Manga like Murikuri

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu

Also known as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Supernatural

Kyon is your ordinary high school freshman who has long given up on his childhood dreams of encountering the fantastic and supernatural…or so he thought. From the very first day of school, his classmate–the beautiful but eccentric Haruhi Suzumiya–makes it very clear that her only desire is to meet aliens, time travelers, and psychics! A chance conversation between the two inspires Haruhi to form the SOS Brigade, a school club created for the sole purpose of getting these supernatural beings together. The initial members consist of the mute bookworm Yuki Nagato, the timid but voluptuous Mikuru Asahina, and the polite and ever-smiling Itsuki Koizumi. By the end of this first volume, Kyon quickly finds out that these seemingly “helpless victims” of Haruhi’s are actually members of secret organizations–both futuristic and alien–keeping watch over Haruhi as she is the pinnacle of some major calamity on the horizon…



Tags: School Club , School , Aliens , Kuudere , Urban Fantasy , Shounen , Super Power

Nichijou

Also known as Nichijou.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou.



Tags: Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , School , Primarily Female Cast , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Parody , 4-koma , Robots , Teacher , Time Skip , Go , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Tanned Skin

Azumanga Daiou

Also known as Azumanga Daioh.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

It's not manga, it's Azumanga! − smart, fun and totally addictive. Created by the iconoclastic Kiyohiko Azuma, Azumanga Daiou is strongly character driven, taking the reader through the daily tribulations of Miss Kurosawa, Miss Yukari, the wild Tomo, hair-triggered Yomi, ditzy Osaka, brash Kagura, cute Chiyo-chan and athletic (but girly) Sakaki.



Notes:
A great number of chapters are divided into several parts that have been included in the final chapter count.
Includes five extra chapters.

Tags: School , 4-koma , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Teacher , Shounen , Coming of Age , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Tomboy , Ojou-sama

Jitsu wa Watashi wa

Also known as My Monster Secret: Actually, I Am….

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

High school student Kuromine Asahi is the kind of guy who literally cannot tell a lie. Whether it’s trying to maintain a poker face in a simple game of cards, or keeping scurrilous gossip to himself, Asahi is a total failure when it comes to the art of deception.

So what happens when he stumbles upon the most shocking secret of his life? When Asahi learns that Shiragami Youko, a beautiful girl of few words, is actually a vampire. Can Asahi possibly keep his lips sealed?



Tags: School , Vampire , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Monster Girl , Female Protagonist , Demons , Female Harem , Love Triangle , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Aliens , Shounen , Angels , Gods , Werewolf , Ninja , Age Gap , Ghost

Melancholia

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

An omnibus collection of short stories.

Includes chapter 19-β / 19.5.

Tags: Episodic , Achronological Order , Surreal Comedy , Time Manipulation , Seinen , Anthology , Ensemble Cast , Nudity , Boys' Love , Aliens , Animals , Bisexual , Gender Bending , Suicide , Age Gap

Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Saiki Kusuo has a wide array of superpowers at his command, including telepathy and telekinesis. This might sound awesome, but, in Kusuo's experience, superpowers are not all they're cracked up to be. He tries to live a normal life, despite his annoying abilities.

Tags: Super Power , School , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Aromantic , Surreal Comedy , Ensemble Cast , Ghost , Asexual , Parody , Chuunibyou , Meta , Alternate Universe , Time Manipulation , Post-Apocalyptic , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Animals , Shapeshifting

Dandadan

Also known as Dandadan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school’s UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames “Okarun” because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks the exact opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove each other wrong—Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love…and oddly horny aliens and spirits?



Notes:
Includes one extra chapter.
Nominated for the 15th Manga Taisho Award in 2022.

Tags: Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Ghost , Aliens , Super Power , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Tokusatsu , Male Protagonist , Henshin , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Gyaru , Shapeshifting , School , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Exorcism , Conspiracy , Kaiju , Curses , Gore , Tragedy , Terrorism , Super Robot , Chuunibyou , Amnesia , Circus , Nudity , Gods , Dissociative Identities , Tsundere , Cannibalism , Bullying , Acrobatics , Suicide

Short Cuts

Also known as Short Cuts.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

Short Cuts is a manga series by Usamaru Furuya, released in two volumes and originally published in Young Sunday magazine. Each volume contains approximately one hundred 'cuts', short comics which typically span only one or two pages. The primary theme of Short Cuts is Japanese kogal and youth culture, which is tackled with a heavy use of visual jokes, black humor and sex comedy.

Tags: Parody , Satire , Surreal Comedy , Seinen , Meta , Alternate Universe

Asobi Asobase

Also known as Asobi Asobase.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

The "surreal gag" comedy manga revolves around three classmates who play simple hand games. One of the girls is good at games, but hates them as she always lost to her older sister and forced to do chores while growing up. Another girl is of American descent, but raised in Japan, and who only pretends to be bad at Japanese. Another girl usually observes their games, and loses to the other girls.



Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , School , School Club , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Drugs , Vampire , Scat , LGBTQ+ Themes , Aliens , Alternate Universe , Twins , Slapstick , Episodic , Butler , Robots , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things