If you liked Oshi no Ko
12 manga like Oshi no Ko
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Oshi no Ko (psychological, drama, mystery), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Oshi no Ko
Also by Aka Akasaka1. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
by Aka Akasaka
- Comedy
- Romance
- Romantic Comedy
Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane run the student council of an elite academy, and they are obviously in love. Both are far too proud to confess, because whoever confesses first loses. So every day becomes a battle of wits to make the other one say it first, in one of the funniest romantic comedies ever drawn.
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Readers also like it2. 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 it3. Skip Beat!
by Yoshiki Nakamura
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
Kyoko has devoted herself to helping her childhood friend become a star, only to discover how little he values her. Determined to surpass him, she enters show business with revenge on her mind. Acting gradually reveals ambitions and abilities that belong to her alone.
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Readers also like it4. Blue Period
by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life
Yatora is a popular student with good grades who feels nothing about any of it. Then he paints Tokyo at dawn the way it looks to him — blue — and for the first time he feels something. He sets his sights on Japan's hardest art university: a story about the hard work behind talent.
Read on K MANGAOpen
Readers also like it5. Bakuman
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
- Slice of Life
Moritaka can draw; his classmate Akito can write. Akito wants them to become manga artists together, and Moritaka — who just promised the girl he likes that they will marry once his manga becomes an anime — says yes. From the creators of Death Note, a story about making manga for Weekly Shonen Jump itself: deadlines, editors, reader surveys and rivals, told like a sports series.
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Readers also like it6. Akane-banashi
by Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
Akane's father was a gifted rakugo storyteller, expelled from the art in front of her eyes. Years later, she sets out to reach the top of rakugo herself and prove him right. A stirring story of performance and practice, where a single voice on a cushion holds a whole room.
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Readers also like it7. Tokyo These Days
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- 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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Psychological · Mystery8. 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
Psychological · Mystery9. Shadows House
by Soumatou
- Fantasy
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Supernatural
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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Psychological · Mystery10. The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins
by Taizan 5
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
Tsubasa Ichinose wakes up after a car accident with no memories, and so does the rest of his family. They decide to start over as a perfect, happy family. But the memories they lost were hiding things. From the creator of Takopi's Original Sin.
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Reincarnation · Seinen11. Ya Boy Kongming!
by Yuto Yotsuba, Ryo Ogawa
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
Zhuge Kongming, the great strategist of ancient China, dies on the battlefield and wakes up in present-day Shibuya on Halloween night. He meets Eiko, a singer nobody listens to yet. He becomes her manager, and turns the war strategies of the Three Kingdoms on the music business.
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Psychological · Mystery12. Uzumaki
by Itou Junji
- Drama (shared)
- Horror
- Mystery (shared)
- Philosophical
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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