Top Clone Manga Recommendations

ONE PIECE

Also known as One Piece.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

As a child, Monkey D. Luffy was inspired to become a pirate by listening to the tales of the buccaneer "Red-Haired" Shanks. But his life changed when Luffy accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Devil Fruit and gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, still vowing to become the king of the pirates, Luffy sets out on his adventure...one guy alone in a rowboat, in search of the legendary "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world...



Tags: Pirates , Travel , Found Family , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Super Power , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Ships , Fugitive , Conspiracy , Crime , Military , Politics , War , Terrorism , Slapstick , Post-Apocalyptic , Time Skip , Primarily Adult Cast , Cultivation , Prison , Lost Civilization , Anachronism , Dystopian , Gods , Slavery , Swordplay , Environmental , Large Breasts , Gangs , Mythology , Animals , Espionage , Religion , Anti-Hero , Cyborg , Adoption , Assassins , Skeleton , Samurai , Drugs , Meta , Kemonomimi , Anthropomorphism , Medicine , Henshin , Battle Royale , Robots , Food , Guns , Revenge , Desert , Dragons , Mermaid , Amnesia , Oiran , Monster Girl , Time Manipulation , Angels , Memory Manipulation , Trains , Centaur , Ninja , Zombie , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Dinosaurs , Gender Bending , Aliens , Transgender , Clone , Body Swapping

Ao no Exorcist

Also known as Blue Exorcist.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Supernatural

Raised by Father Fujimoto, a famous exorcist, Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth—the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin's veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan, but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy and becoming an exorcist himself. Can Rin fight demons and keep his infernal bloodline a secret? It won't be easy, especially when drawing his father's sword releases the demonic power within him!



Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.

Tags: Demons , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Conspiracy , Urban Fantasy , Swordplay , Chimera , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Twins , School , Tragedy , Orphan , Religion , Youkai , Clone , Anthropomorphism , Gore , Body Horror , Espionage , Magic , Ensemble Cast , Mythology , Guns , Kaiju , Kemonomimi , Time Manipulation , Heterosexual , Memory Manipulation , Suicide , Zombie , Nudity

Akumetsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Nagasawa Shiina is just an average 3rd year high school student until her parents' company goes bankrupt. In order to pay the bills, she sells herself into prostitution. At her first job, a mysterious masked man crashes the party... and it's someone she knows.

Akumetsu is the story of Shou, a vigilante that's out trying to straighten the corrupt Japanese Government through terrorism with his "One man, One kill" code of action.

Tags: Crime , Politics , Anti-Hero , Economics , Police , Shounen , Military , Gore , Male Protagonist , School , Tragedy , Cars , Clone

xxxHolic

Also known as xxxHOLiC.

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

Kimihiro Watanuki is haunted by visions of ghosts and spirits. He seeks help from a mysterious woman named Yuko, who claims she can help. However, Watanuki must work for Yuko in order to pay for her aid. Soon Watanuki finds himself employed in Yuko’s shop where he sees things and meets customers that are stranger than anything he could have ever imagined.



Notes:
- The series was re-named to xxxHolic•Rou on chapter title pages of chapter 186 and on, but not on their volume's front covers, spines and indicia.
- The chapter count contains a one-shot published in May 2010 to commemorate the switch, which was later collected into Volume 18.
- The chapter count also reflects the magazine releases; the chapters plus the one-shot were re-arranged into 109 chapters across 19 volumes.

Tags: Magic , Youkai , Mythology , Ghost , Crossover , Clone , Seinen , Witch , Time Manipulation , Philosophy , Urban Fantasy , Episodic , Memory Manipulation , School , Heterosexual , Denpa , Tragedy

Sousei no Onmyouji

Also known as Twin Star Exorcists.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

Rokuro dreams of becoming anything but an exorcist! Then mysterious Benio turns up. The pair are dubbed the "Twin Star Exorcists" and learn they are fated to marry... Can Rokuro escape both fates? When Rokuro's best friend Ryogo goes missing, Rokuro is forced to ask Benio for help to enter Magano, the realm of the evil Kegare, to rescue him!



Notes:
- Includes 6 extra chapters and 2 special chapters.
- Chapters 51 - 54 were originally a spin-off series, later merged into the main series.
- Chapter 13 was split into 2 chapters in the volume release; chapter count reflects the magazine releases.

Tags: Shounen , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Time Skip , Demons , Male Protagonist , War , Memory Manipulation , Tragedy , Revenge , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Twins , Female Harem , Amnesia , Clone , Gore

Gleipnir

Also known as Gleipnir.

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

Shuichi Kagaya is an ordinary high school kid in a boring little town. But when a beautiful classmate is caught in a warehouse fire, he discovers a mysterious power: he can transform into a furry dog with an oversized revolver and a zipper down his back. He saves the girl’s life, sharing his secret with her. But she’s searching for the sister who killed her family, and she doesn’t care how degrading it gets: she will use Shuichi to accomplish her mission …



Tags: Super Power , Shapeshifting , Monster Boy , Anti-Hero , Psychosexual , Battle Royale , Seinen , Aliens , Body Horror , Nudity , Memory Manipulation , Gore , Monster Girl , Guns , Heterosexual , Rural , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Yandere , Love Triangle , Clone , Time Manipulation , Suicide , LGBTQ+ Themes

Takopii no Genzai

Also known as Takopi's Original Sin.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Takopi travels from his home of Happy Planet to spread happiness across Earth, but meets the unsmiling Shizuka upon landing. Her friends at school and home life seem to be the source of her somber expression—and the pure-hearted Takopi is determined to change things for the better! But what truths await him when the curtains rise in this shocking drama?!



Tags: Bullying , Tragedy , Aliens , Denpa , Time Manipulation , Suicide , Primarily Child Cast , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Crime , Memory Manipulation , Magic , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Clone

Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE

Also known as Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

"The world is a very small place, but for those who know it...it is very, very large. And the world, when it is viewed by those who 'know'— is far larger than just one world can hold!"

The famous CLAMP brings back the characters from all their creations for an ultimate showdown in this multi-dimensional tale.

This is the story of four travelers, bound by fate and by prophesied future. Sakura is the princess of Clow Country, and possessor of a strange power that promises to change the world. Syaoran is an aspiring archaeologist and her childhood friend. When Sakura is endangered by the plan a certain man has for the future, the princess' memories are scattered across dimensions in the form of feathers, and Syaoran is forced to go on a desperate journey to retrieve them. They are accompanied by Fay D. Flourite, a magician running from the horrible truth of his past, and Kurogane, a rough-mannered ninja trying to get back to his world. However, the ability to cross worlds demands a great price, and each of them must pay the Dimensional Witch with what he or she values most. In order to save his princess, Syaoran must give up his relationship with her. Even if he gathers all of Sakura's memories, she will never remember their past together...

But the world is not so simple. The very moment these four made this decision, their destinies are sealed into a tragic course...as everyone in the group has their own secrets. Visions of the future are seen, and prophesies are made. The cruel future which lies ahead reads only of betrayal, abandonment, devastation and anguish.

Tags: Travel , Alternate Universe , Magic , Crossover , Clone , Tragedy , Achronological Order , Ensemble Cast , Amnesia , Memory Manipulation , Isekai , Time Manipulation , Found Family , Heterosexual , Reincarnation , Shounen , Body Horror , Lost Civilization , Swordplay , Dissociative Identities , Vampire , Boys' Love , Twins , Desert , Urban , Snowscape

Kowloon Generic Romance

Also known as Kowloon Generic Romance.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge. Amid the hidden emotions and extraordinary daily lives of the men and women working in its confines, a tale of romance begins to unfold for real estate agent Reiko Kujirai—one that feels as familiar as Kowloon itself…



Note:
- Nominated for the 14th Manga Taisho Award in 2021.
- Nominated for the 6th Tsugimanga Award in the Print Manga Category in 2020.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Seinen , Amnesia , Clone , Primarily Adult Cast , Dystopian , Office Lady , Urban , Work , Alternate Universe , Nudity , Foreign , Heterosexual , Memory Manipulation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gender Bending

UQ Holder!

Also known as UQ HOLDER!.

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

Negi Springfield, the boy wizard of the hit manga Negima!, fought and won many battles. Now it is decades later and Negi’s grandson(!), a little boy name Touta, dreams of leaving his quiet village and heading to the City. But first he must defeat his teacher … the immortal vampire, Evangeline! Witness the dramatic beginning of a futuristic battle fantasy



Tags: Magic , Shounen , Martial Arts , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Space , Female Harem , Amnesia , Space Opera , Bisexual , Cyborg , Nudity , Super Robot , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Gender Bending , Clone , Guns , Swordplay , Demons , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Ghost , Crossdressing , Tragedy , Vampire , Survival , Agender

Kengan Omega

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Sports

Sequel to Kengan Asura. Takes place 2 years after the tournament.

Tags: Martial Arts , Athletics , Ensemble Cast , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Boxing , Primarily Adult Cast , Wrestling , Assassins , Judo , Ninja , Clone

Real Account

Also known as Real Account.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Ecchi , Psychological , Sci-Fi

In a world driven by fictionalized friendship, courtesy of the program named "real account", the table suddenly turns, and the cybernetic world turns real! how will they survive?

Notes:
- Includes 2 extra chapters.
- The first part was serialized in Bessatsu Shounen Magazine until August 9, 2014; the second part, with the chapter count reset, started in Weekly Shounen Magazine on December 24, 2014.

Tags: Death Game , Shounen , Satire , Male Protagonist , Virtual World , Gore , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , Football , Zombie , Clone , Incest , Twins

Sidonia no Kishi

Also known as Knights of Sidonia.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Outer space, the far future.

A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity’s home world continue to pose an existential threat.

Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel’s bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders. Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship’s coolheaded female captain.

Meticulously drawn, peppered with clipped humor, but also unusually attentive to plot and structure for the international cult favorite, Knights of Sidonia may be Tsutomu Nihei’s most accessible work to date even as it hits notes of tragic grandeur as a hopeless struggle for survival unfolds.



Tags: Aliens , Space , Military , War , Male Protagonist , Survival , Post-Apocalyptic , Agender , Seinen , Clone , Female Harem , Real Robot , Heterosexual , Nudity , Space Opera

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

Sora no Otoshimono

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance , Sci-Fi

Sakurai Tomoki is a normal student whose motto is "normal is the best". If there is one thing abnormal, it is that he often dreams of a girl whose face he cannot even remember, and when he wakes up from that dream, he would always be crying. He tried leaving it as just a dream... but one day, from the sky, an angel descended.

Note: Includes 20 extra chapters.

Tags: Angels , School , Surreal Comedy , Female Harem , Artificial Intelligence , Slavery , Parody , Slapstick , Heterosexual , Chibi , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Gods , Religion , Philosophy , Astronomy , Mythology , Rural , Shounen , Gender Bending , Yakuza , Love Triangle , Found Family , Torture , Tsundere , Martial Arts , Conspiracy , Meta , Suicide , Clone , Time Manipulation , Lost Civilization , Memory Manipulation , Battle Royale

Tajuu Jinkaku Tantei Psycho

Also known as MPD Psycho.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological

Police detective Yosuke Kobayashi's life is changed forever after a serial killer notices something "special" about him. That same killer mutilates Kobayashi's wife and kick-starts a "multiple personality battle" within Kobayashi that pushes him into a complex tempest of interconnected deviants and evil forces. Earning praise for its consistently shocking plot lines and Tajima's clean, arresting art style, MPD-Psycho is the manga event of the decade!



Tags: Detective , Clone , Male Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Police , Seinen , Body Horror , Terrorism , Anti-Hero , Nudity

Kanata no Astra

Also known as Astra Lost in Space.

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

Itʼs the first day of Planet Camp, and Aries Spring couldnʼt be more excited! She, along with eight other strangers, leave for Planet McPa for a weeklong excursion. Soon after they arrive, however, a mysterious orb appears and transports them into the depths of space, where they find an empty floating spaceship…



Notes:
Includes 4 sets of bonus pages, where each set is considered a chapter; Volumes 2 - 5 each contain a set.
Won the Manga Taisho Award 2019.
Nominated to the 23rd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Tags: Space , Conspiracy , Survival , Found Family , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Clone , Shounen , Transgender , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Aliens , Alternate Universe , Agender , Adoption , Nudity

Black Paradox

Also known as Black Paradox.

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

It follows four people who meet for a group suicide, but their attempt to die instead makes them aware of a bizarre phenomenon that could change the world.



Included one-shots:
The Licking Woman, Mystery Pavillion

Tags: Body Horror , Seinen , Afterlife , Tragedy , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Cosmic Horror , Philosophy , Suicide , Robots , Clone , Love Triangle , Nudity , Full Color , Alternate Universe , Heterosexual

Hi no Tori

Also known as Phoenix.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Sci-Fi

"All things are born and all things die. That is the law of heaven." According to legend, the Bird of Fire called the Phoenix is the eternal spirit of life, death and rebirth. She oversees the cycle of reincarnation and the rising and falling of civilizations and species. Those who can obtain her blood will be granted eternal life, while to others she can grant infinite wisdom, or eternal suffering. Throughout history, from the dawn of civilization to the extinction of the human race, those human souls touched by the Phoenix have hunted her over and over in multiple reincarnations, and their actions in one life determine or reflect the sins and sufferings of other lifetimes.



Note: This is an incomplete series due to Tezuka's death.

Tags: Philosophy , Reincarnation , Episodic , War , Historical , Mythology , Time Skip , Achronological Order , Environmental , Dystopian , Anachronism , Space , Coming of Age , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Cyberpunk , Gods , Tragedy , Body Swapping , Post-Apocalyptic , Robots , Aliens , Anti-Hero , Artificial Intelligence , Fugitive , Revenge , Satire , Love Triangle , Age Regression , Amnesia , Ensemble Cast , Clone , Swordplay

Shijou Saikyou Orc-san no Tanoshii Tanetsuke Harem-Zukuri

Also known as Happy Harem Making with the Mightiest Orc!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

The weak stays virgin for life, the strong can XXXX hot women!!

Olc, the protagonist, was reincarnated into a half-orc child. Seeing her child bullied in the village, his mother encourages him to become strong. She says: “Olc, if you are weak, you’ll be a virgin for life. If you are strong, you’ll be able to XXXX beautiful women.”

He denies his mother’s words. However, after being shocked by the cuteness of the young girls from other races in a tribe meeting, he is determined to gain power. And thus, the journey of lust begins!



Tags: Female Harem , Elf , Male Protagonist , Isekai , Nudity , Reincarnation , Shounen , Slavery , Food , Time Skip , Magic , Fairy , Super Power , Kemonomimi , Clone , Henshin