Manga like Kanshikan Tsunemori Akane

Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri

Also known as Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery

This unusual duo brings the hidden truth into the light! Ron Kamonohashi, a private investigator with serious issues, and Totomaru Isshiki, a pure-hearted but dim police detective, team up to solve the most baffling mysteries! A thrilling detective story for a new generation from Akira Amano, creator of "Reborn!" and "Ēldlive"!



Tags: Detective , Police , Amnesia , Crime , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Super Power , Slapstick , School

DEATH NOTE

Also known as Death Note.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

When Light Yagami finds a notebook giving him power over death, will he use it for good—or evil?

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?



Tags: Detective , Tragedy , Anti-Hero , Police , Urban Fantasy , Crime , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Gods , Espionage , Primarily Male Cast , Time Skip , Shounen , Demons , Memory Manipulation , Amnesia , Politics

MONSTER

Also known as Monster.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension.

Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”



Tags: Seinen , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Philosophy , Twins , Amnesia , Fugitive , Noir , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical , Detective , Ensemble Cast , Police , Medicine , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Orphan , Adoption , Suicide , Torture , Gore , Achronological Order , Assassins

NO.6

Also known as No. 6.

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

For Shion, an elite student in the technologically sophisticated city No. 6, life is carefully choreographed. School, study, and the occasional visit with his friend and classmate Safu. One fateful day, however, he takes a misstep, sheltering an injured boy his age from a typhoon. Known only as Rat, this boy is a VC—a fugitive living outside the computerized tapestry of city control—and helping him will throw Shion’s life into chaos and start him down a path to discovering the appalling secrets behind the superficial perfection of No. 6.



Tags: Anti-Hero , Dystopian , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Urban , Crime , Conspiracy , Shoujo , LGBTQ+ Themes , Lost Civilization , Cyberpunk , Boys' Love , Yandere , Male Protagonist , Acting , Gods , Class Struggle , Crossdressing

Koukaku Kidoutai

Also known as The Ghost in the Shell.

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

Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including "ghost hackers" who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interface and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers' criminal ends. When Major Kusanagi tracks the cybertrail of one such master hacker, the Puppeteer, her quest leads her into a world beyond information and technology where the very nature of consciousness and the human soul are turned upside down.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Artificial Intelligence , Politics , Cyborg , Robots , Philosophy , Dystopian , Urban , Police , Seinen , Crime , Guns , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Bisexual , Nudity , Gore , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Heterosexual

Tokyo Ghoul

Also known as Tokyo Ghoul.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she’s only interested in his body—eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own.



Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Tragedy , Cannibalism , Urban Fantasy , Gore , Male Protagonist , Dystopian , Survival , Seinen , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Shapeshifting , Body Horror , Torture , Police , Cosmic Horror , Kuudere , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Twins , Chimera , Mythology , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Demons

Akudama Drive

Also known as Akudama Drive.

Status: Finished
Genres:

Long ago, the "Kantou" and "Kansei" countries had a war that divided the world. But at the end of the war, Kansei became a vassal to Kantou. However, Kansei's government and police force declined, and crime became rampant. The criminals are called "Akudama."



Tags: Crime , Tragedy , Shounen

MURCIÉLAGO

Also known as MURCIÉLAGO.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Mass murderers may not have much by way of career skills, but Kuroko Koumori seems to have landed her dream job as a hitwoman for the Tokyo police! A license to kill other killers? That's some serious job satisfaction, right there!



Included one-shot:
Volume 1: Pilot film of Murciélago

Tags: Gore , Anti-Hero , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Police , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Detective , Large Breasts , Guns , Assassins , Drugs , Primarily Adult Cast , Body Horror , Seinen , Female Harem , LGBTQ+ Themes , Age Gap , Cult , Cars , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Dissociative Identities , Gender Bending , Cunnilingus , Scissoring , Sex Toys

Your Forma

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

In an alternate 2023, the Your Forma, a miraculous “smart thread” technology initially developed to treat a massive outbreak of viral encephalitis, has become an integral part of daily life. But these convenient devices come with an invasive drawback—they record every sight, sound, and even emotion their users experience. For electronic investigator Echika Hieda, diving into peoples’ memories via the Your Forma and hunting for evidence to solve the toughest crimes is all part of a day’s work. The problem is, she’s so good at what she does that her assistants literally fry their brains trying to keep up with her. After putting one too many aides in the hospital, the top brass finally furnish Echika with a partner on her level, a brilliant yet cheeky android named Harold Lucraft. Does this unlikely duo have what it takes to resolve their mutual suspicions and avert a deadly technological infection from sweeping across the globe before it’s too late?



Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist

Butterfly Storage

Also known as Butterfly Storage.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

When a person dies, their soul leaves the body in the form of a butterfly and the body itself rots away quickly after.

Ono lost his entire family in a plane crash fourteen years ago. But since this tragedy, the body of Senri, his twin sister, is still intact while the butterfly that contains his soul was stolen by a mysterious individual during the accident, leaving her unconscious and in a vegetative state.

In order to get back his sister's butterfly, Ono joins the famous "Death Bureau", a state agency specialized in the capture, conservation and managment of the butterflies before they dissapear for good 49 days after their host death.

Using the butterflies, the family of the deceased can come in contact with their loved ones in the form of a 3D hologram.

Tags: Guns , Politics , Cyberpunk , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , Post-Apocalyptic , Steampunk