Manga like He Was My Brother

What is He Was My Brother about?

Status: Finished

My brother died. This is a story of my brother’s lover, me, and the “thing that was my brother.”

The sudden death of her older brother Kiichiro brings high schooler Kanoko all the way from Tokyo to Hiroshima to visit his grave alongside his past lover, Hijiri. Promising her brother she would protect Hijiri after Kiichiro's passing, Kanoko finds herself falling in love with Hijiri despite herself. She pledges to keep visiting Hijiri in his and Kiichiro's old home in Hiroshima until Hijiri falls for her too. However, her brother's memory still lingers everpresent, like a Romeo not yet ready to give up his Juliet...

Note: Includes 10 extra chapters.

Tags: Ghost , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Bisexual , Boys' Love , Age Gap

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Ganma!

Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu

Also known as The Summer Hikaru Died.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Two boys lived in a village: Yoshiki and Hikaru. The two did everything together...until the day Hikaru was encompassed by a mysterious light. That was when everything changed—Hikaru most of all. Yoshiki still wishes from the bottom of his heart to always stay by his side...but is there even a Hikaru left to be with?

Tags: Monster Boy , Male Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Rural , Tragedy , Body Horror , Primarily Teen Cast , Boys' Love , Mythology , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Urban Fantasy , Curses , Unrequited Love , Gods , Seinen , Aromantic , Asexual , Mountaineering

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Kadocomi

Piccoma

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Aono-kun ni Sawaritai kara Shinitai

Also known as I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die.

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

“I would die if it would allow me to touch you. That is my love.”

Airhead Yuri-chan and her boyfriend Aono-kun had a perfectly normal relationship until one day Aono-kun suddenly “passed away” … They will never be bound together, and they cannot even touch. This is their difficult and almost too sincere love story.

Note: Nominated to the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Ghost , Psychosexual , Reincarnation , Afterlife , Seinen , Body Horror , Tragedy , Suicide , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Family Life , Love Triangle , School , Amnesia

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Pixiv Comic

Comic Days

Pocket Magazine

K MANGA

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Haru no Noroi

Also known as Haru’s Curse.

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

After Natsumi's younger sister and best friend Haru dies at the age of 19, she begins dating Haru's fiancee Tougo - on the condition that he take her only to places he had taken her sister. Their relationship deepens as the seasons pass, but Haru's Curse lies between them... Will there be happiness after Haru's Curse is broken?

Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Urban , Tragedy , Suicide , Unrequited Love , Yuri

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Pixiv Comic

Comic Days

Ichijin Plus

Piccoma

INKR

Naver Series

Omoi

Lezhin

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Itsuwari no Marigold

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Kasumi Hana visits her late brother's pen pal, Urushizawa Lily, to inform her of his death. If she had been misleading her brother, she would have murdered Urushizawa Lily. However, Lily is a blind girl who genuinely cared about Hana's brother.

For Lily's sake, Hana decides to become her brother.

Tags: Disability , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Crossdressing , Historical , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tragedy , Estranged Family , Suicide , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Bisexual

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No reading links available

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Seshuusei Triangle

Also known as Hereditary Triangle.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Childhood friends Koutarou Fujiki, Kajiwara, and Fuyuko thought they would always be together. They spent their youth in a strange love triangle, the two boys fighting over who would date Fuyuko. But suddenly one day, that life ends. Kajiwara goes missing, and Koutarou takes his sweetheart's hand in marriage. Now middle-aged, Koutarou is left to wonder—would his wife have chosen differently if Kajiwara were still around? On a visit to his hometown, the memories come rushing back…

Tags: Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Photography

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No reading links available

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Kimi ni Nidome no Sayonara wo.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Hinata Harusawa, who works as a web designer, receives a call that the body of his best friend, Sora Otonashi, who disappeared in his second year of high school, has been found. He attends the wake with fellow members of the art club that Sora belonged to at the time, Director Hase, Deputy Director Tokiwa, and senior Shinohara... However, Shinohara is caught by someone, and Hinata is also attacked. He desperately resists to protect his painting, but Hinata gradually loses consciousness. When he wakes up, he finds himself in "that place" on "that day"--!! What is the truth behind his best friend's disappearance and death?!

Tags: Time Manipulation , Drawing , Male Protagonist , Crime , Gore , Seinen , School

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Manga UP!

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Mieruko-chan

Also known as Mieruko-chan.

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

One day, she could see…everything. What’s a girl to do when hideous monsters appear no matter which way she turns? And on top of that, nobody else can see them! Obviously, there’s only one thing that makes sense—ignore them. Kinda hard to put theory into practice, though, when the ghosts know she’s watching…

Tags: Ghost , Female Protagonist , Body Horror , Youkai , Gods , Seinen , Mythology , Episodic , Primarily Female Cast , School , Urban Fantasy , Yandere , Philosophy , Yuri

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Kadocomi

Nico Nico Seiga

Pixiv Comic

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Tokimeki no Ikenie

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Romance

This is a story about Mari, a modest and inconspicuous girl who dreams of becoming a manga artist. Born into a complicated family, she lives a modest school life while hanging onto her dream. One day, after saving Shigeru Hanamizuki, the most popular boy in class, from a traffic accident, he confesses to her. However, Mari turns him down because of certain circumstances...

Tags: Gore , Cult , Female Protagonist , School , Shounen , Gods , Urban Fantasy

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Pocket Magazine

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Machigatteita no wa Ore Dattan da.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

A young man named Furuya contemplates the accidental death of his girlfriend, Sara.

Tags: Heterosexual , Yandere , Ghost , Revenge , Tragedy , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , School

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No reading links available

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Oujou Giwa no Imi wo Shire!

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

Ichimatsu Kairo's ex-girlfriend, Kusakabe Hiyori, who disappeared 7 years ago appears before him again one day. As someone who was converted into a devout follower of the Hiyori religion, he became unable to live in reality when she left. Reunited, she divulges to him her unreasonable demand, "Ichimatsu-kun, I want my childbirth recorded so give me your sperm."

Tags: Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Yandere , Primarily Female Cast , Marriage , Yuri , Netorare

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