【Summer manga!】7 manga that Japanese love to read in summer! These manga will remind us of our memory of youth, adventure, and various experiences in summer! They are true masterpieces!

2022-07-15

Summer in Japan! How do people feel about it?

Japanese summer is hot and humid!
Just like schools in all over the world, schools in Japan will be closed for summer vacation!
Japanese students tend to try something new such as traveling or experiments! For Japanese students, summer is the time to experience something special!
Furthermore! In Japan we have “Obon” during summer. Obon is the time that people believe the spirits of our ancestors come back. We pray for our ancestors and have various events. So, we tend to think about unusual, strange phenomenon that are related to spirits in summer.

Summertime Render

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Genre: Suspense x SF
Solve the mystery in the isolated island
It has just completed! Good reviews! The best suspense manga!
One day in summer, the main character, Ajiro Shinpei came back home in an isolated island to attend his childhood friend’s funeral. While he was in the island, he heard strange rumors. Some people think the cause of death of his friend was not an accident, and she might be killed.
At the same time, ghostly double of a living person was appeared in the island. Shinpei started solving this mystery and found something......
The anime version started airing since April 2022! Its manga series has just completed!
The story has a good way of paying off foreshadowing. The well-developed story was evaluated as a masterpiece! Let’s find out about the secret of this scary story happened in the isolated island in summer!
Summertime Render. SF×Mystery! Now it will be made into an anime!
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Summertime Render

Hotarubi no Mori e

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Genre: Romance x fantasy
The author of Natsume's Book of Friends (Natsume Yuujinchou) created a short story!
It is a story of something that is a human nor a monster, and a girl who was saved by him.
Hotaru is a girl who was visiting a grandfather’s place. She was lost in the woods and saved by a boy named Gin. Gin is a human nor a monster. He is never aged and disappear if he touches humans. Hotaru tris to be careful not to touch him when they are together. She looks forward to seeing Gin when she visits her grandparents every summer.
One day, the growing girl, Hotaru, realized that she was falling in love with Gin.
We recommend this manga to read for the fans of Natsume's Book of Friends (Natsume Yuujinchou)! It is a bittersweet romantic story in summer. Hotaru and Gin meet only during summer, so we want you to read this in summer as well.
Highly recommended as a summer reading!
Hotarubi no Mori e

Grand Blue

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Genre: Youth x comedy manga!
It is a story of college students who loves scuba diving!
The main character, Iori, started living in a diving store that was owned by his uncle when he entered a college. He meets with many people there and started learning about scuba diving. Now he is into the ocean and the world of scuba diving! As well as Iori, you will learn a lot about scuba diving and the ocean!
The story was through out a year, but the theme is ocean and scuba diving! So, it is a perfect reading for summer! It was made into an anime and also a live-action movie in Japan! Beautiful cinematography is nice, but you can enjoy beautiful illustration from manga! Enjoy this summer reading!
Grand Blue

Ookiku Furikabutte

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High school baseball = Summer in Japan!!
It is beyond “sports manga”!! New revolutionary baseball manga is here!
Japanese people love to watch High School Baseball Championship in summer.
This is a story of baseball kid who are trying to win at the championship.
One thing to note is that there is no ordinary sports manga factors in this story. No hardship, no cheerful and active characters. The main character, Mihashi Ren, can’t throw fast balls, but he has a great control. His personality is timid. He always wanted to avoid anything about baseball because of past incident.
It has been released from 1 to 35 volumes. The fans are considered it as a masterpiece of baseball manga! After you read this manga, you will always remember this manga when summer comes and watching high school baseball games!
Ookiku Furikabutte

Summer Wars

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Genre: Youth
Incidents happen in the real world and the internet world at the same time.
People work together for confronting the existential crisis of the world. It is also a story of youth in summer.
The main character, Kenji, is good at math. One day he received a mysterious encrypted email. Since he is good at math, he deciphered the email and found out that he accidentally obtained the right to take control over “OZ” which was the virtual reality world “OZ”.
OZ was controlled by artificial intelligent called Love Machine. It tried to drop an asteroid explorer on the earth to destroy it. Kenji and his senpai, Natsuki were trying to stop this plan.
It is a classic summer movie for Japanese people to watch on TV every summer!
Every time we see this story on tv, we feel that summer has come!!
The story contains love, youth, and growth. It is a masterpiece. Enjoy it with comicalized version as well!!
Summer Wars

Nankoku Tom Sawyer

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Genre: Youth manga
The story takes place in Okinawa, Japan. A boy from a big city meets a boy in a southern island.
The main character, Chiharu, is an elementary school kid who just moved into Okinawa from a big city in Japan. Okinawa has ocean and nature. Chiharu got excited about the different culture. However, his step mother tried to take him back to the big city again!!
The story takes place in beautiful Okinawa islands. It is surrounded by ocean and has full of nature. It located in south and is warm all the time like a tropical island. So, this story is definitely perfect for summer reading as it reminds us of summer!
Nankoku Tom Sawyer

Kimi To Tsuzuru Utakata

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It was a secret love only between two of them during summer.
A high school girl, Shizuku, was not good at communicating with people.
She loves to write a novel and wants to complete it. One day, her classmate, Kaori, saw Shizuku’s novel. Shizuku was very uncomfortable about it, but Kaori was very impressed by the story Shizuku wrote. Kaori asked Shizuka what she will write the next. Shizuku answered that there was no plan. Then, Kaori told Shizuku to date with her and write about their romance!
The two decided to date only during summer.
This is the beginning of their first and last summer they spent together......
It releases volume 1 to 3. This Yuri manga that describes girls’ romance is getting very popular. The theme of the story is summer. Is the secret and past of Kaori revealed?
Kimi To Tsuzuru Utakata

Which manga would you like to read this summer? If you have any manga above, please check them out!

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