If you liked Pluto
12 manga like Pluto
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Pluto (thriller, drama, mystery), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like Pluto
Also by Naoki Urasawa1. Asadora!
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Sci-Fi (shared)
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.
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Also by Naoki Urasawa2. Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams
by Naoki Urasawa
- Comedy
- Crime
- 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.
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Readers also like it3. Death Note
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Crime
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological
- 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.
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Readers also like it4. Battle Angel Alita
by Kishiro Yukito
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Philosophical
- 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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Also by Takashi Nagasaki5. 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.
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Readers also like it6. No. 5
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Action
- Adventure
- Psychological
- Sci-Fi (shared)
In a desert-dominated future, a member of an elite group of peacekeepers abandons his post and becomes its target. The hunt draws the other numbered guardians into a conflict shaped by their loyalties and doubts. An eccentric science-fiction journey through a world of striking landscapes and unstable ideals.
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Police · Mystery7. Case Closed
by Gosho Aoyama
- Comedy
- Crime
- Mystery (shared)
- Romance
A teenage detective is forced to live in a child's body after an encounter with a mysterious criminal organisation. Under the name Conan Edogawa, he continues solving cases while concealing his identity. Each investigation sharpens his search for the people responsible and a way to recover his old life.
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Police · Mystery8. Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective
by Akira Amano
- Comedy
- Crime
- Mystery (shared)
Ron Kamonohashi was the most gifted student of a school for great detectives, until a fatal flaw got him expelled: he drives every culprit he unmasks to despair. Now a good-natured, not very sharp police officer brings him cases on the quiet and takes the credit — from the creator of Reborn!
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Thriller · Sci-Fi9. Ajin: Demi-Human
by Gamon Sakurai
- Action
- Horror
- Psychological
- 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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Mystery · Drama10. 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.
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Police · Drama11. Police in a Pod
by Miko Yasu
- Comedy
- Drama (shared)
Kawai joined the police for a stable job and is about to quit, when she is paired with Sergeant Fuji, a former detective. Together they work a small-town police box. Written by a former police officer: a funny, honest look at ordinary police work.
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Mystery · Drama12. Natsume's Book of Friends
by Yuki Midorikawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Slice of Life
- 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.
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