If you liked Initial D
12 manga like Initial D
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Initial D (action, sports, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Initial D
Readers also like it1. 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 · Seinen2. Giant Killing
by Masaya Tsunamoto, Tsujitomo
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
East Tokyo United are a struggling football club. Their new manager is Takeshi Tatsumi, a former star who once walked out on them, and who specialises in giant killing — beating the big teams. A football manga told from the manager's bench.
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Sports · Seinen3. 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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Sports · Drama4. 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 · Drama5. 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 · Drama6. 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 · Drama7. 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 · Drama8. 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 · Drama9. 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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Sports · Drama10. 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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Sports · Drama11. The Boxer
by JH
- Action (shared)
- 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 · Drama12. 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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