If you liked Real
12 manga like Real
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Real (psychological, slice of life, sports), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Real
Also by Takehiko Inoue1. 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 it2. Ping Pong
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it3. Sunny
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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Readers also like it4. The Boxer
by JH
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Sports (shared)
A legendary coach finds Yu, a bullied teenager who feels nothing at all — and who may be the greatest natural boxer who ever lived. A dark, gripping sports story about talent, emptiness and the people it destroys.
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Readers also like it5. 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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Readers also like it6. 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 it7. 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 · Psychological8. 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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Sports · Slice of Life9. Cross Game
by Mitsuru Adachi
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
- 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 · Drama10. 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 · Drama11. 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 · Drama12. 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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