If you liked Medalist
12 manga like Medalist
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Medalist (sports, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Medalist
Readers also like it1. Blue Period
by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life
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 it2. 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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Readers also like it3. Witch Hat Atelier
by Kamome Shirahama
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
Coco has always loved magic, even though she believes only those born with its power can become witches. An encounter with a traveling magician reveals a possibility she never imagined and draws her into a world of meticulous craft and closely guarded rules. Alongside fellow apprentices, she discovers how wonder, responsibility, and the desire to help others can become entangled.
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Readers also like it4. 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 it5. 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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Readers also like it6. Hikaru no Go
by Yumi Hotta, Takeshi Obata
- Drama (shared)
- Supernatural
Hikaru discovers an old Go board and the spirit of a player whose passion for the game has outlasted his life. Their encounter draws an initially uninterested boy into a world of fierce rivals and disciplined study. Before long, Hikaru wants to find a playing style of his own.
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Readers also like it7. Barakamon
by Satsuki Yoshino
- Comedy
- Slice of Life
After losing his temper, young calligrapher Seishuu Handa retreats to a remote island to rethink his work. Finding peace proves difficult when energetic Naru and the other islanders make themselves part of his daily life. Their interruptions gradually offer him something his carefully controlled practice never could: a different way to see the world.
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Sports · Seinen8. 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 · Seinen9. MF Ghost
by Shuichi Shigeno
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
In the 2020s, combustion cars race on public roads in Japan's MFG series, streamed to the world. Kanata Livington, a young driver trained in England, enters with an underpowered car and a search for his father. The sequel to Initial D, set in its future, with the same love of mountain roads.
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Sports · Seinen10. Initial D
by Shuichi Shigeno
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Every morning before school, Takumi Fujiwara delivers tofu down Mount Akina in his father's old Toyota AE86, with a cup of water that must not spill. Without noticing, he has become the fastest driver on the mountain. The street-racing manga that made drifting famous around the world.
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Coming of Age · Sports11. 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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Coming of Age · Drama12. Look Back
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life
Fujino draws the comic strip in her school paper and thinks she is the best in town, until a strip by a girl who never comes to school appears beside hers. A single long chapter from the creator of Chainsaw Man about two girls, drawing, and the years that follow.
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