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12 manga like Akame ga KILL!
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Akame ga KILL! (fantasy, adventure, tragedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.

Manga like Akame ga KILL!
Readers also like it1. Attack on Titan
by Hajime Isayama
- Action (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- Horror
Humanity shelters behind enormous walls that have kept the man-eating Titans outside for a century. When an immense Titan breaks through the defenses of Eren Yeager's town, that apparent security collapses. Eren joins the military determined to fight back, beginning a struggle that will force him and his companions to question what they know about their world. The soldiers' search for security repeatedly collides with the cost of pursuing it. Fear, loyalty and competing visions of freedom shape a struggle in which each apparent answer makes the world beyond the walls more complicated.
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Readers also like it2. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
by Koyoharu Gotouge
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Taisho-era Japan. Tanjiro Kamado comes home from selling charcoal to find his family slaughtered by a demon, and his little sister Nezuko turned into one. She still knows him, and she refuses to eat people. Tanjiro trains to become a demon slayer, hoping to find a way to make her human again — a fierce, sorrowful and very kind story about family. His compassion is repeatedly tested by enemies who are dangerous and deeply tragic at once. Protecting Nezuko while pursuing a cure forces Tanjiro to hold on to his humanity in a profession built around killing demons.
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Readers also like it3. Ragna Crimson
by Daiki Kobayashi
- Action (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Humanity lives beneath the threat of dragons whose strength places them far beyond ordinary hunters. Ragna refuses to accept that imbalance and joins forces with the enigmatic Crimson in a campaign against the dragon monarchs. Their goal is shared, but Crimson's reasons for pursuing it are much harder to read. The alliance offers Ragna a way to challenge enemies he could never face through determination alone. Battles against overwhelming power turn his resolve into a dangerous question of limits: what must he become, and whom must he trust, to make the dragons vulnerable?
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Readers also like it4. Soul Eater
by Atsushi Ohkubo
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Fantasy (shared)
- Supernatural
Maka Albarn trains alongside Soul Eater, a partner who can transform into a scythe. To turn him into a weapon worthy of Death, the pair must collect ninety-nine corrupted human souls and the soul of a witch. Their classmates pursue the same dangerous ambition, each bringing a different talent and an equally troublesome personality. At Death Weapon Meister Academy, mastering a weapon means learning to trust the person behind it. Bizarre enemies, clashing egos and supernatural threats put those partnerships to the test in an action fantasy full of grotesque imagery and offbeat humor.
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Readers also like it5. Assassination Classroom
by Yusei Matsui
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Sci-Fi
A tentacled creature destroys most of the Moon and promises to destroy the Earth in a year — unless the students of Class 3-E, the school's outcasts, can kill him first. In the meantime, he insists on being their teacher. He turns out to be the best they have ever had: a funny, surprisingly moving school story. The assignment forces students written off as failures to observe, cooperate and think for themselves. As their confidence grows, the person they are supposed to eliminate becomes increasingly difficult to separate from their hopes for the future.
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Readers also like it6. Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku
by Yuji Kaku
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- Horror
Gabimaru the Hollow, a ninja on death row, is offered a pardon: travel to a mysterious island and bring back the elixir of life. His executioner, Sagiri, goes with him. The island is beautiful and full of horrors — a savage, lushly drawn survival story. The promise of freedom binds Gabimaru to a mission whose rules become less reassuring with every discovery. His uneasy partnership with Sagiri places duty, survival and the desire to return home inside the same dangerous bargain.
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Military · Adventure7. Yona of the Dawn
by Mizuho Kusanagi
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
A betrayal drives Princess Yona from the palace and exposes her to the kingdom beyond its walls. Travelling with her protector Hak, she searches for allies linked to an old legend. The sheltered princess must learn to survive and decide what responsibility to her people means. Travel replaces the certainty of palace life with people whose needs Yona never understood from a distance. Gathering companions is also an education in her kingdom, as grief and fear gradually give way to choices that require more from her than royal birth.
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Military · Adventure8. The Heroic Legend of Arslan
by Yoshiki Tanaka, Hiromu Arakawa
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Prince Arslan of Pars is fourteen, gentle and unsure of himself when his father's undefeated army is betrayed and destroyed in a single battle. With a handful of loyal companions he sets out to take back his kingdom — Yoshiki Tanaka's epic, drawn by the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist. Recovering a throne requires Arslan to understand the country beyond the protection of its palace. His companions bring skills and loyalties he must learn to use wisely, while the devastation of defeat gives him reason to question what kind of ruler he hopes to become.
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Tragedy · Military9. Daemons of the Shadow Realm
by Arakawa Hiromu
- Action (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- Mystery
Yuru lives in a secluded mountain village watched over by two stone guardians. His twin sister Asa remains confined while carrying out a mysterious duty for the settlement. When the village's hidden circumstances break into the open, Yuru is pulled into a conflict far beyond the life he thought he understood. A supernatural action story by Fullmetal Alchemist creator Hiromu Arakawa. A life that seemed sheltered begins to look carefully arranged. Yuru's bond with Asa becomes the emotional center of a wider conflict, where discovering who has protected him is inseparable from asking what they have concealed.
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Military · Adventure10. Kage no Kyuutei Majutsushi
by Ryousuke Hata, Kotoni Shiroishi
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Leon is known as the kingdom's most useless court magician, and his absences finally get him sent to the front. There he quietly saves the Third Princess with a mind nobody knew he had. At her side, the 'useless' magician starts running the war from the shadows. Leon is more comfortable influencing events than claiming credit for them. Working with the princess gives his hidden ability a purpose, while the contrast between his reputation and his actual judgment shapes the conflict around him.
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Military · Adventure11. Fullmetal Alchemist
by Hiromu Arakawa
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- Mystery
A forbidden alchemical experiment leaves brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric facing a terrible cost. Searching for a way to recover what they lost, they follow the trail of the Philosopher's Stone through a country shaped by military power and buried secrets. Their quest brings inventive battles, unlikely allies, and difficult questions about sacrifice, responsibility, and the value of a human life. The brothers' bond gives their search a constant point of reference as the country's hidden conflicts widen around them. Restoring their bodies requires confronting the temptation to treat other people as the price of an answer.
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Military · Adventure12. Vinland Saga
by Makoto Yukimura
- Action (shared)
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama (shared)
Growing up amid Viking warfare, Thorfinn carries both a fierce desire for revenge and childhood stories of a distant western land. His journey crosses battlefields, shifting alliances, and lives shaped by conquest. Set against the upheaval of eleventh-century Europe, this historical epic asks what strength means and whether a person can build a future beyond the violence that formed them. The land of Vinland remains a possibility beyond the fighting rather than a simple destination. Thorfinn's encounters test the values he has learned through violence, placing the difficult work of changing oneself beside the much larger forces shaping the people and places around him.
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