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If you liked Mimi wo Sumaseba add

...then you might like Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiru ka add

Whisper of the Heart forms an interesting connection with The Boy and the Heron. It's a movie about coming of age and finding your voice in the creative process, with two teenagers discovering romance and their artistic/creative ambitions. The director Yoshifumi Kondo was set inside ghibli as the successor to hayao miyazaki, unfortunatly he died two years after the release of Whisper of the Heart. One of the themes of The Boy and the Heron is legacy and succession.

If you liked Sensou Kyoushitsu add

...then you might like Centuria add

Centuria and Sensou Kyoushitsu (The Bugle Call) have an art style and worldbuilding more in common with history inspired manga like vinland saga than what you would expect of a medieval fantasy setting. Similar themes of violence, life purpose and freedom.

If you liked Dungeon Meshi add

...then you might like Isekai Arigatou add

Thank You Isekai is much more comedic and self-aware than Dungeon Meshi but it shares the same preoccupations with depicting the everyday life of a fantasy world, mundane aspects of a fantasy world plays an important role in creating unexpected outcomes.

If you liked Sousou no Frieren add

...then you might like Tensei Daiseijo no Mezame: Shouki wo Joukashi Tsuzukeru koto Nijuunen, Okitara Densetsu no Daiseijo ni Nattemashita add

The Awakening of a Great Saint has a similar fantasy premise of Frieren: A post-demon king world. Frieren develops the philosophical aspect of a setting like that with a melancholic atmosphere, while The Awakening of a Great Saint tries to find ways of creating lighthearted adventures with this premise, some chapters borders on slice of life.

If you liked Hunter x Hunter add

...then you might like Kono Sekai wa Fukanzen Sugiru add

The greed Island arc from Hunter x Hunter shares a lot of similarities with Quality assurance in another world, it's based on the premise of a game world with intuitive use of game design (even though greed island is a game based on nen and runs in real life). Both manga have an aspect of tabletop RPG with the allure of following resourceful characters understanding and exploiting a specific set of rules.

If you liked Dungeon Meshi add

...then you might like Dungeon Sherpa: Meikyuu Michisaki Annainin add

Detailed worldbuilding of dungeons in a fantasy world. Dungeon meshi is about the innerworkings of a fantasy ecology inside a dungeon and dungeon sherpa is about the profession of a dungeon guide who knows about dungeon navigation and the specifics of loot and monster behavior.

If you liked Dungeon Meshi add

...then you might like Kono Sekai wa Fukanzen Sugiru add

Dungeon Meshi and Quality assurance in another world share similar elements like a quirky group of characters and a specific approach to fantasy world, Dungeon meshi through food and detailed fantasy ecology and Quality assurance in another world trough NPC behavior and videogame logic. The specificity of the worldbuilding in each manga make it feels like anything can happen.

If you liked Vinland Saga add

...then you might like Madou no Keifu add

Vinland Saga and Madou no Keifu (truth weavers) share similar ideas and assessments about about war and violence, with characters struggling to have pacifist ideals in a cruel world.

If you liked Nigoru Hitomi de Nani wo Negau: Highserk Senki add

...then you might like Sensou Kyoushitsu add

Sensou Kyoushitu (the Bugle Call) and Record of Highserk War have a similar style of medieval fantasy grounded in actual medieval battle tactics with strategic use of magic/special abilities. The worldbuilding share similar elements as well, with fictional countries at war in a medival europe like setting.

If you liked Yoku Oni add

...then you might like Choujin X add

Similar premise of humans gaining super powers and becoming another race within human society (choujin and yokuoni); Authors Sui Ishida and Mitabi Irohara share a similar style and storytelling sensibilities.

If you liked Kiseijuu add

...then you might like Yoku Oni add

Similar premise of humans dealing with the conflict of a non-human threat; The conclusion of Yokuoni is very similar to Parasyte with an emotional resolution tying together the conflict with the themes of the humans against the non-humans conflict in an unexpected hopeful ending.

If you liked Yoku Oni add

...then you might like Jujutsu Kaisen add

Battle shonens with violent and dark setting; Characters have unique powers that reflects their personallity and fights revolves aorund finding the weakness or limitation of each power.

If you liked Tokyo Ghoul add

...then you might like Yoku Oni add

Yokuoni and Tokyo Ghoul have very similar premise of humans against non-humans, both also share similar storytelling quirks like dark speech bubble, characters mental breakdown represented as dozens of repeting words and a general similar style of using symbolism to represent characters feelings and development.

If you liked Hunter x Hunter add

...then you might like Kiseijuu add

Hunter x Hunter shares similarities with Parasyte in the chimera ant arc, the main theme of humanity against a natural predator changing the food chain (with sociopolitical and environmentalist commentary); Youpi from Hunter x Hunter seems to be an homage to Gotou from Parasyte both in design and personality.

If you liked Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho add

...then you might like Kiseijuu add

The way Usuke and Shinichi has to balance school life with the supernatural or alien plot is very similar; The Chapter Black arc is particularly comparable with Parasyte having the same feel of a thriller with cat and mouse style narrative, chases and characters having to outsmart one antoher.

If you liked Undead Unluck add

...then you might like Skeleton Double add

they diverge on the type of plot, with undead unluck having much bigger and fantastical lore while Skeleton double is much more closer to our own reality but having supernatural elements. What each have in similarity is the fights with creative use of powers.

If you liked Psyche Matashitemo add

...then you might like Skeleton Double add

Both Saike matashitemo and Skeleton Double have a x-men like premise of people with supernatural abilities opposing each other, Saike matashitemo is a little bit more aspirational like a super hero story and Skeleton Double is a little bit more like Ajin or Parasyte. The fights and creative use of powers is very similar, Skeleton double at times feels like reading a new manga by fukuchi tsubasa (the author o saike matashitemo and law of ueki).

If you liked Hoshi no Samidare add

...then you might like Psyche Matashitemo add

Very similar art style, vibes and character dynamics in both Hoshi no Samidare and Saike Matashitemo. Specifically in the last 2 volumes saike matashitemo also becomes similar to hoshi no samidare in terms of plot.

If you liked Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho add

...then you might like Togari add

Togari takes inspiration on Yu Yu Hakusho. The main villain is very similar to Sensui in the chapter Black arc creating minor villains for the protagonist to fight while he has a master plan involving showing the horrors of humanity (same idea as the chapter black tape)

If you liked Ayashi-ya add

...then you might like Kimetsu no Yaiba add

Similar themes and setting: Period piece battle shonen about Onis attacking society and a boy that had his familly murdered seeks vengeance on the mysterious high profile Oni that did it.

If you liked Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro add

...then you might like Nejimaki Kagyuu add

Both Neuro and nejimaki kagyuu have similar stylised art and creepy moments.

If you liked Monster add

...then you might like NeuN add

Neun is also a conspiracy on the backdrop of a historical setting and similarly to Monster's Johan it has children of genetic manipulation that turns them into manipulative sociopaths. However Monster is more grounded as Neun has some psychic powers and nazi experiment component in the story.

If you liked Wanpaku Ouji no Orochi Taiji add

...then you might like Ousama Ranking add

Wanpaku Ouji no Orochi Taiji is a very stylised cartoonish adventure version of the heroic cycles of japanese mythology. Ousama Ranking in the same way is a hero's journey told in this very stylised art style with the world building very inspired by old fairy tales and medieval european folklore

If you liked Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro add

...then you might like Devilman add

Neuro and Devilman shares villains that have or reveals animal traits on their evil/devil forms and the HAL arc has a plotline of paranoia about the criminal drug that turns people into criminals, simillar to how the devils starts to turn every human into devils on the second half of devilman.

If you liked Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho add

...then you might like JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 4: Diamond wa Kudakenai add

Both are 90's battle manga with delinquents and school life, sharing also storylines involving spirits. Diamond is Unbreakable focus on the city's side characters (it's somewhat more gorunded, whatever that means on a jojo story) and Yu Yu Hakusho goes to develop a bigger spirit world.

If you liked Genji Monogatari add

...then you might like Kaguya-hime no Monogatari add

Both are based on 1000 years old folklore and literature about Royalty (The tale of Genji and The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) and both films have an animation style that evokes older Japanese paintings with a watercolor quality to the drawings.

If you liked Arete Hime add

...then you might like Kaguya-hime no Monogatari add

A subversive and psychologically dense fable about a Princess. Both The Tale of Princess Kaguya and Princess Arete have emphasis on the melancholy of a young girl being forced to behave as the perfect ideal of a princess and all of the subsequent conflicts and developments derives from this premise, with the difference that kaguya leans closer to a historical drama and arete has a more extensive fantastical worldbuilding in a medieval european setting

If you liked Arete Hime add

...then you might like Ousama Ranking add

The brilliant worldbuilding mixes fantastical elements with a believable yet heightened medieval setting, filled with characters that have simple designs contrasted with deep psychological development. The plot has unexpected turns by subverting the classic fairy tales and fable tropes. Both Princess Arete and king Bojji have melancholic moments that are balanced with very emotional moments driven by their good nature.