If you liked Takahashi-san is listening.
12 manga like Takahashi-san is listening.
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Takahashi-san is listening. (slice of life, comedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Takahashi-san is listening.
Music · School Life1. Kono Oto Tomare!
by Sakura Amyuu
- Drama
- Slice of Life (shared)
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. Keeping the club alive is only the first problem; making music together requires a different kind of commitment. Reputation and insecurity fall away slowly as the members discover what they can express through practice and shared performance.
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School Life · Slice of Life2. Do It Yourself!!
by IMAGO, Avex Pictures, Koyubita Beru
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Serufu and her childhood friend Purin find themselves attending different high schools, and the change makes an already strained friendship harder to mend. An unexpected encounter brings Serufu to a struggling DIY club, where making something by hand offers a different way to spend her days and connect with the people around her. Projects do not come together without mistakes, patience and help from friends. As the club members learn to work with tools and materials, they also learn how to support one another. This manga adaptation pairs the satisfaction of practical craft with a gentle school story about growing confidence and rebuilding connections.
Read on MANGA UP!Open
School Life · Slice of Life3. Handa-kun
by Satsuki Yoshino
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Before his island adventures in Barakamon, young calligrapher Sei Handa has a different problem: he thinks his entire school dislikes him. His classmates, meanwhile, regard him with something close to reverence. Every attempt to escape their attention creates another misunderstanding and adds to his bewildering reputation. Admiration looks like hostility when Handa reads every social signal through his insecurity. The comedy comes from watching his classmates' enthusiastic interpretation drift further and further from the anxious explanation he has invented for himself.
Read on MANGA UP!Open
School Life · Slice of Life4. Tanaka-kun is Always Listless
by Nozomi Uda
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Tanaka approaches school with a clear ambition: to exert as little effort as possible. He is always ready for a nap and rarely eager to join whatever activity the day brings. Fortunately, his dependable friend Ohta is willing to lend a hand, sometimes doing considerably more than that to keep him moving. Their classmates introduce new complications into a routine Tanaka would prefer to keep uneventful. Rather than chasing dramatic victories, this school comedy finds its rhythm in tiny inconveniences, contrasting personalities and the quiet affection of friendship. Staying perfectly idle turns out to require a surprisingly active supporting cast.
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School Life · Slice of Life5. The Daily Lives of High School Boys
by Yasunobu Yamauchi
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Tadakuni, Hidenori and Yoshitake can turn an uneventful afternoon into an elaborate disaster. School corridors, riverbanks and bedrooms provide the stage for their improvised adventures and painfully awkward attempts to seem impressive. Short comic episodes follow a sprawling circle of classmates whose ordinary problems rarely receive sensible solutions. Their imaginations can make a routine encounter feel like a dramatic scene, usually until reality interrupts. The ensemble's competing ideas of maturity give the comedy its momentum, finding embarrassment and elaborate nonsense in days when very little actually needs to happen.
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Music · School Life6. Whisper Me a Love Song
by Eku Takeshima
- Drama
- Girls’ Love
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
On her first day of high school, Himari hears an older student, Yori, sing on stage and falls for her on the spot, as a fan. Yori hears it as a confession, and falls for Himari for real. A sweet, funny romance about a band, two girls on very different pages, and catching up. The same words have begun two different emotional journeys. Music keeps drawing the girls together while they try to understand that mismatch, allowing admiration and romantic affection to develop at different speeds without making either person's feelings simple or unimportant.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Music · Slice of Life7. BECK
by Harold Sakuishi
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Yukio has drifted through his early teens without much sense of direction. Meeting Ryusuke, a guitarist recently returned from America, opens a door into music and the possibility of being part of a band. An unfamiliar passion begins to change how he spends his days and what he can imagine for his future. Music gives Yukio a language for feelings he has never known how to express. Finding his place around Ryusuke means confronting insecurity, learning to contribute and discovering how a band becomes more than its individual players.
Read on K MANGAOpen
School Life · Slice of Life8. Horimiya
by HERO, Daisuke Hagiwara
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Kyouko Hori seems to have everything together at school, while quiet Izumi Miyamura is easy for his classmates to overlook. Away from their classroom, neither fits that familiar image. When Miyamura appears at Hori's home with piercings and tattoos she has never seen, the two discover a private side of each other's lives. Sharing those secrets gives them a place to feel understood, and their unlikely friendship begins to change. Through awkward conversations, teasing friends and small acts of care, this school romance follows the intimacy of being known beyond the role everyone expects you to play.
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School Life · Slice of Life9. My Clueless First Friend
by Taku Kawamura
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Akane Nishimura keeps to herself at school, where an unkind nickname has made her an easy target. New transfer student Taiyou Takada hears the same nickname and thinks it sounds amazing. His cheerful curiosity turns awkward encounters into an unlikely friendship, slowly giving Akane a chance to come out of her shell. Takada's sincerity disrupts the assumptions that have kept Akane isolated. Ordinary school days gradually offer room for laughter and companionship, with the story finding its warmth in how a child's uncomplicated acceptance can change another child's experience of the same classroom.
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School Life · Slice of Life10. My Love Story!!
by Kazune Kawahara, Aruko
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- 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. Takeo readily sees the good in others but finds it harder to imagine himself as someone's first choice. The developing relationship challenges that assumption through everyday acts of care, while his friendship remains an important source of support rather than a simple rivalry.
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School Life · Slice of Life11. The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses
by Koume Fujichika
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Kaede Komura has fallen for the girl in the next seat, but talking to Mie is enough to send his heart racing. Mie's poor eyesight creates an unexpected opening: she keeps forgetting or breaking her glasses. Helping her through the school day brings Komura much closer to his crush than he ever planned. Shared books, mistaken impressions and tiny moments of kindness gradually turn an awkward arrangement into a bond. This gentle romantic comedy finds its excitement in everyday proximity, as two classmates slowly discover what their growing comfort with each other might mean.
Read on MANGA UP!Open
School Life · Slice of Life12. The Otaku Love Connection
by Chu Amairo
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Wataru Otonari is perfectly happy watching his favorite couple enjoy their high-school romance. He considers himself a background character, even as his own good looks and enthusiasm attract attention. Meeting other devoted fans turns his quiet hobby into a lively tangle of friendships, rival interpretations and unexpected feelings. Watching a romance is comfortable because the stakes seem to belong to someone else. Wataru's growing circle makes that distance harder to maintain, turning fan enthusiasm into a school comedy where the people observing love can become part of it themselves.
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