I Am Blue, in Pain, and Fragile (Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 2; Ch: 11
• 2016

• Vol: 10; Ch: 66
• 2013 - 2019

After a terrible experience in her past at the National Music Band Competition, Kumiko abandoned music once and for all. She starts her first year at Kitauji High School, she finds herself being roped back in. But their school's band is hopeless. There was a time where they had placed well in nationals, but now they can't even make it past their regional qualifiers. In the midst of all of this, Kumiko meets the last person she'd ever want to see again, Reina. Will Kitauji High manage to pull itself together with the day of the concert drawing ever closer?!

• Vol: 2
• 2021

Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It’s an effortless performance, and, ultimately … a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst—and he’s about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2023

• Vol: 7+
• 2001 - ?

Houtarou Oreki is a self-proclaimed "energy-saver" - that is, he will not actively waste energy doing things that aren't necessary. Though he had no interest whatsoever in joining any clubs upon entering Kamiyama High School, he was commanded by his older sister Tomoe to enter the school's Classics Club, which was in danger of getting abolished as all previous members have graduated. Together with his old friends Satoshi Fukube and Mayaka Ibara, as well as the elegantly ladylike and curiously inquisitive Eru Chitanda, the newly reformed Classics Club find themselves involved in all sorts of mystery-solving escapades. Houtarou soon finds out that the Classics Club, as Tomoe has promised, is actually "quite interesting".

• Vol: 1; Ch: 13
• 1987

Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders?

• Vol: 6
• 2008 - 2017

High school students Kamijou Haruta and Homura Chika are members of a wind instrument club that is on the verge of being shut down. The two are childhood friends and they spend their days practicing hard, while also trying to recruit new members. When a certain incident happens within their school, they work together to solve it.

• Vol: 12
• 2015 - 2021

Mayumi Dojima, a second-year student at the exclusive Yubiwa Academy middle school, has lost something - a star she glimpsed just once, ten long years ago. But help is on the way, in the form of the unofficial, secretive, and thoroughly mysterious Pretty Boy Detective Club! Rumored to solve problems within the school (most of which they themselves may well have created) for reasons aesthetic rather than financial, these five gorgeous boys sweep Mayumi into their world of excitement, danger, and overwhelming beauty.

• Vol: 2
• 2007

• Vol: 3
• 2019