Manga like Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners

What is Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners about?

Status: Releasing

A teenaged girl, who possesses the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception", a supernatural ability that allows the user to see the "death" of everything in existence and kill the object by destroying its "origin". She recently recovered from a two-year coma caused by a traffic accident. Prior to the traffic accident, she originally had two personalities, a male personality named Shiki (織), and the original female personality Shiki (式). Children born into the Ryōgi family are generally male and are raised with two personalities, so the male personality is customarily called the "yang" personality, while the female is called the "yin" personality. It is easy to tell which Shiki is speaking at a given time because they both have a distinct style of speaking, most notably that the female Shiki refers to herself with the pronoun watashi (私), while male Shiki refers to himself as ore (オレ). After waking from her coma, Shiki discovers that she can no longer feel the male Shiki's presence and assumes that he died because of the accident. She also feels a detachment from her memories before the accident, and while she knows she is Shiki, she does not feel that she is. In the hopes of regaining herself and the "dead" Shiki, she puts on a cold façade that somewhat resembles the male Shiki's and tries to act as the female Shiki did. Tōko understands the sense of detachment Shiki feels, but considers the current Shiki a third, new personality.



Tags: Magic , Dissociative Identities , Seinen , Demons
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Lunar Legend Tsukihime

Shingetsutan Tsukihime

Also known as Lunar Legend Tsukihime.

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

Shiki Tohno sustained a life threatening injury as a child, and due to that incident he was sent away from the Tohno household and was given to a relative to be raised. Years later, when Shiki is in high school, the head of the Tohno household--his father--dies, and he is ordered to move back in by his sister Akiha, who is the new head of the household. However, Shiki holds a huge secret. Ever since that injury, he has been seeing lines on objects, and only with a special pair of glasses is he able to stop seeing them. Also he is unable to remember anything well from the time before his accident. The day he moves back to the Tohno household is the day he stumbles upon a woman named Arcueid Brunstud and decapitates her with one stab of his knife in a temporary fit of insanity. When she suddenly showed up beside him later alive and well, and ask him to be her bodyguard, Shiki's journey to unravel the mysteries of his past begins.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Vampire , Reincarnation , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Urban , Amnesia , Nun , Religion , Kuudere , School , Ojou-sama , Gore , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Twins , Dissociative Identities , Adoption , Nudity , Tsundere , Maids
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Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel]

Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel]

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy

Based on the third route of Fate/stay night.

Tags: Magic , Seinen , Battle Royale , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Superhero , Spearplay , Urban , Swordplay , Religion , Super Power , Tanned Skin
Fate/stay night

Fate/stay night

Also known as Fate/stay night.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Romance

The story takes place in an ordinary Japanese town, Fuyuki City. Hidden from society, there has been a deadly war going on in this town. Seven sorcerers known as "Masters" summon a powerful familiar called "Servants" and they all fight each other till the last one. The last one is said to attain the Holy Grail which will grant them a wish. Only a few knows when this War started and what the Holy Grail is, but the war was about to begin again this year.

The main character is Emiya Shirou, who lost his parents in a fire and was adopted by a man who called himself a sorcerer. Admiring his step father, he has been training himself to be a sorcerer. However, he had no talent and he could barely use one type of sorcery. His step father has already passed away, and today he's a sorcerer without any skills or knowledge. He is involved in the War of the Holy Grail when he accidentally summons Saber, who is said to be the strongest servant of all...

Note: The chapter count includes 62 regular chapters and 5 bonus chapters.

Tags: Battle Royale , Magic , Mythology , Shounen , Urban Fantasy , Superhero , Super Power , Swordplay , Tsundere , Matriarchy , Spearplay , Religion , Urban , School , Tanned Skin , Slavery
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Fate/strange Fake

Fate/strange Fake

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

The plot centers around a Grail War faultily copied from the Third Holy Grail War in Fuyuki. After the end of the third Grail War, an organization from the United States that has magi separate from the London based Mage Association as members took data from Fuyuki's Grail War and planned their own ritual. After seventy years, they used the city Snowfield as the Sacred Land for their own Grail War. They were unable to successfully copy every aspect of the ritual, which lead to it acting only as an imitation that has lost the Saber class and allowed for the summoning of strange Servants due to the definition of a "hero" being blurred.



Tags: Battle Royale , Magic , Espionage , Vampire , Witch , Super Power , Urban , Nun , Agender , Religion , Chimera , Cyborg , Conspiracy , Dissociative Identities , Revenge , Ensemble Cast , Mythology , Swordplay , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Guns
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Tsuki no Sango

Tsuki no Sango

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

The story takes place in approximately the year 3000, when humankind arrived at the peak of its civilization, but is losing it's will to keep living. It follows a girl, called "princess" by those around her, living on a small island with a fifty person colony and a shinning coral reef. She is descendant of Moon people, and it focuses upon how her ancestor supposedly came to Earth.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Space , Aliens , Coastal , Post-Apocalyptic , Writing
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Shin Honkaku Mahou Shoujo Risuka

Shin Honkaku Mahou Shoujo Risuka

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mahou Shoujo , Mystery , Psychological

The elementary schooler unlike any other, Kugi Kizutaka, is searching for "useful pawns" in order to achieve his own ambitions, comes to learn of Mizukura Risuka, a magician with the title "The Red Witch of Time." Risuka had left the Kingdom of Magic through the Gate, chasing after her father, a great mage called both "a God" and "a Demon." An unpredictable and unchained magical tale!



Note: The serialized chapters 16 and 17 were merged into one chapter in volume 5.

Tags: Magic , Time Manipulation , Witch , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , Gore , Shounen , Bullying , Meta , Time Skip , Suicide
Umineko When They Cry Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch

Also known as Umineko When They Cry Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch.

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

Each year, the Ushiromiya family gathers at the secluded mansion of its patriarch, the elderly Kinzo. It has been six years since Battler joined his cousins at the annual event, but their happy reunion is overshadowed by worsening weather and an eerie premonition from his youngest cousin—not to mention their parents’ feud over the inheritance. Battler doesn’t hold much stock in dark omens, nor does he believe the tales of the witch rumored to have given his grandfather a fortune in gold…and who walks the halls of the mansion to this day… But when the eighteen family members and servants are trapped on the island by the raging typhoon, the grisly events that follow leave Battler shaken to his core. Is one of his relatives desperate enough to kill for the family fortune? Or is this the work of the Golden Witch?



Note: Volume 4 also contains the tea party chapter for this episode.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Detective , Witch , Gore , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Magic , Meta , Foreign , Ojou-sama
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Fate/Zero

Fate/Zero

Also known as Fate/Zero.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Romance

The Fourth Holy Grail War has begun, and seven mages must summon heroes from history to battle each other to the death. Only one mage-and-hero pair will remain to claim the Grail and have their wishes granted! Kiritsugu Emiya was once an assassin but now fights in this war to save the world from those who would destroy it with the Grail’s power.



Tags: Seinen , Mythology , Tragedy , Anti-Hero , Spearplay , Swordplay , Motorcycles , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Primarily Adult Cast , Dissociative Identities , Body Horror , Nudity , Battle Royale
Fate/Apocrypha

Fate/Apocrypha

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery

The setting of Fate/Apocrypha is a parallel world to Fate/stay night where the Greater Grail was removed from Fuyuki after the Third Holy Grail War and disappeared for many years. Around the 2000s, around the same time as the Fifth Holy Grail War would have happened, the group that plundered the Grail, Yggdmillennia, openly declares their secession from the Mage's Association and that they are in possession of the Grail. The Association dispatches fifty magi to retrieve it, but all but one are instantly slaughtered by Lancer of Black. The one remaining manages to activate the reserve system of the Greater Grail, allowing for the summoning of fourteen Servants in total.

This marks the start of the Great Holy Grail War in Trifas, featuring two different factions, the Black Faction, whose members are part of Yggdramillennia, and the Red Faction, whose members were sent by the Mage's Association with the exception of one from the Church. The Grail itself also summons Ruler to act as a mediator of the Holy Grail War.



Tags: Magic , Historical , Battle Royale , Swordplay , Archery , Assassins , Dragons , Vampire , Shounen , Spearplay , Nekomimi , Foreign , Kemonomimi , Religion , Dissociative Identities , Femboy , Crossdressing , Centaur
Lord El-Melloi II-sei no Jikenbo

Lord El-Melloi II-sei no Jikenbo

Status: Releasing
Genres: Fantasy , Mystery

When Lord El-Melloi II, the later Waver Velvet, gets asked to claim his inheritance over Adra Castle, he travels there with his apprentice Gray to do so. But they are not the only ones called that way. The will of the previous owner states that the assembled contestants - including Luviagelita Edelfelt - must compete in a game of wits to win the castle.

Tags: Magic , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Foreign , Teacher , Detective , Vampire , Maids , Ojou-sama , Swordplay , Angels , College , Alchemy , Werewolf , Nekomimi , Spearplay , Kemonomimi , Religion , Rural , Time Manipulation , Astronomy , Butler , Trains

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