Manga like Toaru Kagaku no Railgun

also known as A Certain Scientific Railgun

Genres: Action Comedy Sci-Fi

What is A Certain Scientific Railgun about?

Status: Releasing

Welcome to a world where mysticism and science collide, and supernatural powers are derived from either science or religion. At the heart of this world is Academy City, an advanced metropolis whose population is comprised mostly of students The majority of students are enrolled in the city's "Power Curriculum Program," where they must learn to master their latent psychic powers. Out of several million students, only seven are deemed powerful enough to have Level 5 status.

Meet Mikoto Misaka, the third most powerful Level 5 esper in Academy City. Together with her best friends Kuroko Shirai and the other members of Judgment, a student-run law enforcement agency, Mikoto delves deep into the dark heart of the scientific sprawl she calls home, and uncovers secrets she wishes she hadn't!



Notes:
Includes 8 extra chapters.
Volume 5's special edition includes the volume "Giten Railgun".

Tags: Shounen , Super Power , Primarily Female Cast , Tragedy , Urban , Urban Fantasy , Clone , School , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Bisexual , Ojou-sama , Tsundere , Delinquents , Robots
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Here is a list of Manga similar to Toaru Kagaku no Railgun

A Certain Magical Index

Toaru Majutsu no Index

Also known as A Certain Magical Index.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Sci-Fi

The story is set in a world where supernatural powers exist through science, and magic exists through religion.

In the story, Touma Kamijou is an ordinary high school boy with terrible academic scores and a power called Imagine Breaker. Imagine Breaker can defeat any other power, but it also undermines Kamijou's own good luck. His Imagine Breaker's immense strength is literally immeasurable, so hapless Kamijou is listed at the supernatural level of 0. He happens to meet a girl in white hanging off his window balcony. The girl says she is being chased by sorcerers, and Kamijou learns that the girl is a Church of England nun whose memories have been forcibly replaced by Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum — the 103,000 forbidden texts of the Church.

Tags: Magic , Shounen , Anti-Hero , Clone , Super Power , Female Harem , Cohabitation
Dandadan

Dandadan

Also known as Dandadan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school’s UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames “Okarun” because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks the exact opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove each other wrong—Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love…and oddly horny aliens and spirits?



Notes:
Includes 1 extra chapter.
Nominated for the 15th Manga Taisho Award in 2022.

Tags: Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Aliens , Super Power , Ghost , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Henshin , Tokusatsu , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , School , Shapeshifting , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Terrorism , Conspiracy , Kaiju , Acrobatics , Gore , Chuunibyou , Super Robot , Tragedy , Cannibalism , Exorcism , Circus , Gods , Tsundere , Nudity , Bullying , Dissociative Identities , Suicide , Curses
RuriDragon

Ruri Dragon

Also known as RuriDragon.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Ruri faces the usual issues: pushy classmates, annoying teachers and...waking up with dragon horns?!



Tags: Monster Girl , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , School , Coming of Age , Dragons , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Family Life , Shounen , Super Power , Slapstick
Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out

Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi

The Tokiwadai student council election is approaching. Shokuhou Misaki, one of the leading candidates, is in the midst of an election campaign in spite of her own expectations due to the people around her and the fate of being the head of the largest clique...!!



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Female Protagonist , School , Super Power , Ojou-sama , Primarily Female Cast
COPPELION

Coppelion

Also known as COPPELION.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

Tokyo, ravished by radioactive contamination caused by a nuclear power-plant accident, is now in lockdown. COPPELION—a special unit of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces' 3rd Division made up of three high school girls genetically engineered to be impervious to radioactivity—is sent in to search for survivors in Tokyo, a.k.a. "The City of Death."



Tags: Seinen , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , School , Pandemic
A Certain Scientific Accelerator

Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator

Also known as A Certain Scientific Accelerator.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

Welcome to a world where mysticism and science collide, and supernatural powers are derived from either science or religion. At the heart of this world is Academy City, an advanced metropolis whose population is comprised mostly of students. The majority of students are enrolled in the city’s “Power Curriculum Program,” where they must learn to master their latent psychic powers.



Tags: Super Power , Necromancy , Magic , Conspiracy , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Drugs , School
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Toaru Kagaku no Dark Matter

Toaru Kagaku no Dark Matter

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

The story of a hero who has fallen into the darkness, Kakine Teitoku is now revealed.

Academy City gathers the best of science and technology and promotes development of esper abilities.

Among them, Kakine Teitoku, the second-ranked of the seven Level 5 espers with incredible power, encounters a young girl named Yuzuriha Ringo. His objective is to obtain data on the first-ranked Accelerator's thought patterns from Ringo, a test subject in the Dark May Project.

However, elements of the Dark Side of Academy City, such as DA, Kuroyoru Umidori, and the Kihara Family, are also targeting the girl's power?!

Tags: Tragedy , Super Power , Age Gap , Shounen
Tokyo ESP

Tokyo ESP

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

Urushiba Rinka was a fairly normal high school girl, though she was a bit poor and her only family was her father. Then one day, she saw a penguin and some glowing fish swimming through the sky. Rinka might have thought it was a hallucination if there hadn't been another witness with her, a boy from her school with a strangely scratched-up face.

Contact with a fish caused her to pass out, and when she awoke, she had developed the power to move through inanimate objects... such as the floor of her apartment! Later, a call from her father showed her that she was not the only one the flying fish bestowed with hard-to-control superpowers! What exactly is going on here? And does Rinka's classmate know more about this situation than he's letting on?



Tags: Martial Arts , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Heterosexual , Gore , Magic
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Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mahou Shoujo

The series takes place four years after the events of Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, during which Nanoha Takamachi rescued and adopted a young girl named Vivio, who is the reincarnation of the Sankt Kaiser, Olivie Segbrecht. After entering her fourth year of elementary school, Vivio is given her own intelligence device, Sacred Heart, and gains the power to transform using her adult Sankt Kaiser mode. She soon comes across a girl named Einhart Stratos who, similar to Vivio, is the descendant of another Sankt Kaiser ruler, Claus G.S. Ingvalt. As Einhart becomes determined to prove her fighting style is the strongest, Vivio befriends her and, together with her friends, enters a martial arts tournament where they fight against various opponents and learn more about their past lives.

Included one-shot:
Volume 2: 5th Anniversary Collaboration Comic: Fate/stay night x Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha

Tags: Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Urban , Super Power , Delinquents , Henshin , Animals , Spearplay , Swordplay , Artificial Intelligence , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Nudity , Kemonomimi , Nun , Religion , Guns , Dragons , Kuudere , Lost Civilization , School , Disability , Butler , Witch , Memory Manipulation , Maids , Nekomimi , Clone , Tomboy , Cyborg , Coastal , Demons , Coming of Age , Fitness , Medieval , Martial Arts , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Yuri
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Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism

Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

The Private Aichi Symbiosis Academy was originally a high school for high-class girls, when it became co-ed, the girls, out of fear, asked to be permitted to bring weapons to school. When that was enforced, a five-member vigilante corps-like organization called the "Supreme Five Swords" was also formed. After many generations, the five swords eventually became a group which corrected problematic students and such the academy started proactively accepting such students in order to correct them. Nomura Fudou was sent to that school after being part of a huge brawl, what will he do when the only options he has after enrolling are being expelled from that school too or being corrected the way the rest of the male students there were… by being forced to dress and act like girls!

Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.

Tags: School , Martial Arts , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Female Harem , Shounen

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