Oyasumi Punpun
Goodnight Punpun
Inio Asano · 2007–2013
Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town. He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world. He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back. He wants to find some porn. That’s what he wants, but what does he get…? (S…
3-gatsu no Lion
March Comes in Like a Lion
2007–
Rei Kiriyama is a child prodigy. Rei Kiriyama is also an orphan who lives alone in an empty apartment. Rei Kiriyama is a teen working in an adult's world. Life is complicated for Rei. He's an up-and-coming shogi player on the verge of turni…
Yotsuba to!
Yotsuba&!
2003–
Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai...um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving's fun 'cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made…
Solanin
2005–2006
College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude. Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Naruo is permanentl…
Blue Period
Tsubasa Yamaguchi · 2017–
The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling… (Source: Kodansha USA) Note: Nominated for Manga…
Haikyuu!!
2011–2011
Inspired after watching a volleyball ace nicknamed "Little Giant" in action, small-statured Shouyou Hinata revives the volleyball club at his middle school. The newly-formed team even makes it to a tournament; however, their first match tur…
Blue Lock
2018–
After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goal…
Hajime no Ippo
Hajime no Ippo: Fighting Spirit!
1989–
Makunouchi Ippo has been bullied his entire life. Constantly running errands and being beaten up by his classmates, Ippo has always dreamed of changing himself, but never has the passion to act upon it. One day, in the midst of yet another…
Kuroko no Basket
Kuroko's Basketball
2008–2014
When incoming first-year student Taiga Kagami joins the Seirin High basketball team, he meets Tetsuya Kuroko, a mysterious boy who’s plain beyond words. But Kagami’s in for the shock of his life when he learns that the practically invisible…
Ping Pong
Ping-Pong Peril
2025–2025
Millions in debt, high schooler Taira's only path to redemption is in the world of underground ping pong! "Gimme a flat table, a ball, and a racket, and I'll show you some ping pong!" A shining table and a burning ball. Nobody will keep the…
Kokou no Hito
The Climber
2007–2011
Transfer student Buntaro Mori starts his first day at his new school already on the administration’s radar. He’s withdrawn and sullen, and the teachers are just waiting for him to explode. When his annoying classmate Miyamoto promises to le…
Ashita no Joe
Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow
1968–1973
A young drifter named Joe Yabuki wanders through the slums of Tokyo, but when the local ruffians try to give him a hard time he teaches them a rough lesson with his fists. The spectacle sparks a gleam in the eye of an old drunk who happens…
Boys on the Run
2005–2008
The story is about how and why a guy goes from a worker at a dead-end job to becoming a boxer. A 27-year-old lonesome salesman falls in love with an attractive woman from work but he has a rival that ends up being with her. He takes up boxi…
SLAM DUNK
Takehiko Inoue · 1990–1996
Hanamichi Sakuragi's got no game with girls--none at all! It doesn't help that he's known for throwing down at a moment's notice and always coming out on top. A hopeless bruiser, he's been rejected by 50 girls in a row! All that changes whe…