Top Spearplay Manga Recommendations

Kingdom

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama

Millions of years have passed since the times of legends, when the worlds of man and gods were still the same. In these times it was the desires of man that moved the world. It is the period of the 500 year war: the Era of Warring States. Kingdom is the story of a young boy who grew into a great general and all the trials and bloodshed that led him there.

Tags: Military , Historical , War , Royal Affairs , Politics , Ancient China , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Coming of Age , Swordplay , Tragedy , Foreign , Heterosexual , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Fugitive , Conspiracy , Body Horror , Assassins , Spearplay , Time Skip , Torture , Archery , Ensemble Cast , Crossdressing , Magic

Tongari Boushi no Atelier

Also known as Witch Hat Atelier.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch … until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem...



Notes:
- Nominated for the 11th Manga Taishou Award in 2018.
- Won the Daruma d'Or at Japan Expo in 2019.
- Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia at the Eisner Awards in 2020.
- Won the Best Manga Award at the Harvey Awards in 2020.

Tags: Witch , Magic , Memory Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Teacher , Drawing , Revenge , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , School , Found Family , Primarily Child Cast , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Politics , Seinen , Disability , Philosophy , Spearplay , Rehabilitation , Foreign , Travel , Amnesia , LGBTQ+ Themes , Iyashikei , Boys' Love

Magi

Also known as Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic.

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

Deep within the deserts lie the mysterious Dungeons, vast stores of riches there for the taking by anyone lucky enough to find them and brave enough to venture into the depths from where few have ever returned. Plucky young adventurer Aladdin means to find the Dungeons and their riches, but Aladdin may be just as mysterious as the treasures he seeks. Together with the djinn Ugo and his friend Alibaba, Aladdin sets out to find his fortune in the depths of the endless dunes…



Tags: Magic , Conspiracy , War , Politics , Foreign , Royal Affairs , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Memory Manipulation , Shounen , Time Skip , Dungeon , Slavery , Gods , Economics , Revenge , Philosophy , Pirates , Swordplay , Dystopian , Ensemble Cast , Desert , Cultivation , Reincarnation , Spearplay , Dragons

Log-in Murim

Also known as Log-in Murim.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

When an interdimensional portal appeared and released countless monsters across the world, humanity didn’t take the threat lying down. Mankind fought back, defeating the monsters' Demon King and creating a new way of life as "hunters." But when Taekyung Jin, a struggling, low-ranked hunter, accidentally logs into a game on a beat-up VR console, he finds himself trapped in an all-new world, unable to log out.



Tags: Martial Arts , Cultivation , Wuxia , Virtual World , Male Protagonist , Dungeon , Urban Fantasy , Full Color , Spearplay , Politics , Demons

Yeokdaegeup Changgisaui Hoegwi

Also known as The Legendary Spearman Returns.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Joshua Sanders, the legendary spearman who ended the brutal civil war, shattered the belief that one must wield a sword to be a master knight. He fought in the service of his friend, Emperor Caesar Van Briton, but it is all for naught when his fearful comrades try to kill him. He’s on the brink of death when his trusty weapon, Lukia, shines and propels him back to the stables of his childhood. With his mighty spear in hand, Joshua is dead set on revenge in this life!



Tags: Age Regression , Conspiracy , Spearplay , War , Time Skip , Revenge , Male Protagonist , Full Color , Magic , Necromancy , Reincarnation , Time Manipulation , Demons , Angels

Tamsigui Jaerim

Also known as The Second Coming of Gluttony.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

At the brink of death on an otherworldly battlefield, Jihoo Seol is granted the chance to relive his life. But all magic has its limits, and Seol only retains a few fragments of the man he will become. Memories of a future he has yet to live manifest in sporadic dreams and magic grants him unearned luck. When his magic fails, Seol's life takes a turn for the worse. Desperate and alone, he's approached by a mysterious woman with an offer that will change his life forever. Will his dreams be enough to save him from the horrors that lie ahead?



Tags: Male Protagonist , Survival , Full Color , Isekai , Virtual World , Gore , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Harem , Gods , Magic , Ghost , War , Body Horror , Spearplay

Wo! Tian Mìng Da Fanpai

Also known as I Am The Fated Villain.

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

A transmigrator awoke in the world of martial arts and became the villain named Gu Changge. His goal is to harvest the luck of those called "the Son of Fate" in order to become the strongest. With the Sons of Fate as his deranged enemies, he changes the destiny of being a villain.



Tags: Cultivation , Anti-Hero , Full Color , Female Harem , Wuxia , Martial Arts , Magic , Male Protagonist , Isekai , Villainess , Reincarnation , Video Games , Primarily Adult Cast , Slavery , Spearplay , Dragons , Polyamorous

Academy Player-reul Jugyeotda

Also known as I Killed the Main Player.

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

Being a character of your favorite game is great! Sure, he’s just a minor NPC, but Corin knows this game like the back of his hand. With his knowledge and the main player Sihu’s abilities, everything’s going smoothly - until Corin discovers Sihu’s been murdering innocent NPCs and stealing their items. Horrified but powerless to stop him, Corin awaits the end of the game - only for Sihu to mysteriously fail at the last mission. Instantly, Corin travels three years back in time. Now, he’s determined to kill Sihu and take on his role - defeat the final boss and save the world.



Tags: Full Color , Male Protagonist , Magic , School , Isekai , Spearplay , Female Harem , Yandere

Jwippuldo Eomneun Hoegwi

Also known as Returning With Absolutely Nothing.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

An ordinary middle schooler, Lee Seong-Min, is summoned to a world called "Eria". He endures dozens of years with no skills or powers, and makes it through all kinds of hardships to survive, but dies miserably in the end.

However, before he dies, he gets sent back to the past after obtaining the ‘Stone of the Past Life’ by chance, and gains the opportunity to start his life anew.

Yet, he still lives a life without any talents; nothing. Although he can’t approach the powerful people around him due to the "wall" surrounding them, he moves forward step by step with firm determination, never giving up.

"No matter what, I’m going to live a better life than my previous one even if I have to struggle!"



Tags: Reincarnation , Full Color , Age Regression , Martial Arts , Cultivation , Male Protagonist , Gods , Magic , Survival , Isekai , Spearplay , Time Skip

Teito Seihai Kitan: Fate/type Redline

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

Remake of the Imperial Grail War from the Koha-Ace manga. The protagonist is Akagi Kanata, who gets transported 75 years to the past to participate in a Holy Grail War in the midst of World War 2.

Tags: Battle Royale , Magic , Time Manipulation , Isekai , Time Skip , Swordplay , Historical , Urban , Urban Fantasy , Female Protagonist , Spearplay , Tragedy , Military , War , Politics , Dragons , Gore , Seinen , Guns

Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi

Also known as The Elusive Samurai.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure

Set in feudal Japan in between the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, our hero Houjou Tokiyuki is a boy on the run that history all but forgot! When the Kamakura shogunate is overthrown by Ashikaga Takauji, Tokiyuki's family and standing are viciously taken away from him, and he must flee to the far reaches of the land to survive and seek out his revenge!



Tags: Samurai , Shounen , Historical , Surreal Comedy , War , Ninja , Archery , Fugitive , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Anachronism , Gore , Suicide , Primarily Male Cast , Found Family , Primarily Child Cast , Tragedy , Religion , Ghost , Time Skip , Body Horror , Gods , Spearplay , Disability , Biographical , Tomboy , Scat , Demons

Fate/Zero

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

War of the Holy Grail - Pursuing the power of the "Holy Grail" which grants a miracle, this is a contest in which seven magi summon seven Heroic Spirits to compete for it. In that battle whose conclusion was postponed three times, now, the fourth war commenced again. Entrusting their dearest wish of victory, the magi joined the battleground called "Fuyuki", but amongst them, there was a man who was always alone, and could not find out the meaning behind his fights. His name was Kotomine Kirei. Not comprehending the guidance of fate, Kirei was lost, and had kept questioning. Why someone like his was given the Command Seals. However, the fate of his fights crossed Kirei's path with a nemesis by chance. That person is - Emiya Kiritsugu. A man who was sterner than anyone else, more merciless than anyone else, and who sought the miracle of the Holy Grail.

Merely recited in fragments in Fate/Stay Night, this is the Fourth War of the Holy Grail 10 years ago. The truth which unfolded behind the battle between Shirō's foster father, Rin's father, and the younger Kotomine Kirei, is finally revealed...

Tags: Tragedy , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Urban , Succubus , Swordplay , Spearplay , Vampire , Zombie , Religion , Assassins , Urban Fantasy , Battle Royale , Primarily Adult Cast , Magic , Mythology , Dissociative Identities , Heterosexual

Isekai Tensei Soudouki

Also known as Multi-Mind Mayhem: Isekai Tensei Soudouki.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Bard Cornelius: the son of a nobleman of Mauricia, an empire located in a parallel universe. But Bard is no ordinary boy―he's got three souls packed into one body! Aside from his own consciousness, he's got Oka Sanai, a miserly samurai, and Masaharu Oka, a high school otaku who loves animal ears. With his extra knowledge of military tactics and business acumen, Bard's ready to cheat his way to the top!



Tags: Isekai , Dissociative Identities , Male Protagonist , Female Harem , War , Politics , Kemonomimi , Maids , Reincarnation , Spearplay , Heterosexual , Ships , Tomboy , School

Fate/stay night

Also known as Fate/stay night.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Romance

The story takes place in an ordinary Japanese town, Fuyuki City. Hidden from society, there has been a deadly war going on in this town. Seven sorcerers known as "Masters" summon a powerful familiar called "Servants" and they all fight each other till the last one. The last one is said to attain the Holy Grail which will grant them a wish. Only a few knows when this War started and what the Holy Grail is, but the war was about to begin again this year.

The main character is Emiya Shirou, who lost his parents in a fire and was adopted by a man who called himself a sorcerer. Admiring his step father, he has been training himself to be a sorcerer. However, he had no talent and he could barely use one type of sorcery. His step father has already passed away, and today he's a sorcerer without any skills or knowledge. He is involved in the War of the Holy Grail when he accidentally summons Saber, who is said to be the strongest servant of all...

Tags: Battle Royale , Magic , Mythology , Shounen , Urban Fantasy , Superhero , Super Power , Swordplay , Tsundere , Matriarchy , Spearplay , Religion , Urban , School , Tanned Skin , Slavery

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya

Also known as Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

Based on the hit series Fate/stay night, this alternate universe story that inspired the anime features your favorite characters in a magical girl adventure!

Illya might be rich, but she’s just like any other elementary school girl—she has a secret crush and loves magical girl anime. But when a magical “Kaleidostick” wand named Ruby tricks her into signing a contract, Illya becomes a magical girl herself! Illya’s peaceful days might be over, but her fight to save the world has only just begun.



Note: Includes an Epilogue.

Tags: Magic , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Ojou-sama , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Swordplay , Spearplay , Archery , Dissociative Identities , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Shounen , Parody

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 3rei!!

Also known as Fate/kaleid liner Prisma ☆ Illya Drei 3!!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

Just as Miyu was about saved from being swallowed into despair, all of a sudden a mysterious small duo that has mastered the Class Cards suddenly appears in front of the Illya? These witches are taking things to the next level!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Magic , Alternate Universe , Primarily Female Cast , Henshin , Primarily Child Cast , Urban Fantasy , Time Manipulation , Body Swapping , Isekai , Maids , Anti-Hero , Kuudere , Yandere , Gods , Memory Manipulation , Dissociative Identities , Archery , Swordplay , Spearplay , Assassins , Yuri , Tanned Skin , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Tragedy , Ojou-sama , Urban , Shounen , Amnesia , Achronological Order

Yongsa Dongsaengeun Academy Goinmul

Also known as The Dragon Slayer Academy's Hotshot.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery

In the last battle with the king of the dragon race that killed countless humans, Rudd Denatos loses his comrades and biological elder brother, Aesir Denatos. The moment he slays an unidentified dragon that appears before him, he returns to his days as an academy cadet.

However, his brother, Aesir, a genius warrior doesn’t exist in the past world Rudd has regressed into. Trying to fill in the empty spot of Aesir, Rudd tries to prepare as much as possible before the strongest dragon king, the Seventh Dragon, appears.

Will Rudd be able to find his older brother and avenge his parents?

Tags: Age Regression , School , Martial Arts , Swordplay , Spearplay , Male Protagonist , Dragons , Full Color , Magic

Fate/strange Fake

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

The stage: the city of Snowfield in the western U.S., far from Fuyuki. There, a "false Holy Grail War", quite unlike the original Holy Grail War, unfolds. There were those who had been keeping an eye on the auguries of the Holy Grail in Snowfield. According to an investigation by the Mage's Association, the Holy Grail War system in Snowfield was an imitation of the one in Fuyuki. What's more, the system was incomplete, leading to the exclusion of one of the seven classes and the selection of beings as Servants who ordinarily could not be summoned. It was, verily, a strange fake. As an organ of the U.S. government executes its various plots, the Servants are summoned one after another...

Tags: Magic , Battle Royale , Archery , Gods , Demons , Vampire , Police , Poker , Assassins , Gambling , Witch , Animals , Urban , Super Power , Dissociative Identities , Philosophy , Nun , Religion , Agender , Chimera , Cyborg , Afterlife , Conspiracy , Revenge , Twins , Werewolf , Spearplay , Mythology , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Foreign , Urban Fantasy , Swordplay , Espionage , Gender Bending , Guns

Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e

Also known as To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy

During a protacted civil war that pitted the North against the South, the outnumbered Northerners used dark magic to create monstrous super-soldiers called Incarnates. Now that the war has ended, those Sacred Beasts must learn to make their way in a peaceful society, or face death at the hands of a Beast Hunter. Nancy Schaal Bancroft, the daughter of an Incarnate, turns to hunting the hunter herself. But once she catches up with her quarry, she discovers hard truths about the lives of these Sacred Beasts.



Tags: War , Monster Boy , Monster Girl , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Adoption , Body Horror , Gore , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Rural , Travel , Vampire , Military , Shounen , Werewolf , Guns , Foreign , Historical , Swordplay , Centaur , Class Struggle , Dragons , Estranged Family , Fugitive , Politics , Urban , Archery , Cowboys , Religion , Snowscape , Spearplay , Urban Fantasy

Heart no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Wonder World

Also known as Alice in the Country of Hearts.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

Alice is having a nap in her garden when suddenly before her there appears a young man with rabbit ears! He whisks her away to a fantastic (but dangerous) world that seems straight out of a fairy tale, but one where every resident brandishes a weapon…Will Alice ever find her way back home?



Tags: Shoujo , Male Harem , Classic Literature , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Kemonomimi , Mafia , Isekai , Nekomimi , Heterosexual , Swordplay , Guns , Spearplay , Delinquents , Travel