Top Scuba Diving Manga Recommendations

Grand Blue

Also known as Grand Blue Dreaming.

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

After moving out on his own to a seaside town, Iori Kitahara makes a college debut he never anticipated. A new chapter of his life unfolds, full of diving with beautiful girls and shenanigans with a gaggle of lovable bastards! Idiot-expert Kenji Inoue and au naturel authority Kimitake Yoshioka bring you a glorious college tale filled with booze-fueled antics!



Tags: Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , College , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Coastal , Bar , Scuba Diving , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Kuudere , Meta , Female Harem , Tsundere , Bisexual , Gore , Yandere , Gyaru , LGBTQ+ Themes

Kaijuu no Kodomo

Also known as Children of the Sea.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does.

Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish.



Tags: Philosophy , Mythology , Environmental , Seinen , Swimming , Female Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Ensemble Cast , POV , Astronomy , Kaiju , Male Protagonist , Urban , Scuba Diving , Amnesia , Monster Boy , Coastal , Educational , Animals , Ships , Body Horror , Cannibalism , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Work , Nudity

Josee to Tora to Sakana-tachi

Also known as Josee, the Tiger and the Fish.

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

College student Tsuneo loves the ocean and the creatures it harbors, and he dreams of studying abroad in faraway waters. All he needs is enough funds to go, so when a girl in a wheelchair suddenly barrels into his life, he readily agrees to work part-time as her caretaker. Getting close to the prickly Josee is easier said than done, but before he can give up, an impromptu trip to the beach shows them both that sometimes, they must take that first plunge to see the wonders that await. The hit animated film based on the striking story by Seiko Tanabe has been beautifully illustrated by Nao Emoto and collected in this single omnibus edition!



Note: The chapter count includes an epilogue.

Tags: Disability , Josei , Tsundere , Drawing , Scuba Diving , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Rehabilitation , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Love Triangle , Urban , College , Coastal

Amanchu!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hikari Kohinata is a cheerful 15 year-old girl who lives near the ocean and she spends much of her time diving as a result. On her first day of high school, she meets a teacher who also likes scuba diving. There's also a 16 year-old classmate, Futaba Ooki, who gets dragged along in Hikari's maelstrom as soon as they meet at school.

Tags: Iyashikei , Scuba Diving , School , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Coastal , School Club , Twins , Heterosexual , Yuri , Urban Fantasy

Glaucos

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

This is a story of a boy who challenges free diving.

"Free diving (skin diving)" may remind you of the film "Le Grand Bleu".

It is an extreme sport, and each meter added to its record brings us closer to the sea bed and further from the surface where one can breathe again.

In this sense, free diving has a direct connection with death, with which our fight continues, refashioned over time, bit by bit.

So, why would one free dive, and risk their life?

The answer lies within "mysterious bond between the sea and human kind".

And in the fast evolving world of competitive diving new data emerges that casts light on this bond.

Tags: Scuba Diving , Swimming , Seinen , Male Protagonist

IO

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

Taiyo Nakabiru went to Okinawa on a trip in pursuit of beautiful girls and his wish to go diving. When trying to hit upon a girl, she surprises him by saying that he killed her mother. It appears that she and her two sisters know him, even though he does not remember ever going to Okinawa before. After convincing the three sisters, Nagisa, Shibuki and Mio Miyara, to let him help them out with their work and to let him learn diving from them, Taiyo's childhood with the sisters slowly comes back to him, and certain strange events involving a mystical white whale begins to haunt them.



Tags: Scuba Diving , Female Harem , Male Protagonist , Amnesia , Work , Swimming , Lost Civilization , Nudity , Seinen , Coastal

Silent Blue

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

When Aoko was four, a meteorite struck her town. It then rained for twenty days straight, and the crater became what’s now known as the Twenty Day Lake. Two decades later, Aoko can’t remember the day the meteorite fell, or anything of her life in the town beforehand. And so she dives deep into the lake, searching for that something in her memories that she can’t let go of…

Tags: Female Protagonist , Swimming , Amnesia , Josei , Scuba Diving

Ritou no Umi

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

In a faraway archipelago to the south, a lush, peaceful landscape can be found amidst an ocean of corals. This is the story of a beautiful island bathed in sun, its inhabitants and a girl who was reared by the ocean.



Note: Includes 2 extra chapters

Tags: Full Color , Swimming , Female Protagonist , Coastal , Seinen , Outdoor Activities , Scuba Diving , Tomboy

Waga na wa Umishi

Also known as Master of Sea.

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

Salvors are men responsible for towing wrecked ships and handling the cargo. They are different from rescue teams as they usually ask for money before offering help. Nanba Rintarou's father was the owner of such a company, but Rintarou really hated the way they operate and decided to work in a proper rescue team.

However, Rintarou's father died right after Rintarou completed his training. In his will he asked Rintarou to take over his company. What's worse is he left his son a debt of 1.5 billion yen...

Tags: Seinen , Work , Scuba Diving , Coastal

Otohime Diver

Also known as Otohime Diver.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Slice of Life , Sports

Sixteen years after the great hydroseism, nearly the entire world has sunken beneath the seas... but that won't stop Tatsumiya Minato from following her dream of becoming a high school student at the Enoshima Women's Ocean Academy!

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Primarily Female Cast , Scuba Diving , Swimming , School , Mermaid , Zombie , Coastal

nacuN

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Romance , Sci-Fi

Near future. A world renowned mathematician/physicist Francis Dullam loses his left brain hemisphere and retires from the hard science to study dolphins. Several years later he comes up with the new thesis (which is essentially a collection of dolphin footage). As the "thesis" is being severly criticized by the media, Ishii Mitsunari (a student living in America) discovers the idea hidden there, that will help to create the true Artifical Intelligence. Motivated to create the AI first, Mitsunari leaves for Okinawa, to follow the footsteps of Dullam.

Tags: Seinen , Scuba Diving , Disability , Religion , Artificial Intelligence , Conspiracy , Crime

Tokkyuu!!

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

It's about the coastal lifeguard, Hyogo Kanbayashi, as he tries to make his way to enter Tokkyu, the elite lifeguard team.

Tags: Scuba Diving , Shounen , Coastal

Qian Lan

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

In this remote seaside town, different people meet here with their own confusion and doubt. Facing the deep blue sea, can everyone find their own answers. The deep blue journey of scuba diving and ordinary youth starts here!



Tags: Full Color , Scuba Diving , Female Protagonist , Coastal

Hollow Fish

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Shizuoka, March 2019. The town where Shiira, a first-year high school student, lives is said that will sink to the bottom of the sea if a major earthquake strikes, but he is fine with that as he still has the past of his mother's death in his mind. Shiira's childhood friend, Anko, has feelings for him and asks him to go to Tokyo with her. One day, however, Shiira meets a woman on a cruise ship, and the wheels of fate begin to move.



Tags: Seinen , Scuba Diving

DEEP

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

Retired deep-sea diver Albert goes on one final job to recover a unique, once in a lifetime treasure, which is said to be inside the safe of a U-Boat, 620 meters under sea. Together with his old team, the treasure hunters known as DEEP, the mission to recover the safe begins...?

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Scuba Diving

Night Diver

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Supernatural

A night diver and her cameraman find a most curious octopus.

Tags: Scuba Diving , Chimera , Body Horror , Coastal

B.B. Fish

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Tags: Seinen , Nudity , Scuba Diving , Coastal

Nangoku Kanojo to Hitotsuyane no Shita

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Tags: Scuba Diving , Surfing , Tanned Skin , Nudity , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Coastal

Dave the Diver

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

The story follows Dave, a hard-working diver, as he collects fish, solves quests, and manages a sushi restaurant.

Tags: Scuba Diving , Food , Work , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen

Se wo Hayami

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Mirai Hasegawa's debut one shot in magazine Aokishi.

Tags: Time Skip , Rural , Male Protagonist , Ghost , Scuba Diving , Seinen