If you liked Purple Hyacinth
12 comics like Purple Hyacinth
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Purple Hyacinth (romance, crime, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.

Comics like Purple Hyacinth
Police · Crime1. Case Closed
by Gosho Aoyama
- Comedy
- Crime (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Romance (shared)
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 · Crime2. Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective
by Akira Amano
- Comedy
- Crime (shared)
- 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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Crime · Historical3. Moriarty the Patriot
by Ryosuke Takeuchi, Hikaru Miyoshi
- Crime (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological
Victorian England is rotten with privilege, and William James Moriarty means to tear it down. With his brothers he becomes a consultant for crime, solving people's problems in ways the law never would. Sherlock Holmes's great enemy, told from his side, as a clever, stylish crime story.
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Crime · Mystery4. Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams
by Naoki Urasawa
- Comedy
- Crime (shared)
- 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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Historical · Mystery5. The Apothecary Diaries
by Natsu Hyuuga, Itsuki Nanao, Nekokurage
- Drama (shared)
- Medical
- Mystery (shared)
- Romance (shared)
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.
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Historical · Mystery6. 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 · Crime7. Death Note
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Crime (shared)
- 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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Historical · Mystery8. Asadora!
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Sci-Fi
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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Police · Mystery9. Pluto
by Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Sci-Fi
- 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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Romance · Drama10. I Love Yoo
by Quimchee
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
Shin-Ae has decided that people only hurt each other, so she keeps everyone at arm's length. Then a rich, spoiled stranger accuses her of throwing his drink — and his family and hers turn out to be tangled up. A long romantic drama about trust, money and family.
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Crime · Mystery11. Hero Killer
by Kkulbeol (꿀벌), Beolkkul (벌꿀)
- Action
- Comedy
- Crime (shared)
- Drama (shared)
In a world where heroes and villains are always at war, the people caught between them pay for it. One girl with a power of her own sets out on a bloody path of revenge, and starts asking what really separates a hero from a villain.
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Historical · Romance12. My Happy Marriage
by Agitogi Akumi, Kousaka Rito
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
Born without the gift her family is known for, Miyo Saimori is treated as a servant by her father, her stepmother and her gifted half-sister. Then she is sent away as a bride candidate to Kiyoka Kudou, a soldier rumoured to be so cold that every candidate before her has fled. A slow, gentle romance with a supernatural edge, set in an alternate Meiji-era Japan.
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