Descending Stories: Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu - Recommendations

• Ch: 2
• 2018 - 2019

• Vol: 10+; Ch: 107+
• 2022 - ?

Rakugo--the ultimate form of storytelling, where everything in a story is expressed with just your body and words. Shinta and his daughter Akane have been seduced by this wonderful form of classical entertainment. Having observed her father strive to pass the shin'uchi rakugo test, Akane will take her own steps into this unique world!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 15
• 2017 - 2018

• Vol: 1
• 2023

• Vol: 6; Ch: 50
• 2009 - 2013

A joint effort between popular illustrator Yasu and KUMETA Kouji, creator of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, this manga features female rakugo storytellers. After stepping off the stage, these comedians chit-chat in the girl's dressing room. This is a comedy that begins after the storyteller has said goodbye to the audience!

• Vol: 4; Ch: 22
• 2018 - 2020

The Great Sage Damaya has been given the mission of saving the world by transporting a saviour from another world. However, instead of a ‘Samurai’ or a ‘Ninja’ or anything, he mistakenly summoned a rakugo artist. This is a story about how a japanese storyteller, "Hanashika", saves the world using Rakugo.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 25
• 2015 - 2016

Mizuki Ikuta goes back to her hometown after struggling to find a job and place to live. She runs into her childhood friend Asahi, and is then taken in as an apprentice at his fathers studio and begins her new life as a gargoyle maker while living in the apartment next to Asahi.

• Vol: 7
• 2016 - 2020

The Great Sage Damaya has been given the mission of saving the world by transporting a saviour from another world. However, instead of a ‘Samurai’ or a ‘Ninja’ or anything, he mistakenly summoned a rakugo artist. This is a story about how a japanese storyteller, "Hanashika", saves the world using Rakugo.

• Vol: 12; Ch: 55
• 2019 - 2024

The time is the Taisho Era. Mameda, a tanuki girl who came to Osaka dreaming of becoming a human, meets a popular rakugo artist, Daikokutei Bunko. Mameda, who was impressed by the storyteller's way of storytelling, which is a technique taught by a human being, decided to become a disciple. Rakugo artist training has begun!

• Vol: 2
• 2012 - 2013

A story which takes place in the Meiji Era. Hozumi Kyou, a poor 13-year-old countryside girl, is leaving her town and going to Tokyo to go to apprenticeship. Kyou is determined to earn a lot of money so that she can buy medicine in to heal her mother's blindness. She gets lost in Tokyo where soon she meets a young man...who might help her with her apprenticeship? But there are some hurdles in the way...