Manga like The Book: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 4th Another Day

Hajishirazu no Purple Haze: JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

An original story about Fugo Pannacotta, set six months after the events of JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Ougon no Kaze.

Note: The bunkoban release included the extra chapter "pista di bonus. The Mourning".

Tags: Male Protagonist , Foreign , Shounen , Super Power , Mafia , Rehabilitation , Primarily Male Cast , Coming of Age , Drugs , Gore

Owarimonogatari

Also known as Owarimonogatari: End Tale.

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

Volume 1:
Before we witness the series’ climactic showdown in the third volume of the End Tale—each part of which forms its own cohesive whole—narrator Araragi wrestles with a crucial bit of history that had turned him into the loner we met at the very beginning, who opined that friendships only lowered his intensity as a human.
What initiates his pilgrim’s progress of a reckoning is his first encounter, at school, with the mysterious freshman Ogi Oshino, self-described niece of the equally enigmatic aberration expert Mèmè, and the book’s opening chapter is a harrowing standalone novella of a who-dunit involving a locked room of sorts.
Our increasingly well-adjusted hero kept on beingdecent at one thing even when he was just hanging on, but this forte, an unlikely aptitude for math, of all things, becomes the focus of a cheating scandal and a web of recollections that forces him to come to terms with, what do you know, his capacity to connect to people.

Volume 2:
When an old flame who gave up on life and chose to go up in flames—because he wanted to leave you but couldn’t—comes crawling back after four hundred years, you might not appreciate it, especially if you’re in a new relationship. But nothing’s ever simple between people, and that’s even truer between monsters.
For the first time in months, our heroic loser Araragi is human, parted by previous events from the ex-legendary vampire bound to his shadow. Before he, the second-ever thrall of the former Kissshot, can resume his partnership with the donut-loving waif that she’s turned into, she must make a choice—about that first-ever.
Before the End Tale can end, some loose ends must be tied, and in this volume, the fixer Gaen calls in her favor, requesting an introduction to her niece; the errand of the amulet that Araragi ran with Kanbaru comes into crisp focus; and the time-traveling and -spanning Dandy and Demon Tales see their devastating resolution.

Volume 3:
No good deed goes unpunished, they say, and so does friendship and lowering your intensity as a human, they don’t say—alas, for all his literally painful hustle and inveterate need to save others, our brave fool of a hero ends up in hell, a conception of the inferno in its full Buddhist glory, and muses (lol) if there’s a return ticket.
Told in three chapters, the final part of End Tale concludes the story proper and resolves the series’ panoply of ongoing mysteries: the dues of a do-gooder for relying on a power not his own, the identity of a shady transfer student, the outcome of a class president’s questing abroad, and even the true name of a park.
Araragi, indeed, is the one who knows, but along the way he meets old faces, really every last one of them, who aid him on his journey for understanding, and perhaps for salvation, and you for one might not be surprised if he had another rendezvous with an erstwhile “cloistered princess” before it—guess what it is—sees an end.



Tags: Philosophy , Achronological Order , Coming of Age , Detective , Vampire , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Afterlife , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual

DEATH NOTE Another Note: Los Angeles BB Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

Also known as Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

There's a serial killer loose in Los Angeles and the local authorities need help fast. For some reason the killer has been leaving a string of maddeningly arcane clues at each crime scene. Each of these clues, it seems, is an indecipherable roadmap to the next murder.

Onto the scene comes L, the mysterious super-sleuth. Despite his peculiar working habits-he's never shown his face in public, for example-he's the most decorated detective in the world and has never tackled a case he hasn't been able to crack.

But this time he needs help.

Enlisting the services of an FBI agent named Naomi Misora, L starts snooping around the City of Angels. It soon becomes apparent that the killing spree is a psychotic riddle designed to specifically engage L in a battle of wits. Stuck in the middle between killer and investigator, it's up to Misora to navigate both the dead bodies and the egos to solve the Los Angeles Murder Cases.

Tags: Detective , Crime , Anti-Hero , Female Protagonist , Seinen

Toaru Majutsu no Index

Also known as A Certain Magical Index.

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

Set in a city of not only scientifically advanced superhuman students, but in a world where magic is also real. Kamijyo Touma's right hand, the Imagine Breaker, will negate all magic, psychic, or divine powers, as well as his own luck. One day he finds a young girl hanging on his balcony railing. She turns out to be a nun from the Church of England, and her mind has been implanted with the Index Librorum Prohibitorum—all the magical texts the Church has removed from circulation.



Note: Includes 16 prologues, 18 epilogues, and 6 extras.

Tags: Magic , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Amnesia , Conspiracy , War , Ensemble Cast , Urban Fantasy , Anti-Hero , Nun , Foreign , Battle Royale , Clone , Female Harem , Drugs , Gods , Religion

Tsukimonogatari

Also known as Tsukimonogatari: Possession Tale.

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

Launching the third or “Final Season” of the international cult-hit series, Possession Tale returns the narrator’s headset back to high school senior and amateur savior Koyomi Araragi, who used to eschew friendship once upon a time because it’d lower his “intensity as a human”—a loner’s misgiving that was perhaps on the mark in a different way than he intended.

At issue now is not the precarious fate of one of his cherished confrères, or rather consœurs, whom he’d aid, sight unseen, with a monster’s resilience, but his own aberrant state and its prolonged abuse. If everything comes with a bill, and if no man is an island, then is the price of self-sacrificing amity—and the bloodshed it ironically occasions—becoming inhuman for good?

That being said! Our hero, whose first name means “calendar” but who has none in his room, sees no need to rush, so, on our way to the profound mysteries of the superhuman aspect, expect a super-shallow deconstruction of the alarm clock. On hand this volume to (hardly ever) humor his humor: his little sisters, a living doll of a corpse, and its violent mistress.



Tags: Achronological Order , Philosophy , Vampire , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Primarily Female Cast , Female Harem , Coming of Age , Astronomy , Afterlife , School , Meta , Gods , Urban Fantasy , Detective , Dissociative Identities , Female Protagonist

JORGE JOESTAR

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

After Jonathan's Death, his son, George Joestar II travels with Erina to live in La Palma of the Canary Islands in Spain. There he pledges his love to Lisa Lisa and eventually grows to be a World war Air Pilot.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Alternate Universe , Detective , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Super Power , Seinen , Meta , Coming of Age , Aviation , Mafia , Zombie , Vampire , Space , Body Horror