
2. Original Sin (オリジナル・シン)
3. Taitan e no Shoutaikyaku (タイタンへの招待客)

Tags: American Football , Boys' Love , Shoujo