What is Music manga?

Music anime generally revolves around people concerned with music in their everyday lives. In addition they often adhere to certain genre conventions, the emphasis on training and practice in preparation for competitions, characters desire for self improvement, and pursuit of a specific goal. This is not unlike the Sports category.

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[Oshi no Ko]

(【OSHI NO KO】)

8.3

Description:

"In the world of showbiz, lies are weapons." Goro works as an OB-GYN in the countryside, a life far removed from the entertainment industry. Meanwhile, his favorite idol, Ai Hoshino, has begun her climb to stardom. The two meet in the "worst possible way," setting the gears of fate in motion! The amazing Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari team up to depict the world of showbiz from a completely new perspective in this shocking series! (Source: MangaPlus)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2020-04-23

Nana

(Nana)

8.27

Description:

Nana Komatsu is a young woman who's endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, she's hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. She's looking for love and she's hoping to find it in the big city. Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is cool, confident and focused. She swaggers into town and proceeds to kick down the doors to Tokyo's underground punk scene. She's got a dream and won't give up until she becomes Japan's No. 1 rock'n'roll superstar. This is the story of two 20-year-old women who share the same name. Even though they come from completely different backgrounds, they somehow meet and become best friends. The world of Nana is a world exploding with sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties. (Source: Viz Media)
Type

manga

Volumes

21

Chapters

84

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2000-05-26

Beck

(BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad)

8.27

Description:

For the first 14 years of his life, Yukio Tanaka has been one heck of a boring guy. He has no hobbies, a weak taste in music, and only a small vestige of a personality. He yearns for an exciting life, but his shy, and somewhat neurotic personality make him his own worst enemy. Little does he know that his life will be forever changed when he meets Ryusuke Minami, a wild and unpredictable 16 year-old fresh from America, who happens to be in a rock-and-roll band named after his Frankenstein-like patched dog—Beck. (Source: Tokyopop)
Type

manga

Volumes

34

Chapters

103

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2000-02-17

Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso

(Your Lie in April)

8.25

Description:

Kosei Arima was a piano prodigy until his cruel taskmaster of a mother died suddenly, changing his life forever. Driven by his pain to abandon piano, Kosei now lives in a monotonous, colorless world. Having resigned himself to a bland life, he is surprised when he meets Kaori Miyazono, a violinist with an unorthodox style. Can she teach Kosei not just how to play, but how to start living again? (Source: Kodansha Comics)
Type

manga

Volumes

11

Chapters

44

Status

finished

Started

2011-04-06

Fukumenkei Noise

(Anonymous Noise)

8.24

Description:

Nino is a girl who harbors feelings towards her friend, Momo. Just when she can no longer suppress her feelings, she encounters a boy who composes music...," and "What is the promise Nino made to a boy she met who composes music?" (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Rating

Status

current

Started

2013-04-20

Nodame Cantabile

()

8.23

Description:

Shinichi Chiaki is a first class musician whose dream is to play among the elites in Europe. Coming from a distinguished family, he is an infamous perfectionist; not only is he highly critical of himself, but of others as well. The only thing stopping Chiaki from leaving for Europe is his fear of flying. As a result, he's grounded in Japan. During his 4th year at Japan's top music university, Chiaki happens to meet Noda Megumi; or as she refers to herself, Nodame. On the surface, she seems to be an unkempt girl with no direction in life. However, when Chiaki hears Nodame play the piano for the first time, he is in awe at the kind of music she plays. To Chiaki's dismay, Nodame moves into the apartment next to his and finds out that she is head over heels in love with him. Nodame Cantabile tells the story of Chiaki and Nodame, as they not only learn to deal with each other, but learn lessons from one another as they strive for the top of the musical world. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Type

manga

Volumes

25

Chapters

146

Status

finished

Started

2001-07-10

Kanon

8.23

Description:

After being belittled by a famous composer, Gen Mikami, Tendou Kawahara, a budding composer goes to a secluded town of Mongolia, Cojr in search for inspiration. He meets Kanon, a Japanese girl with an untamed, freedom loving spirit, talented in playing violin. When her sick mother dies leaving her with the knowledge that her Japanese father is alive, she leaves with Tendou to become a true musician so that her real father comes to hear her music. In Japan, she lives with Tendou who tries to tame her and bring her talent out. However, Mikami discovers her and wants her for himself as a musician, Tendou is challenged to produce such music to impress him to forget her. Mikami shows that he is a better teacher in bringing out her talent then Tendou decides to quit and move to the US not before he enrolls her into a boarding music school whose manager she later discovers is none other than the hateful Mikami. She is left alone to find her father and deal with the cruel and arrogant Mikami. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

6

Chapters

23

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1995-06-08

Blue Giant

8.2

Description:

A high school 3rd year student, Miyamoto Dai, whose heart was touched by Jazz, continued to play the Saxophone alone in Kawahara, rain or shine, day or night, for many years. "I want to become the world's best Saxophone player...!!" Effort, talent, faith, environment, luck...which are necessary? A tale of reaching towards his goal recklessly and sincerely begins in Hirosegawa, Sendai. Nominated for the 8th and 9th Manga Taisho Award.
Type

manga

Volumes

10

Chapters

80

Status

finished

Started

2013-05-10

Kininatteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta

(The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All)

8.19

Description:

Kininatteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta depicts the love story between a high school girl and her classmate who she mistakes as a guy outside of school. They eventually bond over their shared taste in rock music. (Source: MU) Note: Kininatteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta began as a web comic released on the author's Twitter account since April 10, 2022, and published in print by Kadokawa since April 19, 2023.
Type

doujin

Status

current

Started

2023-04-19

Bocchi the Rock!

8.08

Description:

Gotou Hitori is a high school girl who starting learning to playing the guitar because she dreams of being in a band, but she's so shy that she hasn't made a single friend. However, her dream might come true after she meets Ijichi Nijika, a girl who plays drums and is looking for a new guitarist for her band.
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2017-12-19

Sakamichi no Apollon

(Kids on the Slope)

8.05

Description:

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.(Source: MangaHelpers)
Type

manga

Volumes

9

Chapters

45

Status

finished

Started

2007-09-28

Tonari no Metaller-san

(The Metalhead Next Door)

8.03

Description:

About to freeze to death on a day of heavy snow, Kento is saved by his neighbor Soushi. Dressed all in black, taciturn and scary-looking, Soushi seems hard to approach, but his eyes, almost hidden by his long hair, shine as if pleading for something. After that day, the two of them end up eating together every day for one year. Kento, while hiding the fact that he's gay, doesn't want the peaceful and happy time they share to come to an end. Can he keep a lid on his feelings...?! (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

6

Rating

Smut

Status

finished

Started

2019-10-21

Kaikan♥Phrase

(Sensual Phrase)

8.03

Description:

Aine never wanted to be a writer; she just created some erotic song lyrics for the sake of entering a contest. When she bumps into a man she doesn't know and looses the lyrics, she thinks she'll never see them again, but she thought wrong! He turns out to be Sakuya, a famous rock vocalist known for his sexy persona and lyrics. When he invites Aine to be his new lyricist, she finds herself quickly sucked into the harsh world of showbiz... and the even harsher world of falling in love with a guy that millions of girls love just as much!
Type

manga

Volumes

18

Chapters

83

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

1997-01-01

Oshi ga Budoukan Ittekuretara Shinu

8.02

Description:

A girl is obsessed with her favorite idol, a minor member of a less popular group, enough that she says she'd die to see her play at Budoukan.
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Rating

Status

current

Started

2015-06-19

Shiori Experience: Jimi na Watashi to Hen na Ojisan

(My Plain Self and an Odd Old Man)

7.98

Description:

Shiori was once a guitarist in a light music club in high school, but her first live performance was dashed when her brother ran away from home with a lot of debt to become a musician in Tokyo. A decade later, Shiori is now a high school teacher, leading a boring, uneventful life and paying off the debt...until she runs into the ghost of none other than famous guitarist Jimi Hendrix. The story of a 27-year-old woman on her way to becoming a music legend begins here. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Status

current

Started

2013-10-25

Pink Heart Jam

7.97

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

Full Moon wo Sagashite

7.96

Description:

12-year-old Mitsuki wants to be a singer because of a promise she made with her childhood love, however a form of throat cancer is holding her back. One day she find two strange characters in her room, Takuto and Meroko, who are gods of death. She finds out she only has a certain amount of time to live, and wants nothing more in that time then to become a singer. The two shinigami show sympathy for her, and decide to help her reach her goal by transforming her into a 16-year-old girl. (Source: ANN)Included one-shot: Volume 2: Ginyuu Meika
Type

manga

Volumes

7

Chapters

30

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2001-12-03

Ore to Akuma no Blues

(Me and the Devil Blues: The Unreal Life of Robert Johnson)

7.91

Description:

A combination horror story and re-telling of the mythologies of the American South, "Me and the Devil Blues" features RJ, a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for the devil teaching him to play the blues. The story features many elements familiar to American readers but not much featured in Japanese comics, including the practice of lynching and the sharp racial divisions in the south around the time of the story.
Type

manga

Rating

Mature

Status

current

Started

2003-11-25

Sayonara Piano Sonata

(Goodbye Piano Sonata)

7.88

Description:

Enter Hikawa Naomi, son of a music critic and Ebisawa Mafuyu, a young prodigy pianist who suddenly disappeared from the music world. Together they formed a rock band with members involved in classical and rock music. (Source: MU)
Type

novel

Volumes

5

Chapters

61

Status

finished

Started

2007-11-01

Sakamichi no Apollon: Bonus Track

(Kids on the Slope: Bonus Track)

7.82

Description:

Once again, we join Sentarou, Kaoru and their friends in a short jam session of friendship, music and love.
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

5

Status

finished

Started

2012-03-28

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