If you liked House of Five Leaves
12 manga like House of Five Leaves
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with House of Five Leaves (drama, mystery), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.

Manga like House of Five Leaves
Readers also like it1. Mushishi
by Urushibara Yuki
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Mystery (shared)
Mushi are the most basic forms of life, older than plants or animals, and most people cannot see them. Ginko can. A mushishi, he wanders from village to village, helping people whose lives the mushi have touched. Quiet, strange and beautiful stories, each complete in itself.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Historical · Mystery2. Asadora!
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Sci-Fi
In 1959 Nagoya, a young girl named Asa is caught in a kidnapping as a devastating storm approaches. What begins as an unlikely encounter grows into a story spanning decades, with aviation, family and a strange presence on the horizon drawing her life in unexpected directions.
Read on VIZ BooksOpen
Historical · Mystery3. Master Keaton
by Hokusei Katsushika, Takashi Nagasaki, Naoki Urasawa
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
Taichi Hiraga-Keaton wants to pursue archaeology, but his work as an insurance investigator keeps sending him into other people's troubles. His unusual background equips him for mysteries across Europe and beyond, where historical knowledge and careful observation often matter more than force.
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Historical · Drama4. Ban Dainagon Ekotoba
by Attributed to Tokiwa Mitsunaga
- Drama (shared)
A twelfth-century handscroll about a courtier accused of burning down a palace gate. Unrolled right to left, the crowd runs, the rumour spreads and the accusation lands — a story told by moving the reader along the paper.
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Historical · Mystery5. Moriarty the Patriot
by Ryosuke Takeuchi, Hikaru Miyoshi
- Crime
- Drama (shared)
- 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.
Read on VIZOpen
Historical · Drama6. Emma
by Kaoru Mori
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
In Victorian London, a reserved maid and a young man from a wealthy family develop feelings that cross the boundaries of their social positions. Their growing attachment brings private hopes into conflict with public expectations. A carefully observed historical romance about class, duty and the possibility of choosing differently.
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Mystery · Drama7. Goodbye, Eri
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Supernatural
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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Historical · Mystery8. The Apothecary Diaries
by Natsu Hyuuga, Itsuki Nanao, Nekokurage
- Drama (shared)
- Medical
- Mystery (shared)
- Romance
Maomao, an apothecary's daughter from the pleasure district, is kidnapped and sold into service at the imperial palace. She plans to keep her head down — until she works out why the emperor's babies are dying. A beautiful eunuch named Jinshi notices, and keeps bringing her the court's poisonings and puzzles to solve.
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Historical · Mystery9. Mao
by Rumiko Takahashi
- Action
- Mystery (shared)
- Supernatural
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.
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Mystery · Drama10. Natsume's Book of Friends
by Yuki Midorikawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Slice of Life
- Supernatural
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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Historical · Mystery11. The Case Study of Vanitas
by Jun Mochizuki
- Fantasy
- Mystery (shared)
- Supernatural
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.
Read on MANGA UP!Open
Mystery · Drama12. The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún
by Nagabe
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Mystery (shared)
- Supernatural
In a world split into the Inside and the Outside, the Outsiders carry a curse that turns anyone they touch into one of them. A small girl, Shiva, lives in a forest on the Outside with the Teacher, a horned creature who may never touch her. A quiet fairy tale drawn in soft ink, about kindness, fear and what keeps people apart.
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