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12 manga like Black Butler
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Black Butler (fantasy, supernatural, action), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Black Butler
Readers also like it1. The Case Study of Vanitas
by Jun Mochizuki
- Fantasy (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Supernatural (shared)
In a steampunk Paris, the vampire Noé meets Vanitas, a human who calls himself a doctor for vampires and carries a grimoire that can cure them of a curse driving them mad. An elegant, twisting story of two very different partners, old secrets and the city's hidden vampire world, from the creator of Pandora Hearts. Vanitas's confidence and Noé's curiosity make cooperation possible without making either fully understandable to the other. Their cases expose the tension between a cure and the power needed to offer it, while personal histories complicate the hidden society they navigate.
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Readers also like it2. Moriarty the Patriot
by Ryosuke Takeuchi, Hikaru Miyoshi
- Crime
- Drama
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological
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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Readers also like it3. Pandora Hearts
by Mochizuki Jun
- Adventure
- Fantasy (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
At his coming-of-age ceremony, fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius is condemned for a sin he knows nothing about and thrown into the Abyss, a prison no one escapes. There he meets Alice, a girl who is not what she seems, and the gears of a much older story begin to turn. The accusation gives Oz no clear explanation, only a reason to question the world he thought he understood. His connection with Alice draws personal history into the mystery of the Abyss, where uncertain identities and incomplete memories complicate every apparent answer.
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Readers also like it4. Undead Girl Murder Farce
by Yugo Aosaki, Haruka Tomoyama
- Mystery (shared)
- Supernatural (shared)
Europe, 1898, where vampires and werewolves are real. Aya Rindo, an immortal detective who is only a head in a birdcage, solves cases involving monsters, with a half-oni bodyguard and a sharp-tongued maid. They are looking for whoever stole the rest of her body — a mystery series full of literary guest stars. Aya's extraordinary condition does not diminish her ability to read a crime, but it makes her own missing body a mystery that travels with the group. Supernatural rules complicate familiar detective problems, bringing deduction into a world where a monster may be witness, victim or suspect.
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Readers also like it5. The Witch and the Beast
by Kousuke Satake
- Action (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- Horror
- 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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Readers also like it6. Shadows House
by Soumatou
- Fantasy (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological
- Supernatural (shared)
In a mansion on a lonely hill live the Shadows, faceless nobles who leave soot wherever they go. Each has a Living Doll, a servant whose face they wear as their own. Emilico, a cheerful new doll, serves the young shadow Kate, and the more she cleans, the more the house's rules start to look like a trap. Household routines teach Emilico how to serve, but they also reveal how little the dolls are allowed to question. Her openness and Kate's circumstances draw the pair into a mystery where identity, obedience and the right to have a face are closely entwined.
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Readers also like it7. Tokyo Aliens
by NAOE
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi
Akira Gunji hopes to become a police officer like his late father. A strange encounter on a train reveals a side of Tokyo he never knew existed: extraterrestrials live among its ordinary citizens. Drawn into the work of a secret organization, Akira must learn who he can trust in a city full of hidden identities. His father's example gives Akira a clear ambition, but the organization he encounters presents a much less familiar kind of police work. Learning to recognize hidden threats also means questioning appearances, as the ordinary city becomes the setting for extraordinary responsibilities.
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Historical · Mystery8. Mao
by Rumiko Takahashi
- Action (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Supernatural (shared)
Nanoka steps through a passage that carries her from modern Japan into the Taisho era. There she meets Mao, an exorcist burdened by a curse that may connect to her own past. Their investigation brings them into contact with dangerous spirits and mysteries crossing generations. Clues in one era cast new light on events in the other, making the past a living danger rather than distant history. Nanoka's connection to Mao gives their encounters with curses a personal urgency as they try to understand what binds them.
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Mystery · Supernatural9. Blast of Tempest
by Kyo Shirodaira, Arihide Sano, Ren Saizaki
- Action (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Romance
Mahiro will do anything to find the person who murdered his family. A bargain with an exiled sorceress draws his friend Yoshino into a struggle between rival magical powers. Their search for answers becomes entangled with a threat to the world, where every alliance rests on secrets and uncertain motives. Personal grief and a much larger catastrophe keep forcing the friends' interests into uneasy alignment. Solving the mystery requires weighing what people say against what they stand to gain, even when trust feels impossible.
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Demons · Supernatural10. Blue Exorcist
by Kazue Kato
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Fantasy (shared)
- Supernatural (shared)
Rin Okumura finds out the hard way that he is the son of Satan, when demons come for him and his adoptive father dies protecting him. Instead of running, he decides to beat Satan at his own game. He enrols at True Cross Academy to train as an exorcist, beside a twin brother who is already one — hot-headed, funny and full of blue flame. Rin trains to fight the very forces that explain his existence, making every use of his strength a question of identity. Brotherhood, discipline and the wish to protect others complicate his refusal to accept his inheritance.
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Demons · Historical11. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
by Koyoharu Gotouge
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Drama
- 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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Historical · Mystery12. House of Five Leaves
by Natsume Ono
- Drama
- Mystery (shared)
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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