If you liked 21st Century Boys
12 manga like 21st Century Boys
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with 21st Century Boys (psychological, thriller, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like 21st Century Boys
Also by Naoki Urasawa1. Pluto
by Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Thriller (shared)
A string of killings targets humans and some of the world's most advanced robots. Robot detective Gesicht follows the connections, uncovering questions about memory, grief and the legacy of war. Naoki Urasawa reimagines an Astro Boy story by Osamu Tezuka as a science-fiction detective drama.
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Also by Naoki Urasawa2. Monster
by Naoki Urasawa
- Crime
- Drama (shared)
- Medical
- Mystery (shared)
Surgeon Kenzo Tenma chooses to save a child's life, sacrificing his standing at the hospital. Years later, a series of murders forces him to confront the consequences of that decision. His search across Germany becomes a psychological mystery about responsibility, identity and the value of a human life.
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Also by Naoki Urasawa3. Asadora!
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
In 1959 Nagoya, a young girl named Asa is caught in a kidnapping as a devastating storm approaches. What begins as an unlikely encounter grows into a story spanning decades, with aviation, family and a strange presence on the horizon drawing her life in unexpected directions.
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Also by Naoki Urasawa4. Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams
by Naoki Urasawa
- Comedy
- Crime
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
A struggling father and his daughter meet an eccentric man whose promises lead toward an extraordinary scheme involving the Louvre. Misfortune, deception and hope mingle in this single-volume mystery. Naoki Urasawa follows people searching for a way out when ordinary plans have fallen apart.
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Also by Naoki Urasawa5. Master Keaton
by Hokusei Katsushika, Takashi Nagasaki, Naoki Urasawa
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
Taichi Hiraga-Keaton wants to pursue archaeology, but his work as an insurance investigator keeps sending him into other people's troubles. His unusual background equips him for mysteries across Europe and beyond, where historical knowledge and careful observation often matter more than force.
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Thriller · Sci-Fi6. Ajin: Demi-Human
by Gamon Sakurai
- Action
- Horror
- Psychological (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Kei Nagai is hit by a truck, dies, and gets up again. He is an Ajin, one of the rare people who cannot die, and the government wants him for experiments. On the run, he is drawn into a war between the state and an Ajin terrorist who has learned to use immortality as a weapon.
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Thriller · Psychological7. The Promised Neverland
by Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest children at Grace Field House, a loving orphanage with a kind "Mom". Then they learn what adoption really means there. Three children plan an escape from a place built so that no one ever escapes — a tense, clever thriller.
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Thriller · Psychological8. Death Note
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Crime
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Supernatural
Top student Light Yagami finds a notebook dropped by a death god: whoever's name is written in it dies. He decides to rid the world of criminals and becomes "Kira", a killer the world cannot see. The police call in L, a reclusive genius detective, and a battle of wits begins in which one mistake is fatal.
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Sci-Fi · Psychological9. No. 5
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Action
- Adventure
- Psychological (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
In a desert-dominated future, a member of an elite group of peacekeepers abandons his post and becomes its target. The hunt draws the other numbered guardians into a conflict shaped by their loyalties and doubts. An eccentric science-fiction journey through a world of striking landscapes and unstable ideals.
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Psychological · Mystery10. Moriarty the Patriot
by Ryosuke Takeuchi, Hikaru Miyoshi
- Crime
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
Victorian England is rotten with privilege, and William James Moriarty means to tear it down. With his brothers he becomes a consultant for crime, solving people's problems in ways the law never would. Sherlock Holmes's great enemy, told from his side, as a clever, stylish crime story.
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Psychological · Mystery11. The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins
by Taizan 5
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
Tsubasa Ichinose wakes up after a car accident with no memories, and so does the rest of his family. They decide to start over as a perfect, happy family. But the memories they lost were hiding things. From the creator of Takopi's Original Sin.
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Sci-Fi · Psychological12. Land of the Lustrous
by Haruko Ichikawa
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Philosophical
- Psychological (shared)
Far in the future, living gems guard their island against the Lunarians, who come down from the moon to shatter them and carry them off. Phosphophyllite is the youngest and most fragile of them, and wants desperately to be useful. A strange, beautiful and devastating story about what Phos becomes in trying.
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