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Are you an architecture student or someone interested in the field and looking for similar content to read? You’ve come to the right place.

Here are six anime, manga, and manhwa series where the main character is an architect.

6 Anime/Manga about Architecture:

1. Thermae Romae

Thermae Romae anime summary
  • Format: Anime and Manga
  • Author and Artist: Mari Yamazaki
  • Status: Completed

Synopsis:

Thermae Romae is a perfect read for you if you are looking for a series where the main character is an architect.

Thermae Romae follows the journey of a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One day, he discovers a hidden tunnel underneath a spa that leads him to a modern Japanese bathhouse. Inspired by the innovations found there, he creates his own spa, Roma Thermae, bringing modern ideas to his time.

Each chapter has an episodic tone, where whenever Romae finds himself out of ideas, he visits modern Japan in the future and explores places such as zoos, waterparks, fertility systems, and festivals to find inspiration.

The series also has inspired an anime adaptation available on Netflix worldwide.

2. Golden Print

Golden Print manhwa summary
  • Format: Manhwa
  • Author and Artist: Mu, Gu Seul
  • Status: Ongoing

Synopsis:

Our main character had only one dream: to become an architectural designer since the age of 12. For 30 years, he worked hard, never missing a single day, but the reality was that he was stuck as a construction site manager who built buildings for others.

One day, a miracle happened. He found himself transported back to his university days, 20 years earlier, in the year 2010. He was just 22 years old again, but this time he had 20 years of field experience behind him. He resolved to fulfil his dream of becoming an architectural designer and creating world-famous designs of his own.

3. Soara and the Monster’s House

Soara and the Monster's House manga summary
  • Format: Manga
  • Author and Artist: Yamaji Hidenori
  • Status: Ongoing

Synopsis:

Soara is a young orphan girl who was raised by knights and trained to battle the monsters that constantly attacked their kingdom. But by the time Soara is ready to join the fight herself, peace has been declared and her blade is no longer needed.

Searching for a new home and a new purpose, Soara stumbles across Krik the dwarf, leader of the Monster Architects. Suddenly, instead of fighting monsters, Soara finds herself working with Krik to build comfortable homes for them.

4. Perfect World

Perfect World manga summary
  • or and Artist: Aruga Rie
  • Status: Completed

Synopsis:

Kawana Tsugumi works at an interior design company. She goes to a drinking party at a client’s architectural office and happens to meet her first love, Itsuki Ayukawa. She is happy to find out he was able to achieve his dream of becoming an architect.

Moreover, he’s more handsome than ever but she is shocked when she realizes something has changed about him: Ayukawa is in a wheelchair now.

Perfect World won the 43rd Kodansha Manga Award in the shoujo category in 2019 and has been adapted into an anime film and TV drama.

5. Greatest Estate Developer

Greatest Estate Developer manhwa summary
  • Format: Manhwa
  • Author and Artist: Moon Baek Kyung, Lee Hyunmin, Kim Hyun-Soo
  • Status: Ongoing

Synopsis:

When civil engineering student Suho Kim falls asleep reading a fantasy novel, he wakes up as a character in the book.

Suho finds himself in the body of Lloyd Frontera, a lazy noble who only loves to drink, while his family is in a mountain of debt. Using his engineering knowledge, Suho designs inventions to avert the terrible future that lies in wait for him.

With the help of a giant hamster, a knight, and the new magical powers, Suho tries to dig his new family out of debt and build a better future.

6. Mahoromi: A Visionary Tale of Space-Time Architecture

Mahoromi manga summary
  • Format: Manga
  • Author and Artist: Toume Kei
  • Status: Completed

Synopsis:

Mahoromi is a supernatural thriller that follows Niwa, a college architecture student, who is moving into his deceased grandfather’s house. He didn’t know him very well, but the place is conveniently close to school, and his grandfather was actually the architect who designed it.

Something is unsettling about the house, though, and while he’s wandering around, Niwa finds a mysterious old photograph of some girl who isn’t his grandmother.

What are your thoughts on our list of manga/ anime about architecture? Did we miss one of your favourites? Let us know in the comment section below.

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