Tsuruta Buchou wa Itsumo Nebusoku - Recommendations

• Vol: 15+; Ch: 112+
• 2012 - ?

The manga focuses on an art club in a certain middle school, and its members: Subaru Uchimaki, who is a genius at drawing faces, but only wants to draw the perfect 2D wife; Colette, a rich troublemaker who never stops making mischief; and the club president, who sleeps through sessions and collects sleeping aids. Mizuki Usami is the only person in the club who wants to do art club-like activities, and constantly struggles to do so.

• Vol: 1
• 2009

Everyone at Ouka High loves the annual Princess Contest. Ranked "most beautiful" among the first year students, Naozumi Himeno is hesitant, but decides to take part in the competition... The student chosen as princess will receive a "Principal's Permission Ticket", allowing him to realize his wishes at school, and that's what Naozumi's after. So, to save the Art Club from being shut down, he enters as a candidate in the contest. But, what's this "Princess Game" that's centering on Naozumi...!? And what's with that guy, Kodai Shibayama, who told Naozumi not to enter!?

• Vol: 13+; Ch: 60+
• 2017 - ?

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!

• One Shot
• 2012

A girl joins the pottery club to find out who made a vase she saw.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2008

Fifteen-year-old Nanaka Kinoshita has arrived for her first day of high school, alongside her childhood friend Meiko. While Meiko is a typical girl, Nanaka is in love with painting and finds it's easiest to express herself with art, rather than with words. As she walks onto campus with her sketchbook, she spots a handsome boy with his own sketchbook in hand; his name is Chihaya, and he's one of two members of the school's art club. Nanaka wants to know as much as she can about Chihaya, and together the two girls join the art club. And soon, Nanaka discovers that she and Chihaya have more in common than she realized...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2010 - 2011

The spring when Minori passed her middle-school entrance exams, her granny called her to her atelier and drew a good-luck charm on Minori's back to protect her. But then, her granny passed away without telling her from what she had to be protected from. She only said that when Minori enters high-school she must never ever enter the art-gallery at night. But now Minori is in the art-club. Will she be able to stay away from the Art Gallery as she promised?

• One Shot
• 2014

"Let me be the only one in your eyes. Don't draw anyone else except me..."

• Vol: 13; Ch: 106
• 2016 - 2018

Kobayakawa is an unsocial student who lives an extraordinarily ordinary life. His only talent is painting portraits, which he often does to relieve pent-up anger. One day, he meets a pretty and popular girl named Hoshino who has a secret that nobody knows except for her and her childhood friend. That is, until he stumbles upon it too by chance. Her friend had been putting make-up on her every day because she can't do it herself. Now it's his turn to keep this secret and help maintain her social life!

• Ch: 33+
• 2012 - ?

The city of Tajimi, located in the southern part of Gif Prefecture, Japan, is famous for Mino earthenware. The city is dotted with historical pottery producers and ceramic art museums.It has facilities where you can try your hand at making pottery, and many restaurants that serve food on Minoware dishes. The story begins when a high school girl moves to a shopping street in Tajimi. Many encounters await her, friends, town folk, ceramic art, etc. What will she discover in a town famous for ceramic?

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 11+
• 2021 - ?

Together with her father, who had quit his salaryman job, Toyokawa Himeno moves to Gifu prefecture's Tajimi city. That's the city where her mother is from, whom she had lost when she was still young. Himeno is now attending her mother's alma mater, where her classmate Kukuri Mika invites her to tag along to a special place. That place turns out to be the pottery club! There, she learns for the first time that her mother was a legendary potter, and is consequently pulled into the world of pottery.