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12 manga like SKET DANCE
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Manga like SKET DANCE
Also by Kenta Shinohara1. Witch Watch
by Kenta Shinohara
- Comedy (shared)
- Fantasy
- Romance
- Supernatural
Morihito Otogi is an ogre, a boy with immense strength, and he has just been appointed the familiar of his childhood friend Nico Wakatsuki, a cheerful witch in training. A familiar's job is to protect his witch, and the two are about to live under the same roof. Nico's spells go wrong at least as often as they go right, and life with her is a parade of magical mishaps, from transformation potions to wishes gone sideways. Their household soon grows to include a tengu, a werewolf and other strange friends, while a prophecy hints that a real danger is coming for Nico, and Morihito has to be ready. Kenta Shinohara, creator of SKET DANCE, mixes gentle, very funny magical comedy with an underlying mystery and moments of real action. It was adapted into an anime.
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Readers also like it2. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
by Aka Akasaka
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- Romantic Comedy
At the elite Shuchiin Academy, student council president Miyuki Shirogane and vice-president Kaguya Shinomiya are admired as the perfect pair. They are in love with each other, but both are far too proud to say so, because in their eyes the first to confess loses. So every day becomes a battle of wits. Lunch invitations, movie tickets and casual conversations turn into elaborate schemes to make the other admit their feelings first, while the cheerful, unpredictable secretary Chika Fujiwara and the gloomy treasurer Yu Ishigami keep wrecking their plans. Beneath the strategy, both are lonelier than they appear. Aka Akasaka's romantic comedy begins as a contest of pride and gradually becomes a moving story about honesty, friendship and growing up. Its sharp humour and inventive storytelling made it one of the most popular romantic comedies of its time, and it was adapted into a hit anime and films.
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Readers also like it3. Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
by Izumi Tsubaki
- Comedy (shared)
- Romantic Comedy
- Slice of Life
High-school student Chiyo Sakura finally works up the courage to confess to her crush, the tall, stoic Umetaro Nozaki. He responds by handing her his autograph, assuming she is a fan, then invites her home, where she becomes his assistant. Nozaki, it turns out, is the secret creator of a hit shojo manga. Chiyo spends her days inking his pages, hoping to get closer to him, while discovering that the man who draws heart-fluttering romance has no idea how romance works in real life. Nozaki uses everyone around them as material: the hot-blooded Mikoshiba, who is the model for his heroine, the dashing Kashima, the drama-club president Hori and the clueless songstress Seo. Izumi Tsubaki's comedy is a gentle, very funny take on shojo clichés and the people who create them. It was adapted into an anime.
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Readers also like it4. Glasses With a Chance of Delinquent
by Naruki
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
Momose has always longed for a peaceful high-school life, with nothing to do with hoodlums, delinquents or troublemakers. When she meets Ichikura, an inconspicuous black-haired boy with glasses, he seems like a normal, nice guy. Then she discovers that back in junior high, Ichikura was a notorious delinquent. He keeps assuring her that he has changed his ways, but he still has a knack for getting into fights, and Momose ends up keeping his secret. As she gets drawn into his attempts to live quietly, she starts to wonder how much someone's past should define their future, and why her heart races around him. Naruki's series is a light, sweet romantic comedy about second chances, reputations and an unlikely pair learning to trust each other.
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School Life · Shounen5. Kill Blue
by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
Juzo Ogami is a legend among hitmen, a forty-three-year-old killer whose name sends shivers down spines. There has never been a job he could not handle, until one day a strange sting turns his body back into that of a teenager. To find out what happened to him, Juzo has to infiltrate the one place he never expected to see again: middle school. Going undercover as a student, the hardened assassin faces lessons, classmates and school life he missed the first time around, while the instincts of his old profession keep colliding with his new surroundings and the danger behind his transformation draws closer. Tadatoshi Fujimaki, creator of Kuroko's Basketball, delivers an energetic action comedy about a killer doing school all over again, mixing slick fights with warm, awkward youth.
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School Life · Shounen6. Ace of the Diamond act II
by Yuji Terajima
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
When Eijun Sawamura was fifteen, he met the catcher Kazuya Miyuki, and he has wanted to pitch into his mitt ever since. Now in his second year at Seido High, one of Japan's baseball powerhouses, Eijun is still determined to earn the ace's number one jersey. A new season brings talented first-years eager to take their places, while Eijun's rival Satoru Furuya, a fireball pitcher, wants the same number. Places on the field must be earned through relentless training and performance, as Seido aims for Koshien once more, facing formidable rivals such as the genius pitcher Mei Narumiya. Yuji Terajima's sequel to Ace of the Diamond continues one of the most detailed and passionate baseball manga ever made, full of tactics, close games and team spirit. It was adapted into an anime.
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School Life · Shounen7. Kuroko's Basketball
by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
Teiko Middle School's basketball team had five prodigies known as the Generation of Miracles, and a phantom sixth player that almost nobody remembers. That player is Tetsuya Kuroko, so plain and easy to overlook that his passes seem to come out of nowhere. At Seirin High School, Kuroko teams up with Taiga Kagami, a hot-headed powerhouse just back from America, and sets out to defeat his former teammates one by one. Each member of the Generation of Miracles now plays for a different powerful school, with talents that seem unbeatable, and Seirin's young team must find ways to overcome them through teamwork and trust. Tadatoshi Fujimaki's series is an energetic sports manga with superhuman basketball, flamboyant rivals and a big heart. It was adapted into a hugely popular anime and films.
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School Life · Shounen8. Haimiya Is Scary Cute
by Kamiyama Sumu
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
At his high school, everyone is afraid of Mio Haimiya, the upperclassman with sharp piercings, a striking grey wolf cut and a brutally honest Kansai dialect. Her reputation is downright terrifying, and most students give her a wide berth. Yet, for some mysterious reason, this intimidating senpai is kind and gentle with exactly one person: Ao Kurose, the boy narrating the story. As he gets to know her, he discovers the affection hidden inside her direct, often awkward manner, and that the girl everyone fears is far sweeter than anyone imagines. Kamiyama Sumu's series is a heart-fluttering romantic comedy about a terrifying-yet-sweet senpai, built on the gap between appearance and reality, with charming art and plenty of flustered moments. Each chapter peels back another layer of the senpai behind the scary reputation.
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School Life · Shounen9. The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity
by Saka Mikami
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
Two schools sit side by side in the same town: Chidori High, a boys' school with a reputation for low grades and rough students, and Kikyo Girls' High, an elite academy for daughters of wealthy families. The two have looked down on each other for years, and Kikyo's students are told to stay away from Chidori boys. Rintaro Tsumugi, a tall, intimidating-looking Chidori student with a gentle heart, helps out at his family's cake shop. One day a Kikyo girl, Kaoruko Waguri, comes in and treats him with a kindness he never expected. As the two get to know each other, their friends on both sides of the fence begin to cross it too, and old prejudices start to fall away. Saka Mikami's romance is gentle, sincere and full of warmth, a story about two kind people choosing to see each other clearly. It was adapted into an anime.
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School Life · Shounen10. Show-ha Shoten!
by Akinari Asakura, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
Shy Azemichi Shijima has secretly been studying the art of comedy and writing jokes in secret, but he would never dare perform them. His outgoing classmate Taiyo Higashikata, a former child actor, dreams of being funny, but has no material. After Higashikata ropes Shijima into performing as a comedy duo at a school show, the two discover they have real chemistry: Shijima's writing and Higashikata's stage presence. They set out to reach the top of Japan's comedy world, competing in manzai contests and learning how much work hides behind an apparently effortless laugh. Written by Akinari Asakura and drawn by Takeshi Obata, artist of Death Note and Bakuman, Show-ha Shoten! is a passionate story about comedy, partnership and the courage to step on stage.
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School Life · Shounen11. Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki
by Yuki Yaku, Eito Chida
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
Fumiya Tomozaki is the top-ranked player of the fighting game Tackfam in all of Japan, but in real life he considers himself a hopeless bottom-tier character: no friends, no social skills, no reason to try. Life, as he sees it, is simply a badly designed game. Then he learns who holds the number two spot: Aoi Hinami, the most popular and accomplished girl in his class. Astonished that the legendary player nanashi is so awkward, Aoi decides to coach him through what she calls the greatest game of all, life itself. She gives him daily missions, strict practice and blunt feedback, from how to hold a conversation to how to make a joke land. Tomozaki starts to level up, and to wonder what the perfect Aoi is hiding. This manga adaptation of Yuki Yaku's light novels, drawn by Eito Chida, is a smart comedy about friendship, effort and the idea that people can change. The novels were also adapted into an anime.
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School Life · Shounen12. Komi Can't Communicate
by Tomohito Oda
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
Everyone at Itan Private High School admires Shoko Komi from a distance. She is beautiful and elegant, and she never says a word, so her classmates assume she is aloof. Only her ordinary seatmate, Hitohito Tadano, notices the truth: she is not cold at all, just so anxious that speaking is almost impossible for her. Talking through notes on the blackboard, Komi confesses her dream of making a hundred friends, and Tadano promises to help her. Their growing circle fills with eccentric classmates, from the childhood friend of everyone, Najimi, to people whose quirks are as big as Komi's shyness, and every small conversation becomes a victory. Tomohito Oda's comedy is gentle, funny and full of warmth toward people who find social life hard. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award and was adapted into an anime and a live-action drama.
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