If you liked The Elusive Samurai
12 manga like The Elusive Samurai
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with The Elusive Samurai (comedy, action, drama), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like The Elusive Samurai
Also by Yusei Matsui1. Assassination Classroom
by Yusei Matsui
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Sci-Fi
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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by Nobuhiro Watsuki
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Romance
Tokyo, early Meiji era. A wandering swordsman with a cross-shaped scar carries a reverse-blade sword that cannot kill — because he was once the most feared assassin of the revolution, and has sworn never to kill again. Kenshin Himura finds a home at Kaoru's dojo, and his past keeps finding him there.
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Readers also like it3. The Heroic Legend of Arslan
by Yoshiki Tanaka, Hiromu Arakawa
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
Prince Arslan of Pars is fourteen, gentle and unsure of himself when his father's undefeated army is betrayed and destroyed in a single battle. With a handful of loyal companions he sets out to take back his kingdom — Yoshiki Tanaka's epic, drawn by the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist.
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Readers also like it4. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
by Koyoharu Gotouge
- Action (shared)
- Adventure
- Drama (shared)
- Fantasy
Taisho-era Japan. Tanjiro Kamado comes home from selling charcoal to find his family slaughtered by a demon, and his little sister Nezuko turned into one. She still knows him, and she refuses to eat people. Tanjiro trains to become a demon slayer, hoping to find a way to make her human again — a fierce, sorrowful and very kind story about family.
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Shounen · Drama5. Noragami: Stray God
by Adachitoka
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Supernatural
Yato is a minor god with no shrine and no worshippers, who takes any job for five yen. Hiyori pushes him out of the path of a bus — and her soul starts slipping out of her body. A funny, moving story about gods who only exist while someone remembers them.
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Historical · Shounen6. Moriarty the Patriot
by Ryosuke Takeuchi, Hikaru Miyoshi
- Crime
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- 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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Shounen · Comedy7. Marriagetoxin
by Joumyaku, Mizuki Yoda
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Romance
Hikaru Gero is the heir to a clan of poison-using assassins, expected to marry and carry on the line. He has never been on a date in his life. His matchmaker is Kinosaki, a marriage swindler: assassin battles and dating disasters, in equal measure.
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Shounen · Comedy8. Kill Blue
by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
Juzo Ohshima is a legendary 43-year-old hitman — until a strange bee sting turns him back into a 13-year-old. To lie low, he goes undercover at a middle school. From the creator of Kuroko's Basketball: action comedy about a killer doing school all over again.
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Shounen · Comedy9. Spy × Family
by Tatsuya Endo
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Slice of Life
The master spy Twilight has one mission: get close to a dangerous politician through his son's elite school. For that he needs a family, fast. He adopts Anya, who can secretly read minds, and marries Yor, who is secretly an assassin. None of them knows the others' secrets — except Anya, who knows everybody's. A warm, very funny family comedy with spy thriller trimmings.
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Shounen · Drama10. Akane-banashi
by Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Historical · Drama11. Asadora!
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama (shared)
- Mystery
- 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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Shounen · Drama12. My Hero Academia
by Kohei Horikoshi
- Action (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
- Drama (shared)
- Superhero
In a world where almost everyone is born with a superpower, Izuku Midoriya was born with none — and still dreams of becoming a hero. Then he meets All Might, the greatest hero of all, who sees something in him and passes on his power. Izuku enrols at U.A. High School to train as a professional hero: a big-hearted superhero story about what it takes to save people.
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