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12 manga like Blue Lock: Episode Nagi
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Blue Lock: Episode Nagi (psychological, sports, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Blue Lock: Episode Nagi
Readers also like it1. Kuroko's Basketball
by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Teiko Middle School's basketball team had five prodigies known as the Generation of Miracles, and a phantom sixth player that almost nobody remembers. That player is Tetsuya Kuroko, so plain and easy to overlook that his passes seem to come out of nowhere. At Seirin High School, Kuroko teams up with Taiga Kagami, a hot-headed powerhouse just back from America, and sets out to defeat his former teammates one by one. Each member of the Generation of Miracles now plays for a different powerful school, with talents that seem unbeatable, and Seirin's young team must find ways to overcome them through teamwork and trust. Tadatoshi Fujimaki's series is an energetic sports manga with superhuman basketball, flamboyant rivals and a big heart. It was adapted into a hugely popular anime and films.
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Readers also like it2. Ace of the Diamond act II
by Yuji Terajima
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
When Eijun Sawamura was fifteen, he met the catcher Kazuya Miyuki, and he has wanted to pitch into his mitt ever since. Now in his second year at Seido High, one of Japan's baseball powerhouses, Eijun is still determined to earn the ace's number one jersey. A new season brings talented first-years eager to take their places, while Eijun's rival Satoru Furuya, a fireball pitcher, wants the same number. Places on the field must be earned through relentless training and performance, as Seido aims for Koshien once more, facing formidable rivals such as the genius pitcher Mei Narumiya. Yuji Terajima's sequel to Ace of the Diamond continues one of the most detailed and passionate baseball manga ever made, full of tactics, close games and team spirit. It was adapted into an anime.
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Readers also like it3. Haikyu!!
by Haruichi Furudate
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Shoyo Hinata fell in love with volleyball after watching the Little Giant, a short player who soared over taller opponents for Karasuno High. Hinata is short too, and his middle school barely had a team, but in his only official match he faced Tobio Kageyama, a genius setter known as the King of the Court, and lost badly. Hinata enrols at Karasuno, once a powerhouse and now dismissed as the flightless crows, only to find Kageyama there as his new teammate. The two cannot stand each other, yet together they invent a lightning-fast quick attack that could change everything. With their senpai and a quirky team, they set their sights on nationals and on rivals such as Nekoma and Aoba Johsai. Haruichi Furudate's series is a warm, thrilling sports story about teamwork, rivalry and growing up, where every player gets a moment to shine. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award and was adapted into a beloved anime and films.
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Readers also like it4. DAYS
by Tsuyoshi Yasuda
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
During the last spring break before high school, timid Tsukushi Tsukamoto meets Jin Kazama, a gifted footballer who invites him to a pick-up game. It is Tsukushi's first time playing, and he is hopeless, but something about that evening stays with him. He follows Kazama to Seiseki High, home to one of the strongest football clubs in Japan. Tsukushi has no technique, little stamina and no idea how to read a match. What he does have is a stubborn refusal to give up, and an honesty that slowly changes the people around him, from the brilliant Kazama to teammates who have forgotten why they loved the game. Every practice is a struggle, every minute on the pitch hard-won. Tsuyoshi Yasuda's sports story is about effort more than talent: about a team of very different players and the weakest of them earning his place. With long, thrilling matches and a big cast of rivals, DAYS was adapted into an anime and remains a favourite for readers who love underdog stories.
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Sports · Shounen5. Captain Tsubasa
by Yoichi Takahashi
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Tsubasa Ozora is a boy who grew up treating his football as his best friend. His dream is to help Japan win the World Cup. When he moves to the town of Nankatsu, he meets the genius goalkeeper Genzo Wakabayashi and challenges him to a match. Under the guidance of Roberto Hongo, a former Brazilian international, Tsubasa grows into a remarkable player, forming the famous Golden Combi with Taro Misaki and battling rivals such as the powerful striker Kojiro Hyuga, from primary-school tournaments all the way to the world stage. Yoichi Takahashi's classic is one of the most influential sports manga ever made, inspiring generations of real footballers around the world. It was adapted into several anime series and helped make football popular in Japan.
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Sports · Psychological6. Ping Pong
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Makoto Tsukimoto, nicknamed Smile because he never smiles, and Yutaka Hoshino, known as Peco, have played table tennis together since childhood. Peco is a cocky, flamboyant natural; Smile is quietly brilliant but indifferent, hiding his talent behind an emotionless face. As they enter high school, their coach sees potential in them that they do not recognise in themselves. Facing formidable opponents, such as a former Chinese national player and the ruthless champion Kazama, both boys must decide what competing really means to them, and what it costs. Taiyo Matsumoto's series uses the speed and tension of table tennis to explore talent, pressure, friendship and why people keep playing. Its expressive, kinetic art made it a classic, and it was adapted into a live-action film and an acclaimed anime directed by Masaaki Yuasa.
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Sports · Shounen7. Hinomaru Sumo
by Kawada
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Ushio Hinomaru was a sumo prodigy as a boy, but he never grew much: he is tiny compared to other wrestlers, in a sport where size and weight seem to decide everything. Everyone says he could never become a yokozuna, sumo's highest rank. In high school, Hinomaru joins the weak sumo club of Odachi High, which has almost no members, and sets out to prove them all wrong. With his relentless spirit and techniques built to overcome bigger opponents, he inspires his teammates, including a delinquent and a timid newcomer, to grow stronger together, and the club begins its climb toward national competition. Kawada's series is a passionate, fired-up sports story that brings the drama and tradition of sumo to life, about determination against limits others have set. It was adapted into an anime.
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Sports · Psychological8. The Boxer
by JH
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Legendary boxing coach K has been searching for one last prodigy to train. He finds him in an unlikely place: a teenager named Yu, standing perfectly still while bullies beat him, but moving with a precision and perception K has never seen. Yu feels nothing, about the bullying, about boxing, about life, and has no reason to fight. But when he steps into the ring, his opponents discover a talent so overwhelming it seems almost inhuman. As Yu's career begins, the fighters he faces bring their own dreams, pain and ambitions to the ring, and each is forced to confront what effort really means against a monster. JH's webtoon is a dark, gripping and stylish sports story about talent, emptiness and the people a genius changes, famous for its dynamic fight art and haunting atmosphere.
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Sports · Drama9. MF Ghost
by Shuichi Shigeno
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
In the near future, Japan's roads are dominated by electric and self-driving cars, and combustion-engine racing has become a rarity. The MFG, a racing series on closed public mountain roads streamed to the world, is the last great stage for these dying machines. Kanata Rivington, a young half-Japanese driver trained at a racing school in England, comes to Japan to compete in the MFG with an underpowered Toyota 86, and with a second goal: finding his Japanese father. His instructor in England was none other than Takumi Fujiwara, the legend of Initial D, and Kanata's technique soon shocks the field. Shuichi Shigeno's sequel to Initial D brings its love of mountain roads into a new era, with intense races and a personal mystery. It was adapted into an anime.
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Sports · Drama10. Giant Killing
by Masaya Tsunamoto, Tsujitomo
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
East Tokyo United is a struggling football club in Japan's top league, long past its glory days and short on confidence. To turn things around, it hires Takeshi Tatsumi, a former star of the club who walked out on it years ago to play in England, and who has since become famous for leading an amateur English side to giant-killing upsets against big teams. Tatsumi is unconventional, laid-back and annoyingly confident, and many players, staff and supporters resent his return. But his eye for hidden talent, such as the timid young midfielder Tsubaki, and his clever tactics begin to change the team, one improbable victory at a time. Written by Masaya Tsunamoto and drawn by Tsujitomo, Giant Killing is a football manga told from the manager's bench, about strategy, belief and rebuilding a club. It won the Kodansha Manga Award and was adapted into an anime.
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Sports · Shounen11. Blue Box
by Kouji Miura
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
- Sports (shared)
Taiki Inomata is on the boys' badminton team at Eimei, a sports powerhouse, and every morning he trains in the gym alongside Chinatsu Kano, a year older than him and the star of the girls' basketball team. He has a hopeless crush on her. One spring day everything changes: Chinatsu's parents move abroad for work, and because their mothers are old friends, she comes to live in Taiki's family home. Sharing breakfast and a front door while keeping it secret at school, the two grow closer, but both have big goals to chase on the court, and Taiki is determined to become someone worthy of standing beside her. Kouji Miura's series is a gentle, heartfelt romance about first love, early mornings, sport and growing up, drawn with soft, expressive art. It was adapted into an anime.
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Psychological · Shounen12. The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins
by Taizan 5
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- Psychological (shared)
Middle-school student Tsubasa Ichinose wakes up after a car accident with no memories, and so does the rest of his family. Reunited at home, they decide to start over and become a perfect, happy family. But the memories they lost were hiding things. Little by little, Tsubasa uncovers evidence of the people they used to be, and of a family far from happy. Their attempt to invent a fresh beginning collides with secrets they cannot explain, turning the familiar comfort of home into the setting for an increasingly uneasy mystery. Taizan 5, creator of Takopi's Original Sin, tells a disturbing, inventive story about family, guilt and identity, mixing dark humour with psychological tension, and asking whether a family can truly begin again once it knows what it has forgotten.
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