Manga like Hoozuki no Reitetsu

xxxHolic

Also known as xxxHOLiC.

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

Kimihiro Watanuki is haunted by visions of ghosts and spirits. He seeks help from a mysterious woman named Yuko, who claims she can help. However, Watanuki must work for Yuko in order to pay for her aid. Soon Watanuki finds himself employed in Yuko’s shop where he sees things and meets customers that are stranger than anything he could have ever imagined.



Notes:
The series was re-named to xxxHolic•Rou on chapter title pages of chapter 186 and on, but not on their volume's front covers, spines and indicia.
The chapter count contains a one-shot published in May 2010 to commemorate the switch, which was later collected into Volume 18.
The chapter count also reflects the magazine releases; the chapters plus the one-shot were re-arranged into 109 chapters across 19 volumes.

Tags: Magic , Youkai , Mythology , Ghost , Seinen , Crossover , Clone , Male Protagonist , Curses , Witch , Philosophy , Time Manipulation , Denpa , Urban Fantasy , Episodic , Memory Manipulation , Tragedy , School , Heterosexual

Dekin no Mogura

Also known as Dekin no Mogura: The Earthbound Mole.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Natsumi Eguchi took us to the afterlife with Hozuki’s Coolheadedness. Now, they take us somewhere even stranger: the land of the living. College students Magi and Yaeko’s lives take a strange turn the day a man is struck on the head by a falling dictionary from the sky. Bleeding, dazed, and refusing help from the police or paramedics, he sets off every alarm in their minds. But the real shock comes after. Ever since that chance encounter, the world around them has started to shift. Ghosts. Spirits. Unexplainable things. Whatever this man is, he’s opened their eyes to a realm that was never meant to be seen—and a story that was never meant to be told.



Tags: Seinen , Exorcism , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Surreal Comedy , Mythology , Male Protagonist

Jigoku Kurayami Hana mo Naki

Also known as Hell Is Dark with No Flowers.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Seiji Tohno sometimes sees the people around him as monsters. It's a curse that has driven him to a life of despair...but all that changes one evening when he stumbles across a bewitchingly beautiful boy in a huge European mansion. The boy introduces himself as Shiroshi Saljou, and before he knows it, Seiji has agreed to become Shiroshi's part-time assistant. It turns out that Shiroshi's "proxy service" is to consign yokal-possessed sinners to Hell, which will bring Seiji face-to-face with an unimaginable host of horrors!

Tags: Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Detective , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Episodic , Suicide , Work , Gore

Mononoke

Also known as Mononoke.

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

The story is about a man who is a medicine seller. He hunts mononoke (demons) and kills them by using a sword. However, before unsheathing his sword he first needs to learn of the form (katachi), the truth behind the human tragedies (makoto) and the reason behind the evils (kotowari) that gave birth to it before killing the demon.

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Male Protagonist , Youkai , Demons , Exorcism , Swordplay , Oiran

Mairimashita! Iruma-kun

Also known as Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy

Iruma Suzuki has always been eager to please, even at the cost of his well-being. Worst yet, he's the son of two selfish parents who end up selling him to a demon. Thanks to their totally irresponsible actions, Iruma has found himself living in the Netherworld, where he must live and attend school as the grandson of an older demon. Luckily, his new, doting grandfather is there to help, but Iruma will have to figure out how to blend in with his demonic classmates or risk getting eaten. All he needs to do is subjugate rival classmates, summon familiars, and do other typical demon things while never revealing that he's human… Piece of cake, right?

Tags: Demons , Ensemble Cast , Found Family , School , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Adoption , Magic , Shounen , Isekai , Crossdressing , Idol , School Club , Family Life , LGBTQ+ Themes , Assassins , Love Triangle , Video Games , Politics , Iyashikei

Jigoku no Ashita

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

Ashita, a high school student who is head over heels in love, falls down a flight of stairs in shock after a heartbreak. When he wakes up, he finds himself in the arms of a beautiful woman on a boat headed to the afterlife. Ashita is gently comforted by the beautiful woman, named Gasha, and takes a tour of Hell at her request; soon after he ends up enrolling in demon school, where Gasha is the headmaster. Thrown into the midst of demons who are too loyal to their desires, a school life that inevitably leads to bloodshed begins!

(Kodansha, translated)

Tags: Afterlife , Demons , Male Protagonist , School , Seinen , Surreal Comedy , Gore

Mokke no Hakoniwa

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Slice of Life

Make the beautiful scenery your own... The "box garden" has fascinated people with such thoughts since ancient times in Edo. There is what is called "Mokke's miniature garden", and the "lord" lives in the garden.

Because of unavoidable circumstances, I became a miniature garden gardener!?

Tags: Seinen , Gods , Horticulture

Kamisama no Youjinbou

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

"That won't help you be a good rabbit!" In the early Meiji era, a samurai who was suppose to have died during the Battle of Hakodate wakes up in a strange shrine. There, he finds a small, fuzzy boy who calls himself a god. The god tells him that he needs training to fulfill his wish to be reincarnated as a rabbit, which he doesn't remember wishing for...?　This is the start of a Japanese-style supernatural tale between a former samurai and a small god!

Tags: Shounen , Historical , Gods

Karma Karma

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Supernatural

Note: The manga was a 3 chapter mini-series published from 2013 to 2014 on the monthly magazine G Fantasy. Its only volume got published on January 27, 2025; which included an extra chapter of the series that was published on G Fantasy on January 18, 2025 and a new one-shot.

Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy

Jigokuren: LOVE in the HELL

Also known as Love in Hell.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Supernatural

Rintaro Senkawa is a regular guy in his mid-20’s who got a little drunk one night and fell to his death. But that is just the beginning of Rintaro’s story, as he finds himself unexpectedly in Hell where he meets his guide, the painfully sexy devil Koyori. Can Rintaro take his situation seriously enough to repent for the sins of his former life, or is he fated to be eternally tempted, teased, and tortured by scantily-clad devils with iron spiked clubs?



Tags: Afterlife , Demons , Male Protagonist , Gore , Nudity , Slavery , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Isekai , Monster Girl