If you liked Show-ha Shoten!
12 manga like Show-ha Shoten!
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Show-ha Shoten! (comedy, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Show-ha Shoten!
Also by Takeshi Obata1. Bakuman
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
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 it2. Akane-banashi
by Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue
- Comedy (shared)
- 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 · School Life3. Haikyu!!
by Haruichi Furudate
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Also by Takeshi Obata4. 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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Coming of Age · School Life5. A Silent Voice
by Yoshitoki Oima
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
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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Also by Takeshi Obata6. All You Need Is Kill
by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ryousuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Obata
- Action
- Sci-Fi
A new soldier dies fighting an alien invasion, then wakes up before the same battle. Repeating that day gives Keiji Kiriya a chance to learn, but surviving it means understanding why he is trapped. A compact military science-fiction story adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel.
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Also by Takeshi Obata7. Death Note
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Crime
- Mystery
- Psychological
- Supernatural
Top student Light Yagami finds a notebook dropped by a death god: whoever's name is written in it dies. He decides to rid the world of criminals and becomes "Kira", a killer the world cannot see. The police call in L, a reclusive genius detective, and a battle of wits begins in which one mistake is fatal.
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Coming of Age · School Life8. 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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Coming of Age · School Life9. Blue Box
by Kouji Miura
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
- 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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School Life · Shounen10. Ace of the Diamond act II
by Yuji Terajima
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
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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Coming of Age · School Life11. Skip and Loafer
by Misaki Takamatsu
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
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 · 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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