What is School Clubs manga?

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.

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Haikyuu!!

(Haikyu!!)

8.44

Description:

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?! (Source: Viz Media) Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.
Type

manga

Volumes

45

Chapters

404

Status

finished

Started

2012-02-20

Slam Dunk

(Slam Dunk)

8.28

Description:

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... (Source: VIZ) Included one-shot: Volume 31: Slam Dunk: 10 Days After
Type

manga

Volumes

31

Chapters

276

Status

finished

Started

1990-09-18

3-gatsu no Lion

(March Comes in Like a Lion)

8.25

Description:

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. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Status

current

Started

2007-07-13

Pseudo Harem

(Pseudo Harem)

7.76

Description:

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! (Source: MangaDex) Note: Chapter count includes 27 extra chapters.
Type

manga

Volumes

6

Chapters

157

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2019-03-12

Senryuu Shoujo

(Senryuu Girl)

7.91

Description:

Yukishiro Nanako is a cute, cheerful high school girl with one peculiar trait – instead of verbal communication, she writes senryu (a type of haiku) poems to relay her thoughts. Together with ex-delinquent Busujima Eiji, they are budding freshmen of the school’s Literature Club. Even though Nanako doesn’t talk, with the power of senryu, the adorable pair has no problem enjoying their fun school-life through the tune of 5-7-5 syllables. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

13

Chapters

173

Status

finished

Started

2016-10-19

Yuru Yuri

(Yuru Yuri)

7.97

Description:

Four mischievous girls illegally occupy the former Traditional Tea Ceremony clubroom, in order to create the "Amusement Club." These scamps...who ignore repeated warnings - in direct rebellion with the righteous directives of the Student Council - decide to remain in the room until they finally get off their bums and do something! In this slightly sluggish manga, full of fits and starts, the four girls set off from their homes for a walk together with days full of a little this and that! ♪ (Source: Jmanga)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2008-06-18

Hyouka

7.84

Description:

Oreki Houtarou is a minimalistic high school boy. One day, he joins the Classic Literature Club at his elder sister's request. There he meets Chitanda Eru, Fukube Satoshi, and Ibara Mayaka. Chitanda is a calm beautiful girl but she turns into an embodiment of curiosity once she says, "I'm interested in it (Watashi, Kininarimasu)". Fukube is a smiling boy with a fantastic memory who calls himself a database. Ibara is a short girl and is strict with others and herself. She loves Fukube, but he always dodges her approaches. They begin to investigate a case that occurred 45 years ago. Hints of the mystery are buried in an old collection of works of the former members of Classics Club. The collection is titled "Hyouka."
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2012-01-26

Ao Ashi

8.24

Description:

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 try-outs in Tokyo. The story of a boy who will revolutionize Japanese football begins to unfold. Note: Nominated for the 2017 Manga Taishou Award. (Source: MangaUpdates)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2015-01-05

Amanchu!

7.73

Description:

Hikari Kohinata is a cheerful 15 year-old girl who lives near the ocean and she spends much of her time diving as a result. On her first day of high school, she meets a teacher who also likes scuba diving. There's also a 16 year-old classmate, Futaba, who gets dragged along in Hikari's maelstrom as soon as they meet at school. Most of the manga so far details the relationship between the two girls, which quickly seems to move into romantic two girl friendship-territory.
Type

manga

Volumes

17

Chapters

102

Status

finished

Started

2008-11-29

Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo.

(O Maidens in Your Savage Season)

7.64

Description:

The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" One of the girls blurts out, "Sex." Little do they know, the whirlwind unleashed by that word pushes each of these girls, with different backgrounds and personalities, onto their own clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional paths toward adulthood. (Source: Kodansha)
Type

manga

Volumes

8

Chapters

33

Status

finished

Started

2016-12-09

Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyuubu

(Assemble! Mysterious Research Club)

7.61

Description:

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. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Rating

Ecchi

Status

current

Started

2016-09-29

Saki

(Saki)

7.76

Description:

Miyanaga Saki is a high-school freshman who doesn’t like mahjong. Ever since she was a child, she would lose her New Year’s gift money during her family mahjong game. If she won, her parents would be upset, and if she lost, well, she lost. As a result, she’s learned to play in such a way that her score always remains plus/minus zero: not good enough to win, but not bad enough to lose. When we meet her, she’s being dragged to her school’s mahjong club by an old friend. How will a girl who hates mahjong, yet has become adept at the game as a result of her upbringing, survive in this environment? (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2006-02-03

Hanebado!

(The Badminton play of Ayano Hanesaki!)

7.46

Description:

Tachibana Kentarou is a high school badminton coach who has a lot more enthusiasm than some of the members of his very small team. One day, he meets the quiet-voiced student Hanesaki Ayano, who is effortlessly physically capable and experienced in badminton. He tries to recruit her, but she seems to have no interest in the sport at all. Due to a series of circumstances, she eventually ends up joining the team. Coach Tachibana is determined that with her on board, they'll be champions! (Source: MangaHelpers)
Type

manga

Volumes

16

Chapters

80

Status

finished

Started

2013-06-07

Houkago no Goumon Shoujo

(Torture Club Girls After School)

6.76

Description:

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? (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

12

Chapters

168

Status

finished

Started

2017-08-23

Ahiru no Sora

7.59

Description:

He’s short, weak, and has just transfered to a new school. Kurumatani Sora is the main character in this story who loves basketball. He has been shooting hoops ever since he was little and has been trying to grow tall just like his mother, who “used” to be a basketball player. What has happened to her and what Sora is going to do at the new school is all up to you to find out!
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Rating

Status

current

Started

2004-01-01

Bandai Kaname wa Asobitai

(Bandai Kaname Wants to Play)

6.88

Description:

Takara Taiyou is a studious high school student who joins the Cultural Research Society due to the fact that there are no active club members and he'd be able to concentrate on his studying. However, his arch enemy, the beautiful and academically gifted Bandai Kaname, also joins for the same reason. Together, they become interested in the old toys in this club room… Girl X Boy X nostalgic toys comedy !! (Source: Flex Comix, translated) Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

24

Status

finished

Started

2017-12-20

Megane, Tokidoki, Yankee-kun

7.52

Description:

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
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2021-01-13

Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!

(Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)

0

Description:

Asakusa Midori wants to create an anime, but she's too disheartened to make that first step by herself. But by pure chance, she meets Mizusaki Tsubame, an up-and-coming socialite secretly dreaming of becoming an animator. Together with Midori's money-loving best friend Kanamori Sayaka, the energetic trio slowly work towards making their "ultimate world" a reality! (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

Status

current

Started

2016-09-01

Wondance

7.87

Description:

Kaboku Kotani lives by suppressing his own feelings and matching those around him. He ends up attracted to Hikari Wanda who doesn't mind how she's seen by others as she's fully immersed in dance. To dance with her, he'll take on dancing despite his inexperience! (Source: Kodansha, translated)
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2019-01-25

Pink Heart Jam

7.98

Description:

Country boy Haiga has many questions he wants to learn the answers to when he moves to the bustling capital for his university life - and one of them happens to be, "do I like guys, too?" When his upperclassmen dare him to check out a box spa behind Shinjuku's Nichoume District, Haiga uses this opportunity to find out the answer to his question - and runs into his senior Kanae, who has one simple solution for him - clothes, off! (Source: Futekiya)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

10

Rating

Smut

Status

finished

Started

2020-08-24

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