Manga like Kami Kuzu☆Idol

also known as Phantom of the Idol

What is Phantom of the Idol about?

Status: Releasing

Yuuya, one half of the boy pop duo ZINGS, may be the laziest performer in the Japanese music industry. His partner is out there giving 110% every night (and, thankfully, he’s quite popular), but Yuuya’s half-assed, sloppy dancing, and his frankly hostile attitude toward the audience, has the fans hating him and his agent looking for any excuse to cut him loose. The career of a pop idol just isn’t the path of easy leisure and adulation Yuuya expected…

After a particularly lifeless concert appearance, Yuuya meets a girl backstage. She’s dressed to the nines in a colorful outfit, she’s full of vim and vigor, and all she wants from life is to perform. There’s just one problem: She’s been dead for a year. This is the ghost of Asahi Mogami, the beloved singer whose time on the stage was tragically cut short, unless… If ghosts are real, is spirit possession really that much of a stretch?



Tags: Ghost , Josei , Idol , Dissociative Identities , Urban Fantasy , Dancing , Male Protagonist , Acting , Urban , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Otaku Culture
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Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan

Uramichi Oniisan

Also known as Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Uramichi is 31. Uramichi appears on children’s TV alongside two grown men dressed as forest creatures and a singing woman with a very short fuse. Uramichi leads little kids in exercises and answers their questions about life. But Uramichi’s life is pain. Uramichi just wants to be miserable in peace. But, in his words, “There are games that don’t end even after you forfeit. Like life, for example…”



Note: The English edition volumes are omnibuses combining two Japanese volumes into one English volume.

Tags: Satire , Primarily Male Cast , Work , Acting , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Josei , Teacher , Urban
[Oshi no Ko]

[Oshi no Ko]

Also known as [Oshi no Ko].

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

Gorou is a gynecologist and idol fan who’s in shock after his favorite star, Ai, announces an impromptu hiatus. Little does Gorou realize that he’s about to forge a bond with her that defies all common sense! Lies are an idol’s weapon!



Notes:
Nominated for the 14th and 15th Manga Taisho.
Nominated for the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
Nominated for the 67th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.
Nominated for the 46th Kodansha Manga Award.
Winner of the 7th Next Manga Award in the print category.
Chapter count includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Revenge , Idol , Acting , Reincarnation , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Twins , Detective , Time Skip , Work , Otaku Culture , Age Gap , Love Triangle , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Anti-Hero , Suicide , Bullying , Educational , Urban Fantasy , Denpa , Tsundere , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Pregnancy , Filmmaking , VTuber , Cosplay , Incest
Mahou Shoujo Ore

Mahou Shoujo Ore

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

This story is about a 15-year-old girl who is a newbie idol in love with her best friend's brother who is also a popular idol. But she runs into a scary yakuza guy and finds out that her mother was an ex-magical girl, and the yakuza was her mascot. Her love interest gets kidnapped by demons that look like burly men with cute squirrel heads. So she contracts the yakuza to become a magical girl, which in this story means she turns into a handsome guy in a magical girl outfit. On top of that, her love interest shows an attraction toward her magical guy form. Her best friend turns out to be in love with her and also becomes a magical cross-dressing guy to save her life.

Thus, their manager, who is a magical girl geek, then decides to turn them into an idol unit. Note: Chapter count includes prologue, two extra chapters, and five side stories.

Tags: Parody , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Gender Bending , Idol , Magic , Meta , Slapstick , Urban Fantasy , Josei , Heterosexual , Yuri , Love Triangle , Yakuza
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Mietemasu yo! Aizawa-san

Mietemasu yo! Aizawa-san

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

Michi has always been troubled by the fact that she can see ghosts. She pretends not to see, trying not to get involved. However, a ghost has appeared that even she cannot ignore. It is Honami Aizawa, a former member of the popular idol group De:LPhinus. She was also a classmate of Michi, and she haunts the classroom out of unfulfilled longing. Michi is determined not to get involved with ghosts, but she finds herself following Honami's childish and outlandish behavior, unable to look away from her ardent fan-service(?).......

Tags: Ghost , Yuri , Female Protagonist , Idol , Primarily Teen Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Female Cast , School , Body Horror , Memory Manipulation , Seinen
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Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

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Tags: Seinen
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Mukidashi no Hakuchou

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

I want to see yourself as you are, without adornments---.
An excellent student from a famous family who is attending high school, a perfect human with an attractive face and figure, Kakeru Shiratori, is being pursued.
He will learn what it means to live, as people do, in his youth.
A swan legend that dances among the heavens!

Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Nudity
Tokyo Mew Mew Olé​!

Tokyo Mew Mew Olé​!

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Sci-Fi

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Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Heterosexual , Shoujo , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban Fantasy , Aliens , Kemonomimi , Nekomimi , Female Protagonist , Henshin , Animals , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Harem , Love Triangle
Uchi no Maou Kamimasen yo

Uchi no Maou Kamimasen yo

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

In a world where people have supernatural creatures as pets, a certain family has a pet demon-lord Satan. The main carer of Satan is the son, Yuuhei. From initially coaxing the new Satan out of his pet-carrier, to walking him, playing with his ball, and keeping him from fighting with the neighbor's pet Hero, this is the comedic story of a boy and his Satan.

Tags: Shounen , Demons , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Surreal Comedy , Skeleton , Zombie , Super Power
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Play it Cool, Guys

Cool Doji Danshi

Also known as Play it Cool, Guys.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Enter: a bunch of cool guys who look like they got that unapproachable swag. But let's be real—that's not the true them. They're just a bunch of dorks who've got the act down pat. So sit back, grab some popcorn and enjoy watching a bunch of goofy guys try to look cool all day every day.



Tags: Slapstick , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Full Color , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Episodic , Josei , Iyashikei

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