Top Rugby Manga Recommendations

ALL OUT!!

Also known as All Out!!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Kenji Gion has always had a complex about his height. On his first day of high school, he meets the giant Iwashimizu and a certain ball game: rugby. This classic shonen manga of youth and high school rugby starts now!



Includes 7 bonus chapters.

Tags: Rugby , Seinen , School

Beast Children

Also known as Beast Children.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Blood, guts and glory! You can find it all on the rugby field. A young man is about to be introduced to the sport of rugby in this brand-new series!



Tags: Rugby , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Shounen , School

Saikyou no Uta

Also known as Rugby Rumble.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

The Japan under-16 rugby team—nicknamed the Perfect Squad—shattered the power balance of high school rugby after sweeping the world cup. With so many former Perfect Squad members in their home prefecture, Rikuzen High’s rugby team has given up all hope of victory and now takes a laid-back approach to training. Enter transfer student and rugby novice Kinzan Yamada. He may be new, but he’s ready for the world of rugby. The question is whether they’re ready for him...



Tags: Rugby , Shounen , Male Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast

Full Drum

Also known as Full Drum.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Full Drum is a rugby-themed work about a high school boy named Hino who has been repeatedly kicked out of all the clubs he joined thanks to his lack of athletic ability. The protagonist Hino has dirty thoughts of becoming popular with girls by entering a sports club. One day, he meets a rugby club manager named Ayako. After becoming totally fascinated with Ayako, Hino decides to join the rugby club.



Tags: Rugby , Male Protagonist , School Club , School , Seinen

Ai to Makoto

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him.

Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar.

When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?

Tags: School , Shounen , Class Struggle , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Delinquents , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Anti-Hero , Rehabilitation , School Club , Estranged Family , Bullying , Yakuza , Torture , Philosophy , Boxing , Gangs , Rugby , Disability , Suicide

15: Meisetsu Kougyou Koukou Rugby Bu

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Ever since he was little, Akira wanted to be a rugby player. But since he lived on a tiny island with no other children, it was very difficult for him to learn how to play. In hopes of becoming useful to a rugby team, he practiced the one thing he could do by himself, kicking. Now Akira is heading to high school, and he's going to try to make his dreams of playing rugby and having friends come true!



Tags: Rugby , School , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Rural

Miyamoto kara Kimi e

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Miyamoto is a new salaryman. Working hard and head over heels for Misako Tanaka. Even though he's clumsy, with the help of his colleague, Kazuo Jinbo he will never give up.

Miyamoto kara Kimi e received the 1992 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.

Tags: Tragedy , Heterosexual , Revenge , Male Protagonist , Work , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Office , Office Lady , Gore , Pregnancy , Parenthood , Philosophy , Rehabilitation , Rugby , Time Skip , Body Horror

No Side

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Sports

It's about a guy named Yuuji, who love to play rugby. One day he just up and dies, in the middle of a Rugby match. His spirit is unable to rest, because his team has never gotten a try. So what does he do? Take over someone else's body to accomplish this goal. But...the body turns out to be a girl's.

Tags: Rugby , Reincarnation , Female Protagonist , Seinen

Try Knights

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

A story of High School Rugby. Haruma Riku was once in love with rugby, but abandoned his dreams because he did not grow physically. One day, he meets Kariya Akira, who has amazing physical ability and is as wild as a beast. Riku begins to recover his passion for rugby little by little as he watches Akira's plays. The road to aim for the top of high school rugby begins as these two use "tactics" as their weapons...!

Tags: Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Rugby

8-gatsu no Hikari

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Four Seasons Grand Prize winner of Summer 1989.

Tags: Seinen , Rugby , Anthology

ONE FOR ALL

Status: Releasing
Genres: Sports

"You wanna play rugby together?" Arashi is a hot-blooded first-year high school boy enrolled on a rugby scholarship. Calling himself "the man who stirs up a storm", he unites a peculiar group of problem children, leading them towards the peak of high school rugby, Hanazono! A youth rugby story told by the legend of delinquent manga, Yanauchi Daiju!

Tags: Seinen , Rugby , Delinquents , School

Invincible

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Sports

Tags: Seinen , Rugby , Primarily Male Cast

Madonna

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Mako, a sexy young teacher, comes to Gyunabe high school to enlighten young minds. What she wasn't counting on was a class full of misfits lead by the delinquent Obayashi.

Tags: School , Rugby , Seinen

Kanojo ga Cafe ni Iru

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

A 16-year-old high school girl, Michiru Isshiki, has cool childhood friends--- her next door neighbors, Ryouhei and Shuusuke Kuwa. Shuusuke, the same age as Michiru, is a pure-hearted, passionate rugby player. On the other hand, Ryouhei, three years their senior, works as a model, and is the campus crush. Because Michiru is a pure-hearted person, Michiru opposes the playboy Ryouhei, but she realized her true feelings when she saw a kissing scene between Ryouhei and his girlfriend, Youko!

Tags: Shoujo , Rugby

HORIZON

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Hikaru Sakaki begins to play rugby football when he becomes a senior high school student, because he wants to end his usual way of doing thing in a half-hearted way. He rises to the challenge of a rugby oval ball; "ONE FOR ALL, ALL FOR ONE."



Tags: Shounen , Rugby , Male Protagonist

Murderball

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Tags: Seinen , Rugby , Disability

Bull Tackle

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Noriyuki Hiro is a young man whose entered the same university as his childhood friend. Wanting to impress her (and hopefully get her to fall in love with him), he decides to join the university's Rugby team, who initially are unimpressed with his soft-looking appearance... until they see just how hard he can tackle an opponent.

Tags: Rugby , College , Seinen

Noside Quest

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Sports

The school's rugby club has always failed to qualify for the playoffs. Fudo, a former All-Japan player, tries to build a winning team, but the team is made up of outcasts from the soccer and sumo clubs! Note: Chapter count includes five volume-bonus chapters.

Tags: Rugby , School

War Cry

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Tags: Male Protagonist , Rugby , Shounen

Idaten

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Yugo Sawamura after losing his parents one after the other, uses his natural ability as a runner to steal in order to survive and make a living with his younger brother. One day, Japan's national rugby team captain, Sumizaki, who had witnessed his escapades firsthand, catches him, but instead of turning him in, asks him if he would be interested in using his running for rugby and leads him to the "Heavenly Road". He runs through fields of battle with his future at stake! A passionate man's success story!

Tags: Shounen , Rugby