If you liked Hinomaru Sumo
12 manga like Hinomaru Sumo
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Hinomaru Sumo (sports, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Hinomaru Sumo
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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Sports · School Life2. Kuroko's Basketball
by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
- Comedy
- 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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Sports · School Life3. Ace of the Diamond act II
by Yuji Terajima
- Comedy
- 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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Sports · School Life4. 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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Sports · Shounen5. Captain Tsubasa
by Yoichi Takahashi
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Tsubasa Ozora believes the ball is his friend, and dreams of winning the World Cup for Japan. In a new town he meets Genzo Wakabayashi, the goalkeeper nobody can score against. The football manga that inspired a generation of professional players around the world.
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Sports · Shounen6. 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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Sports · School Life7. Cross Game
by Mitsuru Adachi
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
- 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.
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Sports · School Life8. Ping Pong
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- Sports (shared)
Peco plays table tennis with dazzling confidence; his friend Smile hides his talent behind indifference. As stronger opponents test them, both must decide what competing means to them. A sports drama in which friendship, effort and the burden of natural ability matter as much as winning.
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Sports · School Life9. 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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Martial Arts · School Life10. Jujutsu Kaisen
by Gege Akutami
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Supernatural
Curses are born from people's fear and hatred, and only sorcerers can see and fight them. When high-school student Yuji Itadori swallows a rotting finger to save his friends, he becomes host to Ryomen Sukuna, the King of Curses. Instead of being executed, Yuji joins Tokyo Jujutsu High to hunt down the rest of Sukuna's fingers — dark, fast and ferocious supernatural action.
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Sports · Martial Arts11. The Boxer
by JH
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- Sports (shared)
A legendary coach finds Yu, a bullied teenager who feels nothing at all — and who may be the greatest natural boxer who ever lived. A dark, gripping sports story about talent, emptiness and the people it destroys.
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Sports · School Life12. Slam Dunk
by Takehiko Inoue
- Comedy
- 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.
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