Manga like CANDY & CIGARETTES

SPY×FAMILY

Also known as SPY x FAMILY.

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

The master spy codenamed <Twilight> has spent his days on undercover missions, all for the dream of a better world. But one day, he receives a particularly difficult new order from command. For his mission, he must form a temporary family and start a new life?! A Spy/Action/Comedy about a one-of-a-kind family!



Notes:
Includes 2 "Extra Missions" and 11 “Short Missions”.
Nominated for the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020.
Nominated for the 13th and 14th Manga Taisho Award in 2020 and 2021.
Nominated for the 44th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2020.

Tags: Family Life , Espionage , Found Family , War , Assassins , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Adoption , Work , Fake Relationship , School , Aliens , Politics , Orphan , Shounen , Heterosexual , Marriage , Super Power , Slapstick , Guns , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Parody , Parenthood , Foreign , Terrorism , Hikikomori , Satire , Iyashikei , Urban , Historical , Anachronism , Tsundere , Urban Fantasy

BLACK LAGOON

Also known as Black Lagoon.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama

Rokurō Okajima is just an average Japanese salaryman, living an average life. But when he's taken hostage by the crew of the Black Lagoon, Rokurō finds himself thrown headfirst into a deadly world of outlawed heroes, brutal villains, and blazing gunfights. Where he ends up is anyone's guess, but one thing is for certain—he's in for a wild ride!



Tags: Guns , Seinen , Gangs , Military , Male Protagonist , Crime , Ships , Mafia , Triads , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Assassins , Yakuza , Foreign , Pirates , Ensemble Cast , Gore , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Nun

Yozakura-san Chi no Daisakusen

Also known as Mission: Yozakura Family.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Romance

Taiyou Asano is a super shy high school student and the only person he can talk to is his childhood friend, Mutsumi Yozakura. It turns out that Mutsumi is the daughter of the ultimate spy family! Even worse, Mutsumi is being harassed by her overprotective, nightmare of a brother, Kyouichirou. What drastic steps will Taiyou have to take to save Mutsumi?! A spy family comedy - the mission begins!



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

Tags: Espionage , Shounen , Family Life , Conspiracy , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Surreal Comedy , Assassins , Marriage , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Swordplay , Orphan , Twins , Tragedy , Guns , Episodic , Chibi , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Mixed Gender Harem , Kaiju

Osoroshii Koroshiya to Hirowareta Shoujo

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

A homeless girl is rescued and brought home by a Hitman. He then helps her out and gives her a place to live.

Compiled version contains two omake chapters and a special chapter.

Tags: Assassins , Seinen , Mafia , Crime , Food

Violence Action

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Thriller

Kikuno Kei, nickname "Kay", is a normal university student, and a part time hitwoman.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Assassins , Guns , Gore , Seinen , Torture , Primarily Adult Cast

GUNSLINGER GIRL

Also known as GUNSLINGER GIRL.

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

The Social Welfare Agency in Italy is not what it seems. Yes, it rescues young girls who have been brutalized, but it then brainwashes them and turns them into ruthless killers for an elite and secret counter-terrorism unit for the Italian government.

Enter a young girl named Henrietta. After witnessing the savage murder of her family and barely surviving, the Agency takes her in and repairs her injuries using the latest in cybernetic technology. All traces of Henrietta's past are wiped from her mind, as she becomes one of the Agency's most lethal assassins.



Tags: Tragedy , Mafia , Ensemble Cast , Terrorism , Assassins , Foreign , Politics , Crime , Seinen , Guns , Police , Female Protagonist

J⇔M

Also known as JM.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy

J is a professional hitman...he was orphan and raised by a syndicate as an assassin. He was too good, killed too many people, knew too much about the syndicate. When the syndicate tried to erase him, they were backfired...when three syndicates were wiped out completely, J became "untouchable".

Megumi, a girl in third grade, was bullied by her classmates because she is half-Japanese, half-American and gets good grades. One day, when they bumped their heads...their bodies were switched. Now J is inside a cute girl's body...and Megumi is inside the tough guy's body.

Now they must hide that they are not who they were and keep their everyday life look the same as before. J never knew how hard a girl's life is, and Megumi enjoys her new life!?



Tags: Body Swapping , Assassins , Guns , Criminal Organization , Yakuza , School , Seinen , Estranged Family , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Parody , Bullying , Gore

Beageruta

Also known as Die Wergelder.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama

Wergelder: in Germanic law, the money paid by a murderer or his family to the victim’s family in atonement. A mysterious deal goes down on a remote island known as a red-light pleasure district. An insane fight between a blonde sniper and an assassin in a Chinese dress brings up questions about who the players are in this deal. A group of misfit yakuza gets caught in the crossfire while trying to get in on the deal, or at least find out what’s being dealt. At the center of it all is a woman who has been wronged in the worst imaginable ways. She will have her revenge. Eisner award-winning creator of Blade of the Immortal Hiroaki Samura presents a new badass thriller with some very bad ladies!



Tags: Seinen , Primarily Female Cast , Martial Arts , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Yakuza , Crime , Assassins , Gore , Prostitution , Foreign , Cult , Cannibalism , Bondage

GANGSTA.

Also known as GANGSTA..

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama

In the city of Ergastulum, a shady ville filled with made men and petty thieves, whores on the make and cops on the take, there are some deeds too dirty for even its jaded inhabitants to touch. Enter the "Handymen," Nic and Worick, who take care of the jobs no one else will handle. Until the day when a cop they know on the force requests their help in taking down a new gang muscling in on the territory of a top Mafia family. It seems like business (and mayhem) as usual, but the Handymen are about to find that this job is a lot more than they bargained for.



Tags: Gangs , Dystopian , Urban , Crime , Seinen , Drugs , Disability , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Guns , Gore , Swordplay , Anti-Hero , Nudity , Conspiracy , Prostitution , Found Family , Medicine , Age Gap , Twins , Urban Fantasy

Marginal Operation

Also known as Marginal Operation.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Our hero Ryouta Arata is an otaku who's just lost his job after the dissolution of his company. Unwilling to return to his old NEET ways, he applies online to a private military security company, thinking the benefits to be promising. After what appears to be a baffling test, he's assigned to be an "operator of operators" and begins his training in a foreign country. Little does he know, the life of a private mercenary is far more grueling than he could have ever imagined!



Note: Chapter count includes 5 extra chapters.

Tags: Seinen , Military , Terrorism , War , Guns , Adoption