If you liked Monster
12 manga like Monster
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Monster (psychological, thriller, crime), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Monster
Also by Naoki Urasawa1. 20th Century Boys
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Sci-Fi
A symbol Kenji and his friends invented as children resurfaces at the centre of a dangerous movement. Their forgotten games seem to predict disasters in the adult world, forcing the scattered friends to piece together their shared past. A mystery spanning generations, where remembering the right detail could change the future.
Read on VIZ BooksOpen
Also by Naoki Urasawa2. Pluto
by Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki
- Drama (shared)
- 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.
Read on VIZ BooksOpen
Also by Naoki Urasawa3. 21st Century Boys
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Sci-Fi
The final questions left by 20th Century Boys lead Kenji back into the memories and secrets of his childhood. This concluding sequel brings the friends' long struggle into focus as the meaning of their old games finally emerges. Best read after the original series.
Read on VIZ BooksOpen
Also by Naoki Urasawa4. 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
Also by Naoki Urasawa5. 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.
Read on VIZ BooksOpen
Readers also like it6. Death Note
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Crime (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Supernatural
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.
Read on MANGA PlusOpen
Also by Naoki Urasawa7. Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams
by Naoki Urasawa
- Comedy
- Crime (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
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.
Read on VIZ BooksOpen
Readers also like it8. Moriarty the Patriot
by Ryosuke Takeuchi, Hikaru Miyoshi
- Crime (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- 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 it9. 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.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Readers also like it10. The Summer Hikaru Died
by Mokumokuren
- Drama (shared)
- Horror
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
Yoshiki knows his best friend Hikaru died in the mountains. Something came back wearing his face, his voice and his memories, and asks to stay his friend. A quiet, unsettling horror story set in a small village, about grief, an impossible friendship and what is waking up around them.
Read on ComicWalkerOpen
Readers also like it11. Erased
by Sanbe Kei
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- 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.
Read on Yen PressOpen
Readers also like it12. Vinland Saga
by Makoto Yukimura
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
Growing up amid Viking warfare, Thorfinn carries both a fierce desire for revenge and childhood stories of a distant western land. His journey crosses battlefields, shifting alliances, and lives shaped by conquest. Set against the upheaval of eleventh-century Europe, this historical epic asks what strength means and whether a person can build a future beyond the violence that formed them.
Read on KodanshaOpen