家MangaKazoku
AnimeMangaCharactersVoice ActorsAdult 18+Search
Similar to A Mangaka's Road to Japan

24 Manga Like A Mangaka's Road to Japan

These 24 manga are the closest matches to A Mangaka's Road to Japan in our catalogue. They are ranked by how much they overlap with it — strongest matches first — then by community rating.

Follow what catches your eye. Open a story, or explore its matches to keep discovering.

Showing 24 of 24 matches

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Akiko Hayashi has soaring but strangely specific dreams: to make a successful manga debut while still in school, have her favorite actor star in its adaptation, and end up marrying him. However, she is far from having the motivation or skills to realize these

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

In 1978 animation director Yoshiyuki Tomino set forth to change the Japanese animation industry. For decades prior, Japanese science fiction had churned out numerous tales of semi-autonomous robots that would often come to the aide of humanity, but as someone

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Honda is a skeleton, but more importantly, she is a bookseller. And she'll tell you from firsthand experience that the job of a bookstore employee is more challenging than it may seem to the average customer. Alongside her equally eccentric coworkers, Honda co

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Sensei Hakusho depicts Kunio Ajino's experience as an assistant for the mangaka Yoshihiro Togashi.

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

An autobiographical one-shot about how Masahito Soda came into contact with Monthly Shonen Magazine and began the serialization of his hit series Capeta.

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Mitsuru Adachi reflects on his career as a mangaka, 55 years after his debut.

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

In celebration of Mitsuru Adachi's 55th anniversary of becoming a mangaka, Gosho Aoyama and Rumiko Takahashi contribute a manga essay about their friend and colleague.

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Then an assistant for manga artists like Suzue Miuchi and Fusako Kuramochi in the golden age of shoujo manga (that is, manga aimed at girls), the artist of this book lovingly recounts the untold labors and passions of the genre's then-upcoming superstars. In t

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Mineo Maya's daughter, Marie Yamada's autobiographical manga about growing up as a fujoshi and her father's influence on her life.

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

A manga essay about Sakae Kusama's work, interspersed with a classical BL office romance.

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Yumi Hotta and her husband talk about how everyone can draw manga and that dividing the pannels is the key.

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

A half-autobiograhpical manga about mangaka Hanamura aiming for a serialization in a weekly shounen manga magazine. It follows his struggles after winning an award from a major shounen magazine, but being unable to secure a serialization even after turning thi

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Included one-shot: Volume 7: Boku no Haru

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir · Otaku Culture.

Boku, Otary-man (otaku + salaryman) is a autobiographical manga of the author Yoshitani, who is also working as a system engineer. Yoshitani is an ordinary Japanese salaryman who lives alone in a big city. He faces the daily struggle at his office and performs

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Otaku Culture.

Yoshikazu Miyano is a meek high school student who enjoys reading boys-love manga. One day, he finds himself in a predicament of stopping a fierce school fight, unsure of what actions to take. Before everything gets worse, he is interrupted by upperclassman Sh

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Otaku Culture.

Keima Katsuragi is a high school student better known online as the "God of Conquest," the man who can obtain the heart of any dating sim girl. In his opinion, real life is an awful game; three-dimensional girls are annoying and false representations of how a

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Otaku Culture.

Confessing to your crush is no easy task for any teenager, and it is no different for Chiyo Sakura, who was saved from being late on the first day of school at Roman Academy by Umetarou Nozaki. Touched by his action, Sakura begins to develop feelings toward hi

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Otaku Culture.

Narumi Momose is a petite and cute young woman who loves idols, games, and everything anime or manga-related, especially in the boys' love genre. In other words, she is a closet otaku and more specifically, a fujoshi. After a breakup due to these kind of inter

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Otaku Culture.

It's the spring of freshman year, and Kanji Sasahara is in a quandary. Should he fulfill his long-cherished dream of joining an otaku club? Saki Kasukabe also faces a dilemma. Can she ever turn her boyfriend, anime fanboy Kousaka, into a normal guy? Kanji triu

Explore its matches →

Shared themes: Memoir.

On October 10, 2016, Ryousuke Nanasaki married the love of his life, Ryousuke. But the time leading up to this day was anything but easy. Feelings of self-hatred, heart-wrenching breakups, and coming out to his family—it was all an uphill battle. Based on the

Explore its matches →