If you liked Death Note
12 manga like Death Note
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Death Note (supernatural, psychological, thriller), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Death Note
Readers also like it1. The Promised Neverland
by Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Mystery (shared)
- 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.
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Readers also like it2. Moriarty the Patriot
by Ryosuke Takeuchi, Hikaru Miyoshi
- Crime (shared)
- Drama
- Mystery (shared)
- 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.
Read on VIZOpen
Readers also like it3. Pluto
by Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki
- Drama
- Mystery (shared)
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller (shared)
A string of killings targets humans and some of the world's most advanced robots. Robot detective Gesicht follows the connections, uncovering questions about memory, grief and the legacy of war. Naoki Urasawa reimagines an Astro Boy story by Osamu Tezuka as a science-fiction detective drama.
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Readers also like it4. 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.
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Also by Takeshi Obata5. All You Need Is Kill
by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ryousuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Obata
- Action
- Sci-Fi
A new soldier dies fighting an alien invasion, then wakes up before the same battle. Repeating that day gives Keiji Kiriya a chance to learn, but surviving it means understanding why he is trapped. A compact military science-fiction story adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel.
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Readers also like it6. Blue Lock
by Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura
- Drama
- 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.
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Readers also like it7. Erased
by Sanbe Kei
- Action
- Drama
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
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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Readers also like it8. Tokyo Ghoul:re
by Sui Ishida
- Action
- Drama
- Horror
- Psychological (shared)
Two years on, the ghoul-hunting CCG trains the Quinx: humans given ghoul powers. Their mentor, investigator Haise Sasaki, has no memory of who he used to be. The sequel to Tokyo Ghoul, where the war between humans and ghouls comes to its end.
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Also by Takeshi Obata9. Hikaru no Go
by Yumi Hotta, Takeshi Obata
- Drama
- Supernatural (shared)
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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Also by Tsugumi Ohba10. 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 Obata11. 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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Police · Crime12. Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective
by Akira Amano
- Comedy
- Crime (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
Ron Kamonohashi was the most gifted student of a school for great detectives, until a fatal flaw got him expelled: he drives every culprit he unmasks to despair. Now a good-natured, not very sharp police officer brings him cases on the quiet and takes the credit — from the creator of Reborn!
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