If you liked Parasyte
12 manga like Parasyte
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Parasyte (psychological, horror, philosophical), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Parasyte
Readers also like it1. Ajin: Demi-Human
by Gamon Sakurai
- Action (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- 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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Readers also like it2. Tokyo Ghoul
by Sui Ishida
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Horror (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
Ghouls live hidden in Tokyo and can only survive by eating people. Quiet student Ken Kaneki learns this the hard way: after a deadly date he wakes up half-ghoul, hungry for what he cannot bear to eat. Caught between two worlds that want each other dead, he tries to stay human — dark, graphic and heartbreaking.
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Readers also like it3. Tokyo Ghoul:re
by Sui Ishida
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Horror (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
Two years on, the ghoul-hunting CCG trains the Quinx: humans given ghoul powers. Their mentor, investigator Haise Sasaki, has no memory of who he used to be. The sequel to Tokyo Ghoul, where the war between humans and ghouls comes to its end.
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Readers also like it4. Choujin X
by Sui Ishida
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Horror (shared)
- Supernatural
In a world where some people turn into superhumans, Tokio Kurohara is the kind, unremarkable best friend of Azuma, a girl who is good at everything. When a monster attacks, both of them change. From the creator of Tokyo Ghoul: a strange, beautifully drawn story about bodies, friendship and what makes someone a hero.
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Readers also like it5. Kaiju No. 8
by Naoya Matsumoto
- Action (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
Japan is plagued by kaiju, and Kafka Hibino, 32, spends his days cleaning up their carcasses — still dreaming of joining the Defense Force that fights them. Then a small creature gets inside him, and he gains the power to turn into a kaiju himself. Now he has to join the Force while hiding that he is the very thing it hunts.
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Readers also like it6. Jujutsu Kaisen
by Gege Akutami
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Supernatural
Curses are born from people's fear and hatred, and only sorcerers can see and fight them. When high-school student Yuji Itadori swallows a rotting finger to save his friends, he becomes host to Ryomen Sukuna, the King of Curses. Instead of being executed, Yuji joins Tokyo Jujutsu High to hunt down the rest of Sukuna's fingers — dark, fast and ferocious supernatural action.
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Philosophical · Horror7. Uzumaki
by Itou Junji
- Drama
- Horror (shared)
- Mystery
- 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 · Sci-Fi8. Land of the Lustrous
by Haruko Ichikawa
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Philosophical (shared)
- 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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Philosophical · Sci-Fi9. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
by Ashinano Hitoshi
- Drama
- Philosophical (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Slice of Life
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.
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Philosophical · Sci-Fi10. Battle Angel Alita
by Kishiro Yukito
- Action (shared)
- Drama
- Philosophical (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
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.
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Aliens · Sci-Fi11. Takopi's Original Sin
by Taizan 5
- Drama
- Psychological (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
- Tragedy
Takopi, a cheerful alien from the Planet Happy, lands on Earth with gadgets meant to make people smile. The first person he meets is Shizuka, a girl who never smiles. He wants to help, and has no idea how cruel the world around her is. Two volumes that look like a children's story and hit like a tragedy.
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Aliens · Sci-Fi12. Assassination Classroom
by Yusei Matsui
- Action (shared)
- Comedy
- Drama
- Sci-Fi (shared)
A tentacled creature destroys most of the Moon and promises to destroy the Earth in a year — unless the students of Class 3-E, the school's outcasts, can kill him first. In the meantime, he insists on being their teacher. He turns out to be the best they have ever had: a funny, surprisingly moving school story.
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