Manga like Bakemonogatari

Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregotozukai

Also known as Decapitation: Kubikiri Cycle.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological

A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind—one of whom ends up headless one fine morning.



Tags: Philosophy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Detective , Meta , Primarily Female Cast , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Hikikomori , Crossdressing , Maids , Gore

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru.

Also known as My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Hikigaya Hachiman is a high school boy with twisted character. He prefers to go against the trend and refuses to make friends with anybody. In order to get Hachiman back the right track, his school teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka forces him to enter 'Public Service Club'. There he meets other problematic students.

Includes volumes 6.5, 7.5, 10.5, and 14.5.

Tags: School Club , School , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Satire , Rehabilitation , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Harem , Meta

Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai

Also known as Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

Book 1 of the Seishun Buta Yarou series.

Out of sight, out of mind! Bunny girls do not live in libraries. This is simply common sense. And yet, that's exactly where Sakuta finds one in the wild. More bewildering is who the bunny girl is: Mai Sakurajima, a girl one year older than Sakuta, famous at their school for her acting career even though she's currently on break. To top it all off, it seems like no one else in the library can see Mai at all, no matter what she does or...wears. Wanting to find out more about this mystery and maybe get a little closer to this beautiful upperclassman in the process, Sakuta launches an investigation to discover why an unforgettable bunny girl keeps becoming totally invisible.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , School , Time Manipulation , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Hikikomori , Bullying , Idol

Katanagatari

Also known as KATANAGATARI.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Romance

A swordless “swordsman” and a self-described “schemer” who embark on a quest to obtain twelve peculiar masterpiece blades. Featuring a gatefold color insert, beautiful interior art, and copious bilingual footnotes, this hardcover edition is the first of a quartet scheduled to collect the entire original run. Brimming with action, romance, and unexpected wisdom, often as tongue-in-cheek as The Princess Bride, and shot through with ninjas, samurais, and secret moves, Sword Tale is Musashi for a new generation and a gift for any fan of adventure.



Tags: Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Anachronism , Philosophy , Tragedy , Parody , Politics , Revenge , Ninja , Historical , Meta

Hyouka

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Slice of Life

Oreki Houtarou is a self-proclaimed "energy-saver" - that is, he will not actively waste energy doing things that aren't necessary. Though he had no interest whatsoever in joining any clubs upon entering Kamiyama High School, he was commanded by his older sister Tomoe to enter the school's Classics Club, which was in danger of getting abolished as all previous members have graduated. Together with his old friends Fukube Satoshi and Ibara Mayaka, as well as the elegantly ladylike and curiously inquisitive Chitanda Eru, the newly reformed Classics Club find themselves involved in all sorts of mystery-solving escapades. Houtarou soon finds out that the Classics Club, as Tomoe has promised, is actually "quite interesting".

Note: Book one of the Koten-bu Series.

Tags: School Club , Coming of Age , School , Detective , Classic Literature , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist

Boogiepop wa Warawanai

Also known as Boogiepop and Others.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological

There is an urban legend that children tell one another about a shinigami that can release people from the pain they may be suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name—Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real.



Tags: Dissociative Identities , Urban Fantasy , Denpa , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Achronological Order , Conspiracy , Agender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Super Power , Primarily Teen Cast

Kimi to Boku no Kowareta Sekai

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological , Romance

The first installment of the Sekai Series.

Two siblings in the process of crossing a forbidden line, Hitsuuchi Samatoki and Hitsuuchi Yorotsuki. Two friends, Mukaezuki Hakohiko and Kotohara Ririsu. A locked-room murder at the school cracks their worlds…



Tags: Incest , Meta , Detective , Crime , Philosophy , Tragedy , School , Love Triangle , Crossdressing

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu

Also known as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Kyon, your typical high school student, has long given up his belief in the supernatural. However, upon meeting Haruhi Suzumiya, he quickly finds out that it is the supernatural that she is interested in; aliens, time travelers and espers among other things. When Haruhi laments about the lack of intriguing clubs around school, Kyon inspires Haruhi to form her own club. As a result, the SOS Brigade is formed, a club which specializes in all that is the supernatural.

Much to his chagrin, Kyon, along with the silent bookworm, Yuki Nagato, the shy and timid Mikuru Asahina, and the perpetually smiling Itsuki Koizumi, are recruited as members. The story follows the crazy adventures that these four endure under their whimsical leader, Haruhi.

Note: Includes a prologue and epilogue.

Tags: Philosophy , School Club , School , Urban Fantasy , Tsundere , Aliens , Parody , Gods , Achronological Order , Time Manipulation , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Chuunibyou , Maids , Memory Manipulation , Conspiracy , Otaku Culture

Toaru Majutsu no Index

Also known as A Certain Magical Index.

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

Set in a city of not only scientifically advanced superhuman students, but in a world where magic is also real. Kamijyo Touma's right hand, the Imagine Breaker, will negate all magic, psychic, or divine powers, as well as his own luck. One day he finds a young girl hanging on his balcony railing. She turns out to be a nun from the Church of England, and her mind has been implanted with the Index Librorum Prohibitorum—all the magical texts the Church has removed from circulation.



Note: Includes 16 prologues, 18 epilogues, and 6 extras.

Tags: Magic , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Amnesia , Conspiracy , War , Ensemble Cast , Urban Fantasy , Anti-Hero , Nun , Foreign , Clone , Battle Royale , Female Harem , Drugs , Gods , Religion

Date A Live

Also known as Date A Live.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

Shidou Itsuka has a problem. The world has been racked by massive quakes of an unknown source for years now, though life goes on. Then one day, Shidou's calm life ends forever when in the middle of a quake in his city, he meets a girl who's apparently a spirit-and the cause of all the destruction! When a team arrives to eliminate the threat, Shidou becomes embroiled in a war to protect these spirits-by making them fall in love with him?!



Tags: Female Harem , Super Power , Primarily Female Cast , War , Male Protagonist , Isekai , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , School , Amnesia , Shounen , Yandere , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Witch , Kuudere , Otaku Culture , Ghost , Twins , Crossdressing