If you liked Blue Flag
12 manga like Blue Flag
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Blue Flag (romance, slice of life, boys’ love), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Blue Flag
Readers also like it1. 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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Readers also like it2. 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 it3. 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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Slice of Life · School Life4. 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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Slice of Life · School Life5. 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.
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Slice of Life · School Life6. Akira Failing in Love
by Harekawa Shinta
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Akira comes back to the countryside for high school with one plan: win over her childhood crush. He likes her back. She is far too dense to notice. A romantic comedy about two fools in love.
Read on VIZ MangaOpen
Slice of Life · School Life7. Komi Can't Communicate
by Tomohito Oda
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Everyone at school admires Shoko Komi from a distance. Only her ordinary classmate Tadano notices the truth: she is not aloof at all, just so anxious she can barely speak. She wants a hundred friends, and he promises to help her make every one of them, in a gentle, very funny school comedy.
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Slice of Life · School 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. Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You
by Karuho Shiina
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Sawako's shy manner and resemblance to a horror-film character make classmates keep their distance. A friendly boy's kindness gives her the courage to reach out, beginning friendships she never thought possible. This school romance follows the awkward, rewarding work of letting other people know who you are.
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Slice of Life · School Life10. Blue Box
by Kouji Miura
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
- 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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Slice of Life · School Life11. My Love Story!!
by Kazune Kawahara, Aruko
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Takeo is strong, kind and accustomed to being overlooked in romance beside his handsome best friend. Helping a girl named Yamato changes that familiar pattern in ways he struggles to recognise. A warm romantic comedy about sincerity, friendship and learning to accept affection.
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Slice of Life · School Life12. 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.
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