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12 manga like All You Need Is Kill
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with All You Need Is Kill (action, sci-fi), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.

Manga like All You Need Is Kill
Readers also like it1. Kaiju No. 8
by Naoya Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Japan is plagued by kaiju, and Kafka Hibino, 32, spends his days cleaning up their carcasses — still dreaming of joining the Defense Force that fights them. Then a small creature gets inside him, and he gains the power to turn into a kaiju himself. Now he has to join the Force while hiding that he is the very thing it hunts.
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Also by Takeshi Obata2. Death Note
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Crime
- Mystery
- Psychological
- 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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Readers also like it3. Erased
by Sanbe Kei
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Mystery
- Psychological
Satoru Fujinuma, twenty-nine and drifting, sometimes slips back a few minutes in time to stop something bad from happening. It never seems to help him much. Then a terrible crime sends him eighteen years into the past, into his own childhood, in the weeks before a classmate disappeared.
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Also by Takeshi Obata4. Bakuman
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life
Moritaka can draw; his classmate Akito can write. Akito wants them to become manga artists together, and Moritaka — who just promised the girl he likes that they will marry once his manga becomes an anime — says yes. From the creators of Death Note, a story about making manga for Weekly Shonen Jump itself: deadlines, editors, reader surveys and rivals, told like a sports series.
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Also by Takeshi Obata5. Show-ha Shoten!
by Akinari Asakura, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- Drama
Azemichi Shijima writes jokes in secret and would never perform them. Taiyo Higashikata is a former child actor with presence to spare. Together they form a comedy duo aiming for the top of Japan's manzai scene. A story about making people laugh, drawn by Takeshi Obata of Death Note.
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Also by Takeshi Obata6. Hikaru no Go
by Yumi Hotta, Takeshi Obata
- Drama
- Supernatural
Hikaru discovers an old Go board and the spirit of a player whose passion for the game has outlasted his life. Their encounter draws an initially uninterested boy into a world of fierce rivals and disciplined study. Before long, Hikaru wants to find a playing style of his own.
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Military · Time Travel7. The Regressed Mercenary Has a Plan
by Gold Line, Park Jin-Seok
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Fantasy
Ghislain Ferdium threw away his title, became the most feared mercenary of the continent, and died in a war he saw coming too late. He wakes up as his younger self, still heir to a poor northern territory. This time he knows who will betray whom, and he has a plan for every one of them.
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Military · Time Travel8. The Academy's Genius Swordsman
by Seok Wando, Sichi
- Action (shared)
- Fantasy
Ronan was a legendary swordsman who fought through a lost war. He wakes up years in the past, on the day before he enters the academy as a nobody. This time he means to grow strong earlier, protect the people he lost, and change how the war ends.
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Military · Sci-Fi9. World Trigger
by Daisuke Ashihara
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
A gate to another world opened over Mikado City, and creatures called Neighbors came through it. The Border agency fights them with weapons called Triggers. Osamu, a weak but stubborn trainee, meets Yuma, a new transfer student who is a Neighbor himself — and one of the cleverest team-strategy action series in Jump.
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Sci-Fi · Time Travel10. Psyren
by Toshiaki Iwashiro
- Action (shared)
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Ageha Yoshina finds a red telephone card that reads "Psyren" — and answering a public phone pulls him into a deadly game in a ruined, monster-filled future. Players who survive come back with psychic powers and a mission: find out how the world ended, and stop it.
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Military · Sci-Fi11. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Human settlements survive beside a poisonous forest in a world scarred by ancient destruction. Nausicaä, a young princess with an unusual understanding of its creatures, is pulled into a war between rival nations. Her journey challenges what humanity believes about the forest and its own survival.
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Military · Time Travel12. A Flame Reborn
by Painkiller, Yang Pyung (양평), Saint Nine (성구)
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Drama
- Fantasy
Logan MacLine, a middle-aged knight of the independence army, dies fighting the empire that executed his brother. He wakes as a young man again, before his family disowned him for his behaviour, and uses everything he knows to build weapons, an army and the money to pay for them.
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