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If you liked Liar Game add

...then you might like Kurosagi add

Heavy focus on psychological warfare and battles of wits, mostly realistic setting. Kurosagi is about a scammer who scams other scammers by manipulating them and using their scams(>_<) against them, and liar game is about a group of people playing all kinds of games for money in which they need to figure out how to use the rules to their advantage. Both have a male character who's known as an excellent swindler, and a somewhat naive earnest female lead. In liar game the girl is the protagonist though, so we see everything from her perspective of trying to solve things by cooperation and in a way that benefits multiple people, whereas Kurosagi usually works alone and just one-sidedly outsmarts his opponents.

If you liked Kasane add

...then you might like [Oshi no Ko] add

Mangas about acting, though Oshi no ko has a lot of dancing/singing/idol activities too, whereas Kasane focuses just on acting. In both the protagonists have a dead parent who was a legend in show business with mysteries surrounding them that protagonists unravel slowly. Both feel melodramatic at times. Kasane is more supernatural and darker, whereas Oshi no ko has a lot of lighter and comedic/endearing segments.

If you liked Skip Beat! add

...then you might like Kasane add

Mangas about acting and show biz. Both protagonists face a lot of difficulties and people trying to "take them down" in their attempts at becomming a popular actress. Both are independent, smart and assertive, and have faced a lot of sadness and torment in the past. Skip beats is a comedic shoujo manga with a lot of silly drama and romance, while Kasane is a more serious seinen manga with a lot of silly drama and ...ye no no romance here. Big difference is although both protagonists have real acting talent, Kasane uses the help of supernatural means: a mysterious lipstick that lets her temporarily swap her appearances with the last person she kisses while wearing it.

If you liked One Outs add

...then you might like Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e add

Both are about one guy cleverly manipulating everyone around him to achieve a certain result. To do so they have an absolute and far better understanding of their respective situations and how to use "the rules" to their advantage than everyone around them. You always feel like they're 10 steps ahead of everyone else, and it is very exciting observing them interacting and having battles of wits with other characters who act and think similarly. Tokuchi Toua of One Outs does so while playing baseball and Ayanokoji during numerous Classroom of the Elite tests.

If you liked Shamo add

...then you might like Holyland add

Heavily protagonist-centered mangas about one guy bettering and finding himself through martial arts. A lot of philosophical and metaphorical conversations, monologues etc in both. Also go surprisingly into specifics of fighting and training. Shamo is way more vulgar and dark.

If you liked Kurosagi add

...then you might like One Outs add

Psychological warfare mangas about one guy outsmarting everyone around him through ingenious usage of rules and circumstances, in One Outs while playing baseball, and in Kurosagi by scamming.

If you liked Bakuman. add

...then you might like Hibiki: Shousetsuka ni Naru Houhou add

Imagine if whole Bakuman was about Niizuma Eiji, but he was an even bigger weirdo and completely unhinged, and well writing writing books instead of mangas, that's kinda Hibiki. Both are about bunch of talented teenagers trying to: in Bakuman - write mangas, and in Hibiki - literature. Show some work behind the scenes of creating and publishing works, office politics so to speak. Bakuman's characters are way more realistic and it goes way more into details of the creative process, whereas Hibiki is about an eccentric and very troublesome to people around her genius.

If you liked Subaru add

...then you might like Kokou no Hito add

They both focus on one character's very long journey to perfection and extremely in-depth understanding and mastery of their respective fields (Kokou no Hito - mountain climbing, Subaru - dancing). The protagonist is all that matters, Subaru gets a lot of people who help or try to hinder her in her task, recurring characters, while Kokou no hito much less, i literally cannot remember more of them than like 2 that show up for more than a few chapters. Both protagonists only care about achieving greater heights and understanding of what they do, neglecting social life whatsoever, feeling lonely, isolated and not understood by anyone. Both often border on supernatural with what the protagonists experience and achieve.

If you liked Subaru add

...then you might like Hibiki: Shousetsuka ni Naru Houhou add

both are about absolute geniuses of their respective fields that nobody can match (subaru dancing, hibiki literature), and their talents becoming recognized at large both protagonists come across as pretty much psychos to people around them, being impulsive and strange, their view of the world and priorities considered bizarre, they also speak their mind without any filters which leads to a lot of confrontations, though Subaru is way more emotional and moody, while Hibiki way more sociopathic Subaru focuses way more on the creative/improvement process of its protagonist, while Hibiki more on the relationships and problems of people around the protagonist

If you liked Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru add

...then you might like Mashle add

- completely different tone yet both evoke and remind u of the atmosphere of harry potter when watching - Mashle is a pretty clearly intended parody of it, while Nanatsu no Maken is more of a serious/edgy/modern take on it - both revolve around a group of teenagers becoming friends in a magic school, and both have very well(especially considering current standard <_<) designed characters where pretty much whole main cast feels meaningful and not just like one-dimensional different haired and/or different boob-sized cardboard cutouts - both have elements of mystery - both have wonderful and rly fitting soundtracks - Mashle focuses way more on its protagonist Mash, while Nanatsu no Maken doesn't really have a single main protagonist (one could say Oliver is one but if we consider actual screentime and development he's gotten barely as much if not less than some other from the main cast at least so far)

If you liked Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace add

...then you might like Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri add

scruffy eccentric brilliant detective in both, although in Ranpo Kitan he plays a secondary role to an even more eccentric trap teenager Kobayashi both have episodic criminal cases/mysterious incidents solving Kamonohashi Ron is quite a realistic show compared to Ranpo Kitan's abstract and bizarre cases, characters and sometimes also animation

If you liked Trickster: Edogawa Ranpo "Shounen Tanteidan" yori add

...then you might like Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri add

episodic detective stories with eccentric characters (protagonists and antagonists) and references to classical japanese myste both have a bit of a supernatural element to them(Kobayashi from trickster is immortal Ron "magically" compels criminals to commit suicide), with the criminal cases shown being mostly realistic though Kamonohashi Ron's cases and plot in general are more grounded in reality overall