Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu
Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju

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If you're enjoying Shouwa Genroku, you should check out Gekiga Yose to get a fuller flavor of the most popular rakugo stories that are featured in the text. 

Both manga are about rakugo, passing art on to a new generation, and women's roles in Japan, but the way they are dealt with is completely different due to their intended audiences... just like how a rakugo performance must change based on the performer and the audience. Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu is THE rakugo manga. Aimed at josei, adult women, its themes and problems are deep and adult. Akane-banashi is more upbeat and refreshing as a shonen manga. 

If you need to keep scratching that rakugo manga itch, these manga will help. 

More manga with rakugo as a major part of the plot. 

Both are high level josei manga with the attendant sudden pregnancies, tragic pasts, and critically, devotion to an art form. Shouwa Genroku is more restrained and rations out its secret babies, heart attacks, and tragic fires, but don't mistake it, if you are addicted to one you will quickly fall in love with the other.