Manga like Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria

Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

Also known as Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Romance , Thriller

Subaru Natsuki was just trying to get to the convenience store but wound up summoned to another world. He encounters the usual things--life-threatening situations, silver haired beauties, cat fairies--you know, normal stuff. All that would be bad enough, but he's also gained the most inconvenient magical ability of all--time travel, but he's got to die to use it. How do you repay someone who saved your life when all you can do is die?



Tags: Time Manipulation , Time Loop , Tragedy , Witch , Isekai , Male Protagonist , Astronomy , Gore , Cosmic Horror , Magic , Memory Manipulation , Ensemble Cast , Politics , Cult , Body Horror , Suicide , Amnesia , Alternate Universe , Elf , Dissociative Identities , Reincarnation , Heterosexual , Twins , Time Skip , Maids , Hikikomori , Female Protagonist , Assassins , Femboy , Yandere , Dragons , Love Triangle , Crossdressing , Kemonomimi , Unrequited Love , Age Regression , Zombie , Necromancy , Werewolf , Disability , Shapeshifting , Medieval , Curses

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

Gekkou

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Romance

Gekkou, or "Moonlight", is about the peculiar relationship between a cynical boy and a perfect girl. Said cynical boy is Nonomiya who spends day in day out in boredom, taking refuge from his dull life in his imagination. One fateful day, he happens upon the notebook of the much-rumored beauty Youko Tsukimori, neglected on the ground. Poking out from it is a scrap of paper with the unexpected title "Murder Recipe". His interest ignited, he immediately stuffs it into his pocket, only to find out the promising recipe contains nothing but scenarios that may or may not lead to deadly accidents, not even worthy of being called a plan. When he tentatively asks her about it the next day, she hasn't lost anything. But then her father dies. An accident...



Tags: Male Protagonist , School , Crime , Detective

Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e

Also known as Classroom of the Elite.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life , Thriller

Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom—if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks! Ayanokoji Kiyotaka has landed at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he meets Horikita Suzune, who’s determined to rise up the ladder to Class A. Can they beat the system in a school where cutthroat competition is the name of the game?



Includes Volumes: 4.5, 7.5, 11.5
Included Chapters: 14 Prologues, 13 Epilogues, 1 Extra

Tags: School , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Battle Royale , Ensemble Cast , Politics , Revenge , Fugitive , Survival , Heterosexual , Denpa , Coming of Age , Boarding School , Classic Literature , Conspiracy , School Club , Bullying , Disability , Athletics , Torture , Delinquents , Martial Arts , Rehabilitation , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Female Harem , Kuudere , Tsundere , Suicide , Board Game , Yandere , Teacher

Kamisu Reina wa Koko ni Iru

Also known as Kamisu Reina Series.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Supernatural

Reina Kamisu is a friend of loners, a slayer of families, a savior of worlds, and a killer of lovers—and she is absurdly beautiful. Who is she and what are her intentions? The search for her true identity begins with Fumi Saito, a lonely girl student whose only friend and support in life is Reina, as she is accused of things she did not do... This is a story of delusions, despair and destructive beauty.

Tags: Suicide , Achronological Order , Bullying , Philosophy , School , Female Protagonist

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch

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

October 4 and 5, 1986. The Ushiromiya family has gathered on the private island of Rokkenjima for their annual family conference. Chief on the agenda concerns the struggle for the inheritance assets of the ailing family head, Kinzo. But as the family is trapped on the island by a typhoon, they receive a letter claiming to be from the rumored witch of the island, Beatrice, and mysterious events begin to occur.

Tags: Magic , Witch , Meta , Tragedy

Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery

Sakurako Kujou is a genius beauty in her mid-twenties whose life is centered around one thing and one thing only: bones. With little tolerance for others, she would be completely isolated in her study full of skeletons if it weren’t for high school boy Shotaro—her new assistant and constant companion. Why exactly she has taken a shine to him remains a mystery, but one thing is clear: Whenever the two go out together, the chances are high that they will come across a human corpse.

Tags: Detective , Tragedy , Age Gap , Crime

Kubishime Romanticist: Ningen Shikkaku - Zerozaki Hitoshiki

Also known as Strangulation: Kubishime Romanticist.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Psychological

Now that he’s a cool college student, our anti-hero Iichan thinks his crime-solving days are behind him. Cynical, sarcastic and minimally engaged in his studies, Iichan is much more interested in his own feelings of disaffection and isolation. But despite his resolve to remain aloof, he’s pulled into the narrative when he encounters and bonds with a serial killer named Hitoshi Zerozaki – a homicidal maniac with the soul of an artist whose talent is on display at the grisly scenes of his crimes.



Tags: Crime , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , Urban , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Detective , Mopeds , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Suicide , Yandere , Love Triangle

Tsukumodou Kottouten

Also known as Tsukumodo Antique Shop.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Mystery , Romance

The story centers around the so-called "Relics"—mysterious items with special powers that range from obviously lethal to deceptively harmless—and the damage they bring about. Again and again, Tokiya Kurusu and Saki Maino, both of which work at the Tsukumodo Antique Shop (FAKE), get into difficulties that involve Relics, and have to find a way out. Why do they seem to be haunted by such incidents and what kind of fate is awaiting them...? Very well, let us talk about the never-smiling girl and the death-seeing boy, and the strange incidents they become entangled in.

Tags: Episodic , Urban Fantasy , Time Manipulation , Kuudere , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Yuri , Philosophy , Gore

Murasakiiro no Qualia

Also known as Qualia the Purple.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Through the uncanny purple eyes of Yukari, all people appear to her as robots. Her talent is both a blessing and a curse. She is able to assist the police in sizing up threats, since her “skill” allows her to evaluate humans’ quirks and physical capabilities like cataloging the parts of a machine–yet her strange sight has cost her the friendship of her peers. She does have one friend in her corner: Hatou “Gaku” Manabu, a girl at school who cares deeply for Yukari. When Yukari is recruited into a secret organization, the real trouble begins. Gaku is thrust into a realm of mystery, quantum experimentation, and alternate universes, with only her wits–and her love for Yukari–to guide her along the way.



Tags: Philosophy , Time Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Tragedy , Alternate Universe , Robots , Super Power , Yuri , Primarily Child Cast , Achronological Order , Bisexual , Gore , School , Age Regression , Magic , Rescue