Manga like Hikari no Hako

also known as Box of Light

What is Box of Light about?

Status: Releasing

A quiet convenience store hovers on the boundary between life and death. Its faint glow in the darkness draws people toward it, pushing them closer to the final purchase they’ll ever make…and is that a monster in the magazine aisle?! Prepare for spooky creatures, cryptic employees, and an air of delightful dread in this supernatural mystery. This beloved self-contained tale was awarded a top spot in both the Kono Manga wo Yome! and Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings in Japan.



Tags: Josei , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Work , Afterlife , Konbini , Suicide , Magic , College
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Nietzsche-sensei: Konbini ni, Satori Sedai no Shinjin ga Maiorita

Nietzsche-sensei: Konbini ni, Satori Sedai no Shinjin ga Maiorita

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Matsukoma is a male part-time late-night convenience store worker training a new part-time worker named Tomoharu Nii, nicknamed Nietzsche-sensei. Tomoharu is a university student in the school's Buddhism department. When an angry customer screams at Tomoharu, "Customers are gods," he replies, "God is dead."



Tags: Konbini , Work , Josei , Male Protagonist , Episodic
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

Kurosagi Shitai Takuhaibin

Also known as The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university, three guys and two girls, find little call for their job skills in today's Tokyo... among the living, that is! But all that stuff in college they were told would never pay off-you know, channeling, dowsing, ESP-gives them a direct line to the dead—the dead who are still trapped in their corpses and can't move on to the next reincarnation.

The five form the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: whether suicide, murder, accident, or illness, they'll carry your body wherever it needs to go to free your soul!



Tags: Gore , Detective , Ghost , Seinen , Episodic , Urban Fantasy , Body Horror , Primarily Adult Cast , Demons , College , Foreign , Ensemble Cast , Aliens , Nudity , Mythology
Yume no Soko

Yume no Soko

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Supernatural

A girl falls into a coma and finds herself at an odd convenience store managed by a talking furry creature. In the land where dreams are made, on the brink of life and death, the girl watches and learns from the whimsical creatures she comes across.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Afterlife , Seinen , Magic , Work , Konbini , Episodic
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Tokimachi Apartment

Tokimachi Apartment

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

An omnibus series depicting people who gather at the mysterious residence, Tokimachi Apartment. Why do they come to the building, and where will they go? What exactly is the Tokimachi Apartment...?!

Tags: Josei
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Fukiyose Residence

Fukiyose Residence

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

With his dreams broken food deliveryman Riku has hit reset on all his personal relations. While feeling nothing but frustration at everything around him, his one relief is the odd gal Kirari who works at an equally odd convenience store.

But Kirari's cheery and flashy personality is merely one side of herself. When she decides to reveal her private self to Riku who unknowingly lives in the same building as her Kirari triggers a chain of events that one by one brings her closer to all the residents of her building. All with their own pasts, dreams, and loneliness.

Tags: Seinen , Ensemble Cast
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Dementia 21

Dementia 21

Also known as Dementia 21.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Horror , Mystery

Yukie Sakai is a sprightly young home health aide eager to help her elderly clients. But what seems like a straightforward job quickly turns into a series of increasingly surreal and bizarre adventures that put Yukie’s wits to the test! Cartoonist Kago, who is well known for combining a more traditional manga style with hyper realistic illustration technique, an experimental visual storytelling approach, and outrageously sexual and scatological subject matter, has single-handedly created his own genre: “fashionable paranoia."



Note: Includes the unrelated oneshots "Detective SumoKING" and "Separate."

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Parody , Seinen , Meta , Body Horror , Work , Family Life , Medicine , Primarily Adult Cast , Super Power , Amnesia , Urban , Philosophy , Tokusatsu , Age Gap , Gambling , Dystopian , Death Game , Artificial Intelligence , Aliens
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