If you liked Kono Oto Tomare!
12 manga like Kono Oto Tomare!
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Kono Oto Tomare! (slice of life, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.

Manga like Kono Oto Tomare!
Readers also like it1. Welcome to the Ballroom
by Tomo Takeuchi
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Sports
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 it2. The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity
by Saka Mikami
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- 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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Readers also like it3. 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 it4. Haikyu!!
by Haruichi Furudate
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
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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Readers also like it5. Blue Box
by Kouji Miura
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- 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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Readers also like it6. Akane-banashi
by Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue
- Comedy
- 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 it7. Slam Dunk
by Takehiko Inoue
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
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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Music · Slice of Life8. BECK
by Harold Sakuishi
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Fourteen-year-old Yukio has been boring all his life, with no hobbies and no idea what music he likes. Then he meets Ryusuke, a wild guitarist just back from America whose band is named after his patched-up dog, Beck. The great rock-and-roll manga.
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Music · Slice of Life9. Whisper Me a Love Song
by Eku Takeshima
- Drama (shared)
- Girls’ Love
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
On her first day of high school, Himari hears an older student, Yori, sing on stage and falls for her on the spot, as a fan. Yori hears it as a confession, and falls for Himari for real. A sweet, funny romance about a band, two girls on very different pages, and catching up.
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Slice of Life · School Life10. Haimiya Is Scary Cute
by Kamiyama Sumu
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- 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 Life11. A Silent Voice
by Yoshitoki Oima
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- 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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Slice of Life · School Life12. Komi Can't Communicate
by Tomohito Oda
- Comedy
- Romance
- 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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