Insomniacs After School - Recommendations

• Vol: 9; Ch: 79
• 2016 - 2018

Follows Gen, a boy who sought a peaceful lifestyle and decides to enroll in a high school in the rural countryside. He moves into his new home, a temple owned by a relative. There, he lives with a girl three years older than him named Chion. While she seems to have it together, she is actually careless.

• Vol: 5+; Ch: 67+
• 2017 - ?

Follows Mira, a girl who dreams of joining the astronomy club once she got into high school, after meeting a man and promising to discover new asteroids when she was younger. But the high school she got into had abolished its astronomy club the year before she enrolled, and it has now been combined with the earth sciences club.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2013 - 2014

Due to the nature of her father's job, Hinoka has transferred schools several times. When her friends from her first school ceased contact after her transfer, Hinoka resolved never to become close to anyone again. Now in her seventh transfer school, she joins the idle astronomy club, thinking she could continue living her life alone. But what happens when she meets a boy who shines like the brightest star, Sirius, on a cloudy day?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 8
• 2006

Is the astronomy club actually a black hole of love?! Haruki has drifted into the club, but the senpais there are all weirdoes...

• Vol: 3; Ch: 40
• 2011 - 2014

• Vol: 7; Ch: 50
• 2004 - 2009

Asai Mugi's everyday life is very much impacted by a singular problem: she suffers from extreme shyness. Her sole friend Touyama Kayo would like to help her out as they've just entered high school, but Mugi's shyness is the sort that steals her voice entirely. It is too bad for Mugi that a freak shout on her part attracted the attention of Nono Ichinose. Nono is on a mission to save her Drama Research Society, and she isn't prepared to accept shyness as excuse from on-stage performances! With a small group of close friends to encourage and educate her, Mugi will be given a chance to be more than she is now. But, can someone so terribly shy really become a stage actress in just a few short months?

• Vol: 20; Ch: 112
• 2010 - 2020

Bunzou High School is welcoming its new first-year students. One of them, Koshiyama Shiki, is chosen to participate against his will in an impromptu fast-buzzing quiz meet by the president of the Quiz Bowl Circle. As a quiet boy who loves reading and doesn't want to stand out, Shiki is overwhelmed, but his classmate, Fukami Mari, is able to hit the buzzer and answer questions before the full question is given. As he watches her, Shiki realizes that there's a point in each question where the answer becomes certain.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 2007

Mizutani Minato, a high school girl, has not fit in at her new school ever since she started attending a different school from her middle school friends. Her shy personality has kept her from making friends and engaging with her classmates. Through an unexpected turn of events, she joins the astronomy club in school, consisting of three students considered to be the weirdest and seen as outcasts in the entire campus. The club consists of Aida Souji, the smartest student in the entire freshman class, Kousaka Ranko, the second most brilliant and ridiculously strong, and Takigawa Youichi who all have dreams of becoming astronauts at NASA. Minato slowly learns through the Soramiyo club how to become confident in who she really is and the importance of having great friends.

• Vol: 1
• 2012 - 2016

• Vol: 10; Ch: 68
• 2005 - 2011

Saku Ooyagi returns to his old town after seven years and becomes reacquainted with a childhood friend, the ever-boisterous Mihoshi Akeno; but the reunion is far from merry since his last piece of memory between them is of her falling off a tree and him diving to save her. Regardless, Mihoshi focuses her all into improving their tattered relationship and forces Saku to join her astronomy club.