If you liked Slam Dunk
12 manga like Slam Dunk
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Slam Dunk (comedy, sports, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Slam Dunk
Readers also like it1. Haikyu!!
by Haruichi Furudate
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
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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Readers also like it2. Kuroko's Basketball
by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it3. Ping Pong
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- 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 it4. Ace of the Diamond act II
by Yuji Terajima
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it5. 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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Readers also like it6. Blue Lock
by Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- 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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Readers also like it7. Kono Oto Tomare!
by Sakura Amyuu
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life
Takezou is the last member of his high school's koto club, and without new members it will be shut down. The first to burst in is Chika, a delinquent everyone avoids. What starts as a fight over a club room becomes a band of misfits learning to play the koto together, and to play it for something.
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Readers also like it8. BECK
by Harold Sakuishi
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
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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Sports · School Life9. 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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Sports · School Life10. Hinomaru Sumo
by Kawada
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Hinomaru Ushio was a sumo prodigy, but he is tiny — far too small, everyone says, to ever become a grand champion. In high school he joins a club with almost no members and sets out to prove them wrong. A passionate sports story about the most traditional of Japan's sports.
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Delinquents · School Life11. Glasses With a Chance of Delinquent
by Naruki
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
Momose wants a peaceful high school life with no troublemakers in it. Then quiet, bespectacled Ichikura turns out to have been a notorious delinquent in middle school. He swears he has changed, though he keeps getting into fights, and she keeps his secret.
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Delinquents · School Life12. Wind Breaker
by Satoru Nii
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
Haruka Sakura only knows how to fight, so he enrols at Furin High, the toughest delinquent school around, to become its number one. But Furin's fighters protect their town, and the shopkeepers love them. Sakura has to learn what being part of something feels like.
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