What is School Life manga?

Since a large part of the anime audience still takes part in school life or is visiting college, it is only natural to choose a setting the audience can identify with, be it elementary, middle, or high school. For the older viewers a college setting with more mature real-life problems is appropriate. And since clubs take up so much time in the lives of students, these are obviously also important.

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Aku no Hana

(The Flowers of Evil)

8.13

Description:

Kasuga Takao is a boy who loves reading books, particularly Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. A girl at his school, Saeki Nanako, is his muse and his Venus, and he admires her from a distance. One day, he forgets his copy of Les Fleurs du Mal in the classroom and runs back alone to pick it up. In the classroom, he finds not only his book, but Saeki's gym uniform. On a mad impulse, he steals it. Now everyone knows 'some pervert' stole Saeki's uniform, and Kasuga is dying with shame and guilt. Furthermore, the weird, creepy, and friendless girl of the class, Nakamura, saw him take the uniform. Instead of revealing it was him, she recognizes his kindred deviant spirit and uses her knowledge to take control of his life. Will it be possible for Kasuga to get closer to Saeki, despite Nakamura's meddling and his dark secret? What exactly does Nakamura intend to do with him? (Source: MangaHelpers)
Type

manga

Volumes

11

Chapters

58

Rating

17+ (violence & profanity)

Status

finished

Started

2009-09-09

Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

(Reborn!)

8.07

Description:

Sawada Tsunayoshi is regular boy who has never excelled in sports, school or social life, thus being named "No Good Tsuna". Everyday, he leads just a normal life, living with his mother, while his father is away for work. But the thing Tsunayoshi doesn't know is that his family is actual lineage of the great Mafia Boss, the first head of Vongola, Giotto. Because of the Sawada history, Tsuna has been chosen to become tenth head of the Vongola family, an infamous Italian mafia family which rules the Mafia world. To become worthy of the title, Tsuna is being aided by professional hitman and infant, Reborn, who takes the role of Tsunayoshi's mafia tutor. [Written by Katekyo Hitman Reborn! FC]
Type

manga

Volumes

42

Chapters

409

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2004-05-24

5-toubun no Hanayome

(The Quintessential Quintuplets)

7.9

Description:

Fuutarou Uesugi is a poor, antisocial ace student who one day meets the rich transfer student Itsuki Nakano. They argue but when Uesugi realizes he is to be her tutor, he tries to get on better terms. While trying to do so he meets four other girls.
Type

manga

Volumes

14

Chapters

122

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2017-08-09

Namaikizakari.

(Cheeky Brat)

8.18

Description:

Basketball club manager Yuki has a secret—she’s in love with the team captain! But when Naruse discovers her secret, she’s in trouble! Just how long is he going to keep teasing her about it? Stupid pretty playboy… (Source: Yen Press)
Type

manga

Volumes

23

Chapters

140

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2013-10-19

Nozoki Ana

7.73

Description:

Tatsuhiko Kido, a vocational/technical school student who's staying in his school's dorms, one day discovers a hole in the wall of his apartment room. He peeks through the hole, but when he does so, he sees his neighbor, Ikuno Emiru, masturbating and he's caught peeking! However, when he goes over to inform her of the hole in the wall, she shuts the door in his face. Luckily for him, he's able to stop the door from closing and pursues after her, but, in his haste, he trips and lands right on top of her. As luck would have it, she takes a picture of them in a compromising position and tries to blackmail him into getting naked?! (Source: MangaHelpers)
Type

manga

Volumes

13

Chapters

117

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

2009-01-23

Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai

(The World God Only Knows)

8.19

Description:

Katsuragi Keima is known on the net as the god of getting the girls while in real life he’s known as otamegane and he hates all real girls. However he is approached by Elsie, a devil from hell, to help her in catching runaway spirits that hide in people. Apparently the spirits only hide in the hearts of girls and the only way to get the souls out is by making the girl fall in love so the spirit gets forced out. And he’s not allowed to fail or he will lose his head. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

26

Chapters

271

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2008-04-09

Here U Are

8.24

Description:

Receiving the newcomers is a task for Yu Yang, and he ends up helping the unsociable and towering Li Huan, the kind of person that does everything to be disliked. But after better knowing each other, he discovers that the giant isn't that bad of a person at all... (Source: MU) Note: Includes 20 extra chapters.
Type

manhua

Chapters

157

Status

finished

Started

2017-11-22

Cherry Blossoms After Winter

(Cherry Blossoms After Winter)

8.24

Description:

From living under the same roof to then being classmates?! Ever since his parents passed away, Haebom has been living in Taesung’s house. And now, being a 12th grader, he enters the same class as Taesung, which makes the whole situation way more awkward. Living together 24/7, Taesung and Haebom's relationship is bound to change. (Source: MU) Note: Chapter count includes 19 epilogue and 10 bonus chapters
Type

manhwa

Chapters

156

Rating

Smut

Status

finished

Started

2017-06-18

Hirunaka no Ryuusei

8.22

Description:

Fifteen-year-old country girl Suzume Yosano has to move to Tokyo to live with her uncle due to her father's transfer. She bumps into a mysterious man who ends up taking her to her uncle's place after she gets lost. Turns out, Suzume will be seeing him a lot more often once she starts school because... he's her homeroom teacher?! (Source: MU) Included one-shots: Volume 5: Cookie Girl Cream Boy Volume 6: Tsuyu Kaoru Volume 7: Heroine no Ryuusei (Crossover one-shot with Heroine Shikkaku) Volume 9: More than Words Volume 11: Hibi Ryuusei (Crossover one-shot with Hibi Chouchou)
Type

manga

Volumes

12

Chapters

86

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2011-05-20

Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria

(The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria)

8.24

Description:

Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria, or The Empty Box and The Zeroth Maria, tells the sinister story of Kazuki Hoshino, who is almost madly attached to his everyday life, and his antagonist Aya Otonashi, who suddenly transfers into his class—for the 13,118th time. She majestically announces to “break” him, without paying heed to anyone else around them. This is but the start of a dark roller coaster ride that turns the two against themselves, the people around them and the one who may be god. Read on as their relationship slowly changes and they go against their most basic values in their struggle against the world itself. (Source: MU)
Type

novel

Volumes

7

Chapters

40

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2009-01-10

Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru

(My Dress-Up Darling)

8.03

Description:

Traumatized by a childhood incident with a friend who took exception to his love of traditional dolls, doll-artisan hopeful Gojou Wakana passes his days as a loner, finding solace in the home ec room at his high school. To Wakana, people like beautiful Kitagawa Marin, a trendy girl who's always surrounded by a throng of friends, is practically an alien from another world. But when cheerful Marin--never one to be shy--spots Wakana sewing away one day after school, she barges in with the aim of roping her quiet classmate into her secret hobby: cosplay! Will Wakana's wounded heart be able to handle the invasion from this sexy alien?! (Source: Square Enix)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2018-01-19

Blue Period

8.27

Description:

Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It’s an effortless performance, and, ultimately…a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst — and he’s about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be! (Source: Kodansha Comics)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2017-06-24

Kanojo, Okarishimasu

(Rent-A-Girlfriend)

6.92

Description:

Kinoshita Kazuya is a regular college student who was just dumped by his girlfriend for another guy. Feeling down in the dumps, he decides to use an app called Diamond to hire Mizuhara Chizuru, a rental girlfriend, to make himself feel better. From their first meeting, she seems to be the perfect girl for him, but is there more to her than meets the eye? And how will their not quite typical relationship develop? (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2017-07-12

Domestic na Kanojo

(Domestic Girlfriend)

7.14

Description:

High schooler Natsuo is hopelessly in love with his cheerful and popular teacher, Hina. However, one day at a mixer, he meets a moody girl by the name of Rui and ends up sleeping with her. Soon after, his father announces that he's getting remarried to a woman with two daughters of her own. And who shows up in tow, other than both Hina and Rui?! Natsuo's outrageous new life starts now! (Source: Kodansha Comics)
Type

manga

Volumes

28

Chapters

276

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2014-04-23

Citrus

7.54

Description:

Yuzuko Aihara, a high school girl whose main interests are fashion, friends and having fun, is about to get a reality check. Due to her mom's remarriage, Yuzu has transferred to a new, all-girls school that is extremely strict. Her real education is about to begin. From day one, happy-go-lucky Yuzu makes enemies, namely the beautiful yet stern student council president Mei. So what happens when a dejected Yuzu returns home and discovers the shock of her life: that Mei is actually her new step-sister who has come to live with her? Even more surprising, when Mei catches Yuzu off-guard and kisses her out of the blue, what does it all mean? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
Type

manga

Volumes

10

Chapters

50

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2012-11-17

The Breaker: New Waves

8.24

Description:

After his master, Goomoonryong, destroys his ki-center, Shioon decides to leave the world of Murim for a normal life. But as the person who holds the Phoenix Medallion of the Sunwoo Clan, and the only disciple of the infamous Goomoonryong, the Murim world will not let Shioon leave so easily... Note: Volumes 1 and 2 contain the gaiden "The Breaker: Martial Arts City".
Type

manhwa

Volumes

20

Chapters

203

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2010-10-08

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.

(My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected)

8.24

Description:

Hachiman Hikigaya, a student in Soubu High School, is a cynical loner due to his traumatic past experiences in his social life. This eventually led to him developing a set of "dead fish eyes" and a twisted personality similar to that of a petty criminal. Believing that the concept of youth is a lie made up by youngsters who face their failures in denial, he turns in an essay that criticizes this exact mentality of youths. Irritated by the submission, his homeroom teacher, Shizuka Hiratsuka forces him to join the Volunteer Service Club—a club that assists students to solve their problems in life, hoping that helping other people would change his personality. However, Yukino Yukinoshita, the most beautiful girl in school, is surprisingly the sole member of the club and a loner, albeit colder and smarter than Hikigaya. Their club soon expands when Yui Yuigahama joins them after being helped with her plight, and they begin to accept more requests. With his status quo as a recluse, Hikigaya attempts to solve problems in his own way, but his methods may prove to be a double-edged sword. (Source: MAL) Note: Includes volumes 6.5, 7.5, 10.5 and 14.5.
Type

novel

Volumes

18

Chapters

168

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2011-03-23

Yancha Gal no Anjou-san

(The mischievous gal Anjou-san)

8.1

Description:

Seto is a serious kid who leads a quiet High-school life, until he starts to get teased by resident Gal Anjo. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

Ecchi

Status

current

Started

2017-08-12

Kimi no Iru Machi

(A Town Where You Live)

7.68

Description:

Kirishima Haruto lives in a small town in Hiroshima and is just about to enter high school when Eba Yuzuki, a mysterious girl from Tokyo suddenly decided to go to high school in the countryside and despite his objections, she moves in to his home. Haruto must now put up and take care of this clumsy freeloading city girl and at the same time, make sure his long time crush Kanzaki Nanami doesn't get the wrong idea!
Type

manga

Volumes

27

Chapters

270

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

2008-05-28

Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san

(Teasing Master Takagi-san)

8.15

Description:

Middle schooler Nishikata has had it with his classmate Takagi – the chronic teaser who sits nearby. Day in and day out, she comes after him with every sort of trick or prank. Even when he tries to get her back, she's always one step ahead. But rest assured, it's only the beginning. He's not about to give up that easily in this battle of cunning and youth! (Source: Yen Press) Note: Includes 13 extra chapters
Type

manga

Volumes

20

Chapters

190

Status

finished

Started

2012-06-12

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