Manga like Okitegami Kyouko no Bibouroku

Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregotozukai

Also known as Decapitation: Kubikiri Cycle.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological

A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind—one of whom ends up headless one fine morning.



Tags: Philosophy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Detective , Meta , Primarily Female Cast , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Hikikomori , Crossdressing , Maids , Gore

Kizumonogatari

Also known as Kizumonogatari: Wound Tale.

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

Around midnight, under a lonely street lamp in a provincial town in Japan, lies a white woman, a blonde, alone, robbed of all four limbs, yet undead. Indeed, a rumour’s been circulating among the local girls that a vampire has come to their backwater, of all places. Koyomi Araragi, who prefers to avoid having friends because they’d lower his “intensity as a human,” is naturally sceptical. Yet it is to him that the bloodsucking demon, a concept “dated twice over,” beckons on the first day of spring break as he makes his way home with a fresh loot of morally compromising periodicals.



Tags: Vampire , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Gore , Heterosexual , Urban , Body Horror , Age Regression , Shounen

Tantei wa mou, Shindeiru.

Also known as The Detective is Already Dead.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

The story of Tantei wa mou, Shindeiru. follows Kimihiko Kimizuka, a young man who four years ago became the assistant of a mysterious detective known as "Siesta" on a hijacked airplane. Together, Kimihiko and Siesta went on mind-boggling, globe-trotting adventures while combatting a secret organization, but all of that came to an end when they were separated by Siesta's death. In the present day, Kimihiko tries to return to an ordinary, boring life as a high school student, but things are never that simple, even though the detective is already dead.



Tags: Super Power , Detective , Body Swapping , Tragedy , Achronological Order , Urban Fantasy , Artificial Intelligence , Aliens , Guns , Male Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Terrorism

Kusuriya no Hitorigoto

Also known as The Apothecary Diaries.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery

In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the rear palace. Maomao, an unassuming girl raised in an unassuming town by her apothecary father, never imagined the rear palace would have anything to do with her—until she was kidnapped and sold into service there.
Though she looks ordinary, Maomao has a quick wit, a sharp mind, and an extensive knowledge of medicine. That's her secret, until she encounters a resident of the palace at least as perceptive as she is: the head eunuch, Jinshi. He sees through Maomao's façade and makes her a lady-in-waiting to none other than the Emperor's favorite consort... so she can taste the lady's food for poison!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Medicine , Detective , Royal Affairs , Conspiracy , Politics , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Maids , Drugs , Work , Foreign , Primarily Female Cast , Adoption , Heterosexual , Agriculture , Episodic , Ancient China , Seinen , Crossdressing , Economics , Go , Religion , Tragedy , Pregnancy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Natural Disaster , Shogi , Meta , Asexual , Suicide , Age Gap