Manga like Mononoke

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 existence, 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 , Rural , Seinen , Mythology , Eco-Horror , Iyashikei , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Historical , Work , Demons

Bakemono Yawa-zukushi

Also known as Phantom Tales of the Night.

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

Welcome to the Thundercloud Inn, a curious establishment that opens its doors to the troubled masses, human or otherwise. But to pay for the stay, the equally curious innkeeper takes payment only in the form of one's deepest secrets…Who will come calling today?



Tags: Shoujo , Ghost , Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Shapeshifting , Anthropomorphism , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Body Horror , Inn , Mythology , Gender Bending , Eco-Horror , Cannibalism

Mushishi Tokubetsu-hen: Hihamukage

Also known as Mushishi Special: Sun-Eating Shade.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

New 2-chapter special running in Afternoon Magazine's January and February issues.

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Youkai , Male Protagonist , Iyashikei

Fukigen na Mononokean

Also known as The Morose Mononokean.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Supernatural

Ashiya has spent the first seven days of high school stuck in the infirmary because of a youkai attaching itself to him. He ends up asking the owner of a small tea room called the "Mononokean" for help. This is a tale involving the very morose owner of Mononokean guiding the youkai that happened to wander into this world go to the next world.



Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Youkai , Anthropomorphism , School , Demons , Shounen , Exorcism , Iyashikei , Body Horror

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

Hoozuki no Reitetsu

Also known as Hozuki’s Coolheadedness.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Supernatural

In the afterlife, there exists Heaven and Hell. Hell consists of the Eight Greater Hells and the Eight Cold Hells, which are further divided into 272 subdivisions. Spearheading the seemingly endless, multifarious affairs in this gargantuan Hell is but one Fierce God, King Enma's first aide, Hozuki. Between this cool-headed sadist and his colorful band of peers, every day is a riot in Hell! And though this book might make Hell seem like a happening place, please try to behave during life!



Tags: Seinen , Afterlife , Demons , Ghost , Mythology , Reincarnation , Episodic , Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Animals , Educational , Dragons , Economics , Magic , Politics

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

Kochou no Yumeji

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

She wakes up finding herself in a town of youkai... a Japanese style fantasy interwoven with youkai.

Tags: Isekai , Female Protagonist , Full Color , Afterlife , Shoujo , Long Strip , Youkai , Age Gap

Petshop of Horrors

Also known as Pet Shop of Horrors.

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

A smoke-filled alley in Chinatown harbors Count D's Pet Shop. The pets sold here aren't your everyday variety and the Count prides himself on selling Love and Dreams in the form of magical creatures that come with an exclusive contract. But buyers beware. If the contract is broken the Count cannot be held accountable for whatever may happen. A fascinating and macabre look into the very soul of human nature.



Tags: Josei , Male Protagonist , Animals , Episodic , Detective , Anthropomorphism , Philosophy , Police , Tragedy , Foreign , Urban Fantasy , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Body Horror , Shapeshifting , Environmental , Cannibalism , LGBTQ+ Themes , Urban , Drugs , Bisexual , Politics , Vampire

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