Genre
Drama manga
Characters under pressure, choices with a cost and feelings that run deep: drama manga are about what people go through.
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Ongoing · 19971. One Piece
by Eiichiro Oda
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
Monkey D. Luffy ate a cursed fruit as a boy, and now his body stretches like rubber — and he can never swim again. That does not stop him setting out to sea. He means to find the legendary treasure called the One Piece and become King of the Pirates, gathering a crew of misfits one island at a time. A vast adventure of friendship, freedom and very large fights, and one of the best-selling comics ever made.
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Ongoing · 20102. Kubera
by Currygom
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
Leez Kubera is a girl named after a god nobody remembers, in a village where gods walk among people. When the village is destroyed, she sets out for revenge. An intricate fantasy of gods, magic and suras, built over more than a decade.
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Completed · 19953. Initial D
by Shuichi Shigeno
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
Every morning before school, Takumi Fujiwara delivers tofu down Mount Akina in his father's old Toyota AE86, with a cup of water that must not spill. Without noticing, he has become the fastest driver on the mountain. The street-racing manga that made drifting famous around the world.
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Ongoing · 20074. Giant Killing
by Masaya Tsunamoto, Tsujitomo
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
East Tokyo United are a struggling football club. Their new manager is Takeshi Tatsumi, a former star who once walked out on them, and who specialises in giant killing — beating the big teams. A football manga told from the manager's bench.
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Completed · 19995. Naruto
by Masashi Kishimoto
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
Naruto Uzumaki is the loudest, least promising student at the ninja academy of the Hidden Leaf Village, and everyone keeps their distance: a fearsome fox spirit was sealed inside him as a baby. He means to become Hokage, the village's leader, and make them all see him. Rivalry, friendship and ninja battles grow into one of the defining adventure stories of its generation.
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Ongoing · 20106. Tower of God
by SIU
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
At the top of the Tower, they say, you can have anything you want. Twenty-Fifth Bam only ever wanted Rachel, the girl who left him to climb it. He follows her inside, where every floor is a test and every ally might betray him: one of the longest-running and most ambitious webtoons.
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Ongoing · 20177. Rent-a-Girlfriend
by Reiji Miyajima
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Romantic Comedy
Dumped by his first girlfriend, university student Kazuya rents one through an app: Chizuru, who is perfect on a date and fierce off the clock. Then it turns out she is his next-door neighbour. A long, tangled romantic comedy about lies that get out of hand.
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Completed · 20148. My Hero Academia
by Kohei Horikoshi
- Action
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Superhero
In a world where almost everyone is born with a superpower, Izuku Midoriya was born with none — and still dreams of becoming a hero. Then he meets All Might, the greatest hero of all, who sees something in him and passes on his power. Izuku enrols at U.A. High School to train as a professional hero: a big-hearted superhero story about what it takes to save people.
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Ongoing · 20169. unOrdinary
by Uru-chan
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
In a world where almost everyone has a power, the strongest rule the school and the powerless get crushed. John is a quiet student with no ability at all — supposedly. A story about bullying, power and what it does to people.
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Completed · 201210. Haikyu!!
by Haruichi Furudate
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- 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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Ongoing · 201811. Blue Lock
by Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- Sports
After another World Cup exit, Japan's football union locks 300 young strikers inside a facility called Blue Lock. Only one will become the national team's ace; the rest are banned from ever playing for Japan. Yoichi Isagi, who passed when he should have shot, has to learn to be selfish — a football story played like a survival game.
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Ongoing · 201612. To Your Eternity
by Yoshitoki Ōima
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Philosophical
An orb is cast onto the earth to observe it. It becomes a rock, then a wolf, then a boy who has been left alone in the snow, learning what it means to live from everyone it meets. From the creator of A Silent Voice: an immortal's journey through love and loss, one life at a time.
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Completed · 201513. Ace of the Diamond act II
by Yuji Terajima
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
Second year at Seido High. Pitcher Eijun Sawamura is still fighting for the ace number, and the team has a new goal: Koshien in summer. The continuation of one of the great baseball manga, game by game.
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Ongoing · 202114. Hero Killer
by Kkulbeol (꿀벌), Beolkkul (벌꿀)
- Action
- Comedy
- Crime
- Drama (shared)
In a world where heroes and villains are always at war, the people caught between them pay for it. One girl with a power of her own sets out on a bloody path of revenge, and starts asking what really separates a hero from a villain.
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Ongoing · 202015. God of Blackfield
by Mu Jang (무장), Un 운(雲), Sin-in Seong (신인성)
- Action
- Crime
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
Kang Chan, the soldier called the God of Blackfield, was shot in the back on the battlefield. He wakes three years later in the body of a bullied high school student with a mess of a life to sort out, and he has questions about that bullet.
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Completed · 201716. Tokyo Revengers
by Ken Wakui
- Action
- Crime
- Drama (shared)
Takemichi's life is going nowhere when he hears that his middle-school girlfriend was killed by the Tokyo Manji Gang. Pushed in front of a train, he wakes up twelve years in the past. To save her, he has to climb the delinquent gang that will one day kill her and change it from inside.
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Ongoing · 202017. Teenage Mercenary
by YC, Rakyeon
- Action
- Drama (shared)
Orphaned in a plane crash as a child, Ijin Yu grew up as a mercenary on foreign battlefields. Now he is back in Korea, living with his grandfather — and enrolled in high school. He only wants a normal teenage life, but bullies keep picking the wrong target.
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Completed · 200818. Kuroko's Basketball
by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
Teiko Middle School's basketball team had five prodigies, the Generation of Miracles — and a sixth player nobody remembers seeing. Tetsuya Kuroko is so easy to miss that his passes come out of nowhere. At Seirin High he teams up with the explosive Taiga Kagami to take on his old teammates, one school at a time.
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Completed · 201719. MF Ghost
by Shuichi Shigeno
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
In the 2020s, combustion cars race on public roads in Japan's MFG series, streamed to the world. Kanata Livington, a young driver trained in England, enters with an underpowered car and a search for his father. The sequel to Initial D, set in its future, with the same love of mountain roads.
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Completed · 201820. Jujutsu Kaisen
by Gege Akutami
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Supernatural
Curses are born from people's fear and hatred, and only sorcerers can see and fight them. When high-school student Yuji Itadori swallows a rotting finger to save his friends, he becomes host to Ryomen Sukuna, the King of Curses. Instead of being executed, Yuji joins Tokyo Jujutsu High to hunt down the rest of Sukuna's fingers — dark, fast and ferocious supernatural action.
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Ongoing · 202421. Shadow of the Supreme
by Dubu, ELGAR, Ubiram
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Romance
Yangcheon Ku was heir to a noble house and ended up the most hated demonic martial artist alive, dying in the arms of his childhood friend, the Heavenly Sword. Then he opens his eyes years in the past. He has one more chance to not become that man.
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Completed · 199422. Rurouni Kenshin
by Nobuhiro Watsuki
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
Tokyo, early Meiji era. A wandering swordsman with a cross-shaped scar carries a reverse-blade sword that cannot kill — because he was once the most feared assassin of the revolution, and has sworn never to kill again. Kenshin Himura finds a home at Kaoru's dojo, and his past keeps finding him there.
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Ongoing · 201723. The Apothecary Diaries
by Natsu Hyuuga, Itsuki Nanao, Nekokurage
- Drama (shared)
- Medical
- Mystery
- Romance
Maomao, an apothecary's daughter from the pleasure district, is kidnapped and sold into service at the imperial palace. She plans to keep her head down — until she works out why the emperor's babies are dying. A beautiful eunuch named Jinshi notices, and keeps bringing her the court's poisonings and puzzles to solve.
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Ongoing · 201924. Ya Boy Kongming!
by Yuto Yotsuba, Ryo Ogawa
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
Zhuge Kongming, the great strategist of ancient China, dies on the battlefield and wakes up in present-day Shibuya on Halloween night. He meets Eiko, a singer nobody listens to yet. He becomes her manager, and turns the war strategies of the Three Kingdoms on the music business.
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