If you liked Ping Pong
12 manga like Ping Pong
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Ping Pong (psychological, sports, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Ping Pong
Also by Taiyo Matsumoto1. GoGo Monster
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Supernatural
Yuki believes his school is home to presences that other children cannot see. As a new classmate tries to understand him, everyday school life takes on a stranger, more unsettling shape. A story poised between imagination and the supernatural, seen through a child's intensely private world.
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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto2. Sunny
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Slice of Life
The children of a small residential home find an escape in an abandoned car they call Sunny. Within it, imagined journeys offer room for anger, hope and longing for their families. Their daily lives form a quietly observed story about growing up together while feeling apart.
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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto3. Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Supernatural
Black and White are two street children fiercely attached to Treasure Town and to each other. When outsiders arrive with plans to remake their neighbourhood, their freedom comes under threat. An urban fable about violence, change and the fragile balance between two very different companions.
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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto4. No. 5
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Action
- Adventure
- Psychological (shared)
- Sci-Fi
In a desert-dominated future, a member of an elite group of peacekeepers abandons his post and becomes its target. The hunt draws the other numbered guardians into a conflict shaped by their loyalties and doubts. An eccentric science-fiction journey through a world of striking landscapes and unstable ideals.
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Readers also like it5. 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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Readers also like it6. 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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Readers also like it7. 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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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto8. Tokyo These Days
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life
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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Sports · Psychological9. Blue Lock
by Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- 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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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto10. Cats of the Louvre
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Slice of Life
- Supernatural
Away from the museum's daytime crowds, a hidden community of cats inhabits the Louvre. One small white cat's fascination with its paintings opens a path between everyday life and the worlds inside the artwork. A dreamlike tale about belonging, imagination and the things people overlook.
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Sports · School Life11. 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 · School Life12. 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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