What is this genre all about? Even though school clubs in Japan are not mandatory, there is some pressure from the social grid (e.g. fellow students, teachers) to participate in some kind of after-school activity, be it in sports or arts. Colleges also have clubs.
As a comedy element in anime, some students have joined too many clubs, and are thus constantly stressed out. There is also the element of social commentary, making it clear that you have to join a club, if you want to be part of the class. Since self-founded clubs need at least 3 members, the desperate search and advertising for new members can be cause for hilarity in anime.
We present you the list of School Clubs manga you should read right now.
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Top 19 School Clubs manga you should read right now. [2026 List]
- 19. Houkago, Bokura wa Uchuu ni Madou
- 18. Haikyuu!!
- 17. Girl Crush
- 16. Slam Dunk
- 15. Pseudo Harem
- 14. Mane Mane Nichi Nichi
- 13. 3-gatsu no Lion
- 12. Hello, Melancholic!
- 11. Ao Ashi
- 10. Megane, Tokidoki, Yankee-kun
- 9. R15+ ja dame desu ka?
- 8. Boku no Suki na Hito ga Suki na Hito
- 7. Houkago Teibou Nisshi
- 6. Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyuubu
- 5. Guilty Circle
- 4. Houkago no Goumon Shoujo
- 3. Kimi to Picopico
- 2. Kimi tte Watashi no Koto Suki Nandesho?
- 1. Moebana
19. Houkago, Bokura wa Uchuu ni Madou
"This love shot up like a rocket."
Kinoshima Rocketry Club casually uploaded a test vlog of a test firing of their hybrid engine. The engine exploded — carrying away the dreams of reaching space with it — but that wasn't the only thing that exploded in that vlog. Madoi Ayame, from the engine section, who just so happened to appear in the vlog, also exploded in popularity when viewers from across the world found her cute. While she finds this bewildering, she actually has someone she wished found her cute...
From the author of "Pseudo Harem", Saitou Yuu, a youthful, buzzing romantic comedy that sparks from a single video!
After School, We Wander in Space is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 放課後、僕らは宇宙に惑う, Houkago, Bokura wa Uchuu ni Madou
18. Haikyuu!!
Ever since he saw the legendary player known as the "Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! He decides to join the team at the high school the Little Giant went to-and then surpass him. Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else?
After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, "the King of the Court," Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy he wants to defeat ends up being his teammate?!
Notes:
Winner of the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2017.
Includes 2 extra chapters.
Haikyu!! has finished publishing and it has 404 Chapters. It is also Known as: ハイキュー!!, Haikjú!!, Haikyu!! Chàng khổng lồ tí hon, Haikyu!! Fly High! Volleyball!, Haikyuu!!, Haikyû!! - Les As du Volley, Haikyū!!, Haikyū!! - L'asso del Volley, High Kyuu!!, HQ!!, Volleyball!!, Волейбол!, Хайкю:!!, هايكيو!!, هایکیو, ഹൈക്ക്യു!!, ไฮคิว!! คู่ตบฟ้าประทาน (SIC), ハイキュー!!, 排球!!, 排球少年!!, 하이큐!!
17. Girl Crush
Momose Tenka is a first year high school student who can sing, dance, and has a killer body. She's good at everything... except love. She meets a K-pop obsessed girl named Satou Erina, and is dazzled by her earnest nature.
This is the story of two young girls dreaming of becoming K-pop idols! A heart-throbbing story about pure love!
Girl Crush is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: ガールクラッシュ, Girl Crush
16. 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
15. Pseudo Harem
The story of Nanakura Rin of the Drama Club, who has indisputable talent as an actress, and her senpai in the same club, Kitahama Eiji. With the power of her acting, Rin teases Eiji with a variety of personas, giving him the harem he's always dreamed of!
Note: Chapter count includes 27 extra chapters.
Pseudo Harem has finished publishing and it has 157 Chapters. It is also Known as: Giji Harem, 疑似ハーレム, Giji-Harem
14. Mane Mane Nichi Nichi
Set in a high school baseball club, it is a "coming-of-age sideline story," focusing on the three team managers with very different personalities: Nagisa, who barely knows the rules of baseball, Ichinose, a flamboyant gal, and Himemiya, the quiet girl with a surprisingly nasty side.
Mane Mane Nichi Nichi is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: マネマネにちにち, Manemane Nichinichi
13. 3-gatsu no Lion
A youth named Kiriyama Rei, who lost his family as a child, endures loneliness to become a professional shogi player. Then, through a chance meeting, he develops a relationship with the three Kawamoto sisters, who hail from a working-class district of the city, and little by little his frozen heart begins to thaw.
March Comes in Like a Lion is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 3月のライオン, Sangatsu no Lion, March Comes in Like a Lion, Lion of March
12. Hello, Melancholic!
Asano Minato is hiding in plain sight. She’s tall, but she’s very quiet, and very withdrawn. She keeps her hair over her face and her head down. It’s not hard to see that she’s avoiding being seen. While eating lunch alone in her secret spot, she hears what is obviously an instrument. She immediately wonders why, since this high school doesn’t have a band. She knows that… because that’s why she transferred here.
Note: Chapter count includes 4 bonus chapters
Hello, Melancholic! has finished publishing and it has 18 Chapters. It is also Known as: ハロー、メランコリック！, Hello, Melancholic!
11. Ao Ashi
Ashito Aoi, a third-year middle school student from Ehime, meets Fukuda Tatsuya, a J Youth League coach. Even though he's still rough around the edges, Ashito has such amazing potential that he gets invited by coach Fukuda to participate in his team's tryouts in Tokyo. The story of a boy who will revolutionize Japanese football begins to unfold.
Notes:
- Nominated for the 2017 Manga Taishou Award.
- Winner of the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for the "Best General Manga" category in 2019.
Ao Ashi has finished publishing and it has 410 Chapters. It is also Known as: アオアシ, Ao Ashi
10. Megane, Tokidoki, Yankee-kun
Momose, a clumsy girl who has always been slaved around to run errands by delinquents in her middle school, will now be attending a non-yankee high school. At her new school, she thinks of joining a club so as to not bother anyone and one day meets a classmate, a serious boy with glasses, Ichikura-kun. In reality though, that Ichikura has been an undefeated yankee in his middle school which he hid from everyone when he enrolled into this high school!
Momose is the only one who knows Ichikura-kun's secret yankee past?!
The youthful former yankee X a girl who was bullied by yankees are now having a LOVE SURVIVAL ♡
- MU
Megane, Tokidoki, Yankee-kun is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: メガネ、時々、ヤンキーくん, Megane, Tokidoki, Yankee-kun
9. R15+ ja dame desu ka?
What should I do to become an adult? Akane Amou, who grew up with her parents forbidding any kind of entertainment, is a little bad with "stimulating" stuff, to the point she can't even watch a kissing scene in a drama. Now that she’s a highschool student, she somehow wants to overcome it! Those are her intentions, but it’s not that easy. Meanwhile, she got acquainted with a movie otaku named Fuyumine. Will she be able to watch an R15 movie…?
How About R15? has finished publishing and it has 84 Chapters. It is also Known as: R15＋じゃダメですか？, R15+ ja dame desu ka?
8. Boku no Suki na Hito ga Suki na Hito
This story begins when the protagonist, a boy named Sora Akizuki, confesses his love to Miya Fuwa, a girl he has been in love with for a long time, and is rejected. When Sora learns that Miya likes someone else, he visits the dubious “Trialing Club," of which he is president, and tries to find out if he is the right person for her. The first episode shows the reality of the Trialing Club, whose activities one cannot imagine from its name, and the reason why its president, Suzukaze, created the club.
My Crush's Crush is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: ぼくの好きな人が好きな人, Boku no Suki na Hito ga Suki na Hito
7. Houkago Teibou Nisshi
The fishing manga's story centers on Hina and her group of three other female high school students. Hina is an indoor-oriented girl who likes crafts and moves to a seaside town to continue with her high school education. She meets upperclassman Yuuki as she walks along an embankment and joins the mysterious "Embankment Club." Hina dislikes sea creatures, but she fishes with her fellow club members and eats their catches. She gradually starts to appreciate the appeal of the ocean.
Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 放課後ていぼう日誌, Afterschool Embankment Journal
6. Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyuubu
The "girls comedy" series follows a protagonist named Daisuke who cannot decide on a club to join because he does not have anything he particularly wants to do. He has an encounter that changes his school life.
Assemble! Mysterious Research Club has finished publishing and it has 379 Chapters. It is also Known as: あつまれ！ふしぎ研究部, Gather! Mystery Research Club
5. Guilty Circle
April! Sawaya Doji's college life at his dream school of Seio University starts with an encounter with the beautiful Kaede Hoshimi during the club recruiting fair. Sawaya believes that if he goes to Tokyo... if he joins a university... if he joins a club, he can get a girlfriend! It's a great way to meet new people, but what kind of club has he gotten himself into?
Source: MU
Guilty Circle is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: ギルティサークル, Guilty Circle
4. Houkago no Goumon Shoujo
After years of being unlucky with girls, Daito Ishimaru only wishes to enjoy his high school life with a normal, cute girlfriend. However, after losing a game to his two new seniors Kiyoka Sasahara and Asami Tomochika, he is forced to join the "Humanism Studies" club, which is actually a torture studies club. Will Ishimaru get the normal high school life he always wanted?
Torture Club Girls After School has finished publishing and it has 168 Chapters. It is also Known as: 放課後の拷問少女, Houkago no Goumon Shoujo
3. Kimi to Picopico
A romantic comedy about a gal who loves games!
Otaku Oota is a new freshman who joins the gaming club in order to live out his ideal high school life. There, he unexpectedly meets another new student: Ageha Onisaki! Ageha immediately asks Oota to play a console game with her, but her choices are either the NES, the SNES, or the Mega Drive! Who the hell is this gal, and why is she in the gaming club? The exciting life of a gorgeous gal and a geek begins as the two start playing lots of games together, both retro and modern - and get a little more conscious of each other in doing so!
Kimi to Pico-Pico has finished publishing and it has 57 Chapters. It is also Known as: きみとピコピコ, Kimi to Picopico
2. Kimi tte Watashi no Koto Suki Nandesho?
"Hey Kuroya-kun, you like me, right?"
"H-How did you know!?"
For an introverted high school boy like Kuroya, revealing his unrequited love would be an embarrassment worse than death. Especially when his crush is a beautiful, popular girl like Shiramori Kasumi, his senpai in the literature club. Even as they spend time together in the literature club, he tried to keep his feelings hidden, but then...!
Senpai asks the despairing Kuroya, "So── for now, as a trial, would you like to go out with me?"
No way. I didn't think it was possible to have a mutual relationship with her!? This isn't really happening──
It's a romantic comedy full of sweet flirtation and sadistic teasing from the senpai of your dreams!
You Like Me, Don't You? So, Wanna Go Out with Me? has finished publishing and it has 22 Chapters. It is also Known as: きみって私のこと好きなんでしょ？, Kimi tte Watashi no Koto Suki Nandesho?
1. Moebana
High-schooler Tsukumo Fukakusa is obsessed with an anime about human characters based on flowers. He secretly enjoys looking at the flower arrangements displayed in front of the back entrance of his school. Then, one day, his knowledge of flowers is noticed by the ikebana club, who suddenly recruit him! This otaku, guided by his favorite idol character, enters the world of flower arranging! Thus begins this ikebana youth drama!
Moebana has finished publishing and it has 28 Chapters. It is also Known as: もえばな, Moebana
