If you liked Hikaru no Go
12 manga like Hikaru no Go
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Hikaru no Go (supernatural, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.

Manga like Hikaru no Go
Readers also like it1. Akane-banashi
by Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
Akane's father was a gifted rakugo storyteller, expelled from the art in front of her eyes. Years later, she sets out to reach the top of rakugo herself and prove him right. A stirring story of performance and practice, where a single voice on a cushion holds a whole room.
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Readers also like it2. Medalist
by Tsurumaikada
- Drama (shared)
- Sports
Tsukasa's figure-skating career ended before it began; he started too late. Inori is eleven, already old for the sport, and everyone tells her to give up. He becomes her coach, and the two of them set out to prove everyone wrong.
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Also by Takeshi Obata3. Bakuman
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- 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 Obata4. Show-ha Shoten!
by Akinari Asakura, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
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 Obata5. Death Note
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Crime
- Mystery
- Psychological
- Supernatural (shared)
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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Also by Takeshi Obata6. 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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Supernatural · School Life7. 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.
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Supernatural · School Life8. Kekkaishi
by Yellow Tanabe
- Action
- 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.
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Supernatural · Drama9. Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological
- Supernatural (shared)
Black and White are two street children fiercely attached to Treasure Town and to each other. When outsiders arrive with plans to remake their neighbourhood, their freedom comes under threat. An urban fable about violence, change and the fragile balance between two very different companions.
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Supernatural · School Life10. Jujutsu Kaisen
by Gege Akutami
- Action
- 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.
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Supernatural · Drama11. Natsume's Book of Friends
by Yuki Midorikawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- Slice of Life
- Supernatural (shared)
Natsume can see spirits, an ability that has made it difficult to feel at home anywhere. After inheriting his grandmother's book of captured names, he begins returning them to their owners. With an unreliable-looking spirit companion nearby, he discovers stories connecting the human and supernatural worlds.
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Supernatural · Drama12. Goodbye, Eri
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- Supernatural (shared)
Yuta's mother asked him to film her last days, and the film he makes of them gets him laughed at. Then a mysterious girl, Eri, invites him to make another one with her. A single long chapter about film, memory and how stories change the people in them, from the creator of Chainsaw Man.
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