If you liked Kindergarten Wars
12 manga like Kindergarten Wars
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Kindergarten Wars (romance, crime, comedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.

Manga like Kindergarten Wars
Readers also like it1. Marriagetoxin
by Joumyaku, Mizuki Yoda
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance (shared)
Hikaru Gero is the heir to a clan of poison-using assassins, expected to marry and carry on the line. He has never been on a date in his life. His matchmaker is Kinosaki, a marriage swindler: assassin battles and dating disasters, in equal measure.
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Readers also like it2. Sakamoto Days
by Yuto Suzuki
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Crime (shared)
Taro Sakamoto was the greatest hitman alive — until he fell in love, retired, married and settled down to run a neighbourhood shop, a little heavier than he used to be. When a bounty lands on his head, every killer in town comes calling, and Sakamoto has to fight them off without breaking his promise to his wife: no killing. Inventive action comedy.
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Readers also like it3. Spy × Family
by Tatsuya Endo
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life
The master spy Twilight has one mission: get close to a dangerous politician through his son's elite school. For that he needs a family, fast. He adopts Anya, who can secretly read minds, and marries Yor, who is secretly an assassin. None of them knows the others' secrets — except Anya, who knows everybody's. A warm, very funny family comedy with spy thriller trimmings.
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Readers also like it4. Mission: Yozakura Family
by Hitsuji Gondaira
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance (shared)
Shy Taiyo Asano's only friend is Mutsumi Yozakura, the youngest daughter of a family of spies — and her overprotective brother, who wants him dead. The way to stay alive is to marry her. Taiyo moves in with the Yozakuras and trains to become a spy himself: family comedy, action and a sweet romance.
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Readers also like it5. Assassination Classroom
by Yusei Matsui
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
A tentacled creature destroys most of the Moon and promises to destroy the Earth in a year — unless the students of Class 3-E, the school's outcasts, can kill him first. In the meantime, he insists on being their teacher. He turns out to be the best they have ever had: a funny, surprisingly moving school story.
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Readers also like it6. Kill Blue
by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
Juzo Ohshima is a legendary 43-year-old hitman — until a strange bee sting turns him back into a 13-year-old. To lie low, he goes undercover at a middle school. From the creator of Kuroko's Basketball: action comedy about a killer doing school all over again.
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Readers also like it7. The Way of the Househusband
by Kousuke Oono
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life
The Immortal Dragon was the most feared yakuza in town. Now he has left that life to keep house for his wife, and he brings the same terrifying intensity to bargain sales, bento boxes and the neighbourhood watch. Short, very funny chapters in which nobody can quite believe the man in the apron is harmless.
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Readers also like it8. Mashle: Magic and Muscles
by Hajime Komoto
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Fantasy
In a world where magic decides everything, Mash Burnedead has none. He has trained his body instead, and can punch his way through any spell. To protect his quiet life he enrols at a school for mages and bluffs his way towards the top — a deadpan comedy of muscle against magic.
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Crime · Shounen9. Gokurakugai
by Yuto Sano
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Crime (shared)
- Supernatural
Gokurakugai is a lawless district where monsters called Mage prey on people. Tao and Alma run a troubleshooting office there, taking any job, from lost cats to things that should not exist. A stylish monthly action series full of strange clients, bigger fights and the history between its two heroes.
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Crime · Shounen10. Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective
by Akira Amano
- Comedy (shared)
- Crime (shared)
- Mystery
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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Crime · Comedy11. Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams
by Naoki Urasawa
- Comedy (shared)
- Crime (shared)
- Drama
- Mystery
A struggling father and his daughter meet an eccentric man whose promises lead toward an extraordinary scheme involving the Louvre. Misfortune, deception and hope mingle in this single-volume mystery. Naoki Urasawa follows people searching for a way out when ordinary plans have fallen apart.
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Romance · Shounen12. Akira Failing in Love
by Harekawa Shinta
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life
Akira comes back to the countryside for high school with one plan: win over her childhood crush. He likes her back. She is far too dense to notice. A romantic comedy about two fools in love.
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