Manga like Mahou no Tsukaikata

Natsume Yuujinchou

Also known as Natsume's Book of Friends.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

When Reiko was Takashi's age, she bound the names of demons and spirits in her Book of Friends, enslaving them to her capricious whim. Now Takashi is the owner of the book, and the creatures will do anything to get their names back.



Tags: Youkai , Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , Rural , Episodic , Shoujo , Outdoor Activities , Adoption , Estranged Family , Primarily Teen Cast , Found Family , Rehabilitation , Primarily Male Cast , School , Shapeshifting , Exorcism , Orphan , Gender Bending

Tsumi to Bachi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

When the Isshiki family runs into monetary trouble, their last option is to turn to the god of fortune that resides in their home. However, instead of helping them, he rather see their entire family destroyed! It's up to Tarou to find out Kami-san's past and why their God of fortune has turned into one of misfortune!

Tags: Family Life , Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Iyashikei , Gods , Mythology , Heterosexual , Rural

Mushishi

Also known as Mushishi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi—creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze. They still exist parallel to our own lives and can only be seen by a select few. As a mushishi, Ginko is one of the few who are aware of their existense, and this young man with a sardonic smile roams from place to place with the knowledge and skill to aid those unwittingly affected by mushi.



Note: Won the Excellence Prize for Manga at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2003 and the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2006.

Tags: Travel , Episodic , Environmental , Youkai , Seinen , Mythology , Rural , Iyashikei , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Work , Historical , Demons

Akaku Saku Koe

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Karashima is a high school boy with a beautiful voice. So beautiful that he can make anyone do anything, just by saying the words. Because of his potentially dangerous ability, he distances himself away from people but soon finds himself in the middle of various criminal investigations that he can help solve, and a girl named Kokubu who seems in love with him.



Notes:
Includes the one-shot "Hana Dorobou".
Includes the one-shot "Coffee Hirari".

Tags: Shoujo , Crime , Female Protagonist , Police , Heterosexual , Super Power , School , Episodic

Yaneura no Benjirou-san

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

After his mother’s death, Kanji goes to live with her side of the family in the countryside. It’s hard enough having to adjust to a new environment, but Kanji can also see monsters and spirits, who are everywhere. To top it off, his eccentric uncle Benjirou—though prone to bouts of sickness—is always up to some shenanigans!

Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Rural , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Family Life , Youkai , Shoujo , Male Protagonist

Mugi no Wakusei

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

In a mountainside bakery, the young shopkeeper Konta meets Mamita, an alien whose spaceship crashed and is looking for food. Konta winds up taking the stranded alien in as his little brother. This is the diary of a baker and an alien as they live together as "siblings".

Tags: Josei , Family Life , Iyashikei , Rural , Aliens , Male Protagonist , Food

Kimi no Tonari

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Supernatural

Yotsuya Atsushi, a high school boy with a serious problem: he sees ghosts. This particular curse of his has kept him isolated and alone, stuck in his own tiny world. After transferring to a new school, Yotsuya meets someone nearly as strange as he is, and his world starts to open.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Josei , Ghost , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Super Power , Suicide ,

Dusk Story: Tasogare Monogatari

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

Takt is a boy who can see ghosts and other strange apparitions. Often the ghosts and people he meets carry strong emotions only he can help resolve. See the world through Takt's eyes, let yourself be touched by these heart-warming stories.

Tags: Shoujo , Ghost , Male Protagonist

Greenfingers no Hakoniwa

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

A story about an invisible botanist and a part-time university student, who unravels the thoughts spun by mysterious plants and people.

Asahi is a university student who is introduced to a new part-time job when a record store closes. The idea is to help a "slightly unusual botanist" who lives in a large mansion in the mountains behind the university. However, on his way to the mansion, he somehow gets lost in the mountains on a single road. In fact, Asahi had a strange experience in his childhood as well......



Tags: Horticulture , Urban Fantasy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , Seinen

Luciole wa Yume wo Miru

Also known as Luciole Has a Dream.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Awakened by a radiant light, Luciole realized he'd been asleep for a long, long time. Stretching to the horizon before him lay an abandoned world. Whatever life had once taken root here was long gone, leaving Luciole all alone—except for Claude. Now, with a self-proclaimed five-hundred-year-old archmage for his only companion, Luciole will set off on a journey to discover how alone the two truly are.



Tags: Travel , Shoujo , Post-Apocalyptic , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Magic , Iyashikei