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12 manga like Aphorism
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Aphorism (supernatural, horror, action), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Aphorism
Horror · Supernatural1. The Witch and the Beast
by Kousuke Satake
- Action (shared)
- Fantasy
- Horror (shared)
- Supernatural (shared)
Ashaf, a smiling man with a coffin on his back, and Guideau, a girl with a beast's fangs, hunt witches across a gothic world. They are looking for one witch in particular: the one who cursed Guideau. A stylish, violent dark fantasy with gorgeous art. Their cases bring them into societies where a witch's influence can be feared, admired or misunderstood. Ashaf's composed approach and Guideau's hostility make an uneasy working pair, with the search for a personal remedy running through a wider world of dangerous magic.
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Survival · Horror2. Otherside Picnic
by Iori Miyazawa, Eita Mizuno
- Adventure
- Girls’ Love
- Horror (shared)
- Mystery
College student Sorawo finds a doorway into a place where internet ghost stories take physical form. When Toriko rescues her from its dangers, they begin returning together to investigate and search for a missing woman. Their uneasy partnership grows closer as familiar rumors become threats that cannot be understood by ordinary rules. Curiosity and the need for answers keep pulling the pair across a boundary that offers no reliable safety. Their different reasons for exploring create friction as well as companionship, while the uncanny landscape turns fragments of online folklore into intimate, unpredictable danger.
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Horror · Supernatural3. Choujin X
by Sui Ishida
- Action (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- Supernatural (shared)
Tokio Kurohara is used to following his confident, talented friend Azuma. When a superhuman attacker corners them, Tokio takes a desperate step and becomes a choujin himself. Surviving the encounter is only the beginning of learning what that transformation means. The power that might let him stand on his own also unsettles his sense of who he is. From Sui Ishida, the creator of Tokyo Ghoul, this supernatural story combines strange humor and bodily horror with the pressures of friendship, responsibility and finding an identity beyond someone else's shadow.
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Horror · Supernatural4. Tokyo Ghoul
by Sui Ishida
- Action (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- Psychological
Ghouls live hidden in Tokyo and can only survive by eating people. Quiet student Ken Kaneki learns this the hard way: after a deadly date he wakes up half-ghoul, hungry for what he cannot bear to eat. Caught between two worlds that want each other dead, he tries to stay human — dark, graphic and heartbreaking. Survival now asks Kaneki to understand the very beings he once feared from a distance. His divided identity exposes the limits of both sides' judgments, as the need for connection competes with a hunger that makes ordinary human life impossible to resume unchanged.
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Horror · Supernatural5. Tokyo Ghoul:re
by Sui Ishida
- Action (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- Psychological
The CCG's Quinx investigators are humans given ghoul-like abilities to fight the beings the agency hunts. Their mentor Haise Sasaki has his own uncertainty to manage: he cannot remember his earlier life. This sequel to Tokyo Ghoul follows the unit through a conflict in which the boundary between investigator and target is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. Training the Quinx gives Haise a responsibility grounded in the present, even as uncertainty about his identity pulls him toward the past. The investigators' hybrid abilities complicate the institution's categories, turning another phase of the conflict into a struggle over memory, allegiance and selfhood.
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Supernatural · School Life6. GoGo Monster
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- Supernatural (shared)
Yuki believes his school is home to presences that other children cannot see. As a new classmate tries to understand him, everyday school life takes on a stranger, more unsettling shape. A story poised between imagination and the supernatural, seen through a child's intensely private world. The uncertainty lies as much in how others respond to Yuki as in what he claims to see. School corridors become a space where loneliness, belief and friendship are difficult to separate from the possibility of something uncanny.
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Horror · Supernatural7. Talentless Nana
by Looseboy, Iori Furuya
- Drama (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- Psychological
- 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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Supernatural · School Life8. Kekkaishi
by Yellow Tanabe
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Supernatural (shared)
By day, Yoshimori worries about school and his talent for making sweets. By night, he and his neighbour Tokine protect their school grounds with supernatural barriers. Their families' inherited duty becomes more dangerous as the power beneath the school attracts increasingly determined enemies. Yoshimori and Tokine approach their inherited work with different temperaments and experience. Guarding a place they also attend as students gives the supernatural battles an everyday anchor, while family expectations make the duty intensely personal.
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Survival · Horror9. Attack on Titan
by Hajime Isayama
- Action (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Horror (shared)
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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Supernatural · School Life10. Jujutsu Kaisen
by Gege Akutami
- Action (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Supernatural (shared)
Curses are born from people's fear and hatred, and only sorcerers can see and fight them. When high-school student Yuji Itadori swallows a rotting finger to save his friends, he becomes host to Ryomen Sukuna, the King of Curses. Instead of being executed, Yuji joins Tokyo Jujutsu High to hunt down the rest of Sukuna's fingers — dark, fast and ferocious supernatural action. Yuji's willingness to help others now exists beside a force that threatens them. Training with fellow sorcerers draws him into battles that test the value of a life, the weight of responsibility and the limits of good intentions.
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Supernatural · School Life11. Soul Eater NOT!
by Atsushi Ohkubo
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Slice of Life
Tsugumi Harudori arrives at Death Weapon Meister Academy knowing she can transform into a weapon, but with little confidence about what comes next. Assigned to the school's NOT class, she must learn to control her unusual ability and find a meister who can wield her. Even an ordinary school day feels intimidating when her classmates are anything but ordinary. This companion to Soul Eater explores another side of the academy through new friendships, lessons and the search for a partner. Tsugumi's gradual adjustment brings everyday school comedy into a world where supernatural danger is never far away.
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Supernatural · School Life12. A New Student at Ghoul School!
by Mai Tanaka
- Comedy
- Supernatural (shared)
A year before the arrival of the timid teacher from A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School!, Hyakki Academy is already struggling to contain its students' energy. New arrivals Mamekichi Maizuka, a mame-danuki, and Tamao Akisame, a nekomata, are particularly skilled at turning school life into a series of noisy complications. This companion comedy shifts attention to the young youkai as they settle into a school that gathers supernatural creatures from across Japan. Lessons, friendships and first impressions become opportunities for mischief. Familiar surroundings take on a different character when the students, rather than the unfortunate adults responsible for them, lead the story.
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