If you liked No. 5
12 manga like No. 5
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with No. 5 (adventure, psychological, action), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like No. 5
Also by Taiyo Matsumoto1. Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Psychological (shared)
- Supernatural
Black and White are two street children fiercely attached to Treasure Town and to each other. When outsiders arrive with plans to remake their neighbourhood, their freedom comes under threat. An urban fable about violence, change and the fragile balance between two very different companions.
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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto2. Sunny
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama
- Psychological (shared)
- Slice of Life
The children of a small residential home find an escape in an abandoned car they call Sunny. Within it, imagined journeys offer room for anger, hope and longing for their families. Their daily lives form a quietly observed story about growing up together while feeling apart.
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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto3. Ping Pong
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama
- Psychological (shared)
- Sports
Peco plays table tennis with dazzling confidence; his friend Smile hides his talent behind indifference. As stronger opponents test them, both must decide what competing means to them. A sports drama in which friendship, effort and the burden of natural ability matter as much as winning.
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Readers also like it4. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
- Adventure (shared)
- Fantasy
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Human settlements survive beside a poisonous forest in a world scarred by ancient destruction. Nausicaä, a young princess with an unusual understanding of its creatures, is pulled into a war between rival nations. Her journey challenges what humanity believes about the forest and its own survival.
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Readers also like it5. Land of the Lustrous
by Haruko Ichikawa
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Philosophical
- Psychological (shared)
Far in the future, living gems guard their island against the Lunarians, who come down from the moon to shatter them and carry them off. Phosphophyllite is the youngest and most fragile of them, and wants desperately to be useful. A strange, beautiful and devastating story about what Phos becomes in trying.
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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto6. GoGo Monster
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama
- Psychological (shared)
- Supernatural
Yuki believes his school is home to presences that other children cannot see. As a new classmate tries to understand him, everyday school life takes on a stranger, more unsettling shape. A story poised between imagination and the supernatural, seen through a child's intensely private world.
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Readers also like it7. Pluto
by Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki
- Drama
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Thriller
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.
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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto8. Cats of the Louvre
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Slice of Life
- 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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Also by Taiyo Matsumoto9. Tokyo These Days
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama
- Slice of Life
A veteran manga editor leaves his job but finds that walking away from the medium is harder than expected. An idea for a new project draws him back toward artists at different stages of their lives. Their encounters explore creative work, disappointment and the wish to make something worth keeping.
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Sci-Fi · Psychological10. Ajin: Demi-Human
by Gamon Sakurai
- Action (shared)
- Horror
- Psychological (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
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.
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Sci-Fi · Psychological11. Pepper & Carrot
by David Revoy
- Adventure (shared)
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Medical
Pepper, a young witch, and her cat Carrot brew potions that almost never turn out the way they were planned. Released by David Revoy under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence.
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Sci-Fi · Adventure12. Dr. Stone Reboot: Byakuya
by Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi
- Adventure (shared)
- Drama
- Sci-Fi (shared)
When the whole of humanity turned to stone, six astronauts were in orbit. Byakuya Ishigami, Senku's father, leads them back to an empty Earth. The story of how they survived and what they left for the future — a side story to Dr. Stone.
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