Manga like The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

What is The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya about?

Status: Finished

Kyon, your typical high school student, has long given up his belief in the supernatural. However, upon meeting Haruhi Suzumiya, he quickly finds out that it is the supernatural that she is interested in; aliens, time travelers and espers among other things. When Haruhi laments about the lack of intriguing clubs around school, Kyon inspires Haruhi to form her own club. As a result, the SOS Brigade is formed, a club which specializes in all that is the supernatural.

Much to his chagrin, Kyon, along with the silent bookworm, Yuki Nagato, the shy and timid Mikuru Asahina, and the perpetually smiling Itsuki Koizumi, are recruited as members. The story follows the crazy adventures that these four endure under their whimsical leader, Haruhi.

Note: Includes a prologue and epilogue.

Tags: Philosophy , School Club , School , Urban Fantasy , Tsundere , Aliens , Parody , Gods , Achronological Order , Time Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Kuudere , Alternate Universe , Chuunibyou , Otaku Culture , Conspiracy , Memory Manipulation , Maids

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Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru.

Also known as My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Hikigaya Hachiman is a high school boy with twisted character. He prefers to go against the trend and refuses to make friends with anybody. In order to get Hachiman back the right track, his school teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka forces him to enter 'Public Service Club'. There he meets other problematic students.

Includes volumes 6.5, 7.5, 10.5, and 14.5.

Tags: School Club , School , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Satire , Rehabilitation , Love Triangle , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Harem , Meta

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Hyouka

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Slice of Life

Oreki Houtarou is a self-proclaimed "energy-saver" - that is, he will not actively waste energy doing things that aren't necessary. Though he had no interest whatsoever in joining any clubs upon entering Kamiyama High School, he was commanded by his older sister Tomoe to enter the school's Classics Club, which was in danger of getting abolished as all previous members have graduated. Together with his old friends Fukube Satoshi and Ibara Mayaka, as well as the elegantly ladylike and curiously inquisitive Chitanda Eru, the newly reformed Classics Club find themselves involved in all sorts of mystery-solving escapades. Houtarou soon finds out that the Classics Club, as Tomoe has promised, is actually "quite interesting".

Note: Book one of the Koten-bu Series.

Tags: School Club , Coming of Age , School , Detective , Ensemble Cast

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Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai

Also known as Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai.

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

Book 1 of the Seishun Buta Yarou series.

Out of sight, out of mind! Bunny girls do not live in libraries. This is simply common sense. And yet, that's exactly where Sakuta finds one in the wild. More bewildering is who the bunny girl is: Mai Sakurajima, a girl one year older than Sakuta, famous at their school for her acting career even though she's currently on break. To top it all off, it seems like no one else in the library can see Mai at all, no matter what she does or...wears. Wanting to find out more about this mystery and maybe get a little closer to this beautiful upperclassman in the process, Sakuta launches an investigation to discover why an unforgettable bunny girl keeps becoming totally invisible.

Tags: Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Urban Fantasy , School , Time Manipulation , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Bullying , Hikikomori , Idol

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Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari: Monster Tale.

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

The first part of the Monogatari Series.

There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humour.

Note: The English release and the JP ebook edition have Bakemonogatari split across three volumes, instead of the original two volumes.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Vampire , Philosophy , Achronological Order , Meta , Gods , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Ghost , Primarily Female Cast , Denpa , Heterosexual , Dissociative Identities , Ensemble Cast , Tomboy , School , Nekomimi , Shounen

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NHK ni Youkoso!

Also known as Welcome to the N.H.K..

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

Tatsuhiro Satou, a university dropout entering his fourth year of unemployment. He leads a reclusive life as a hikikomori, ultimately coming to the bizarre conclusion that this happened due to some sort of conspiracy. One day just when his life seems entirely unchanging, he meets Misaki Nakahara, a mysterious girl who claims to be able to cure Tatsuhiro of his hikikomori ways. She presents him with a contract basically outlining that once a day they would meet in the evening in a local park where Misaki would lecture to Tatsuhiro in an effort to rid him of his lifestyle. During these outings, many subjects are discussed, though they almost always pertain in some way to psychology or psychoanalysis.

Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Hikikomori , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation , Male Protagonist , Otaku Culture , Conspiracy , Autobiographical , Drugs , Denpa , Tragedy

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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!

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

Yuuta Togashi suffered from chuunibyou while he was in middle school. When he graduated, he put that dark history behind him and forgot about it... or he was supposed to. High school was smooth sailing and full of enjoyment - until the unavoidable, sad event occurs. The event that locks Yuuta into a contract with Rikka Takanashi and disrupts his desperately ordinary life.

Note: Chapter count includes three extras.

Tags: Chuunibyou , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist

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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 , Clone , Battle Royale , Female Harem , Drugs , Gods , Religion

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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

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Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria

Also known as The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural , Thriller

Kazuki Hoshino treasures nothing more than his ordinary life, and March 2 should have been an ordinary day. The arrival of a transfer student, the mysterious Aya Otonashi, shouldn't have shattered the world he knows. He's never seen this girl before in his life, but she says she's met him thousands of times--and declares war on him for a crime he can't even remember... As the truth begins to unravel, nothing is as it seems, and at the heart of it all is a wish powerful enough to change everything...

Tags: Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Time Loop , Coming of Age , Dissociative Identities , Achronological Order , Time Manipulation , Yandere , Bullying , School , Battle Royale , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Memory Manipulation , Amnesia , Death Game , Gore , Body Swapping , Marriage , Shapeshifting , Yuri , Baseball

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Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index

Also known as A Certain Magical Index NT.

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

World War III is over. Touma disappears. Accelerator spends his days with Last Order and Misaka Worst. Shiage uses the secrets he gained in Russia as a bargaining chip.

But this peace doesn't last long as the Freshmen arrive...

Note: Includes 21 prologues, 22 epilogues, and 2 extras.

Tags: Magic , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Mythology , Gods , Anti-Hero , Amnesia , Revenge , Urban Fantasy , War , Drugs , Politics , Tragedy , Shounen , Delinquents , Demons , Dystopian , Language Barrier , Memory Manipulation , Robots , Survival , Terrorism , Nun , Gender Bending , Foreign , Guns , Female Harem , Military , Dissociative Identities , School , Teacher , Tsundere , Witch , Maids , Ghost , Nekomimi , Ninja , Reincarnation

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