If you liked Welcome to the Ballroom
12 manga like Welcome to the Ballroom
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Welcome to the Ballroom (romance, sports, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Welcome to the Ballroom
Readers also like it1. 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.
Read on Shonen Jump+Open
Readers also like it2. Haikyu!!
by Haruichi Furudate
- Comedy
- 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.
Read on MANGA PlusOpen
Readers also like it3. Medalist
by Tsurumaikada
- Drama (shared)
- Sports (shared)
Tsukasa's figure-skating career ended before it began; he started too late. Inori is eleven, already old for the sport, and everyone tells her to give up. He becomes her coach, and the two of them set out to prove everyone wrong.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Readers also like it4. 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.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Readers also like it5. Blue Period
by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life
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.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Sports · School Life6. Ace of the Diamond act II
by Yuji Terajima
- Comedy
- 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.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Sports · School Life7. Cross Game
by Mitsuru Adachi
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- 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.
Read on VIZ MangaOpen
Sports · School Life8. Kuroko's Basketball
by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
- Comedy
- 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.
Read on MANGA PlusOpen
Sports · School Life9. Blue Box
by Kouji Miura
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life
- Sports (shared)
Taiki Inomata plays badminton, and he has a crush on Chinatsu Kano, the basketball star he sees training every morning in the gym they share. Then, by chance, she comes to live in his family's house. A gentle, heartfelt romance about first love, early mornings and chasing a dream.
Read on MANGA PlusOpen
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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Music · Romance11. BECK
by Harold Sakuishi
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- 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.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Music · School Life12. Whisper Me a Love Song
by Eku Takeshima
- Drama (shared)
- Girls’ Love
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life
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.
Read on K MANGAOpen