Manga like Saigo no Saiyuuki

Dragon Ball

Also known as Dragon Ball.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Dragon Ball follows the adventures of Son Goku from his childhood through adulthood as he trains in martial arts and explores the world in search of the seven mystical orbs known as the Dragon Balls, which can summon a wish-granting dragon when gathered. Along his journey, Goku makes several friends and battles a wide variety of villains, many of whom also seek the Dragon Balls for their own desires. Along the way becoming the strongest warrior in the universe.

Part II of Dragon Ball is also known as "Dragon Ball Z" in North America.

Note: Chapter count includes 519 regular chapters and 1 extra. (Volume 33's "Trunks: The Story").

Tags: Martial Arts , Shounen , Travel , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Cultivation , Aliens , Full Color , Time Skip , Henshin , Coming of Age , Cyborg , Afterlife , Anachronism , Tragedy , Magic , Gods , Adoption , Military , Shapeshifting , Nudity , Robots , Rural , Dragons , Dissociative Identities

Ibitsu no Amalgam

Also known as Amalgam of Distortion.

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

This story is about a boy named Rokumichi Kusaba who wants to confess his feelings to Yayoi Hino, his childhood friend. Unfortunately, after choosing the place to confess, he gets crushed by a train and loses his lower half. Rokumichi then gets saved by a scientist that turns him into a monster instead of a regular human being. What is his life going to be like while being under the guise of a monster? And what will his childhood friend think?!

Note: As a part of the JUMP START initiative, the first three chapters of Ibitsu no Amalgam were published in English as Amalgam of Distortion in VIZ Media's digital Weekly Shonen Jump on the same day as the Japanese release.

Tags: Shounen , Body Horror , Youkai , Super Power , Shapeshifting , Male Protagonist

Iron Knight

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Supernatural

There's nothing. There's no one. There's a boy...

Teppei was just a normal, good-hearted kid who loved and idolized his father, a policeman, and aspired to become like him. He had friends at school, even a girl he liked. However, all this was thrown away on the day the world changed forever.

On that day, several people, mostly criminals and scum, inexpicably transformed in monsters; demons, and proceeded to lay waste to human civilization. Entire towns were razed to the ground, incountable innocent lives lost. Unable to find his father or his friends, Teppei almost falls do desperation when he discovers that he's also one of the newly-awakened demons. But in his darkest hour, the sight of his friends' plight of hope make him remember who he is, and what he strives for.

Teppei will not become a monster, nor a demon. He won't prey on the weak. He will instead prey on the other monsters, and protect the weak and innocent from them. He will become a knight that will protect everyone!

Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Iron Curtain
Volume 2: Goblin Knight
Volume 3: Iron Knight (Pilot)


Tags: Shounen , Demons , Shapeshifting , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist

Alive: Saishuu Shinkateki Shounen

Also known as ALIVE: The Final Evolution.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

A strange virus is making its way around the globe, causing its victims to commit suicide–and becoming a lethal pandemic in less than a week. Now a group of Tokyo teens who have survived the outbreak are wondering why they are still alive.



Tags: Shounen , Super Power , Time Skip , Love Triangle

Bokura no Ketsumei

Also known as Our Blood Oath.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy

Last year's acclaimed one-shot that graced the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump returns as a brand new series! Kazu Kakazu's elegantly drawn tale of vampire siblings and the oath that binds them now begins!



Tags: Vampire , Family Life , Urban Fantasy , Shounen , Demons , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Child Cast

Honomieru Shounen

Also known as Phantom Seer.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

If something strange and mysterious occurs, you should go to him. They say he has psychic powers, but convincing him to actually help deal with fierce phantoms may be a challenge. A Gold Future Cup winner, this spine-tingling, horror one-shot now returns as a full series!



Included one-shot:
Volume 4: Honomieru Shounen (Pilot)

Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Youkai , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Slapstick , Ensemble Cast , Body Horror , Female Protagonist , Demons , School

Variante

Also known as Variante.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Mystery , Sci-Fi

After seeing her family slaughtered, Aiko is surprised to wake up on a laboratory table, apparently intact. But when she notices the horribly disfigured arm grafted onto her body, she soon realizes that life as she knew it before the attack is now over. Infused with the DNA of a mysterious monster known as Chimera, the arm acts on the urges of its master — leaving Aiko powerless to stop it. Alone and frightened, how will she deal with this horrible fate?



Tags: Body Horror , Female Protagonist , Monster Girl , Tragedy , Gore , Shounen

Demon 72

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

His name is Kuruto Kagemitsu -- a cute boy with a vengeance. The demon's name is Shuma. He was summoned, much to his surprise and likely chagrin, by that cute boy, and forced to be his servant. Their goal, one intrinsic and the other quite extrinsic, is to eliminate 71 of 72 of King Solomon's demons -- Shuma being the sole exception for obvious reasons -- who are supposedly controlled by one summoner. Kuruto will show his mother he can do it.

Tags: Demons , Seinen

Jujutsu Kaisen

Also known as Jujutsu Kaisen.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Supernatural

Although Yuji Itadori looks like your average teenager, his immense physical strength is something to behold! Every sports club wants him to join, but Itadori would rather hang out with the school outcasts in the Occult Research Club. One day, the club manages to get their hands on a sealed cursed object. Little do they know the terror they’ll unleash when they break the seal…



Notes:
Ranked 1st in Japan's Bookstore Employees Top Manga of 2018.
Nominated for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2021.
Nominated for the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2019. Chapter count includes extra chapter.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Demons , Super Power , Shounen , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Monster Boy , Youkai , Magic , Martial Arts , Body Horror , Dissociative Identities , Curses , Death Game , Gore , Primarily Teen Cast , Battle Royale , Urban , Ensemble Cast , Exorcism , Cosmic Horror , Sadism , Body Swapping , Cult , Surreal Comedy , School , Philosophy , Anthropomorphism , Assassins , Femboy , Time Manipulation , Swordplay , Slapstick , Time Skip , Nudity , Transgender

Saiyuuki

Also known as Saiyuki.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Genjo is a Buddhist priest in the city of Shangri-La, which is being ravaged by yokai spirits that have fallen out of balance with the natural order. His superiors send him on a journey far to the west to discover why this is happening and how to stop it. His companions are three yokai with human souls. But this is no day trip—the four will encounter many discoveries and horrors on the way, and on the road, Genjo will wonder … can he really trust his supernatural companions?



Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Youkai , Male Protagonist