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Excludes football/soccer, baseball/softball, track and field/running, (beach) volleyball, (kick) boxing, basketball, tennis, golf, cycling, cheerleading, archery and fictional sports mangas.

(see other stacks)

An attempted list of the most important/influential post-war mangaka, and some of their most important series. All of the mangaka/manga here are well worth checking out.

Post-war refers to after World War II. So the list will exclude figures most known for works which came out prior to the War like Tagawa and Yokoyama(Ryuuichi).

Series that are heavily overlooked on MAL (at the time of writing, under 2k members). Most, if not all of them are also underrated. Will likely add series in the future as I read them.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good by-the-book sports manga. But variety is the spice of life, so here are some sports manga that don't fit the mold.

The mold:
1. Fully male team/almost entirely male cast
2. School sports team
3. Teen athletes

So if it doesn't fit all of those criteria, it fits this list!

shoujo manga that started publishing in the 1970s or earlier

A collection of shoujo and josei manga that focus on or have a strong emphasis on sports, be it basketball or ballet.

When people think of sports series they typically think of shounen series like Haikyuu or Kuroko's Basketball or seinen series like Real. And I have found that sports focused shoujo and josei are not as talked about outside of a few classic series and Chihayafuru.

So I have collected all the notable ones I could find for the convenience of people who want to see a feminine perspective on the sports genre. The series in this stack cover both men's and women's sports both on a professional and high school level.

I will note that some of these series are not focused on the sports themselves and have other things at the forefront.

Manga about tennis and ping pong

That subsection of girls love manga that deals with school girls falling in love -- with each other.

Here's some yuri set in various historical settings!

Trying not to put isekai entries in this list, as I think that's different and deserves a separate yuri stack (aka my friend yehves' stack on it, check it out!)

List of manga that encompurate pictures from real life somewhere in their panels.

including some 90s-2000s titles that have the same vibes