Manga like Kaihen no Mahoutsukai

Madan no Ichi

Also known as Ichi the Witch.

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

Magic is alive and well in the world, inside beings known as Majiks. By completing a Majik’s trial, a Witch can gain its power. However, only women can become Witches or use magical items. All that changes one day when a young man named Ichi turns the world on its head by defeating an infamous Majik and gaining its magical powers!



Notes:
Winner of the 2025 Next Manga Award in the Print Manga Category.
Ranked 11th in Da Vinci's 2025 Book of the Year ranking.
Ranked 4th in the Men's Division of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2026 guidebook.
Ranked 10th in the 19th Manga Taisho in 2026.
Nominated for the 50th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2026.

Tags: Magic , Male Protagonist , Witch , Demons , Found Family , Shounen , Anachronism , Henshin , Matriarchy , Primarily Female Cast , Anthropomorphism , Tanned Skin , Prophecy , Cosmic Horror , Interspecies , Pregnancy

Aragane no Ko

Also known as Diamond in the Rough.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy

A world where "stone" is at the center. Akaboshi, an ore craftsman visits an underground village and meets a boy whose left foot is petrified. The boy's goal is to find the man with a three-line piercing but he holds a secret...?! The two of them set off on a journey to save his family!



Tags: Magic , Foreign , Found Family , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Travel , Disability , Politics , Urban Fantasy , Body Horror , Time Skip , Full Color , Adoption , Food , Terrorism , Anachronism , Ensemble Cast , Mermaid

Shiryou Majutsu no Yougisha

Status: Releasing
Genres: Fantasy , Supernatural

Do you want eternal life?

Red eyes, white skin, golden hair... Luna, our protagonist, is an apprentice magician who was bought by Khan, a shabby old magician. Luna is a prideful girl who spends her days learning magic in order to impress Khan, who has no interest in anything other than the study of magic.

Then, the previous king dies of illness, and rebellions erupt in various parts of the country. The kingdom is on the brink of destruction, but an army of undead attacks the rebels and puts them down. Who in the world has used the forbidden necromancy?

Tags: Necromancy , Female Protagonist , Adoption , Magic , Shounen , Skeleton , Time Skip

Mahoutsukai no Yome

Also known as The Ancient Magus' Bride.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Hatori Chise has lived most of her short 15-year life full of neglect and abuse, and devoid of love. With no familial warmth, she's had more than her share of troubles and pitfalls. Just when it seems like life can't get any worse, she's now being sold at a slave auction! When a cloaked man, with the head of a beast' skull and wielding strange powers, purchases her, Chise’s life will never be the same again.

The man is a a sorcerer of great power, a kindly magus who frees Chise and then makes a bold statement: Chise will become his apprentice–and his bride!



Note: Nominated for the 8th Manga Taisho Award.

Tags: Magic , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Foreign , Mythology , Rural , Age Gap , Monster Boy , Shounen , Heterosexual , Urban Fantasy , Travel , Fairy , Primarily Adult Cast , School , Dragons , Werewolf , Shapeshifting , Interspecies

Tongari Boushi no Atelier

Also known as Witch Hat Atelier.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch … until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem...



Notes:
Nominated for the 11th Manga Taishou Award in 2018.
Won the Daruma d'Or at Japan Expo in 2019.
Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia at the Eisner Awards in 2020.
Won the Best Manga Award at the Harvey Awards in 2020.

Tags: Witch , Magic , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Drawing , Coming of Age , Teacher , Ensemble Cast , Revenge , School , Primarily Female Cast , Medieval , Tragedy , Primarily Child Cast , Conspiracy , Politics , Philosophy , Disability , Seinen , Body Horror , Rehabilitation , Travel , Amnesia , Foreign , Environmental , Iyashikei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Spearplay , Dragons , Twins

Tales of the Abyss

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Fonons. Essential components of all matter on planet Auldrant.

Ages ago, a new type of fonon was discovered—the Seventh Fonon. Its discovery threw humanity into chaos, for if one could use the Seventh Fonon, one could learn the future. Wars over the Seventh Fonon raged across the lands, ending only when the miasma—a poison from within the planet—covered the entire world. This is when Yulia appeared.

A fonist skilled in prophecy, Yulia saw thousands of years into the future and foresaw a way to seal away the miasma. With the guidance of her prophecies, humanity sealed the miasma deep within the planet.

Over two thousand years passed.

The world is ruled by Yulia's prophecy, known as the Score. People believe in the coming “unprecedented prosperity” promised in the Score, never straying from the path set forth in the Score which will lead them to that prosperity. They look to the Score as revealed by the Order of Lorelei, the religion Yulia founded, and hold that the greatest virtue is to follow the Score faithfully.

Yulia's Score tells of a young man who is necessary in order to bring “unprecedented prosperity.” His name is Luke fon Fabre. An heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Kimlasca-Lanvaldear, he was kidnapped as a child by the kingdom's enemy, the Malkuth Empire. Since his return he has been confined to his family's manor for his own safety. He has no idea of the evil that now draws close.

Tags: Seinen

Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken

Also known as Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

After the defeat of the demon lord Hadlar all of the monsters were unleashed from his evil will and moved to the island of Delmurin to live in peace. Dai is the only human living on the island. Having been raised by the kindly monster Brass, Dai's dream is to grow up to be a hero. He gets to become one when Hadlar is resurrected and the previous hero, Avan, comes to train Dai to help in the battle. But Hadlar, announcing that he now works for an even more powerful demon lord, comes to kill Avan. To save his students Avan uses a Self-Sacrifice spell to attack, but is unable to defeat Hadlar. When it seems that Dai and Avan's other student Pop are doomed a mark appears on Dai's forehead and he suddenly gains super powers and is able to fend off Hadlar. The two students then go off on a journey to avenge Avan and bring peace back to the world.



Notes: Chapter count includes the respectively two and three chapter short stories "Derupa! Iruiru!" and "Dai Bakuhatsu!!" which were published in earlier Weekly Shonen Jumps pre-serialization and collected in the volumes.

Tags: Shounen , Magic , Demons , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Martial Arts , Dragons , Animals

WITCHRIV

Also known as WITCHRIV.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery

A girl named Nona lives in plain sight among humans, hiding her true identity as a mage as she spends her days in peace with her best friend Lovi. But one day, Nona uses magic to fix Lovi's glasses and subsequently catches the attention of the Bureau of Magic Surveillance. A simple good deed becomes the trigger that sets Nona's destiny in motion...



Tags: Witch , Female Protagonist , Magic , Tragedy , Dystopian , Class Struggle , Shounen , Orphan , Gore , Guns , Prison

Dungeon Meshi

Also known as Delicious in Dungeon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions...and a member! They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to starve on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons...none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!



Notes:
Nominated in the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Manga Taishou Award in 2016-2019.
Ranked first in the 2016 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (Male Readers Division).
Includes 14 extra chapters.

Tags: Dungeon , Food , Environmental , Magic , Ensemble Cast , Medieval , Primarily Adult Cast , Lost Civilization , Seinen , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , Elf , Male Protagonist , Necromancy , Demons , Dragons , Body Horror , Cosmic Horror , Kemonomimi , Episodic , Chimera , Monster Girl , Iyashikei , Alternate Universe , Witch , Succubus , Mermaid , Curses , Tanned Skin

Kekkaishi

Also known as Kekkaishi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

By night, junior high student Yoshimori Sumimura is a "kekkaishi"--a demon-hunter who specializes in creating magical barriers around his prey. By day, Yoshimori's got some other demons to battle: an addiction to sweets and a seriously crotchety grandfather! Yoshimori's pretty 16-year-old neighbor and childhood friend, Tokine Yukimura, is also a kekkaishi, but their families are feuding over who is the true practitioner of the art.



Tags: Shounen , Youkai , Male Protagonist , Gods , School , Heterosexual , Mythology