Oniwa Asahi is just starting his high-school life, and he has decided it is time to turn over a new leaf and learn how to make friends and get to know those around him. How does someone who is terrible at interacting with other people go about doing that, though? Turns out, it's as easy as joining the Theatre Club and its quirky cast of characters, including the captain Imari, who seems to have his own issues opening up to others.
Butai ni Sake! It is also Known as: 舞台に咲け!, Bloom Onstage!
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Josei , High School , The Arts
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Top 5 Manga Like Butai ni Sake! [2025 List]
5. Sekine-kun no Koi
Even though he’s an elite hunk, Sekine Keiichiro is a man who has lived his life out of focus, cursed by three handicaps: he’s stoic, passive, and a Jack of all trades but master of none.
Sekine's Love has finished publishing and it has 33 Chapters. It is also Known as: 関根くんの恋, A Gentleman Good at Knitting is not Good at Knitting the Love
4. Positively Yours
To Hee-won’s dismay, the BFF she crushed on and her other BFF are now dating! Seriously bummed, Hee-won decides to go wild just one time, and find solace with a handsome stranger. A very satisfying one night affair has now turned into more — she’s pregnant! Fate brings them together again, and now the regimented Doo-joon is determined to do the right thing and marry her. But they’re basically strangers! Except... their bodies have been very intimately acquainted. What’s this mother-to-be to do?
Positively Yours has finished publishing and it has 82 Chapters. It is also Known as: I have a baby
3. Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai
The unemployed Shibata Michiko is betting everything she has on her romance with a younger man—literally. In order to keep him happy, she deprives herself of the things she wants and buys him expensive clothing and accessories. Since she's flat out broke, she needs to find a job before she starves to death and loses her young love interest. However, Michiko discovers that the boy was never interested in her romantically. Depressed at being dumped and after a series of unsuccessful interviews, she bumps into Kurosawa—an intimidating former boss she used to dislike.
Please Love the Useless Me has finished publishing and it has 43 Chapters. It is also Known as: ダメな私に恋してください, Please Love Me, DameKoi, ダメ恋
2. Hachimitsu to Clover
Takemoto lives in a run down student apartment, where his greatest worry is when he'll next be able to afford to eat meat and whether he'll get to class on time. Although he's away from home and living on his own, Takemoto is far from finished growing up. Along with his crazy cast of friends, Morita, Mayama, Yamada, and Hagumi, Takemoto sets out to discover life and his true self.
Honey and Clover has finished publishing and it has 71 Chapters. It is also Known as: ハチミツとクローバー, HachiKuro, Honey & Clover, Sora no Kotori, Hoshi no Opera, HoneyClo
1. Sakamichi no Apollon
Nishimi Kaoru has moved from city to city and school to school because of his father’s job. So the first day at his new school was just routine for him. Being intellectual and the new transfer student, he has always been seen as an outcast and all Kaoru had to do was bear it until the next time he moved. But things were slightly different this time. First, he started to get close to the class president, Mukae Ritsuko, and, secondly, unlikely as it seemed, grew closer to Kawabuchi Sentaro. Sentaro was infamous for getting into fights, skipping class and was an overall bad boy. Strangely enough, the three of them find common ground in music, namely jazz, and Kaoru finds himself actually enjoying the new town.
Kids on the Slope has finished publishing and it has 45 Chapters. It is also Known as: 坂道のアポロン, Sakamichi no Aporon
