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Coming of Age manga
Growing up and finding out who you are, with the firsts and the mistakes that come with it.
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Completed · 20121. Haikyu!!
by Haruichi Furudate
- Comedy
- Drama
- Sports
Shoyo Hinata is short, and he loves volleyball. In high school he joins Karasuno — once a powerhouse — only to find his teammate is Tobio Kageyama, the genius setter who crushed his team the year before. The two learn to fly together: a warm, thrilling sports story about teamwork, rivals and growing up.
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Completed · 20212. Blue Box
by Kouji Miura
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life
- Sports
Taiki Inomata plays badminton, and he has a crush on Chinatsu Kano, the basketball star he sees training every morning in the gym they share. Then, by chance, she comes to live in his family's house. A gentle, heartfelt romance about first love, early mornings and chasing a dream.
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Ongoing · 20223. Akane-banashi
by Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue
- Comedy
- Drama
Akane's father was a gifted rakugo storyteller, expelled from the art in front of her eyes. Years later, she sets out to reach the top of rakugo herself and prove him right. A stirring story of performance and practice, where a single voice on a cushion holds a whole room.
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Completed · 20084. Bakuman
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life
Moritaka can draw; his classmate Akito can write. Akito wants them to become manga artists together, and Moritaka — who just promised the girl he likes that they will marry once his manga becomes an anime — says yes. From the creators of Death Note, a story about making manga for Weekly Shonen Jump itself: deadlines, editors, reader surveys and rivals, told like a sports series.
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Ongoing · 20175. Blue Period
by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
- Drama
- Slice of Life
Yatora is a popular student with good grades who feels nothing about any of it. Then he paints Tokyo at dawn the way it looks to him — blue — and for the first time he feels something. He sets his sights on Japan's hardest art university: a story about the hard work behind talent.
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Ongoing · 20186. Skip and Loafer
by Misaki Takamatsu
- Comedy
- Romance
- Slice of Life
Mitsumi, the top student from a tiny seaside town, moves to Tokyo for high school with a ten-year plan and no idea how the city works. On her first day she gets lost, and Shima, a charming classmate with secrets of his own, helps her out. A bright, funny story about friendship and finding your feet, with a heroine who stumbles a lot and never stays down.
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Completed · 20137. A Silent Voice
by Yoshitoki Oima
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life
In primary school, Shoya Ishida bullied a deaf classmate, Shoko, until she transferred away, and then the class turned on him. Years later, lonely and ashamed, he sets out to find her and make amends. A moving story about guilt, forgiveness and learning to face other people again.
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Hiatus · 20208. Medalist
by Tsurumaikada
- Drama
- Sports
Tsukasa's figure-skating career ended before it began; he started too late. Inori is eleven, already old for the sport, and everyone tells her to give up. He becomes her coach, and the two of them set out to prove everyone wrong.
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Completed · 20219. Show-ha Shoten!
by Akinari Asakura, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- Drama
Azemichi Shijima writes jokes in secret and would never perform them. Taiyo Higashikata is a former child actor with presence to spare. Together they form a comedy duo aiming for the top of Japan's manzai scene. A story about making people laugh, drawn by Takeshi Obata of Death Note.
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Completed · 191810. Gasoline Alley
by Frank King
- Slice of Life
A baby was left on a bachelor's doorstep in 1921 and then did something no comic character had done before: he grew up, at the speed everybody else does. The strip has aged in real time ever since.
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Completed · 192411. Little Orphan Annie
by Harold Gray
- Adventure
- Drama
An orphan with no pupils, a dog called Sandy, and a habit of walking into other people's troubles. Adventure serial and melodrama at once, and it argued with its own readers about politics for decades.
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Completed · 191712. Reg'lar Fellers
by Gene Byrnes
- Comedy
Neighbourhood boys, spelled the way they talk, arguing about the rules of games they are inventing as they go. Small stakes taken entirely seriously, which is what being eight years old is like.
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Completed · 202113. Look Back
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Drama
- Slice of Life
Fujino draws the comic strip in her school paper and thinks she is the best in town, until a strip by a girl who never comes to school appears beside hers. A single long chapter from the creator of Chainsaw Man about two girls, drawing, and the years that follow.
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