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Dance Dance Dance ♪

It is a manga in which dance is the theme and dance appears throughout the work.
It also includes ballet and ice skating.

Dancing, ice-skating, gymnastics, and so on.

No magic, no impossible feats, no fantasy or isekai, only gritty or light-hearted realism.
There might be a little bit of plot armor but nothing that is drastically outside the boundaries from what normally happens in life.

If they've got a setting in the past, reality will obviously differ from nowadays', often in the sense of lack of order, violence and/or other moral standards.

The two most frequent subgroups here are:
1) People performing their jobs or passions, be it as doctor, firefighter, someone of the rescue force, a musician, sports player or something else.
2) People who suffer under violence and unlucky circumstances, trying to hold on to life when it tries so hard to tear them down.

(I'm not that far into BG and BP yet so if those change later on, I'd remove them)


!! About 4-punkan no Marigold: This manga has a MC that can see the last moments of a person's life. He cannot change anything about it though, no matter how much he tries. This means it is as if everything goes on normally with the exception that the MC knows what will happen. Added this because the story feels tangibly real, with lots of sorrow, powerlessness and loss.
So yes strictly it shouldn't be in here but this is an exception that is justifiable imo.

These manga feature ballet dancers, and the art of ballet.

cr: animeplanet.

Stories of girls and women who pursue a passion

sports mangas that I absolutely adore and love a lot. I always end up getting hyped for the characters and it gives me so much joy.

While it might look like you don't really need to know all of this, you never know when it will be useful: for instance with quizzes, random questions that you wouldn't know the answer to otherwise, fun facts to tell someone else, or if there's trouble or necessity of intervention in your vicinity.

=> Stack (1/2): https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9663

Honorable mentions:
-Apocalypse no Toride is a horror manga that could be included due to a couple of educational parts, such as acute hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and its effects induced by intravenous insulin injections; however a lot of it is not really fitting to be put in here.
-Genius Martial Arts Trainer (MAL ID 170657): Fitness

(Also thanks to Lylaaz and abystoma2)

Any manga where the main plotline revolves around dance.

This list includes all types of dance, from break dance, ballet, ballroom dancing, ice dance, to modern dance.

Note: I did not include titles that revolve around gymnastics, idols, cheerleading, or acting, as they do not feature dancing as the main theme. I also did not include titles that were excessively explicit, or titles I couldn't find any information about. I also included some manwha and manhua from MAL's database.

The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. The festival begins with an open competition and culminates with the awarding of several prizes and an exhibition.
This are Jury Selections of manga section from 5th to 25th

(Source: Wikipedia)

Considering MAL is missing over 80% of the ballet manga that is out there you should use some other site or list if youre actually interested in ballet manga.

Source: https://www.toshonoie.net/

They're manga. They're long. The story has ended. There's no anime adaptation in sight. Here are the highest rated stuff.

Using the same distinction between Literary and Genre Fiction.
Manga that focus on characters and themes rather than plot, and don't conform to a genre.

Literary manga != Good manga

Please feel free to message me any suggestions or alterations you feel should be made! I plan to regularly update this list.

Welcome to Genre Graveyard! A series where I make reading lists based on manga subgenres which I have never read/haven‘t read for a long time. This is mainly to expend my tastes.

Music in Manga is a collection of Mangas about Music on my TBR. This includes everything from singing, playing an instrument, being in a band, dancing, or being an idol.
Drop suggestions if you want!