Manga like Call of the Night

What is Call of the Night about?

Status: Finished

One sleepless night, Ko slips out to walk the streets. Life after dark is a revelation! When flirtatious Nazuna invites Ko to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he’s stoked! But then he awakens to kisses on his neck with a little too much bite to them... Is it just the delicious taste of his blood that makes her meet him night after night for late-night adventures, conversation and...naps? Or something else? Then, when a cute girl from Ko’s past shows up and competes for his attention, his budding relationship with the undead is put to the test!

Notes:
Seventh place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category and first place of Daruma 2023 Award (France) in the new manga category (released in 2022 in France).
Includes three extra chapters.

Tags: Vampire , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Monster Girl , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Coming of Age , Suicide , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Heterosexual , Hikikomori , Monster Boy , Urban , Detective , Maids , Gore , Outdoor Activities , Philosophy , Guns , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yandere , Gyaru , Iyashikei , Femboy

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Sunday Webry

VIZ

Bilibili

VIZ

Nico Nico Seiga

Manga One

Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia

Also known as Insomniacs After School.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Unable to sleep at night, Ganta Nakami is cranky in class and unpopular with his classmates. He discovers that the school observatory, once used by the now-defunct astronomy club, may be the perfect place for a nap—but he’s not alone. Fellow insomniac Isaki Magari is willing to share the observatory with Nakami, and a friendship between the two begins as they bond over the most unlikely of things.

Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Coming of Age , Astronomy , Iyashikei , Heterosexual , School , School Club , Photography , Seinen , Disability , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Outdoor Activities , Camping , Time Skip , Tomboy

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VIZ

Naver Series

VIZ

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Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari

Also known as Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You.

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

At age forty-five, office worker Sasaki has had enough of the corporate grind. His only solace is smoking-and the friendly smile of supermarket cashier Yamada. When Sasaki can't find Yamada after a particularly trying day, a striking woman invites him to smoke with her. The despondent man thinks he's made a new smoking buddy in the cool, teasing Tayama, but Sasaki doesn't realize he already knows her!

Note: On June 23, 2022 it was announced that the manga got licensed by Square Enix. It started being published in the magazine Big Gangan on August 25, 2022.
Winner of the Next Manga Award 2022 in the Web Manga Category.

Tags: Seinen , Konbini , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Work , Age Gap , Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Office , Kuudere

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Nico Nico Seiga

Manga UP!

Comikey

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Dagashi Kashi

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

Shikada Kokonotsu's father owns a rural sweets shop, and his plan is for Kokonotsu to take it over one day. However, Kokonotsu wants to be a manga author instead! One day in summer, the cute but weird girl Shidare Hotaru, from the famous sweets company, comes to pay a visit. Apparently, Kokonotsu's father is famous and she wants him to join her family's company. However, he will only agree if she can convince Kokonotsu to take over the family business!

Tags: Food , Rural , Educational , Shounen , Economics , Episodic

Where to read?

Sunday Webry

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Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

One day, high-school student Koyomi Araragi catches a girl named Hitagi Senjougahara when she trips. But—much to his surprise—she doesn’t weigh anything. At all. She says an encounter with a so-called “crab” took away all her weight …

Monsters have been here since the beginning.
Always.
Everywhere.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Youkai , Vampire , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Gods , Female Harem , Meta , Ghost , Tragedy , Denpa , Surreal Comedy , Nekomimi , Nudity , Tomboy , Love Triangle , Dissociative Identities , Gore , Shounen , Monster Girl , Body Horror , School , Age Regression

Where to read?

Pocket Magazine

Bilibili

INKR

K MANGA

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Nazo no Kanojo X

Also known as Mysterious Girlfriend X.

Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi , Mystery , Romance , Slice of Life

Mikoto Urabe is a new transfer student in Akira Tsubaki’s high school class. One day, Akira happens to find Mikoto passed out asleep on her desk after classes have ended. He wakes her and tells her it’s time to go home, and discovers that she has drooled on her desk. He spontaneously reaches out to touch and taste it… and then things start getting really strange.

In this surprising and sweet twist on a high school romance story, boy meets girl and they learn about each other’s inner life through their highly unusual bond, and Akira learns to respect Mikoto as she sets a careful pace in the development of their relationship.

Note: Includes the original one-shot and eight extra chapters.

Tags: School , Psychosexual , Heterosexual , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Nudity , Love Triangle , Idol , Robots

Where to read?

Omoi

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Sayonara Eri

Also known as Goodbye, Eri.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

With his mother dying, Yuuta attempts to capture her last days on his phone. After her death, Yuuta heads to the roof of the hospital to commit suicide, but a meeting with a strange girl leads him on the path to making a movie.

Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on July 4, 2022.

Tags: Meta , Filmmaking , POV , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Acting , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Vampire , Time Skip , Primarily Teen Cast , Family Life , School , Suicide , Disability , Shounen

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Shonen Jump Plus MANGA Plus MANGA Plus

VIZ

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Voynich Hotel

Also known as The Voynich Hotel.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Horror , Mystery , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Welcome to the Voynich Hotel, a rundown resort located on an all but deserted island in the South Pacific. Owned by former Mexican wrestler Kandre Umeda, the hotel is maintained by two mysterious maids, Elena and Beluna, as well as a homicidal chef named Amelia.

Kuzuki Taizou, a Japanese tourist, comes to stay at the hotel to escape from his dark past. Soon he discovers that the strange occupants and happenings of the island are even more abnormal than what he is used to. Taizou quickly becomes embroiled in the spiderweb of affairs on the island, growing close to many of the residents and helping them out, though often causing even more problems for himself. But when Taizou's past comes to the island to haunt him, his new friends jump to his aid.

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Seinen , Witch , Maids , Assassins , Foreign , Ensemble Cast , Inn , Primarily Adult Cast , Mahjong , Yakuza , Drugs , Ghost , Disability , Gore , Nudity , Skeleton , Demons , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bisexual , Amnesia , Zombie , Adoption , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual

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Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi

Also known as Mysterious Disappearances.

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

Ogawa Sumireko is a busty bookstore clerk who wants to become a novelist after some writing success in her youth. When strange occurrences start cropping up around the city, she teams up with her flirtatious co-worker Adashino Ren to look into them. But Ren is hiding a secret of his own! With their combined skills of occult knowledge, what will they discover as they investigate?

Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Demons , Female Protagonist , Ghost , Nudity , Age Gap , Heterosexual , Seinen , Primarily Female Cast , Writing , Male Protagonist , Youkai

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No reading links available

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Happiness

Also known as Happiness.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Nothing interesting is happening in Makoto Ozaki’s first year of high school. His life is a series of quiet humiliations: low-grade bullies, unreliable friends, and the constant frustration of his adolescent lust. But one night, a pale, thin girl knocks him to the ground in an alley and offers him a choice. Now everything is different. Daylight is searingly bright. Food tastes awful. And worse than anything is the terrible, consuming thirst. The tiny shames of his old life have been replaced by two towering horrors: the truth of what will slake his awful craving and high school itself.

Tags: Vampire , Primarily Teen Cast , Torture , Tragedy , Gore , Cult , Time Skip , Cannibalism , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Body Horror , Shounen , Religion , Urban , Nudity , Delinquents , School , Bullying

Where to read?

Pocket Magazine

K MANGA

Omoi

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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?

Note: Nominated for the 15th Manga Taisho Award in 2022.

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

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