Top Hip-Hop Music Manga Recommendations

Ponkotsu Fuukiiin to Skirt Take ga Futekisetsu na JK no Hanashi

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

Sakuradaimon is the school's prefect. A prefect is a student who is authorized to enforce discipline. As a prefect, he's supposed to be a role model to other students, but unfortunately he's not perfect. Kohinata is one of the people who Sakuradaimon has tried to discipline into wearing appropriate school attire, but she has thusfar been disobedient.

And so this is a story of the two interacting with one another.

Tags: Shounen , Tsundere , School , Male Protagonist , Hip-hop Music , Ensemble Cast , Gyaru , Heterosexual

Samurai Champloo

Also known as Samurai Champloo.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

Mugen is a rough-around-the-edges mercenary with a killer technique and nothing left to lose. Jin is a disciplined samurai who's as deadly as he is reserved. Fuu is a young waitress with a good heart and a resourcefulness that emerges when you least expect it. These three unlikely companions are about to begin a journey that will change all of their lives.

It's a dangerous quest for a mysterious samurai that will see our squabbling group of heroes get into and out of trouble more times than they can count (which admittedly, isn't very high). From the cynical gentility of the nobles to the backstabbing of the Japanese underworld, Mugen, Jin and Fuu will face threats from without and within as they hurl insults and throwing stars alike. Ancient Japan is about to get a lethal dose of street justice -- Champloo style. And it will never be the same.



Tags: Samurai , Swordplay , Historical , Hip-hop Music , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Anachronism , Ninja , Assassins , Indigenous Cultures

Paripi Koumei

Also known as Ya Boy Kongming!.

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

The Tokyo Party Scene isn’t NEAR ready for the star general of the Three Kingdoms era, but he sure is ready for it! Get down, shake your thing, and prepare to laugh out loud with this historical fantasy timeslip comedy, Ya Boy Kongming!



Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category.

Tags: Idol , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Reincarnation , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Anachronism , Ensemble Cast , Hip-hop Music , Elf

Hypnosis Mic: Before the Battle - The Dirty Dawg

Status: Finished
Genres: Music

The world lost a third of its population due to World War III. In the last year of the Anno Domini, the existing world is brought to an end by the hands of women. The world is ended by “Hypnosis Mic,” a special microphone that manipulates the psyche.

This is the official comic book version the hit music project depicting the secret story of the legendary group “The Dirty Dawg”, composed by Ichirou Yamada, Samatoki Aohitsugi, Ramuda Amemura, and Jakurai Jinguji.



Note: Chapter count includes 4 extra chapters.

Tags: Band , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Hip-hop Music , Primarily Adult Cast , Asexual , Clone , Matriarchy

Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - side F.P & M

Status: Finished
Genres: Music

One of three simultaneous manga series to be started in December 2018, featuring Fling Posse and Matenrou.

Tags: Josei , Hip-hop Music , Primarily Male Cast , Band , Matriarchy

Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - side B.B & M.T.C

Status: Finished
Genres: Music

One of three simultaneous manga series to be started in December 2018, featuring Buster Bros and Mad Trigger Crew.

Tags: Band , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Hip-hop Music , Matriarchy

Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - side D.H & B.A.T

Status: Finished
Genres: Music

The manga will center on the Osaka Division Dotsuitare Hompo and Nagoya Division Bad Ass Temple.

Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Bullying , Hip-hop Music , Shounen , Matriarchy

Catcher in the Rhyme

Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Slice of Life

A yuri story about Takatsuji Satsuki, a shy depressed teenager who joins a rap battle club at her all-girls school as she tries to come out of her shell. Starts out with three main characters but later a trans girl character joins the club as well.

Tags: School Club , Transgender , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Hip-hop Music , School , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen , Female Protagonist

Hypnosis Mic: Before the Battle - Dawn of Divisions

Status: Finished
Genres: Music

The third year of H Era, men have devoted themselves to the Division Rap Battles using “Hypnosis Mic”. This is a story of the past that leads into their “present”.

M.C.D., Kuujaku Posse, N.B... The past episodes of various characters are depicted in omnibus fashion in the latest comicalization of the hit music project!



Note: chapter count includes 3 extra chapters.

Tags: Matriarchy , Shounen , Hip-hop Music , Primarily Male Cast

Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - side F.P & M+

Status: Finished
Genres: Music

A follow up to the Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - side F.P & M. manga.

Tags: Josei , Hip-hop Music , Primarily Male Cast , Animals , Clone , Matriarchy

Tanzawa Sudachi ga Koko ni Iru!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Jumonji sits next to a rapper girl who is also anti-social... what will they do to realize her dream of becoming a real rapper?

Tags: Gyaru , Female Protagonist , School , Hip-hop Music , Shounen , Musical Theater

Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - side B.B & M.T.C +

Status: Finished
Genres: Music

The new "Hypnosis Mic-Division Rap Battle-" manga series based on the popular rap character project! A new story featuring the "Buster Bros! and "MAD TRIGGER CREW"!

Tags: Shounen , Hip-hop Music , Primarily Male Cast , Band , Matriarchy

Superstar wo Utatte.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Music

The protagonist, Oji Yukito, is a 17-year old drug dealer. "I don't know if I can really rap." "I don't have anything to sing about. I don't have anything to… say…" He lost his meth-addicted mother and beloved sister when he was a child, and he was left all alone in the world, except for his best friend, the only one who still believed in him… He is beaten by his boss until he bled, even as he continues to hustle as a drug dealer. What feelings reside in his heart? Highly praised by fellow artists, this is an extreme human drama about people seeking salvation through music.

Tags: Hip-hop Music , Male Protagonist , Urban , Seinen , Drugs

Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - side D.H & B.A.T+

Status: Finished
Genres: Music

Tags: Hip-hop Music , Band , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast , Matriarchy

Rhyming Man

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music

The manga's story centers on Fumio, a high school student who hates rap. When his father, who is a rapper, is injured and cannot attend a rap battle event, Fumio decides to take his place.



Note: Includes an extra.

Tags: Seinen , Hip-hop Music

Change!

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music

The manga centers on Shiori Kozono, a high school girl who leads a prim and proper everyday life. But one day, she follows her friend Miki into a club, and she finds a contest where girls use words as weapons. Shiori steps into the world of freestyle rap battles!



Tags: Shounen , School , Female Protagonist , Hip-hop Music

Rapper ni Kamaretara Rapper ni naru Manga

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Horror , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The rise of rappers due to a mysterious virus! Japan has turned into a hellish clubhouse! Holy shit! The rappers are gonna eat you!

Tags: Zombie , Musical Theater , Hip-hop Music

Sekai no 4-koma

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Official 4-Koma for the smartphone game Project Sekai Colorful Stage feat. Hatsune Miku.

Tags: Vocal Synth , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Artificial Intelligence , Band , Idol , Transgender , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Twins , School , Robots , Urban , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Acting , Archery , Rock Music , Urban Fantasy , Bar , Kemonomimi , Chibi , Alternate Universe , Isekai , Nekomimi , Tomboy , Ojou-sama , Parody , Tsundere , Restaurant , Hip-hop Music , 4-koma , Shrine Maiden , Video Games , Ships

Saku Hana Soldiers

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music

In the local city of Saku Hana, a young man named Kazu lives, spending his days consumed by fights. While living with his grandmother after losing his mother, he finds himself at the mercy of a delinquent group, expelled from school, and losing the will to live. During such times, he coincidentally reunites with his classmate, who invites Kazu, who struggles to express his feelings, to a cipher, where rappers perform improvised rap. Kazu, who had lost his purpose in life, encounters hip-hop and undergoes a transformation.



Tags: Hip-hop Music , Delinquents , Seinen

Bacchiri Scratch

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , 4-koma , Shounen , Hip-hop Music