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12 manga like The Apothecary Diaries
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with The Apothecary Diaries (romance, medical, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like The Apothecary Diaries
Readers also like it1. Snow White with the Red Hair
by Sorata Akiduki
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Romance (shared)
Her unusual red hair draws unwanted royal attention, so herbalist Shirayuki leaves home to choose her own future. Meeting Prince Zen opens new possibilities, but she intends to earn her place through her skills. A fantasy romance built around trust, meaningful work and personal independence.
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Readers also like it2. Witch Hat Atelier
by Kamome Shirahama
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
Coco has always loved magic, even though she believes only those born with its power can become witches. An encounter with a traveling magician reveals a possibility she never imagined and draws her into a world of meticulous craft and closely guarded rules. Alongside fellow apprentices, she discovers how wonder, responsibility, and the desire to help others can become entangled.
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Readers also like it3. Emma
by Kaoru Mori
- Drama (shared)
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life
In Victorian London, a reserved maid and a young man from a wealthy family develop feelings that cross the boundaries of their social positions. Their growing attachment brings private hopes into conflict with public expectations. A carefully observed historical romance about class, duty and the possibility of choosing differently.
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Readers also like it4. Mushishi
by Urushibara Yuki
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
- Mystery (shared)
Mushi are the most basic forms of life, older than plants or animals, and most people cannot see them. Ginko can. A mushishi, he wanders from village to village, helping people whose lives the mushi have touched. Quiet, strange and beautiful stories, each complete in itself.
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Readers also like it5. Case Closed
by Gosho Aoyama
- Comedy
- Crime
- 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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Medical · Seinen6. Kounodori: Dr. Stork
by Yū Suzunoki
- Drama (shared)
- Medical (shared)
- Slice of Life
Dr. Sakura Kounotori is an obstetrician at a busy hospital — and, by night, a jazz pianist. Each chapter follows a different birth and family. A calm, moving medical drama about pregnancy, birth and the people who help.
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Historical · Mystery7. 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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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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Historical · Mystery9. Undead Girl Murder Farce
by Yugo Aosaki, Haruka Tomoyama
- Mystery (shared)
- Supernatural
Europe, 1898, where vampires and werewolves are real. Aya Rindo, an immortal detective who is only a head in a birdcage, solves cases involving monsters, with a half-oni bodyguard and a sharp-tongued maid. They are looking for whoever stole the rest of her body — a mystery series full of literary guest stars.
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Mystery · Seinen10. Erased
by Sanbe Kei
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery (shared)
- Psychological
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.
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Historical · Romance11. 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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Historical · Mystery12. Moriarty the Patriot
by Ryosuke Takeuchi, Hikaru Miyoshi
- Crime
- 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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