The best manhwa like Jujutsu Kaisen depends on what hooked you. For the fights and a trio of leads who all fight differently, start with The God of High School. For monsters loose in an ordinary modern city, start with Sweet Home. Both are finished. Jujutsu Kaisen itself is a Japanese manga by Gege Akutami that ran from 2018 to 2024, so the eight picks below each match a piece of it rather than the whole thing.
| Pick | The JJK part it matches | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sweet Home | Monsters in a modern city, real deaths | Finished, 141 chapters |
| Noblesse | A hidden supernatural world next to a high school | Finished, 544 chapters |
| Unholy Blood | Hunting monsters in modern Korea with the police | Finished, 93 chapters |
| Tower of God | A power system with rules and ranks | 652 episodes, on break |
| Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint | Survival by understanding the rules | Paused, will return |
| Solo Leveling | Ranked hunters, gates, an anime bridge | Finished, 201 chapters |
| The God of High School | Tournament fights, three distinct leads | Finished, 569 chapters |
| Eleceed | Ability users and a mentor who outclasses everyone | Ongoing |
In Jujutsu Kaisen, Yuji Itadori is a teenager with immense physical strength who'd rather hang out with the Occult Research Club, until the club breaks the seal on a cursed object. MAPPA's anime is now into Season 3, The Culling Game, which started in 2026.
*Crunchyroll's official trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen: The Culling Game (YouTube).*If you're not ready to leave the JJK universe yet, Satoru Gojo and Sukuna headline the Union Arena JJK set, and ShonenTCG's Union Arena JJK guide explains how Domain Expansion plays as a card mechanic.
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For Monsters in the Modern World
Sweet Home (Carnby Kim and Hwang Young-Chan) is the darkest pick. A reclusive high school student loses his family and leaves home, right as monsters start trying to wipe out humanity. He ends up fighting alongside a handful of reluctant heroes. In the Netflix version, residents turn into monsters based on what they desire, which is close to JJK's idea of curses born from people. It's finished at 141 chapters, and Netflix made three seasons from 2020 to 2024. Fans rate the author even higher for his earlier work: one r/manhwa reader put it as "Sweet home was good, Bastard was legendary."
Noblesse (Jae-Ho Son and Gwang-Su Lee) starts with Rai waking from an 820-year sleep and enrolling in a high school founded by his loyal servant, Frankenstein. Then mysterious attackers called the Unions start interrupting his peaceful days. It's lighter than JJK for a long stretch, but the hidden-world-next-to-a-school setup is the same. It finished at 544 chapters, and Production I.G made a 13-episode anime in 2020. Buy the volumes at Better World Books
Noblesse. © Jae-Ho Son, Gwang-Su Lee.
Unholy Blood (Li-Na Lim) is set in a Korea overrun by half-blood vampires. Ha-Yan Park, a pure-blooded vampire who just wanted a normal life, teams up with police captain Eun-Tae Hwang to wipe them out. It's the closest pick here to sorcerers quietly hunting monsters in a modern city, and it's short: finished at 93 chapters. When someone asked r/manhwa for vampire series, the first reply was "The only ones coming to mind are unholy blood,noblesse and Reveries of the Moonlight." Buy the volumes at Better World Books
Unholy Blood (Korean title: White Blood). © Li-Na Lim. Via AniList.
For a Power System With Rules
Tower of God (SIU) runs on shinsu, an element that fills the Tower with strange properties similar to magic. Fighters use it to boost their bodies, shape weapons and move the elements, and the more units of it a fighter can handle at once, the better their control. Like cursed energy, it's a system you can learn the rules of. WEBTOON lists 652 episodes, with the Season 3 finale on February 23, 2025 and a note that it "will be back." See our Tower of God reading guide. Buy the volumes at Better World Books
Tower of God. © SIU. Via AniList.
Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (Singsyong, UMI, Sleepy-C) turns a web novel into reality, and Dokja is the only person who knows how it ends. Survival comes from understanding the rules better than anyone else, which is how the best JJK fights work too. WEBTOON's latest English episode is 308, with a note that the series will return. Buy the volumes at Better World Books
Solo Leveling (Chugong; art by Seong-Rak Jang) is the easiest bridge if you mostly watch anime. Sung Jin-Woo starts as the world's weakest hunter, nearly dies in a dungeon and comes back with the System, a program only he can see. The manhwa finished at 201 chapters and is on Tappytoon and Manta as well as Tapas, which closes on March 31, 2027. A-1 Pictures has made two anime seasons, in 2024 and 2025.
For the Ensemble Fights
The God of High School (Yong-Je Park) follows Mori Jin, a Taekwondo specialist who enters a fighting tournament that promises the winner anything they want, and finds out it's part of a much bigger plot. Fighters borrow power from gods and legends, so every opponent fights differently, the way JJK's sorcerers each have their own technique. It finished at 569 chapters. MAPPA, the studio behind the JJK anime, made its 13-episode anime in 2020. The WEBTOON website shows only the first part; the rest is in the app. Buy the volumes at Better World Books
The God of High School. © Yong-Je Park. Via AniList.
Eleceed (Jae-Ho Son and Hye-Jin Kim) pairs Jiwoo, a kind-hearted young man with lightning-quick reflexes, with Kayden, a secret agent stuck in the body of a fat old cat. It's warmer than JJK, but if you liked the Gojo-and-students dynamic of a teacher far above everyone else, this is that. WEBTOON posted episode 407 on October 12, 2026.
Eleceed. © Jae-Ho Son, Hye-Jin Kim. Via AniList.
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Our Take
If you came from the anime and want fights, read The God of High School first: it's finished, the leads are distinct from the start, and the same studio animated it. If the creeping dread of Shibuya is what stuck with you, read Sweet Home. Want something short tonight? Unholy Blood is 93 chapters of monster hunting in modern Korea.
Frequently Asked Questions
What manhwa is most like Jujutsu Kaisen? We'd say The God of High School, for the fights and a trio of leads who each fight differently. If it's the dread of monsters loose in a modern city you liked, Sweet Home. Both are finished.
Which manhwa like Jujutsu Kaisen are finished? Sweet Home (141 chapters), Noblesse (544), Unholy Blood (93), The God of High School (569) and Solo Leveling (201). Tower of God, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint and Eleceed are still running.
Which of these have anime, like Jujutsu Kaisen? The God of High School (MAPPA, 2020), Noblesse (Production I.G, 2020), Solo Leveling (A-1 Pictures, 2024 and 2025) and Tower of God (2020 and 2024). Sweet Home is a Netflix live-action series.
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