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12 manga like Skip and Loafer
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Skip and Loafer (romance, slice of life, comedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Skip and Loafer
Readers also like it1. Blue Period
by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
- Drama
- 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 it2. Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You
by Karuho Shiina
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Sawako's shy manner and resemblance to a horror-film character make classmates keep their distance. A friendly boy's kindness gives her the courage to reach out, beginning friendships she never thought possible. This school romance follows the awkward, rewarding work of letting other people know who you are.
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Readers also like it3. The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity
by Saka Mikami
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Rintaro goes to a rough boys' school whose students everyone looks down on, and the elite girls' academy next door has a strict rule: stay away from them. Then a girl from that academy, Kaoruko, starts coming to his family's cake shop and treats him like nobody else does. A gentle romance about two kind people on either side of a fence, and the friends who slowly start to cross it with them.
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Readers also like it4. Akira Failing in Love
by Harekawa Shinta
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Akira comes back to the countryside for high school with one plan: win over her childhood crush. He likes her back. She is far too dense to notice. A romantic comedy about two fools in love.
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Readers also like it5. Blue Flag
by Kaito
- Boys’ Love
- Drama
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
In his last year of high school Taichi ends up in a class with Futaba, a girl he can hardly stand, and Touma, his popular childhood friend. Then Futaba asks him to help her win Touma's heart. A love story about three friends, and about the feelings none of them were ready to say.
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Readers also like it6. My Little Monster
by Robico
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Shizuku cares about her grades and nothing else. Haru, suspended on the first day for beating up some bullies, scares everyone. She is sent to take him his schoolwork, and he decides she is his first friend. A funny, awkward romance.
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Readers also like it7. RuriDragon
by Masaoki Shindo
- Comedy (shared)
- Fantasy
- Slice of Life (shared)
One morning Ruri Aoki wakes up with horns on her head. Her mother explains, very calmly, that her father is a dragon. Ruri still has to go to school, now breathing out sparks when she sneezes: a quiet, funny slice of life that readers took to at once.
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Coming of Age · Slice of Life8. Bakuman
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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Coming of Age · Slice of Life9. A Silent Voice
by Yoshitoki Oima
- Drama
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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Seinen · Slice of Life10. Learning to Love My Cat-like Classmate
by Akinoko
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Timid Minato is asked to look after Nekozane, the girl who naps through every class at the next desk. When he finally wakes her, she hugs him. A sweet story of two shy teenagers becoming friends, and slowly more.
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Slice of Life · School Life11. My Love Story!!
by Kazune Kawahara, Aruko
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Takeo is strong, kind and accustomed to being overlooked in romance beside his handsome best friend. Helping a girl named Yamato changes that familiar pattern in ways he struggles to recognise. A warm romantic comedy about sincerity, friendship and learning to accept affection.
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Seinen · Slice of Life12. Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible
by Nene Yukimori
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Romantic Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
Junta Shiraishi is so unnoticeable that teachers mark him absent while he sits in class. Only Kubo, the girl next to him, can always see him — and she enjoys teasing him about it. A gentle, sweet romantic comedy about being seen.
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