Manga like Mawaru Penguindrum

Shoujo Kakumei Utena

Also known as Revolutionary Girl Utena.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

Utena Tenjou had a tragic childhood - her parents died when she was young, and she almost drowned, had it not been for her prince who came and rescued her. Because of the impact this prince had on her life, Utena strives to be just like him - to grow up to be a prince, not a princess, and to spread nobility, ultimately finding her prince and bringing revolution.



Tags: Female Protagonist , School , Shoujo , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Magic , Love Triangle , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tomboy , Gender Bending , Swordplay , Twins , Boarding School , Fencing , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Witch

Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari.

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

One day, high-school student Koyomi Araragi catches a girl named Hitagi Senjougahara when she trips. But—much to his surprise—she doesn’t weigh anything. At all. She says an encounter with a so-called “crab” took away all her weight …

Monsters have been here since the beginning.
Always.
Everywhere.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Youkai , Vampire , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Philosophy , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Meta , Gods , Female Harem , Ghost , Tragedy , Surreal Comedy , Denpa , Nekomimi , Nudity , Tomboy , Love Triangle , Dissociative Identities , Gore , Shounen , Body Horror , Monster Girl , School , Age Regression

Zetsuen no Tempest

Also known as Blast of Tempest.

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

One day, a princess was stuffed into a barrel and washed ashore an island. One day, a young girl was unexpectedly killed, the culprit yet unidentified. Thus, one day, a battle wrapped in revenge and magic that transcends time and space had begun.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Classic Literature , Revenge , Love Triangle

Kigurumi Guardians

Also known as Kigurumi Guardians.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Fantasy

Lily Hoshino, the beloved artist behind Mawaru Penguindrum, offers her cute and twisted take on the magical girl genre. You probably never thought Sailor Moon needed more hot older guys in full-body mascot costumes, but Kigurumi Guardians will bring you around!

Hakka Sasakura’s life is about to turn upside down. She comes home from a day of admiring her student body president to discover that a mysterious creature resembling a man in an animal suit has taken up residence her home. What’s more, she has been chosen to work with this strange being to fight off invaders from another dimension and save the world... and she has to kiss him to do so?!



Tags: Shoujo

Shugo Chara! Jewel Joker

Also known as Shugo Chara! Jewel Joker.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

Sugar and spice, and everything nice—that may be what girls are made of, but Amu Hinamori is so much cooler, especially now that she's left behind her days at Seiyo Elementary and became a middle schooler! After transferring to Arcana Academy on a special assignment, her role as the Joker Guardian is to intervene in a crisis that is causing students to lose hope and confidence in themselves. But she has another, more important secret mission: to retrieve the all-powerful, mysterious Arcana Jewels.



Tags: Boarding School , Coming of Age , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Henshin , School , Magic , Fairy , School Club , Espionage , Fashion , Class Struggle , Shoujo , Tomboy , Nekomimi , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Fairy Tale , Ghost , Makeup , VTuber , Crossdressing , Male Harem

I Am John Cantlie

Also known as F.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

“F [I Am John Cantlie] imagines Fukushima as a kind of Syria in the fallout of the 3.11 disaster, and follows a British journalist’s infiltration of the region while brutal foreign forces strike into the heart of the remnants of northern Japan.” The tsunami and nuclear meltdowns of 2011 seem like yesterday. Wreckage still litters Japan’s coastline. Fukushima’s fields are piled high with contaminated soil. Tohoku, northern Japan, furious about how they have been treated by Tokyo, has seceded from the union. The rebels, known as the Nihonmatsu Front, are battling the more heavily armed Japanese government along the southern border of Fukushima. Meanwhile, they are being overwhelmed internally by a faction who call themselves the State of F. Composed of radicalized Tohoku natives and foreign guerrillas, the black-clad F knows only absolute obedience and cutthroat terror. Though virtually unknown in its home country, Imai Arata’s F is the edgiest work of manga made in the wake of the 2011 disasters. Crossing splintery drawings of the devastations wrought by the tsunami and meltdowns with images sourced from Islamic State propaganda from the Middle East, F trespasses upon many taboos regarding political expression and etiquette in Japan. Originally self-published and sold at avant-garde art exhibitions, Imai’s F is truly underground. It deserves to become a classic. Note: This was originally published as a doujin work but was licensed and sold digitally in 2024.

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