List of mangas with educative content

[UnnamedPlayer]

I'm trying to list all the educative manga available on mangadex on this thread. By educative manga, i mean either mangas where there is a story and learning is secondary like Dr Stone, Moyashimon, Otomeyogatari or Hataraku Saibou and spin-off, or more pedagogical mangas like "The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra".

Any subjects are fine, except sports and cooking (they are a separate genre by themselves), and also automotive mangas (there is already a list on the forum). That said, here is the list :

General science/technology :

• Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita
• Dr Stone
• Release that witch

Biology and animals :

• Heaven's Design Team (animals)
• Shiawase Tori-mingu (birds)
• Akiyama-san no Tori Life (birds)
• Mai no Mushigurashi (insect)
• Vector Case File - Inaho no Konchuuki (insects)
• Himitsu no Reptiles (reptiles)
• Tonari no Hachuurui-kun (reptiles)
• Magmell Shinkai Suizokukan (marine life)
• Wild life (animals)
• Moyashimon (bacterias, fermented things)
• Manga Biology (general biology), by Osamu Tesuka

Health :

• Cells at work! and his 9 spin-offs
• Usotsuki Satsuki Shi ga Mieru, light educative content
• Anaesthesiologist Hana (anesthesia)
• Elf-san wa Yaserarenai (nutrition)
• Manga de Wakaru Shinryou Naika (psychiatry)
• Koi to Utatane (sleep), some outdated or bad information
• Kiss my ass (hemorroids), it's not a joke and it's interesting
• Subcategory for Sex education :
  • Sexual Education 120%
  • Futari Ecchi and Futari ecchi for ladies (spin-off)
  • Sensei de ○○ shicha Ikemasen!

Astronomy :

• My Beautiful Galaxy

Maths :

• Mathematical girls, Mathematical Girls - Fermat's Last Theorem, and Mathematical Girls - Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
• Mathematics Golden

History :

• War's Unwomanly Face, womens in the red army
• Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths!, experience of WW2 from the japanese side
• Otoyomegatari
• Weekly Manga Japanese History

Economy :

• Investor Z and spin-offs/sequels - investements and finance, but warming : lots of dated advices, don't use it for financials decisions.
• World End Economica (Short Comic) - a few pages per chapter, derivative material
• Das kapital

Philosophy :

• Daigaku Nyuushi - Manga de Rinri ga Omoshiroi Hodo Wakaru Hon, ethics
• We Shall Now Begin Ethics

Litterature, classics, famous books :

• Kodama Maria Bungaku Shuusei
• Miss Bernard Said.
• Dante's Divine Comedy, adaptation by Go Nagai
• The world of Buddha, adaptation
• In Search of Lost Time, adaptation
• No Longer Human, adaptation
• The Metamorphosis, adaptation
• Mein Kampf, adaptation
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), adaptation
• I Am a Cat, adaptation
• The Sorrows of Young Werther , adaptation
• Hamlet, adaptation
• Seton's Wild Animals, adaptation
• The Book of Five Rings, adaptation
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North, adaptation
• Night on the Galactic Railroad, adaptation
• One Thousand and One Nights, adaptation
• Journey to the West, adaptation
• Sun Tzu's "The Art of War", adaptation

Books, edition and mangas :

• Manga de Wakaru Manga no Rekishi - history of manga
• LOSERS: The Birth of Japan's First Weekly Seinen Manga Magazine - history of manga
• Tonari no Helvetica: Manga de Wakaru Oubun Font no Sekai - fonts and typography
• Ascendance of a bookworm - paper and book making

Survival :

• Sounan desu ka?
• Jisatsutou (suicide island)

Farming and agriculture :

• Noble Paysans (by the author of Full Metal Alchemist)

Computer architecture :

• The Arm Manga Guide to the Mali GPU

Daily life and hobbys :

• Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san - ramens
• Dagashi Kashi - japanese sweets and dagashis (it's in the title)
• Make wa Tada no Mahou ja nai no: Beginners - make-up
• Majime Girl to Seishun Lingerie - lingerie
• Chichi no Jikan - breastfeeding
• Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki - about japanese prefectures close to Nagoya
• Tricks Dedicated to Witches - magic tricks
• Runway de Waratte - fashion
• Sono Bisque Doll - cosplay
• Kagayaku!! Otokonoko Juku - crossdressing
• Danberu Nan Kiro Moteru? - bodybuilding and strength training (it's not technicaly a sport so it works)
• The True Biography of Game Creators (manga biography of yoko taro, scenarist and producer of the NieR saga)

Varied, with historical context :

• Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan: Noukou Giga
• Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (Apothycary's diaries)
• Flowers Crossing the Aegean Sea

And also, the "Manga de Wakaru ..." series :

• The Manga Guide to Electricity
• Manga Guide to Physics
• The Manga Guide to Statistics
• The Manga Guide to Calculus
• The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra
• The Manga Guide to Databases

I have a MDList about it here : Mangas with educative content

Personal recommendations for hidden gems : Heaven's design team, Mai no Mushigurashi (very good yuri), Manga de Wakaru Shinryou Naika (those jokes, seriously), War's Unwomanly Face, Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki, Kodama Maria Bungaku Shuusei (strange, but very interesting).

 

[monkey123]

Release that witch and some more which I don't remember.

 

[KATCRX]

Suicide Island (Survival)

 

[MilkDrinker]

Great list. I kinda derped and thought you didn't include the Manga Guide to... series. They're licensed but some are listed here
If cooking counts, Gohan no Otomo for some Japanese cooking.
Oh also, Go Nagai's Divine Comedy adaptation is pretty alright for a simplified version of the original. Dante's Inferno(+Purgatory and Paradiso). If I remember it right, the scans are also quite good and provide even more info and references. Literature.
This too. A very good personal experience of WW2 from the Japanese side. Licensed, not actually available here..

King's Viking for cyber security and tech

 

[Reiru]

https://mangadex.org/title/71b16e06-8c0d-42a3-b457-73cf55343bc0/magmell-shinkai-suizokukan
about deep sea aquarium

 

[GipoScribantino]

Does "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga" count?
It is somewhat informative... maybe?

 

[UnnamedPlayer]

I've not read "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga", so i don't know : it really depend how informative it is. But your question have remind me of Bakuman, who may deserve a place on the list.

 

[Hacete]

Would like to suggest, We Shall Now Begin Ethics - Ethics (obvious from the name)
It fits in the Philosophy category. There is a lot to learn from this series.

If it's your first time hearing about this manga, I highly suggest reading it first!
I was expecting this manga to be there on the list when I saw the title. But it didn't seem like it.

 

[Raingott]

I'm a bit surprised Oshi no Ko (Japanese entertainment industry) and Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru (Cosplay) weren't on the list.

 

[Arin-san]

I'm a bit surprised Oshi no Ko (Japanese entertainment industry) and Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru (Cosplay) weren't on the list.

I don't think OnK deserves a spot on this list. It tells very little about the Showbiz industry and uses what it tells to dive into a completely different revenge plot. Not really an educational manga. Sure, you can learn the surface-level stuff from the few chapters it has, but it's not really the main focus.

Sono Bisque is still understandable cause despite being a rom-com, each chapter does focus on cosplaying.

 

[ViceTurtle7]

I don't think OnK deserves a spot on this list. It tells very little about the Showbiz industry and uses what it tells to dive into a completely different revenge plot. Not really an educational manga. Sure, you can learn the surface-level stuff from the few chapters it has, but it's not really the main focus.

Sono Bisque is still understandable cause despite being a rom-com, each chapter does focus on cosplaying.

I completely agree honestly. Everyone is talking about how cruel the internet could be and how shocked they are that the idol industry is this fucked-up, but I thought it was obvious. It's really basic stuff everybody knows (make connections, try to collab, and minor acting and dancing tips) and then has the rest be a very unrealistic revenge plot (not that it shouldn't be, still a great manga)

 

[ViceTurtle7]

I'm trying to list all the educative manga available on mangadex, so i'm making this thread to have recommendations. By educative manga, i mean mangas with significant or some educative content, either mangas where there is a story and learning is secondary like Dr Stone, Moyashimon, Otomeyogatari or Hataraku Saibou and spin-off, or more serious mangas like "The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra". Any subjects are fine, except sports and cooking (they are a separate genre by themselves), and also automotive mangas (there is already a list on the forum). That said, here is the list i have now :

General, science and technology :

• Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita
• Dr Stone
• Release that witch

Biology and animals :

• Heaven's Design Team (animals)
• Shiawase Tori-mingu (birds)
• Akiyama-san no Tori Life (birds)
• Mai no Mushigurashi (insect)
• Vector Case File - Inaho no Konchuuki (insects)
• Himitsu no Reptiles (reptiles)
• Magmell Shinkai Suizokukan (marine life)
• Wild life (animals)
• Moyashimon (bacterias and fermented things)

Health :

• Kiss my ass (hemorroids), yes, it's not a joke; and it's interesting
• Manga Biology (general biology), by Osamu Tesuka
• Cells at work! and his 9 spin-offs mangas (human body).
• Anaesthesiologist Hana (anesthesia,)
• Elf-san wa Yaserarenai (nutrition)
• Manga de Wakaru Shinryou Naika (psychiatry)
• Koi to Utatane (sleep)
• Usotsuki Satsuki Shi ga Mieru - (all health), light educative content
• Subcategory for Sex education :
  • Sexual Education 120%
  • Futari Ecchi and Futari ecchi for ladies (spin-off)
  • Sensei de ○○ shicha Ikemasen!

Maths :

• Mathematical girls and two spin-offs : Mathematical Girls - Fermat's Last Theorem, and Mathematical Girls - Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
• Mathematics Golden

History :

• War's Unwomanly Face - WW2
• Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths!, experience of WW2 from the japanese side
• Otoyomegatari
• Weekly Manga Japanese History

Economy :

• Investor Z and spin-offs/sequels - investements and finance, but warming : lots of dated advices, don't use it for financials decisions.

Philosophy :

• Das kapital
• Daigaku Nyuushi - Manga de Rinri ga Omoshiroi Hodo Wakaru Hon - ethics
• We Shall Now Begin Ethics

Litterature :

• Kodama Maria Bungaku Shuusei
• Miss Bernard Said.
• Dante's Divine Comedy, adaptation by Go Nagai

Books, edition and mangas :

• Manga de Wakaru Manga no Rekishi - history of manga
• LOSERS: The Birth of Japan's First Weekly Seinen Manga Magazine - history of manga
• Tonari no Helvetica: Manga de Wakaru Oubun Font no Sekai - fonts and typography
• Ascendance of a bookworm - paper and book making

Survival :

• Sounan desu ka?
• Jisatsutou (suicide island)

Farming and agriculture :

• Noble Paysans (by the author of Full Metal Alchemist)

Computer architecture :

• The Arm Manga Guide to the Mali GPU

Daily life :

• Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san - ramens
• Dagashi Kashi - japanese sweets and dagashis (it's in the title)
• Make wa Tada no Mahou ja nai no: Beginners - make-up
• Majime Girl to Seishun Lingerie - lingerie and others stuff
• Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki - about japanese prefectures close to Nagoya
• Tricks Dedicated to Witches - magic tricks

Varied, with historical context :

• Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan: Noukou Giga
• Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (Apothycary's diaries)
• Flowers Crossing the Aegean Sea

And also, the "Manga de Wakaru ..." series :

• The Manga Guide to Electricity
• Manga Guide to Physics
• The Manga Guide to Statistics
• The Manga Guide to Calculus
• The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra
• The Manga Guide to Databases

I have a MDList about it here : Mangas with educative content

Personal recommendations for hidden gems : heaven's design team, Mai no Mushigurashi (very good yuri), Manga de Wakaru Shinryou Naika (those jokes, seriously), War's Unwomanly Face, Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki, Kodama Maria Bungaku Shuusei (strange, but very interesting).

If anyone know other mangas who deserve to be on this list, i'm taking any recommendations.

any cooking manga u recommend?

 

[UnnamedPlayer]

I've add Son bisque Doll in the list,and i think can also add "Shine : runway de waratte". Both talk about clothes making, for cosplay and fashion respectively. They're a bit of light in educative content, but so are Satsuki shi ga mieru and a few other in this list. I wonder if i must put them in a separate category for manga where educative content is light/in the background. I don't think i will, but the idea is on the table.

any cooking manga u recommend?

None, i don't like this genre. Bizarrely, i don't dislike educative manags about food itself or nutrition, but cooking is not for me.

 

[Mang-Oh]

One for crossdressing, every .5 is a very wordy guide

• Kagayaku!! Otokonoko Juku

 

[MilkDrinker]

King's Viking for cyber security and tech

Reminder to add this to your list. It's interesting and definitely educational.

 

[Scinded]

Here are some of mine :

Kafka Adaptations
Asoko de Hataraku Musubu-san - A rom-com centering around condoms
Go Nagai's Kamasutra
Macho Max - Bodybuilding
Furin Shokudou - Food and Adultery
A Rare Marriage: How to Grill Our Love - Rom-Com Cooking
Kimi to Pico-Pico - Rom-Com Gaming
Isekai Ojisan - Isekai Gaming
Seven Seas Licensed Manga Adaptations of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Secret Garden

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[MilkDrinker]

Another obvious one that wasn't mentioned; Franken Fran and the sequel to it - surgery, biotech and uh manmade horrors

 

[UnnamedPlayer]

A recent discovery : Gareki!: After School of Modeler Girls. It's about some kind of DIY figurines named gareki (an abrevaiation for garage kit). Another manga focused on a unknow hobby, it's always nice.

And also : A Gal’s Guide To Budget Living for an Otaku. As the title say, it's about saving money...

They are not on the list and it's the same with some proposition of the most recent message, because i can't edit the first message (more than two month since its creation). Maybe i should do a follow-up list in a future post ?

And i wonder if i should do another thread-list, but for just gaming manga. There is a lot of gaming manga with educative content, even some biographies of video game creators, so i may be worth it.

 

[Hicleric]

There's a fine line here between something that is educational by virtue of the setting (e.g. medical, where the real-world inspirations for plotlines are real but the implementation typically isn't) and something that aims to teach the audience about something new. Many of the titles here seem to be more the former even if the aim is for a list of the latter.

With that noted, my handful of shiny rocks:
I'm a little surprised Maoyuu hasn't been brought up yet. First blush would be categorizing it as "economic" since that seems to be where it spent the majority of its light lessons.

Radiation House. Fits pretty squarely in medical and I think fairlyrelatively realistically.

Silver Spoon, since Noble Farmer/Arakawa Hiromu was brought up and agriculture is woefully underrepresented on this list.

And the other Silver Spoon which has actual recipes and instructions for cooking. The content of the manga itself is pretty far from educational though 🤷

I haven't read Last Karte recently, but it seemed like it was going in a biology-friendly direction. Speaking of which...

...Blue World for historical? (I kid, this clearly belongs in physics)

 

[jeezits]

The Road to Dragon Quest/Making of Dragon Quest Historical and/or Hobbies - Video games. It's the story of how the first Dragon Quest was developed, and the choices the creators made that in many ways ended up defining how JRPGs were designed and played on consoles for decades afterwards.