Top 5 Light Novel Like Fullmetal Alchemist [2024 List]

5. Threads of Time

High school student Moon Bin Lee has difficulty sleeping due to a recurring nightmare: he's stranded over a thousand years in the past chasing a dark-haired girl into a deep abyss.
Before long, the nightmare overwhelms him, and he is unable to tell whether he is Moon Bin, a Seoul teenager at the end of the second Millennium, or Sa Kyoung Kim, the son of a prominent warrior family in the middle of the first Millennium. People in his present-day life assume roles in his historical life as he struggles to learn exactly who he is and what he's expected to do, straddling a transmigratory portal through time and space.
In the present, his school's kendo club battles to stay in the championships...but in the past, Moon Bin finds himself at the threshold of a territorial dispute on the plains of Mongolia ...

Threads of Time has finished publishing and it has 46 Chapters. It is also Known as: 살례탑, Sal rye tap, Sal-Le-Top

4. 341 Sentoudan

The "youth war drama" takes place on the chaotic frontline of countries at war. A certain person stands at the head of a combat team that is sweeping across the land. The story follows the strong and fleeting emotions of the young people whose lives are scattered on the battlefield. [ANN]

A new series by the author of Black Lagoon.

341st RMR Battlegroup is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 341戦闘団（仮）, 341 Combat Team

3. Gun Frontier

It is a harsh and barren wasteland, where the weak aren't allowed to dream. It is also a sacred land for true men, for there is no place a man can feel more alive. This is the Gun Frontier. Sea Pirate Captain Harlock and the errant samurai, Tochiro arrive in the United States on the Western Frontier. Along with a mysterious woman they meet along the way, the two friends challenge sex rings, bandits, and corrupt sheriff. They are searching for a lost clan of Japanese immigrants, and they will tear Gun Frontier from end to end until they find it.

Gun Frontier has finished publishing and it has Chapters. It is also Known as: ガンフロンティア, Gun Frontier

2. Return To The Hidden

Return To The Hidden has finished publishing and it has 1 Chapters. It is also Known as: Return To The Hidden

1. Nanatsu no Umi Nanatsu no Sora

Tyrian's stepfather (a notorious womanizer) decides to remarry, and his victim is a sickeningly sweet and innocent girl named.... Juliet. But the girl is kidnapped off of Tyrian's ship, first by pirates and then by more pirates in the form of our dashing Luminous Red Benedict. The neatly woven threads of conspiracy which have been supporting Tyrian's life begin to unravel, and he flees to Spain at last. Captain Red redoubles his pursuit.

Nanatsu no Umi Nanatsu no Sora has finished publishing and it has Chapters. It is also Known as: 七つの海七つの空, Seven Seas, Seven Skies