Top Cycling Manga Recommendations

Wind Breaker

Also known as Wind Breaker.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sports

Jay's the perfect student. He's got straight As and he's the student body president. But after being coerced into joining the school's biking team, the Hummingbird Crew, he discovers a whole new world outside of studying. What new adventures will he face outside the comfort of his textbooks?



Notes:
- Includes two extra chapters.
- The work was cancelled after it was discovered that the artist had been tracing other people's art.

Tags: Cycling , Coming of Age , School , Full Color , Kuudere , Heterosexual , Delinquents , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Fitness , Bullying , Slapstick , Meta , Gambling , Mafia , Suicide , Love Triangle , Female Harem , Foreign , Drugs , Long Strip

Hachimitsu to Clover

Also known as Honey and Clover.

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

Takemoto lives in a run down student apartment, where his greatest worry is when he'll next be able to afford to eat meat and whether he'll get to class on time. Although he's away from home and living on his own, Takemoto is far from finished growing up. Along with his crazy cast of friends, Morita, Mayama, Yamada, and Hagumi, Takemoto sets out to discover life and his true self.



Notes:
- Won the the 27th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 2003.
- Includes 11 extra chapters.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Josei , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Heterosexual , College , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Rehabilitation , Philosophy , Teacher , Drawing , Work , Cycling , School , Male Harem , Tragedy , Bar

Yowamushi Pedal

Also known as Yowamushi Pedal.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

For the love of all things otaku--anime, video games, figures, you name it! Power-pedaling Sakamichi Onoda has long been conquering the steepest slopes and regularly making the ninety-kilometer round-trip to Akihabara on a mommy bike!! But when his bike commute to his new high school lands him in a confrontation with the serious first-year road racer Imaizumi, Onoda has a major showdown on his hands! Can this meek geek really out-pedal the future ace of the school road-racing team?!



Tags: Cycling , Shounen , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , School

Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index

Also known as A Certain Magical Index NT.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

World War III is over. Touma disappears. Accelerator spends his days with Last Order and Misaka Worst. Shiage uses the secrets he gained in Russia as a bargaining chip.

But this peace doesn't last long as the Freshmen arrive...



Note: Includes 21 prologues, 22 epilogues, and 2 extras.

Tags: Magic , Male Protagonist , Mythology , Super Power , Gods , War , Anti-Hero , Amnesia , Revenge , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Politics , Shounen , Nun , Delinquents , Drugs , Demons , Dystopian , Language Barrier , Memory Manipulation , Robots , Survival , Terrorism , Gender Bending , Foreign , Guns , Military , Dissociative Identities , School , Teacher , Tsundere , Witch , Maids , Female Harem , Ghost , Nekomimi , Ninja , Reincarnation , Torture , Cycling , Urban

Aa! Megami-sama!

Also known as Oh My Goddess!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Supernatural

Alone in his dorm on a Saturday night, Nekomi Tech’s Keiichi Morisato dials a wrong number that will change his life forever—reaching the Goddess Technical Help Line. Granted one wish by the charming young goddess Belldandy—a wish for anything in the world—Keiichi wishes she would stay with him always! Complications are bound to ensue from this; the immediate first being the new couple getting tossed out of the dorm—it’s males only!

As the hapless student and his mysterious “foreign beauty” ride around looking for a new place to stay—risking the different dangers of seeking shelter with an otaku convinced Belldandy is an imaginary woman, and a Zen priest convinced she’s a sinister witch—Keiichi’s still got his classes on Monday morning! How is his new “exchange student” companion going to be received on the N.I.T. campus? A little too well for normal life to ever return...



Note: Won the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2009.

Tags: Gods , Seinen , Magic , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Motorcycles , Alchemy , Demons , Female Harem , College , Cars , Robots , Coming of Age , Cycling , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Crossdressing , Gender Bending

Pocket Monsters SPECIAL: Red, Green & Blue

Also known as Pokémon Adventures: Red, Green & Blue.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

Red is just a normal kid living in the rural Pallet Town, when he decides to go out on his own adventure, along with his rival since childhood, Green. In this world of Pokemon, he makes many friends, humans and Pokemon alike. However, all is not well. Team Rocket is trying to capture Mew, a very rare Pokemon, and is performing experiments on other Pokemon, trying to increase their power. Red and his friends must battle against Team Rocket to stop their cruel experiments and unlock the secrets of Pokemon.

This entry is exclusively for the first part of the Pocket Monsters Special manga.

Tags: Animals , Gangs , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Conspiracy , Travel , Creature Taming , Cycling , Male Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Drugs , Proxy Battle , Zombie , Ghost , Gore , Coming of Age

Pocket Monsters SPECIAL: Yellow

Also known as Pokémon Adventures: Yellow.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Supernatural

This chapter features the journeys of Yellow through Kanto trying to find Red after a beaten-up Pikachu (Red's) ends up at the doorstep at Oak's Lab. In the meantime of finding Red, Yellow gets attacked by the members of the Elite Four and their quest to make an all-Pokémon world.



Tags: Animals , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Kids , Conspiracy , Travel , Environmental , Fishing , Proxy Battle , Cycling , Gangs , Dragons , Creature Taming , Super Power

Jitenshaya-san no Takahashi-kun

Also known as Takahashi from the Bike Shop.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

From unwanted advances from her boss to work dumped onto her by coworkers, thirty-year-old Tomoko Hanno, or Panko for short, struggles to stand up for herself. But when her rusty bike breaks down, she meets Ryohel Takahashi from the neighborhood bike repair shop. Although he can be a bit overbearing, Panko finds herself relying on his considerate nature and her world begins to shift...

Tags: Office Lady , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Josei , Office , Delinquents , Cycling , LGBTQ+ Themes

Over Drive

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Sports

Shinozaki Mikoto is a timid and short-statured 15-year-old highschool sophomore who often gets picked on at school. The girl whom he admires, Fukazawa Yuki, happens to discover an overwhelming strength of heart behind his shy appearance. In efforts to promote the school's emergent cycling club, she introduces cycling to Mikoto and tries to talk him into joining the club, as she's thoroughly convinced he has a special inner drive that makes him a promising cyclist. How far will cycling take Mikoto, not only materialistically, but in his growth as a person?



Tags: Cycling , Shounen

Nigero Matsumoto

Also known as Get Away, Matsumoto! -100 days escape-.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

Formerly a three time back-to-back winner of the All-Japan Intercollegiate Road Cycling Championships, Mastumoto now spends his days doing bike deliveries to pay the bills. Just as he contemplates giving up cycling for the sake of his future, Matsumoto suddenly finds himself at the center of an unbelievable incident...! Make way for this hard-hitting high-speed action!!



Tags: Cycling , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Death Game

Tabi Gal! Nihon Juudan Chari Kikou

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Traveling from Kagoshima to Hokkaido (~2800 km/~1700 mi) in her trusty, bedazzled touring cycle, this is a story of 18 year old sparkling gyaru Michibata Michika!

Tags: Cycling , Gyaru

Yowamushi Pedal: Spare Bike

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

These are the recollections of a group of men who bet everything on their bicycles. The central pillars of their respective teams, the 3rd years. New stories revealing their pasts is about to begin!!

Tags: Shounen , Cycling , Primarily Male Cast

Noririn

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

Mariko Kazunori ("Nori") is a 28-year man who hated bicycles until he almost runs over road-racer Oda Rin. After meeting with her and her weird family, everything goes wrong for this pitiful hero. His license gets revoked and he is forced by his friends to start bicycling.


Tags: Cycling , Seinen

Ichiro Heian!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Black-haired girl x bicycle = long distance romantic comedy!



Tags: Heterosexual , Language Barrier , Travel , Cycling , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Tomboy

Long Riders!

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

The manga follows Ami Kurata, a first year college student with no special qualities. One day she happens to notice someone riding a folding bike, immediately falls in love with it, and uses all her savings to buy one. She eventually gets introduced to the world of long-distance bicycling and road racer bikes, and she forms a cycling team called Fortuna with four other female college students from the same school. Their goal is to ride in a "brevet" or long-distance event called "Fresh."



Tags: Cycling , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Make Sweet

Also known as Make Sweet.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Contains 5 short stories:
- Make Sweet
- Sugar Baby Love
- Meganegoshi no Kimi
- Haru, Urara
- Make Sweet - valentine special


Tags: School , Shoujo , Cycling

Sakura to Sensei

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Minato Sakura has decided to, on her bicycle, climb the slope in front of her school every day, but already on the first day she realizes that it was much tougher than she thought. Just when she's about to give up, a boy passes her and gives her the strength to continue. Later Sakura discovers that the boy actually is her new teacher, Fujiharu Keisuke.

Tags: Shoujo , Teacher , Age Gap , Cycling

Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitensha-bu

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Maiharu Hiromi has moved to Kamakura Nagasaki, and rides a bicycle to school everyday. Then she meets Akizuki Tomoe, the leader of the girls cycling club. She therefore joins the club and her life gradually begins to change.

Tags: Cycling , School , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things

Yowamushi Pedal Koushiki Anthology: Houkago Pedal

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

An anthology comic of Yowamushi Pedal by various mangaka.

Tags: Anthology , Shoujo , Cycling , Primarily Male Cast

Chari ni Norenai!

Also known as Can't Ride a Bicycle!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

But my sense of balance is so bad that I can't... That's the trauma that high schooler Tsubame Ogawa has had to bear up under all these years. But starting when he meets naive rich boy Wada and joins the Bicycle club, he gets bound up in the terrifying world of cycling! Can't Ride a Bike is a youth lifestyle comedy with a bunch of ridiculous young men!

Tags: Cycling , School Club , Primarily Male Cast