Spirit Circle

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Story that centers around reincarnation told through various lives of the same "souls" and exploring the question wheter guilt can be carried through multiple lives. 

The themes and storytelling between the two are very similar. If you like the idea of interconnected short stories that jump between past, present, and future while dealing with a wide variety of themes, you are likely to enjoy both. 

While Spirit Circle was released decades later, the thematic of reincarnation seen in Hi no Tori still remains very interesting. You'll see the same characters undertaking different lives through the circle of reincarnation adding multiple perspectives to a single character. Spirit Circle might not have a phoenix this time around, but instead, it also has its own immortal entity watching over humanity. Even though the stories have serious tones and themes, the authors also like to add some comedy relief to their stories or just create silly scenes. From that point of view, they're somewhat similar. This can be observed in Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer as well. Both stories have a fair share of different genres too. You'll see romance, comedy, drama, tragedy, revenge, friendship, sci-fi, adventure, and many more. It's also worth noting how both stories also span over thousands (in Hi no Tori's case even billions perhaps) of years and deal with different realities/worlds. Spirit Circle sometimes feels like a shorter version of Hi no Tori. Not mindblowing but definitely a must-read too. read more 

The protagonist in both manga have multiple versions of themselves. In the case of Spirit Circle, these multiple personalities arise from reincarnation, whereas in Qualia, the MC can communicate with her personality in any parallel world. Both MCs have also traveled through time in order to save someone. Both manga are very philosophical and requires much active brain cells to understand it. Haha.  

Spirit Circle and Purple Qualia both start off as fairly light fantasy, only to go way off the deep end into abstract sci-fi territory. Both works deal with the idea of people having "multiple selves," though Spirit Circle uses a fantasy-style, spiritual depiction of "reincarnation," while Purple Qualia's interpretation of a single person existing in "parallel worlds" has harder sci-fi roots. Spirit Circle is fairly comedic, has a focus on history (?) in addition to sci-fi, and has involved side-characters who change and "grow" as the protagonist relives his various reincarnations. Purple Qualia is slightly more serious, purer sci-fi, and focuses solely on the protagonist and her relationship the few other main characters. They're both a lot of fun. read more 

If you'd like to read a seinen manga with a generic shounen character who has a female sidekick with well a developed chest area, you might actually want to read something with an incredible story - and not just incredible lewdness. On the surface they are almost the same manga initially (well most are), magical girls who wants to fight, magical girls who wants to cuddle, and slowly life is changing this shounen fellow into a hero! Well, the manga changes as well, in Spirit Circle's case, it changes from being a generic MC with a lame circle for a weapon, into a fantastic journey through his previous lives, and in Tsugumomo it changes from being a fantasy manga with fantastic fighting scenes, to still be all that and also include tons of nude magical girls. There's actually plot development as well, so it's not "bad", but it's interesting to compare two with such similar starting points.  read more 

So... Spirit Circle, with art that looks like One Piece, and a female character on the cover that screams of "I WAS SELECTED FOR THE STUPID ECCHI CHARACTER", does it have any resemblance with Bokura no Kiseki? Really, I hate ecchi-victim-characters, and the art isn't very good the first few volumes (well you can tell characters apart though). But Spirit Circle is incredible. Just crazy insanely incredible. You don't get those hunky bishounens running around doing magic, but actually, when it comes to the reincarnation part, Spirit Circle is actually really close to the new age theories (as written about in classic like "Born again to be together" by Dick Sutphen and "Life before life" by Helen Wambach). Similarly, if you shrug when you see the tag "josei" since you think of poorly drawn semi-realistic adults who engage in a sexual acts under the guise of "smut", well... Think again! Bokura no Kiseki redefines "intense", and once you get sucked into the intrigues of these knights-born again high school students, you'll never let go (unless another chapter isn't released). The group scanlating had to make a dedicated page called "When is the next Bokura no Kiseki chapter" due to all craving fans.  read more 

Same mangaka. Coming of age stories, finding meaning for oneself, and saving the world. All wrapped up with great (side) character development, action, and romance.  

They both revolve around the main characters' past lives and reincarnation. Kouko and Keidai are similar in the sense that they both are too attached to their past selves. Both stories are really good- really recommended!