Top Metal Music Manga Recommendations

Tonari no Metaller-san

Also known as The Metalhead Next Door.

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

Impoverished graduate student Kento nearly freezes to death outside his new cheap (unheated) apartment during a blizzard. Luckily, he's saved by neighbor Soushi, a quiet and somewhat frightening young man who dresses in all black. Although he exudes an aura that screams "keep away," his eyes, hidden behind long rocker hair, plead for something else. Over the following year, the two share meals together, but as the time passes, the closeted Kento finds it increasingly difficult to ignore his growing feelings. Will he choose to maintain the peaceful, happy times he's grown to love or risk it all for the possibility of something more?



Tags: Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Food , Metal Music , Disability , Nudity , Snowscape

Detroit Metal City

Also known as DMC: Detroit Metal City.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music

Souichi Negishi is a common boy, timid, quiet. He loves flowers, walking and musical hits like the ones that radios play. But he is also Krauzer II, leader of Detroit Metal City (DMC), the most popular underground metal band of Japan! Souichi would like to change his life and start to play Swedish pop songs with peaceful and loving lyrics instead of the violent and vulgar ones of DMC, but when he is playing with his band he completely changes his attitude and behavior...

Note: Includes 8 extra chapters.

Tags: Band , Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Parody , Language Barrier , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast , Metal Music , Drugs , Rural , Bullying

Isekai Metaller

Also known as Isekai Metaller.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Music

Isekai comedy about a die-hard metalhead who got electrocuted during his own metal band's farewell gig. He finds himself transported to a fantasy world filled with everything true metal fans can only dream about ranging from dragons to werewolves. Now this metalhead is determined to bring peace to this new world with his burning metal spirit!

Tags: Metal Music , Male Protagonist , Isekai , Dragons , Seinen

Juukinzoku Kanojo

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

The Heavy Metal Music Group at the high school consists of just Amanokawa Rinko and the main character, a teenage boy madly in love with her. The club is intended for people who enjoy the music genre to discuss their passion for heavy metal. However, there’s only one kind of passion going on in this club house located in the outskirts of campus, and it is definitely rockin’.



Tags: Metal Music , Shounen , School

Mary-neun Oebakjung

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Mary, who has not dated for a long time, meets a death metal group's vocalist and begins a relationship with him. However, a perfect man interferes in their relationship...

Note: This was originally a web-comic that was then compiled and published in print form by Anibooks.

Tags: Metal Music