What is Elf manga?

The origin of Elves (Norse; álfar(elves), álfr(elf)) can be found in ancient Norse mythology, in which, elves are described as divine, or near-divine, race of humanoids (Vættir), likened to the Æsir. In common description they are described as sage and immortal beings occupying the threshold between humans and the gods. In some cases humans that were beloved by the gods became elves within their lives. Ancient Elves are delineated into a pair of similar but distinct races; Light Elves (Ljósálfar) and Dark Elves (Svartálfar), each originating from separate homes within the nine worlds of Yggdrasil. Within the Poetic Edda the differences are commonly ascribed as: "There is one place there that is called the Elf Home (Álfheimr which is the elven city). People live there that are named the light elves (Ljósálfar). But the dark elves (Dökkálfar) live below in earth, in caves and the dark forest and they are unlike them in appearance - and more unlike them in reality. The Light Elves are brighter than the sun in appearance, but the Dark Elves are blacker than pitch." (Snorri, Gylfaginning 17, Prose Edda)

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Dungeon Meshi

(Delicious in Dungeon)

8.36

Description:

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions...and a member! They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to starve on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons...none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands! (Source: Yen Press)

Type

manga

Volumes

Chapters

Status

finished

Started

2014-02-15

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Sousou no Frieren

(Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End)

8.33

Description:

The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. With the great struggle over, they all go their separate ways to live a quiet life. But as an elf, Frieren, nearly immortal, will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to terms with the mortality of her friends? How can she find fulfillment in her own life, and can she learn to understand what life means to the humans around her? Frieren begins a new journey to find the answer. (Source: Viz Media) Notes: - Winner of the Grand Prize at the 14th Manga Taisho Awards. - Nominated for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. - Placed 3rd at the 7th Annual Next Manga Award.

Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2020-04-28

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Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu

(Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation)

8.27

Description:

Just when an unemployed thirty-four-year-old otaku reaches a dead end in life and decides that it's time to turn over a new leaf—he gets run over by a truck and dies! Shockingly, he finds himself reborn into an infant's body in a strange new world of swords and magic. His new identity is Rudeus Grayrat, but he still retains the memories of his previous life. Follow Rudeus from infancy to adulthood, as he struggles to redeem himself in a wondrous yet dangerous world. (Source: Seven Seas)

Type

novel

Volumes

Chapters

330

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

2014-01-23

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Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

(Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-)

8.25

Description:

Suddenly high school student Subaru Natsuki has been summoned to another world on the way back from the convenience store. With the biggest crisis of his life being summoned to another world and no sign of the one who summoned him, things become worse when he is attacked. But when he is saved by a mysterious silver-haired girl with a fairy cat, Subaru cooperates with the girl to return the favor. When they finally manage to get a clue, Subaru and the girl are attacked and killed by someone. Subaru then awakens in the place he was summoned and notices he gained the ability "Returns by Death." A helpless boy that only has the ability to rewind time by dying. And beyond the despair can he save the girl from the fate of death? (Source: jCafe)

Type

novel

Volumes

Status

current

Started

2014-01-23

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Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?

(So I'm a Spider, So What?)

8.1

Description:

The world where the Hero and the Demon King continue to oppose each other. The grand magic from the Hero and the Demon King cross over worlds and exploded in the classroom of a certain high school. The students who died in the explosion will be reincarnated in a different world. The protagonist, who has the lowest reputation in the class, was reincarnated into a spider. Nevertheless, she adapted quickly to the present condition with strong willpower. This is a story of she who has become a spider trying whatever she can to live. (Source: MU)

Type

novel

Volumes

Chapters

384

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2015-12-10

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Geim Sok Babarianeuro Saranamgi

(Surviving The Game as a Barbarian)

7.91

Description:

After spending nine years on Dungeon and Stone, the role-playing game that no player has ever beaten, Hansu Lee finally reaches the dungeon of the final boss. As soon as he opens the gate, however, he suddenly sees a message that says his tutorial has been completed and finds himself in the body of Bjorn Yandel, a real barbarian within the game. An exciting adventure awaits him as he endeavors to abide by the laws of the fictional world! (Source: Naver, translated)

Type

manhwa

Status

current

Started

2023-04-19

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Wo Zhen Bushi Xie Shen Zougou

(I'm Really Not the Evil God's Lackey)

7.91

Description:

Lin Jie, a transmigrator, is the owner of a bookstore in another world. He’s kind and warm-hearted, often recommending healing books to customers who are going through a tough time. From time to time, he secretly promotes his own work too. Over time, these customers begin to respect him greatly, some even frequently bringing local specialties to repay his favor. They often seek his professional opinion when it comes to selecting books, and share their experiences with this ordinary bookstore owner to people around them. They respectfully and intimately refer to him using names such as the “Demon God’s Lackey” and “Propagator of the Flesh and Blood Gospel”. Source: MU

Type

manhua

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2021-06-01

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Seirei Gensouki

(Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles)

7.85

Description:

Meet Rio: a callous orphaned boy living in the slums. At only 7-years-old, he realizes he’s actually the reincarnation of Haruto Amakawa, a Japanese university student with a tragic past. While still reeling from this shocking epiphany, Rio also comes to learn that he possesses extremely potent magical abilities and uses his new powers to solve the kidnapping case of a little girl. His good deed is acknowledged, and he’s rewarded by being enrolled into… a prestigious academy for noble children...? (Source: J-Novel Club)

Type

novel

Volumes

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2015-10-01

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Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii?

(An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride)

7.83

Description:

Zagan is feared as an evil mage, he is awkward and has a sharp tongue, and once again had to put down thieves that encroached on his territory when he researching that morning. In a dark auction, he finds a white slave elf, Nephie, who holds a peerless beauty. Falling in love with her at first sight, he uses his fortune to buy her, but as poor as he is socially, doesn’t understand how to connect with her. Thus, the clumsy cohabitation of the mage that can’t convey his love, and the slave that pines for her master but doesn’t understand how to bring it up, begins. (Source: MAL)

Type

novel

Status

current

Started

2017-02-01

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Eternally Regressing Knight

7.83

Description:

"You're a genius." Those words he heard as a child were poison. Encrid dreamed of becoming a knight, but he soon realized it was futile. "You want to live by the sword with that level of skill?" Some laughed at him. "Just give up." Some advised him against it. Despite that, his dream remained steadfast. He slept less, ran more, and trained harder. One day, he died, having been stabbed in the neck. Encrid opened his eyes again to "today's" morning.

Type

manhwa

Status

current

Started

2024-01-01

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Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii?

(An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride)

7.74

Description:

Zagan is feared by the masses as an evil sorcerer. Both socially awkward and foulmouthed, he spends his days studying sorcery while beating down any trespassers within his domain. One day he's invited to a dark auction, and what he finds there is an elven slave girl of peerless beauty, Nephy. Having fallen in love at first sight, Zagan uses up his entire fortune to purchase her, but being a poor conversationalist, he has no idea how to properly interact with her. Thus, the awkward cohabitation of a sorcerer who has no idea how to convey his love and his slave who yearns for her master but has no idea how to appeal to him begins. (Source: J-Novel Club)

Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2018-02-23

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Boroboro no Elf-san wo Shiawase ni Suru Kusuriuri-san

(The Apothecary Will Make This Battered Elf Happy)

7.73

Description:

Story about an injured slave elf is saved by an apothecary.

Type

doujin

Chapters

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

2021-09-01

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Isekai Ojisan

(Uncle from Another World)

7.7

Description:

Takafumi's uncle was in coma for 17 years after being hit by truck. He awakens one day and claims to Takafumi that he was in another world all this time and has even learned to use magic! (Source: MU)

Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2018-06-29

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Isekai Shikkaku

(No Longer Human…In Another World)

7.67

Description:

Like in the famous Osamu Dazai's book "No Longer Human"/ "Disqualified From Being Human" (Ningen Shikkaku) , the protagonist of this story attempts a double suicide with his lover... except he gets hit by a truck and summoned to another world instead. Now he wants to find his lover, so he can commit suicide with her. (Source: MangaDex)

Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2019-10-02

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Tensei Shite High Elf ni Narimashita ga, Slow Life wa 120-nen de Akimashita

(Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored)

7.65

Description:

With a lifespan of a thousand years, the eccentric high elf embarks on a journey at will. 120 years after he became conscious of his memories of his previous life, Acer got tired of living in a dull forest. "Well, I don't want to live as a High Elf anymore. This life isn't for me." If you have a long life anyway, you should go out and experience a lot of things! So instead he became a disciple of the Dwarves who were interested in blacksmithing and didn't get along well with him, waved his sword in the dojo, visited distant port towns to eat seafood, and sometimes helped people in need. The whimsical high elf thus begins his free-spirited journey. If anyway life is long, do not you want to experience a lot of things out of the world!

Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2021-06-10

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Futanari no Elf

7.54

Description:

Daily life of a Futanari Elf.

Type

doujin

Rating

Smut

Status

current

Started

2019-02-17

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Hokkaido no Geneki Hunter ga Isekai ni Hourikomaretemita: Elf Yome to Meguru Isekai Shuryou Life

(An Active Hunter in Hokkaido Has Been Thrown Into a Different World)

7.45

Description:

Shin Nakajiima, a hunter in Hokkaido, dies trying to protect a kid from a violent brown bear. However, when he wakes up, he's in a different world. From the radio, the voice of a woman who claims to be a goddess... Apparently, the cheat ability is only a mysterious bag from which you can buy hunting guns and bullets if you put in money. Are hunting guns and modern hunting knowledge useful in a different world with swords and magic, demons and heroes? A different world hunting life begins with a reliable elf wife! (Source: Mag Garden, translated)

Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2020-05-20

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Elf to Shuryoushi no Item Koubou

(The Elf and the Hunter's Item Atelier)

7.41

Description:

The elven craftsman Magritte runs a small atelier in the forest, and Yura, a human hunter who worships her. The two people, who have different races and lifespans, still follow each other and, upon request, create mysterious items one after another. Why not take a look a their daily life, which has nothing but the two, spun in an atelier? (Source: MU) Note: Note: Chapter count includes 3 extra chapters.

Type

manga

Volumes

Chapters

Status

finished

Started

2018-03-12

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Kono Healer, Mendokusai

7.39

Description:

Fantasy adventuring comedy with a dark elf cleric who invested too much in her insulting skills and her companion, the swordsman who has to put up with her antics. (Source: MU)

Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2019-07-31

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Mazumeshi Elf to Yuboku gurashi

(Nomadic Life with the Elves' Terrible Food)

7.28

Description:

Saburou discovered his passion for cooking after an injury prevented him from continuing to play baseball. One day while going out to get ingredients, he finds himself in another world covered in vast plains, and is taken in by a tribe of nomadic elves. However, the food they make tastes so bad that it's barely edible! With his cooking skills, Saburou starts making meals for the elves, showing them how delicious food can really be. (Source: MAL) Note: Includes 6 bonus chapters.

Type

manga

Volumes

Chapters

Status

finished

Started

2017-07-15

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