Kurokami
Black God

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Shounen series, with extremely good art styles, about a contract between two people: one who fights, one who provides the power. Both have action, magic, drama, romance, and even some violence. 

Both Supernatural, Action manhwa involve a guy merging/synchronizing with a greater being and surviving hellish battles with a goal in mind. ^_^ 

The plot is different, but the story's beginning is very similar: average, unlucky, orphan guy who lives with a beautiful friend/tutor suddenly encounters a strange girl and gets involved in non-ordinary things. Both are shounen series with plenty of action and a great art style. 

Both are mature shounen series focused on contracts (usually between a guy and a girl) in which the one who fights absorbs the energy from his/her partner (the Tera in Kurokami, the Soma in SNQ). Same genres: action, super powers, magic, supernatural. SNQ has graphic ecchi content, while Kurokami doesn't. Both have great art styles, a wide cast of characters, and violent fights. 

Magical summoned being, strong but indecisive master, magical circuits, magicians...you do the math. Though by different mangakas, Kurokami is far too similar to be unmistakably FSN.  

exactly the same kind of situation. girl meets guy...girl is weird...girl is under attack...girl is not a human....girl makes contract with guy...guy is like WTF...they fight as a team. Its basically the exact same plot except the characters r like opposites...quite funny actually 

Both are Supernatural, Action Manhwa about a fateful encounter between an inhumanly, strong girl and regular guy/boy. Both guys are thrust into a dangerous world (metaphorical/literal) that they’d rather have nothing to do with. ^_^ 

The sort of (to the characters) impossible to tell if they are truly good or bad organizations in Black God give a very similar feel here for a while, and the greater and greater emergence of magic makes this feeling even more similar. 

Kurokami is good because, despite it plainly stealing from Naruto in the more recent chapters, it brings some new into the mix and executes everything else very, very well. I suppose the main appeal is that, rather than it having a male lead, it has a female lead do the fighting and a male support her from the sidelines. And, like with any top notch action manga, the artwork is lovely, as well as being clear during the many lengthy but fairly epic battles. Aside from the obvious artwork and female lead plus points, the blend of comedy and drama is what makes me rate Kurokami highly. The writer knows how to time the events so that the story is never too depressing or light-hearted. With his ability, he manages to have Akane run out of the shower naked after a dog one minute and then move onto a back-story involving an Orochimaru-esque (though far more graphic' with live, naked subjects being worked on) 'experiment' scene the next. It's reminiscent of how, back in the Naruto good days, when there was a good blend of NarutoxSasuke/Jiraiya humour one minute and intense drama the next. The Naruto links do run pretty deep; a little too deep, perhaps. First of all, Kuro is the last of her clan; her once nice (to her), elite brother wiping out the rest of her clan, mother and all. Even though Kuro is NOTHING like the ever depressive and angsty Sasuke of Naruto fame - her being simple-minded, running around without underwear and eating 24/7 - it's hard to not see the similarities between Itachi and Reishin. And, like I mentioned before, there's an Orochimaru type character from Kuro's clan who experimented/killed lots for his own amusement; the end result being him exiled and escaping from death. ...In short, I guess what I'm trying to say is that Kurokami will have a lot of appeal to Naruto fans and the like; the lack of an orange ninja, the cleavage shots and Keita being so much of an arsehole that he's great to watch be a dick to everyone and get away with it (like Haseo from .hack//G.U.) all adding to its appeal. Bleach? Naruto? Nah; the Koreans know how's it's done. Screw the Japanese! read more