Manga search (Jikan / MyAnimeList) API

Search manga on MyAnimeList via Jikan, normalized with chapters, volumes, publishing status, ongoing flag, authors, genres, score, and a derived engagement label. Complements the existing anime search. Answers 'find manga X', 'is this manga still ongoing', 'manga details + authors'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/manga-search

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

datamangajikanmyanimelistcomicsmediaentertainmentjapan

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/manga-search

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "query": "berserk",
  "limit": 2
}

Example response

{
  "query": "berserk",
  "count": 2,
  "results": [
    {
      "malId": 2,
      "title": "Berserk",
      "type": "Manga",
      "chapters": null,
      "volumes": null,
      "status": "Publishing",
      "ongoing": true,
      "score": 9.46,
      "engagement": "acclaimed",
      "year": null,
      "authors": [
        "Miura, Kentarou",
        "Studio Gaga"
      ],
      "genres": [
        "Action",
        "Adventure",
        "Award Winning",
        "Drama",
        "Fantasy",
        "Horror"
      ],
      "synopsis": "Guts, a former mercenary now known as the Black Swordsman, is out for revenge. After a tumultuous childhood, he finally finds someone he respects and believes he can trust, only to have everything fall apart when this person takes away everything important to Guts for the purpose of fulfilling his own desires. Now marked for death, Guts becomes condemned to a fate in which he is relentlessly pursu",
      "url": "https://myanimelist.net/manga/2/Berserk"
    },
    {
      "malId": 113958,
      "title": "Boushoku no Berserk: Ore dake Level to Iu Gainen wo Toppa suru the Comic",
      "type": "Manga",
      "chapters": null,
      "volumes": null,
      "status": "Publishing",
      "ongoing": true,
      "score": 6.81,
      "engagement": "mixed",
      "year": null,
      "authors": [
        "Takino, Daisuke",
        "Isshiki, Ichika"
      ],
      "genres": [
        "Action",
        "Fantasy"
      ],
      "synopsis": "Fate Graphite has never tasted true power. Born into a world with two kinds of people—those with superior skills and those without—he's been shunned his entire life. Fate's skill is Gluttony, a curse that leaves him constantly hungry...until he awakens its terrible potential. When he kills someone, he can devour their skills and feed his insatiable appetite. How many lives will it take for Fate's ",
      "url": "https://myanimelist.net/manga/113958/Boushoku_no_Berserk__Ore_dake_Level_to_Iu_Gainen_wo_Toppa_suru_the_Comic"
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Manga title or keyword."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 15,
      "default": 5
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}