If you liked Haikyu!!
12 manga like Haikyu!!
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Haikyu!! (comedy, sports, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Haikyu!!
Readers also like it1. Blue Box
by Kouji Miura
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
- Sports (shared)
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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Readers also like it2. Ace of the Diamond act II
by Yuji Terajima
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
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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Readers also like it3. Kuroko's Basketball
by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
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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Readers also like it4. Slam Dunk
by Takehiko Inoue
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Hanamichi Sakuragi joins Shohoku's basketball team to impress a girl, despite knowing almost nothing about the sport. Rivalries, punishing practice and the ambitions of his teammates gradually give him a reason to play for himself. A basketball story about learning to turn raw talent into something a team can rely on.
Read on VIZ BooksOpen
Readers also like it5. Blue Lock
by Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- Sports (shared)
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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Readers also like it6. Medalist
by Tsurumaikada
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
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 it7. Hinomaru Sumo
by Kawada
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Hinomaru Ushio was a sumo prodigy, but he is tiny — far too small, everyone says, to ever become a grand champion. In high school he joins a club with almost no members and sets out to prove them wrong. A passionate sports story about the most traditional of Japan's sports.
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Readers also like it8. Akane-banashi
by Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
Akane's father was a gifted rakugo storyteller, expelled from the art in front of her eyes. Years later, she sets out to reach the top of rakugo herself and prove him right. A stirring story of performance and practice, where a single voice on a cushion holds a whole room.
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Readers also like it9. Welcome to the Ballroom
by Tomo Takeuchi
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- 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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Readers also like it10. 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.
Read on Shonen Jump+Open
Readers also like it11. Wind Breaker
by Satoru Nii
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
Haruka Sakura only knows how to fight, so he enrols at Furin High, the toughest delinquent school around, to become its number one. But Furin's fighters protect their town, and the shopkeepers love them. Sakura has to learn what being part of something feels like.
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Coming of Age · School Life12. 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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