Manga like Gekkou

What is Gekkou about?

Status: Finished

Gekkou, or "Moonlight", is about the peculiar relationship between a cynical boy and a perfect girl. Said cynical boy is Nonomiya who spends day in day out in boredom, taking refuge from his dull life in his imagination. One fateful day, he happens upon the notebook of the much-rumored beauty Youko Tsukimori, neglected on the ground. Poking out from it is a scrap of paper with the unexpected title "Murder Recipe". His interest ignited, he immediately stuffs it into his pocket, only to find out the promising recipe contains nothing but scenarios that may or may not lead to deadly accidents, not even worthy of being called a plan. When he tentatively asks her about it the next day, she hasn't lost anything. But then her father dies. An accident...



Tags: Male Protagonist , School , Crime , Detective
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Here is a list of Manga similar to Gekkou

The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria

Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria

Also known as The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural , Thriller

Kazuki Hoshino treasures nothing more than his ordinary life, and March 2 should have been an ordinary day. The arrival of a transfer student, the mysterious Aya Otonashi, shouldn't have shattered the world he knows. He's never seen this girl before in his life, but she says she's met him thousands of times--and declares war on him for a crime he can't even remember... As the truth begins to unravel, nothing is as it seems, and at the heart of it all is a wish powerful enough to change everything...



Tags: Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Time Loop , Dissociative Identities , Achronological Order , Bullying , Yandere , Time Manipulation , School , Battle Royale , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Memory Manipulation , Amnesia , Death Game , Gore , Body Swapping , Marriage , Shapeshifting , Yuri , Baseball
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My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected

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 , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Satire , Rehabilitation , Love Triangle , Seinen , Female Harem , Primarily Teen Cast , Meta
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Qualidea of Scum And a Gold Coin

Kuzu to Kinka no Qualidea

Also known as Qualidea of Scum And a Gold Coin.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Told through two perspectives, this is a tale about a world about to end and a dazzling time of youth—
Kusaoka Haruma, a student from a low-end high school, and the angelic underclassman Chigusa Yu. Two people who should not be in the same year level end up meeting as a result of a fateful incident. Abnormal weather, abnormal phenomena, abnormal actions. An ordinary life that falls off the rails little by little, and a bizarre urban legend.
According to "The Random Crossroad"—at midnight, if you come to the end of the T-juncture and choose the wrong path, you can never come back.
As they chase after a girl whose whereabouts are unknown as a result of these events, could what they find exceed Haruma and Yu's wildest expectations…?!



Tags: Male Protagonist , School , Female Protagonist , Dissociative Identities
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Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

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: Coming of Age , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Female Cast , School , Time Manipulation , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Bullying , Hikikomori , Idol
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Tada, Soredake de Yokattan desu

Tada, Soredake de Yokattan desu

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological

A psychological mystery about middle school bullying and depression. The sister of a suicide victim investigates a school to find out the reason why he took his own life. A single boy was accused of extorting an entire group of students and driving a boy to suicide, but who was the real bully? Grand Prize winner of the 22nd Dengeki Novel Prize.



Tags: Bullying , Suicide , Anti-Hero , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , School
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Classroom of the Elite

Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e

Also known as Classroom of the Elite.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life , Thriller

Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom—if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks! Ayanokoji Kiyotaka has landed at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he meets Horikita Suzune, who’s determined to rise up the ladder to Class A. Can they beat the system in a school where cutthroat competition is the name of the game?



Includes Volumes: 4.5, 7.5, 11.5
Included Chapters: 14 Prologues, 13 Epilogues, 1 Extra

Tags: School , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Battle Royale , Politics , Ensemble Cast , Survival , Revenge , Conspiracy , Heterosexual , Fugitive , Denpa , Boarding School , Coming of Age , Classic Literature , Torture , Bullying , School Club , Disability , Rehabilitation , Board Game , Yandere , Tsundere , Delinquents , Kuudere , Martial Arts , Athletics , Love Triangle , Suicide , Tragedy , Female Harem , Teacher

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