If you liked Mao
12 manga like Mao
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Mao (supernatural, action, mystery), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Mao
Readers also like it1. Noragami: Stray God
by Adachitoka
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Drama
- Supernatural (shared)
Yato is a minor god with no shrine and no worshippers, who takes any job for five yen. Hiyori pushes him out of the path of a bus — and her soul starts slipping out of her body. A funny, moving story about gods who only exist while someone remembers them.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Readers also like it2. Rurouni Kenshin
by Nobuhiro Watsuki
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Drama
- Romance
Tokyo, early Meiji era. A wandering swordsman with a cross-shaped scar carries a reverse-blade sword that cannot kill — because he was once the most feared assassin of the revolution, and has sworn never to kill again. Kenshin Himura finds a home at Kaoru's dojo, and his past keeps finding him there.
Read on MANGA PlusOpen
Readers also like it3. Mushishi
by Urushibara Yuki
- Adventure
- Drama
- 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.
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Historical · Mystery4. The Case Study of Vanitas
by Jun Mochizuki
- Fantasy
- 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.
Read on MANGA UP!Open
Mystery · Supernatural5. Goodbye, Eri
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Drama
- Mystery (shared)
- 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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Historical · Mystery6. 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.
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Historical · Mystery7. 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.
Read on VIZ MangaOpen
Historical · Mystery8. Asadora!
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama
- 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
Mystery · Supernatural9. The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún
by Nagabe
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Mystery (shared)
- Supernatural (shared)
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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Time Travel · Historical10. Nano Machine
by Great H, Hanjung Wolya, GGBG
- Action (shared)
- Fantasy
Cheon Yeo-woon is the scorned illegitimate son of a demonic cult's leader, trying to survive his brothers' cruelty. Then a descendant from the future injects him with a nano machine. Now he can learn any martial art at impossible speed: a fast, satisfying murim story.
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Mystery · Supernatural11. Natsume's Book of Friends
by Yuki Midorikawa
- Drama
- Mystery (shared)
- 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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Mystery · Supernatural12. Shadows House
by Soumatou
- Fantasy
- 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.
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