If you liked Mushishi
12 manga like Mushishi
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Mushishi (fantasy, adventure, slice of life), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Mushishi
Readers also like it1. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
by Ashinano Hitoshi
- Drama (shared)
- Philosophical (shared)
- Sci-Fi
- Slice of Life (shared)
Long after the seas rose, Alpha, an android, runs a little coffee shop on the Japanese coast while humanity slowly fades. Coffee, watermelon, her guitar and the gulls. A quiet, bittersweet classic about finding beauty at the end of things.
Read on Comic DAYSOpen
Readers also like it2. To Your Eternity
by Yoshitoki Ōima
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- Philosophical (shared)
An orb is cast onto the earth to observe it. It becomes a rock, then a wolf, then a boy who has been left alone in the snow, learning what it means to live from everyone it meets. From the creator of A Silent Voice: an immortal's journey through love and loss, one life at a time.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Readers also like it3. Natsume's Book of Friends
by Yuki Midorikawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
- 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.
Read on VIZ BooksOpen
Readers also like it4. Witch Hat Atelier
by Kamome Shirahama
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
Coco has always loved magic, even though she believes only those born with its power can become witches. An encounter with a traveling magician reveals a possibility she never imagined and draws her into a world of meticulous craft and closely guarded rules. Alongside fellow apprentices, she discovers how wonder, responsibility, and the desire to help others can become entangled.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Readers also like it5. 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.
Read on MANGA UP!Open
Readers also like it6. The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún
by Nagabe
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- 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.
Read on MAGCOMIOpen
Readers also like it7. House of Five Leaves
by Natsume Ono
- Drama (shared)
- 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
Readers also like it8. 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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Philosophical · Tragedy9. Uzumaki
by Itou Junji
- Drama (shared)
- Horror
- Mystery (shared)
- Philosophical (shared)
Kurouzu-cho, a foggy town on the coast, is cursed not by a ghost but by a shape: the spiral. Kirie's boyfriend Shuichi sees it first, in his father's obsession, in the wind, in people's bodies. Junji Ito's horror classic, as the whole town is drawn into the pattern.
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Philosophical · Tragedy10. Battle Angel Alita
by Kishiro Yukito
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Philosophical (shared)
- Sci-Fi
In the Scrapyard beneath the sky city of Zalem, cyber-doctor Ido finds the head of a cyborg girl with no memory, and gives her a new body. Alita remembers nothing, except a deadly martial art. The cyberpunk classic behind the film.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Philosophical · Tragedy11. Three Days of Happiness
by Taguchi Shouichi, Miaki Sugaru
- Drama (shared)
- Philosophical (shared)
- Romance
- Tragedy (shared)
Almost twenty and going nowhere, Kusunoki finds a shop that buys what is left of people's lives, and sells all but his last three months. He spends them under the eye of Miyagi, the woman sent to watch him, and finds out too late what they could have been worth.
Read on Shonen Jump+Open
Animals · Slice of Life12. Cats of the Louvre
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
- Supernatural
Away from the museum's daytime crowds, a hidden community of cats inhabits the Louvre. One small white cat's fascination with its paintings opens a path between everyday life and the worlds inside the artwork. A dreamlike tale about belonging, imagination and the things people overlook.
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