Ace of the Diamond Act II

Grand Blue Dreaming

After moving out on his own to a seaside town, Iori Kitahara makes a college debut he never anticipated. A new chapter of his life unfolds, full of diving with beautiful girls and shenanigans with a gaggle of lovable bastards! Idiot-expert Kenji Inoue and au naturel authority Kimitake Yoshioka bring you a glorious college tale filled with booze-fueled antics! (Source: Kodansha USA)

Blue Box

Taiki Inomata is on the boys' badminton team at sports powerhouse Eimei Junior and Senior High. He's in love with basketball player Chinatsu Kano, the older girl he trains alongside every morning in the gym. One Spring day, their relationship takes a sharp turn ... And thus begins this brand-new series of love, sports and youth! (Source: MANGA Plus)

SPY x FAMILY

Spy x Family runs on one perfect premise: a master spy has to build a fake family for a mission, and every member is secretly hiding a life of their own. Codename "Twilight" needs a wife and child within days, so he adopts a young orphan and marries in a hurry — never realizing his new daughter Anya is a telepath who can read every mind in the room, and his new wife Yor is a professional assassin. None of them knows the others' secret. All of them are trying, clumsily, to be a real family anyway. Tatsuya Endo balances slick espionage, sudden bursts of action, and genuinely warm domestic comedy, with the wildly expressive Anya stealing nearly every scene. The tension between the danger of their jobs and the tenderness of their pretend home is what makes it sing — it's a spy thriller and a family sitcom that keep making each other better. The manga is ongoing and the anime is a faithful, gorgeous adaptation you can jump into cold. Funny, heartfelt, and endlessly rewatchable, Spy x Family is one of the easiest series on the site to fall for.

Blue Lock

Blue Lock reimagines the sports manga as a survival game, and aims it straight at the striker's position. After a humiliating World Cup exit, Japan's football federation launches a radical, ruthless program: lock three hundred of the nation's best high-school strikers in a facility and pit them against each other to forge the single most lethal goal-scorer in the world. Lose your duels and you're eliminated — your dream of ever playing for Japan gone for good. Yoichi Isagi is a smart but unselfish forward who has to unlearn everything polite about his game and discover the ego a great striker needs. That's the show's real subject: the arrogance, hunger, and individual brilliance that team sports usually train out of players. It's football as a battle royale, and it's electric. The manga is ongoing and the anime brings its high-voltage duels to the screen. Whether or not you follow the sport, Blue Lock hooks you on the psychology of wanting to be the best — and being willing to leave everyone else behind to get there.

Komi Can't Communicate

Komi Can't Communicate finds enormous warmth in a very small goal: making friends. Shoko Komi is the most admired girl in her high school — elegant, poised, seemingly perfect — and hiding a secret. She has a crippling communication disorder that leaves her unable to speak to people, so the awe of her classmates reads, to her, as an unbreachable wall. When the unremarkable Hitohito Tadano figures out the truth, he vows to help her reach her dream of making one hundred friends. Tomohito Oda builds a rom-com of the gentlest kind, told partly through the notes Komi scribbles when words won't come and the delightfully weird classmates she slowly gathers. It's funny and sweet without ever mocking her anxiety — the humor comes from the cast, the tenderness from watching Komi inch, panel by panel, toward the connection she's terrified she can't have. The manga is ongoing and the anime is a charming, faithful adaptation. If you want something low-stakes, heartfelt, and quietly reassuring — a series about how hard and how worth-it reaching out can be — Komi is a comfort read with real heart.

Haikyu!!

Haikyuu!! is the volleyball manga that convinced millions of people they loved volleyball. Shoyo Hinata is short — far too short for the net — but he can jump like nothing anyone's seen, and he's obsessed with the sport ever since watching a tiny ace called "the Little Giant" on TV. In high school he's forced onto the same team as Tobio Kageyama, the gifted, dictatorial setter he considers his rival, and the two have to turn their clashing styles into a partnership if their club is ever going to reach nationals. Haruichi Furudate makes every match feel enormous — the rallies are tense, the strategy is real, and the huge ensemble of players, on both sides of the net, is written with so much care that you end up rooting for the opponents too. It's less about winning than about the joy and grind of getting better with people you'd run through a wall for. The manga tells the complete story and the anime is widely considered one of the best sports adaptations ever made. Even if you've never watched a real match, Haikyuu!! will have you on your feet.

Slam Dunk

Hanamichi Sakuragi's got no game with girls--none at all! It doesn't help that he's known for throwing down at a moment's notice and always coming out on top. A hopeless bruiser, he's been rejected by 50 girls in a row! All that changes when he meets the girl of his dreams, Haruko, and she's actually not afraid of him! When she introduces him to the game of basketball, his life is changed forever... (Source: VIZ Media)

Nana

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) Note: Winner of the 48th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shoujo Category in 2002.

Nisekoi: False Love

As a child, Raku Ichijou made a secret promise with his childhood sweetheart, keeping a pendant as a memento while his love took the key. He dreams of one day meeting his past love, but years later, reality smashes his hopes when Chitoge Kirisaki accidentally knees him in the face... Though Raku’s a normal high schooler, his family heads the notorious yakuza gang the Shuei-Gumi faction! And he’s dragged into family affairs when he’s forced into a relationship with Chitoge, the daughter of a rival gang’s boss! Despite their constant spats, the two somehow fool everyone with their false relationship. Raku then discovers that Chitoge has a mysterious key from her past, which she can’t remember... Plus, two other girls appear with keys as well—Kosaki Onodera and Marika Tachibana! Caught in the midst of this love maelstrom, even more complications arise for Raku when his class decides on Romeo and Juliet as the class’s play for the school festival. Can the two false lovebirds pull off the impossible and make the play a success? (Source: VIZ Media) Note: Includes 11 extra chapters.