Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi—creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze. They still exist parallel to our own lives and can only be seen by a select few. As a mushishi, Ginko is one of the few who are aware of their existense, and this young man with a sardonic smile roams from place to place with the knowledge and skill to aid those unwittingly affected by mushi.
Mushishi has finished publishing and it has 50 Chapters. It is also Known as: 蟲師, Mushi-shi
Genres: Historical , Fantasy
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Top 10 Manga Like Mushishi [2024 List]
10. Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World
Destination is a state of mind. A tale of one person and their bike and the road ahead. Kino wanders around the world on the back of Hermes, their unusual, anthropomorphic motorcycle, only staying in each country for three days. During their adventures, they find happiness, sadness, pain, decadence, violence, beauty, and wisdom. But through it all, they never lose their sense of freedom. They discover that because of the world's imperfections, is is actually a thing of beauty. "The world is not beautiful, therefore it is."
Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: キノの旅 -the Beautiful World-, Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World
9. Tousei Gensou Hakubutsushi
It’s the early days of the Showa Era. In a really ordinary looking and peaceful city, no one notices the strange things that are happening. Shinobu, a university student who manages his father’s second hand shop, comes face to face with one mystery after another. At some point, these events lead to a story…
Tousei Gensou Hakubutsushi has finished publishing and it has 25 Chapters. It is also Known as: 当世幻想博物誌, History of Present Day Illusions
8. Spice & Wolf
The life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft Lawrence is well acquainted. Wandering from town to town with just his horse, cart, and whatever wares have come his way, the peddler has pretty well settled into his routine—that is, until the night Lawrence finds a wolf goddess asleep in his cart. Taking the form of a fetching girl with wolf ears and a tail, Holo has wearied of tending to harvests in the countryside and strikes up a bargain with the merchant to lend him the cunning of “Holo the Wisewolf” to increase his profits in exchange for taking her along on his travels. What kind of businessman could turn down such an offer? Lawrence soon learns, though, that having an ancient goddess as a traveling companion can be a bit of a mixed blessing. Will this wolf girl turn out to be too wild to tame?
Spice & Wolf is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Ookami to Koushinryou, 狼と香辛料, Spice and Wolf, Okami to Koshinryo
7. Fumetsu no Anata e
An immortal being was sent to the surface of the earth and met a boy living alone in the middle of tundra.
The being can take the shape of dying things, but only if the "impetus" is stronger than the previous one. What sort of experiences and meetings will the being encounter while living forever?
To Your Eternity is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 不滅のあなたへ, To You, the Immortal, To You, the Immortal, Your Immortal Self, إليك، أيُها الخالد, 불멸의그대에게
6. Chichikogusa
A story about a medicine seller and his son and their struggles with each other after losing someone precious to them. A father who never really raised his son because he is always out doing his trade, but when suddenly his wife dies he must adjust his solitary journey to include his son.
Chichikogusa has finished publishing and it has 49 Chapters. It is also Known as: ちちこぐさ, Father and Child Grass
5. Bartender
A genius bartender known as Ryu Sasakura helps customers by mixing the perfect cocktail for them.
Bartender has finished publishing and it has 167 Chapters. It is also Known as: バーテンダ, Bartender
4. Mononoke
The story is about a man who is a medicine seller. He hunts mononoke (demons) and kills them by using a sword. However, before unsheathing his sword he first needs to learn of the form (katachi), the truth behind the human tragedies (makoto) and the reason behind the evils (kotowari) that gave birth to it before killing the demon.
Mononoke has finished publishing and it has 19 Chapters. It is also Known as: モノノ怪, Mononoke
3. xxxHOLiC
XXXHolic is a supernatural/comedy themed manga/anime that is apart of the CLAMP series. It is one of the more popular of the CLAMP series and often shows other CLAMP series being mentioned (ex. Chobits, Sakura Chronicles).
It revolves around a boy named Watanuki and how he stumbled upon a shop owned by a woman named Yuuko. Yuuko's power is to grant wishes, but she can only do so with proper payment. Since Watanuki has seen spirits ever since he was born, Yuuko offers to take away his sight of the spirits in exchange for him working at the shop. He agrees and works at the shop until his debt is repaid.
The series was re-named to xxxHolic•Rou on the title pages of each chapter from chapter 186 and on, but remains ×××Holic on the front covers, spines and indicias of the corresponding Japanese volumes (16 and 17).
A oneshot published in May 2010 to commemorate the switch was later collected into Volume 18.
has finished publishing and it has 213 Chapters. It is also Known as: xxxHolic Rou, xxxHolic Cage, xxxHolic•Rou
2. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Set in a post-apocalyptic Japan of the near future where the sea level has risen and flooded much of the coastal areas and Mt. Fuji has erupted within living memory. The population has been considerably reduced and political and technological institutions have broken-down. Local communities have become nations and telephone and television no longer exist (although coffee vending machines and streetlights stubbornly continue to work). There are strange new animals and plants (like flying fish and glowing streetlight trees). The remaining people have adopted a slower-paced, simpler way of life and rely more on each other. Along with the human population are some intelligent, humanoid robots. One of the robots, a female named Alpha, runs a cafe by the same name in the country outside of what remains of Yokohama. With her trusty motorscooter and her camera she travels around the area making friends with the humans and robots, having new experiences and observing the passage of time.
Note: Includes the epilogue, Touge, published with the 10 volume re-issue. Chapter count also includes 'Chapter 0' from volume 1.
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou has finished publishing and it has 142 Chapters. It is also Known as: ヨコハマ買い出し紀行, Yokohama Shopping Log, Yokohama Shopping Trip, Touge
1. Natsume Yuujinchou
Takashi Natsume can see spirits and demons that hide from the rest of humanity. He has always been set apart from other people because of his gift, drifting from relative to relative, never fitting in. Now he's a troubled high school student who has come to live in a small town where his grandmother, Reiko, grew up. And there he discovers that he has inherited more than just the power of Sight from the mysterious Reiko. When Reiko was Takashi's age, she bound the names of demons and spirits in her Book of Friends, enslaving them to her every capricious whim. Now Takashi is the owner of the book, and the creatures will do anything to get their names back.
Natsume's Book of Friends is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 夏目友人帳, The Natsume Book of Friends, Manabiya no Sumi, Natsu ni wa Tameiki wo Tsuku
