Genshiken 2 - Recommendations

• Vol: 3; Ch: 21
• 1989 - 1990

Now you too can learn the secrets! This mock-instructional tome is actually a hilarious parody in graphic novel form of those books which seek to advise one "how to draw manga." Now even a completely untalented, artistically uninclined novice such as yourself can learn what it takes to properly use a pen, create characters, license ancillary rights for anime and toy manufacturing, and become rich, famous, and sexually potent beyond your wildest dreams.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 22
• 2007 - 2008

• Vol: 6; Ch: 76
• 2004 - 2008

Najimi Osana's goal is to make a fortune in life, but in reality, she hasn't been having much success in her job. Tsuyuri, a doujin artist and a friend of Najimi, takes her to a convention to help her sell her doujin; and after learning that her childhood friend Justice is a very successful doujin artist, Najimi declares that she will make her fortune by creating doujins of her own. However, Najimi has never created anything close to a doujin before, and will struggle through many difficulties. Together with Tsuyuri, Justice, and Sora, they will work together for Najimi’s sake to gain fame and fortune in the doujin market.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 39
• 2016 - 2020

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2011 - 2012

Together with Ken, her childhood friend, Yukari starts a manga duo, "Abiko and Fujimoto"! Since they were in junior high school, two of them have always been creating doujinshi that never really sell. Yukari has always liked Ken more than a friend, but it is probably doomed to be an impossible love considering the prideful and sadistic Ken never even praised her manga at all! Can Yukari win his heart with her drawing skill?

• Vol: 9+; Ch: 80+
• 2012 - ?

Tamaki Honda, a first year high school student, joins the peculiar SNS Club. With nothing but her wits and her artistic skills, she must traverse the world of doujin (self-published) game development. As new issues arise within the development of game making, Tamaki learns more about her club member’s odd personalities.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 20
• 2011 - 2013

It is still a shock to Saga Shigekata that he is standing at Ikebukuro Krea Academy, a relatively new school with a very particular curriculum. He was supposed to be attending a normal high school, but when his parents discovered the sketches he was drawing, they sent him here. This school is relatively new and is known as the otaku school where aspiring manga artists gather to learn about creating their own masterpiece. Shigekata meets a fellow first year named Miyakawa Hinari who seems to be in a cosplay costume but later finds out that not only is she Shigekata’s classmate, she is the president and founder of Krea Academy. He starts making new friends that inspire him to produce artwork with a lot of passion.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 24
• 2014 - 2016

Fujimaki barely scrapes by in school grade-wise. But he thinks all is well, because he just has to quit school and become a top-selling Mangaka. It is that easy! One day he catches his hyper-intelligent classmate Yukimori masturbating to Ero-Manga in an abandoned room in School. One thing leads to another and he gets blackmailed into drawing Ero-Manga for her.

• Vol: 15+; Ch: 156+
• 2011 - ?

The boy of her dreams...is a girl's manga artist?! To the eyes of high school student Chiyo Sakura, classmate Umetarou Nozaki--brawny of build and brusque of tongue--is a dreamboat! When Chiyo finally works up the courage to tell Nozaki how she feels about him, she knows rejection is on the table...but getting recruited as a manga-ka's assistant?! Never in a million years! But for someone who makes a living drawing sweet girly romances, Nozaki-kun is a little slow on the uptake when it comes to matters of the heart in reality. And so Chiyo's daily life of manga making and heartache begins!

• Vol: 12; Ch: 109
• 1989 - 2013

This manga follows the residents of Tokiwa So – a beat-down tenant apartment in Tokyo for manga artists. Maga Michio is a 21 year-old aspiring artist who is keeping a journal of his experiences as a starting out artist. When Konotera Yukie comes to stay with her younger brother, Michio is smitten. But Yukie has come to take her brother home and send him back to college – her father thinks that being a manga artist is no way to live. Can Michio convince her that her talented brother should stay? Or will she be the inspiration for his latest character design?