If you liked Look Back
12 manga like Look Back
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Look Back (slice of life, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Look Back
Also by Tatsuki Fujimoto1. Goodbye, Eri
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- Supernatural
Yuta's mother asked him to film her last days, and the film he makes of them gets him laughed at. Then a mysterious girl, Eri, invites him to make another one with her. A single long chapter about film, memory and how stories change the people in them, from the creator of Chainsaw Man.
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Readers also like it2. 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 it3. Bakuman
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Moritaka can draw; his classmate Akito can write. Akito wants them to become manga artists together, and Moritaka — who just promised the girl he likes that they will marry once his manga becomes an anime — says yes. From the creators of Death Note, a story about making manga for Weekly Shonen Jump itself: deadlines, editors, reader surveys and rivals, told like a sports series.
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Readers also like it4. Tokyo These Days
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
A veteran manga editor leaves his job but finds that walking away from the medium is harder than expected. An idea for a new project draws him back toward artists at different stages of their lives. Their encounters explore creative work, disappointment and the wish to make something worth keeping.
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Readers also like it5. Three Days of Happiness
by Taguchi Shouichi, Miaki Sugaru
- Drama (shared)
- Philosophical
- Romance
- Tragedy
Almost twenty and going nowhere, Kusunoki finds a shop that buys what is left of people's lives, and sells all but his last three months. He spends them under the eye of Miyagi, the woman sent to watch him, and finds out too late what they could have been worth.
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Coming of Age · Slice of Life6. 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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Coming of Age · Drama7. 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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Coming of Age · Slice of Life8. 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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Coming of Age · Drama9. Show-ha Shoten!
by Akinari Asakura, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- 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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Coming of Age · Slice of Life10. Skip and Loafer
by Misaki Takamatsu
- Comedy
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Mitsumi, the top student from a tiny seaside town, moves to Tokyo for high school with a ten-year plan and no idea how the city works. On her first day she gets lost, and Shima, a charming classmate with secrets of his own, helps her out. A bright, funny story about friendship and finding your feet, with a heroine who stumbles a lot and never stays down.
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Coming of Age · Drama11. Medalist
by Tsurumaikada
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
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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Coming of Age · Drama12. 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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