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12 manga like A Starlit Darkness
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with A Starlit Darkness (psychological, thriller, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like A Starlit Darkness
Historical · Psychological1. Moriarty the Patriot
by Ryosuke Takeuchi, Hikaru Miyoshi
- Crime
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- 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. For Moriarty, an individual crime can expose an injustice the respectable world prefers to ignore. His campaign places carefully planned schemes beside difficult moral choices, while the prospect of a mind capable of matching his own gives every move another layer of risk.
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Thriller · Psychological2. Talentless Nana
by Looseboy, Iori Furuya
- Drama (shared)
- Horror
- Psychological (shared)
- Sci-Fi
Students with extraordinary powers train on a remote island to protect humanity from a mysterious enemy. A new arrival seems ready to join their ranks, but the academy's purpose is not as simple as it appears. Hidden motives and competing ideas of justice turn school life into a battle of deduction and survival. What someone can do is often easier to see than what they intend. The isolated setting turns observations and small inconsistencies into matters of survival, as extraordinary abilities are matched against planning, suspicion and the difficulty of deciding who should be trusted.
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Psychological · Drama3. SUKEDACHI NINE
by Seishi Kishimoto
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Sci-Fi
In a near-future Japan, a special judicial unit carries out a law that answers murder with the same method used against the victim. Its nine executioners act for bereaved families while carrying losses of their own. Their cases test the boundary between punishment and revenge, and whether either can bring comfort to those left behind. The law offers an exact response to violence, yet the emotions of the bereaved resist such a neat formula. Each assignment places the executioners' own histories beside the families they serve, examining how an official duty can remain inseparable from personal grief.
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Historical · Drama4. The Apothecary Diaries: Xiaolan's Story
by Natsu Hyuuga, Itsuki Nanao
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- Slice of Life
Sent into palace service by an impoverished family, Xiaolan approaches her unfamiliar surroundings with an appetite for food, conversation and friendship. Among the servants she meets is Maomao, whose unusual knowledge makes everyday palace life rather less ordinary. This companion manga revisits the rear palace through Xiaolan, following the work and relationships of those who keep it running. Xiaolan's perspective makes room for the rhythms of service between the palace's larger intrigues. Meals, conversations and new acquaintances reveal the human scale of the setting, offering a companion story centered on curiosity and the friendships that make an unfamiliar household feel less distant.
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Psychological · Drama5. Sunny
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Slice of Life
The children of a small residential home find an escape in an abandoned car they call Sunny. Within it, imagined journeys offer room for anger, hope and longing for their families. Their daily lives form a quietly observed story about growing up together while feeling apart. The car is a private territory where children can briefly give their desires a different shape. Outside it, affection and resentment coexist in shared routines, allowing Taiyo Matsumoto to explore belonging without pretending that care can simply replace the families they miss.
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Historical · Drama6. House of Five Leaves
by Natsume Ono
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
A skilled but painfully shy ronin accepts work as a bodyguard from a charismatic stranger. The job brings him into the orbit of a kidnapping group with complicated motives and concealed histories. In Edo's quieter corners, trust develops slowly between people who have reasons to hide. The ronin's skill offers protection more easily than it offers confidence. His involvement with the group becomes a slow negotiation between moral unease and the comfort of being understood by people whose lives are also unsettled.
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Thriller · Psychological7. Ajin: Demi-Human
by Gamon Sakurai
- Action
- Horror
- Psychological (shared)
- Sci-Fi
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. Kei's survival makes him valuable to people on both sides, but it does not make him feel safe. A body that recovers from anything becomes the center of a conflict over who gets to control it.
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Historical · Drama8. Asadora!
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi
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. Asa's life unfolds against upheaval that reaches far beyond her immediate circumstances. The contrast between intimate human encounters and an ominous larger mystery gives her journey both an everyday warmth and a widening sense of uncertainty.
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Historical · Drama9. The Royal Tutor
by Higasa Akai
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life
Heine Wittgenstein accepts the challenge of educating four princes, each with his own reasons to distrust another tutor. His small stature gives the royal household little hint of his formidable ability. Winning the brothers' respect takes patience, practical lessons and a willingness to look beyond their titles. Each prince presents a different obstacle to learning, and none can be addressed by title alone. Heine's task is to discover what lies beneath their resistance, turning lessons in royal preparation into a gradual education in self-knowledge and responsibility.
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Thriller · Psychological10. The Promised Neverland
by Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Mystery
- 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. The children's intelligence matters only if they can use it without revealing what they know. Familiar rooms and routines become part of a dangerous puzzle, while the wish to protect the other children complicates every calculation about timing, trust and the cost of escape.
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Psychological · Drama11. Blue Lock
by Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Sports
After another World Cup exit, Japan's football union locks 300 young strikers inside a facility called Blue Lock. Only one will become the national team's ace; the rest are banned from ever playing for Japan. Yoichi Isagi, who passed when he should have shot, has to learn to be selfish — a football story played like a survival game. Every match makes ambition measurable and failure immediate. Isagi must rethink his instincts in an environment that rewards individual scoring while repeatedly demanding cooperation with the same players he is trying to surpass.
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Thriller · Psychological12. ACCA 13-Territory Inspection Department
by Natsume Ono
- Fantasy
- Mystery
- Psychological (shared)
- Thriller (shared)
In a nation divided into thirteen territories, a sprawling organization helps keep everyday life running. Its inspection department is meant to ensure that the system works, yet routine oversight becomes entangled with political maneuvering and suspicions of corruption. An apparently untroubled inspector must navigate the space between official responsibilities and the interests operating behind them. Natsume Ono builds a political mystery through quiet conversations, distinctive places and the habits of the people who hold power. The relaxed surface conceals a growing web of uncertainty, rewarding attention to small details as the country's carefully maintained stability comes into question.
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