Top 10 Manga Like Rookies [2024 List]

Rookies

Professor Kawato is the new japanese teacher in the ill-famed Futagotamaga high shool, whose baseball club is composed by thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions for causing a brawl during an official match. Now that the supension is over, the only club's members left are interested only in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under professor Kawato guidance, they discover a new dream called Koshien. The road to Koshien is far from easy, as they have to get back in shape, to learn how to play baseball and to win everyone else mistrust, including the principal's and other professor's one, with only a few months available. Sweating and fighting, the baseball club will find his determination and strenght, as they proceed towards their dreams, while Kawato's enthusiastic and non-conventional ways slowly change the attitude of everyone near them.

Rookies has finished publishing and it has 233 Chapters. It is also Known as: ROOKIES, Rookies

Genres: Comedy , School Life , Slice of Life , Sports

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Top 10 Manga Like Rookies [2024 List]

10. Worst

Worst

Hana Tsukishima is a country boy that recently moved to city. He is a good guy, ingenuous and honest, but he is also very strong. His goal is to become the "strongest student" of a school of thugs led by clan-logic, strength hierarchy and fights.

Worst has finished publishing and it has 131 Chapters. It is also Known as: WORST ワースト, Worst

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9. GTO: Shonan 14 Days

GTO: Shonan 14 Days

This is a spin-off story of the manga GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) that takes place directly after the Teshigawara arc.
After Eikichi Onizuka was shot by former teacher Teshigawara, he was sent to the hospital. Shortly afterwards, he escaped and spent 14 days that no one knew about. Strangely enough, when he returned, a wanted poster appeared with a man that resembled Onizuka. What exactly did he do during these 14 days?

GTO: 14 Days in Shonan has finished publishing and it has 77 Chapters. It is also Known as: GTO SHONAN 14DAYS, Great Teacher Onizuka: Shonan 14 Days, Black Diamond

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8. Angel Voice

Angel Voice

Ichiritsu Ranzan highschool's football club is populated by famed hooligans, in fact some guys decide to join the school only to fight with them. Therefore the principal call Tetsuo Kuroki sensei and ask him to reform the club and he accept.

Angel Voice has finished publishing and it has 357 Chapters. It is also Known as: ANGEL VOICE, Keeper Boy Keeper Girl

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7. I'll

I'll

Akane Tachibana is a freshman high school student who, despite his talent for basketball, decides to abandon sports clubs due to the pressure put on him by them. Once he arrives at Kouzu High, however, he meets the only other basketball player who has ever caught his eye on the courts and decides to join the team. The first match of the season is an exhibition game against the league's strongest team, Hyamazaki — the team that Hiiragi's father coaches and in which his older brother plays for. Hiiragi ends up playing in the second half of the game, and they seem to not be working well together on the court, losing the game, until unintentionally one of the senior players on the team challenges them to beat him. They join forces, inspiring the team to victory. Thus starts the story of a group of teenagers working to reach the top, fighting tooth and nail the entire way. (Wiki)

I'll has finished publishing and it has 88 Chapters. It is also Known as: I'll アイル, I'll (Generation Basket), I'll CKBC

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6. Rokudenashi Blues

Rokudenashi Blues

Maeda is a new student in the Teiken High School. He stutters when he's nervous and he's rather clumsy. He gets noted immediately because he hits a teacher during the entrance ceremony. Some clubs search to enlist him as they see in him a force they can use to get even with other clubs. But Maeda is a loner and has only one dream: becoming boxing champion. His first objective is to beat the leader of the boxing club. "Rokudenashi" translates as "good for nothing".

Good-For-Nothing Blues has finished publishing and it has 422 Chapters. It is also Known as: ろくでなしBLUES, Rokudenashi Blues

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5. Shonan Junai Gumi!

Shonan Junai Gumi!

Ekichi Onizuka and Ryuji Danma are members of infamous biker gang, Oni Baku. When not out riding around, they can be found in school, trying to pick up young women. This is the story of the young Onizuka, who would later become the greatest teacher in Japan.

Shonan Pure Love Gang has finished publishing and it has 267 Chapters. It is also Known as: 湘南純愛組!, Shounan Junai Gumi, Shonan Pure Love Gang

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4. GTO: Paradise Lost

GTO: Paradise Lost

GTO: Paradise Lost is a sequel to GTO and Onizuka is now 24 years old as well.
Onizuka is a prisoner. For reasons that he only knows, he tells the story himself of what happened between him and Class G (which is basically an idol class), expect many troubles, adventures and of course many hilarious moments

GTO - Paradise Lost is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: GTO パラダイス・ロスト, Great Teacher Onizuka: Paradise Lost

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3. Over Time

Over Time

This is about a lazy ass kind of a baseball player, Taro, and A very serious crazy baseball player, Takami, that want to make it to the top. They cross paths on a bus that crashes. Takami dies and Taro lives. Taro visits Takami's grave and sees Takami's ghost. His ghost tells Taro to take him to the koshien and fulfill his dream. Think of it as Taro no Baseball.
Included one-shots: Usagi to Kame to Strike, Cross Beat, Live Alive

Over Time has finished publishing and it has 19 Chapters. It is also Known as: OVER TIME, Usagi to Kame to Strike, Cross Beat, Live Alive: Song to Begin, Live Alive: Hajimari no Uta

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2. Slam Dunk

Slam Dunk

Winning isn't everything in the game of basketball, but who wants to come in second? It takes dedication and discipline to be the best, and the Shohoku High hoops team wants to be just that. They have one last year to make their captain's dream of reaching the finals come true--will they do it? Takehiko Inoue's legendary beloved basketball manga is finally here and the tale of a lifetime is in your hands.

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 when he meets the girl of his dreams, Haruko, and she's actually not afraid of him! When she introduces him to the game of basketball, his life is changed forever...



Included one-shot:
Volume 31: Slam Dunk: 10 Days After

Slam Dunk has finished publishing and it has 276 Chapters. It is also Known as: SLAM DUNK, Slam Dunk

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1. GTO

GTO

Onizuka is a reformed biker gang leader who has his sights set on an honorable new ambition: to become the world's greatest teacher... for the purpose of meeting sexy high school girls. Okay, so he's mostly reformed.However, strict administrators and a class of ruthless delinquents stand between Onizuka and his goal and they will use any means, however illegal or low, to drive the new teacher away. Perfect, because Onizuka's methods won't be found in any teaching manual; he cares about the difference between legal and illegal activities about as much as he cares for the age difference between himself and a high school girl.So get ready for math that doesn't add up, language you'd be slapped for using, and biology that would make a grown man blush... unless of course, you're the Great Teacher Onizuka.

GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka has finished publishing and it has 201 Chapters. It is also Known as: GTO: Tomoko's Big Adventures

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