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Anime and manga set in schools

  • Yu-Gi-Oh!This manga's hero wins battles without ever hitting anyone. Kazuki Takahashi wanted something original.
  • Kaze to Ki no UtaEditors spent nearly seven years keeping the manga Kaze to Ki no Uta's first page from print.
  • Spy × FamilySpy × Family, a Japanese web manga written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo, had more than 42 million copies in circulation by April 2026. That puts it among the best-selling manga series of all time. Its hero is an agent known as Twilight,…
  • Mob Psycho 100Mob Psycho 100 follows a middle school boy named Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, who carries immense psychic power and works constantly to keep his feelings down. The two facts are linked. His power threatens to break past its limits as…
  • K-On!In a Japanese school-band anime, guitarist Yui Hirasawa had only ever played the castanets.
  • Tokyo RevengersIn Tokyo Revengers, a part-timer shoved from a subway platform lands twelve years in the past.
  • Haruhi SuzumiyaHaruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese light novel series by Nagaru Tanigawa, illustrated by Noizi Ito, and it helped solve a math problem that had stayed open since 1993. In 2011, a crowd on 4chan set out to answer a puzzle inspired by the anime's…
  • Lucky Star (manga)Lucky Star, a four-panel comic about high school girls, also spawned chemistry textbooks.
  • Oshi no KoIn Oshi no Ko, a doctor is murdered and reborn as his idol patient's son. He remembers his old life.
  • Haikyu!!Haikyu!!, a Japanese manga written and drawn by Haruichi Furudate, had more than 75 million copies in circulation by December 2025. That total places it among the best-selling manga series of all time. Its subject is a high school…
  • My Hero AcademiaMy Hero Academia is a Japanese manga series by Kōhei Horikoshi, and its hero starts with nothing. Izuku Midoriya is a boy born without a Quirk, one of the superpowers that have become ordinary in his world. He dreams of becoming a…
  • Revolutionary Girl UtenaRevolutionary Girl Utena begins with a teenage girl in a boys' school uniform who raises a sword to win another girl's hand. Her name is Utena Tenjou, and the prize is Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious student known as the Rose Bride. Anthy is…

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