If you liked Kuroko's Basketball
12 manga like Kuroko's Basketball
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Kuroko's Basketball (comedy, sports, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Kuroko's Basketball
Sports · School Life1. 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 it2. 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 it3. Haikyu!!
by Haruichi Furudate
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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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.
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Readers also like it5. 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 · School Life6. 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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Also by Tadatoshi Fujimaki7. Kill Blue
by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
Juzo Ohshima is a legendary 43-year-old hitman — until a strange bee sting turns him back into a 13-year-old. To lie low, he goes undercover at a middle school. From the creator of Kuroko's Basketball: action comedy about a killer doing school all over again.
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Sports · School Life8. 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 · School Life9. 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 Life10. 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 Life11. 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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Sports · Drama12. 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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