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12 manga like Akane-banashi
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Akane-banashi (comedy, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Akane-banashi
Readers also like it1. Show-ha Shoten!
by Akinari Asakura, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
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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Readers also like it2. Blue Period
by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
- Drama (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it3. Haikyu!!
by Haruichi Furudate
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it4. Bakuman
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it5. Medalist
by Tsurumaikada
- Drama (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it6. Skip Beat!
by Yoshiki Nakamura
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
Kyoko has devoted herself to helping her childhood friend become a star, only to discover how little he values her. Determined to surpass him, she enters show business with revenge on her mind. Acting gradually reveals ambitions and abilities that belong to her alone.
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Readers also like it7. Kono Oto Tomare!
by Sakura Amyuu
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life
Takezou is the last member of his high school's koto club, and without new members it will be shut down. The first to burst in is Chika, a delinquent everyone avoids. What starts as a fight over a club room becomes a band of misfits learning to play the koto together, and to play it for something.
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Readers also like it8. Ya Boy Kongming!
by Yuto Yotsuba, Ryo Ogawa
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it9. Hikaru no Go
by Yumi Hotta, Takeshi Obata
- Drama (shared)
- Supernatural
Hikaru discovers an old Go board and the spirit of a player whose passion for the game has outlasted his life. Their encounter draws an initially uninterested boy into a world of fierce rivals and disciplined study. Before long, Hikaru wants to find a playing style of his own.
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Readers also like it10. Oshi no Ko
by Aka Akasaka, Mengo Yokoyari
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- Psychological
A country doctor is reborn as the son of Ai Hoshino, the idol he adored, with his memories intact. When tragedy strikes her, he grows up with one aim: to find out who was behind it. A sharp, dark look at the entertainment industry, from idols and reality TV to the stage, wrapped around a mystery.
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Coming of Age · Drama11. Look Back
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Drama (shared)
- 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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Coming of Age · Shounen12. A Silent Voice
by Yoshitoki Oima
- Drama (shared)
- 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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