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12 manga like Ultimate Superman R
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Ultimate Superman R (slice of life, comedy, sci-fi), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Ultimate Superman R
Also by Masami Yuuki1. Mobile Police Patlabor
by Masami Yuuki
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
- Mecha
- Sci-Fi (shared)
In a near-future Japan, giant machines called Labors have become everyday tools for construction and heavy industry. Their usefulness also makes them dangerous in the wrong hands. To handle crimes involving these powerful machines, the police establish a specialist unit equipped with patrol Labors of its own. Noa Izumi joins a team whose duties combine enormous hardware with the awkward routines of an ordinary workplace. Pilots, commanders and mechanics must cooperate under public scrutiny, balancing their enthusiasm for the machines against the practical limits of policing crowded streets. Behind individual incidents lie larger interests in the technology's development and use. Masami Yuki's manga gives its robots weight by placing them inside a functioning society. Mechanical action shares space with office humour, investigations and the relationships of an unusual police squad, making the people who operate and maintain the equipment as important as the machines themselves.
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School Life · Slice of Life2. Akira Failing in Love
by Harekawa Shinta
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
Akira Momose returns to the countryside for high school with a single plan: to win the heart of Hajime, her childhood crush. She has rehearsed every approach and is determined to succeed. The problem is not him: Hajime likes her back. The problem is that Akira is far too dense to notice. Every attempt she makes to win him over is either misread or overthought, and every sign of his affection sails right past her, leaving them both flustered and frustrated in the slow countryside summer, while their friends watch the whole hopeless dance unfold. Shinta Harekawa's romantic comedy is a light, sweet story about two fools in love, built on misunderstandings, small gestures and the answer that has been beside Akira all along.
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School Life · Slice of Life3. Komi Can't Communicate
by Tomohito Oda
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
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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School Life · Slice of Life4. The Daily Lives of High School Boys
by Yasunobu Yamauchi
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Tadakuni, Hidenori and Yoshitake are three high-school boys at an all-boys school who can turn an uneventful afternoon into an elaborate disaster. With wild imaginations and too much free time, they act out dramatic scenes, play absurd games and make painfully awkward attempts to seem cool. School corridors, riverbanks and bedrooms become stages for their improvised adventures, and the cast quickly expands to classmates, siblings, the fearsome girls of the nearby school and a literature-loving girl by the river who finds them baffling. Their ordinary problems rarely receive sensible solutions. Yasunobu Yamauchi's series is a much-loved gag comedy built on short episodes, deadpan humour and the universal embarrassment of growing up. It was adapted into an anime and a live-action film.
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School Life · Slice of Life5. Haimiya Is Scary Cute
by Kamiyama Sumu
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
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 · Slice of Life6. The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity
by Saka Mikami
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life (shared)
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 · Slice of Life7. Do It Yourself!!
by IMAGO, Avex Pictures, Koyubita Beru
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Childhood friends Serufu Yua and Purin are drifting apart after enrolling at different high schools, and Serufu does not know how to mend their strained friendship. Then a lucky quirk of fate brings her to the DIY club, which is on its last legs. With its president, Rei, and a growing group of members, Serufu learns to use saws, drills and other tools to build things with her own hands, from small fixes to furniture. Projects do not come together without mistakes, patience and help, and as the members learn their craft, they also learn how to support one another. This manga adaptation of the original anime is a gentle school story about furniture, friendship and life, pairing the satisfaction of practical craft with growing confidence and a friendship slowly rebuilt.
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School Life · Slice of Life8. Handa-kun
by Satsuki Yoshino
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Years before he moves to an island in Barakamon, Sei Handa is a high-school student and a gifted young calligrapher with one firm belief: everyone at school hates him. In truth, his classmates worship him. His good looks and talent have made him a legend, and a growing fan club calling themselves the Handaists follow his every move. Every attempt Handa makes to escape their attention only adds to his bewildering reputation. A friendly greeting looks like a threat, a request for help becomes a test of loyalty and a quiet lunch turns into a spectacle. With a self-proclaimed rival and a host of eccentric classmates, his school life becomes a chain of glorious misunderstandings. Satsuki Yoshino's prequel to Barakamon is a very funny comedy about insecurity, built on the gap between how Handa sees himself and how everyone else sees him. It was adapted into an anime.
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School Life · Slice of Life9. Tanaka-kun is Always Listless
by Nozomi Uda
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Tanaka approaches high school with one clear ambition: to exert as little effort as possible. He sighs, rests his chin on his hand and looks for the next chance to nap, preferably all day long. Fortunately, his tall, dependable friend Ohta cannot turn a blind eye to him, and carries Tanaka from place to place, sometimes literally. Their classmates bring new complications into a routine Tanaka would prefer to keep uneventful: the energetic Miyano, who dreams of becoming a lady, and others who keep pulling him into school life. Nozomi Uda's comedy is slow, leisurely and obstinately lazy, finding its rhythm in tiny inconveniences, contrasting personalities and the quiet affection of friendship, proving that doing nothing can be surprisingly eventful. It was adapted into an anime.
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Sci-Fi · Slice of Life10. Aria
by Kozue Amano
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
On Aqua, the planet once called Mars, the town of Neo-Venezia recreates old Venice down to its canals, bridges and lantern-lit squares. Akari Mizunashi arrives from Manhome, as people now call Earth, to train as an Undine, one of the gondoliers who row visitors through the city and tell them its stories. She joins the small Aria Company, home to Alicia, one of the most admired Undines in town, and to its company president, a round, blue-eyed cat named Aria. With fellow trainees Aika and Alice, Akari practises rowing, studies the city's history and finds wonder in ordinary days: a festival at night, a hidden alley, the seasons changing on the water, a conversation with a stranger that stays with her for years. Kozue Amano's series is the definition of a gentle, healing story, unhurried and full of light. Aria the Masterpiece collects it in a larger edition, following the earlier volumes of Aqua, and invites readers to slow down, look around and notice what is beautiful.
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Sci-Fi · School Life11. Me & Roboco
by Shuhei Miyazaki
- Comedy (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
The year is 20XX, and every household owns a cute maid robot called an OrderMaid. Average grade-schooler Bondo Taira dreams of having one of his own, and when one finally arrives at his door, it is not what he expected at all. Roboco is muscular, clumsy, wildly overconfident and utterly convinced that she is gorgeous, and she is also the most powerful maid robot ever created. Her arrival turns Bondo's ordinary days upside down, from school to his friendships with classmates such as the loyal Gachigorilla, yet her affection for him keeps every disaster warm. Shuhei Miyazaki's gag series runs in Weekly Shonen Jump, where it cheerfully parodies Jump's own manga, from battle tropes to dramatic speeches. Absurd, fast and surprisingly heartfelt, it was adapted into an anime.
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School Life · Shounen12. SKET DANCE
by Kenta Shinohara
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
At Kaimei High School, the Sket Brigade will help with anything: lost property, love troubles, club disputes and the occasional absurd emergency. Its three members are the energetic leader Bossun, a former delinquent named Himeko who carries a hockey stick, and the computer expert Switch, who speaks only through a synthesised voice. Most days bring ridiculous requests, rival clubs, parodies and running gags, as the trio stumble through school life with more enthusiasm than skill. But behind the jokes, each member carries a past that explains why helping others matters so much to them, and when those stories come to light the series hits surprisingly hard. Kenta Shinohara's comedy won the Shogakukan Manga Award and was adapted into an anime. Fast, kind and very funny, SKET DANCE is a celebration of friendship and of the small, unglamorous ways people look out for one another.
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