If you liked Blue Box
12 manga like Blue Box
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Blue Box (romance, slice of life, sports), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Blue Box
Readers also like it1. Haikyu!!
by Haruichi Furudate
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
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 it2. The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity
by Saka Mikami
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Rintaro goes to a rough boys' school whose students everyone looks down on, and the elite girls' academy next door has a strict rule: stay away from them. Then a girl from that academy, Kaoruko, starts coming to his family's cake shop and treats him like nobody else does. A gentle romance about two kind people on either side of a fence, and the friends who slowly start to cross it with them.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Readers also like it3. Cross Game
by Mitsuru Adachi
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Ko grows up beside the daughters of a family who run a batting centre, with baseball woven into their shared lives. A promise and a profound loss shape the years that follow. Games on the field become part of a measured story about grief, rivalry and feelings left unspoken.
Read on VIZ MangaOpen
Readers also like it4. Blue Period
by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
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 it5. Kono Oto Tomare!
by Sakura Amyuu
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
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.
Read on Shonen Jump+Open
Readers also like it6. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
by Aka Akasaka
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Romantic Comedy
Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane run the student council of an elite academy, and they are obviously in love. Both are far too proud to confess, because whoever confesses first loses. So every day becomes a battle of wits to make the other one say it first, in one of the funniest romantic comedies ever drawn.
Read on VIZOpen
Coming of Age · Slice of Life7. A Silent Voice
by Yoshitoki Oima
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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Coming of Age · Slice of Life8. Bakuman
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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Slice of Life · School Life9. Haimiya Is Scary Cute
by Kamiyama Sumu
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Everyone at school is afraid of Haimiya, the upperclassman with the piercings, the grey wolf cut and the blunt Kansai dialect. For some reason she is gentle with exactly one person: him. A romantic comedy about a scary, sweet senpai.
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Coming of Age · Slice of Life10. Skip and Loafer
by Misaki Takamatsu
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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Sports · School Life11. Welcome to the Ballroom
by Tomo Takeuchi
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Tatara Fujita has never been good at anything, until a chance visit to a dance studio shows him ballroom dancing — and a champion who makes it look like flying. A dazzling sports manga about learning to lead, and to be seen.
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Coming of Age · School Life12. Show-ha Shoten!
by Akinari Asakura, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- 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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