Top Psychological Hentai Manga Recommendations

Juujika no Rokunin

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

In order to defeat several non-human monsters, the boy also became something non-human.

Shin Uruma, a sixth-grade student, was named "Experimental body: A" by five of his classmates and was severely bullied and lived in hell. His only peace was with his brother, who loved him, and his parents, who protected him.... . until the five monsters killed his family. When he finally loses everything and faces true hell, a dark "wish" is born inside Shun. He was reborn under the training of his grandfather, who served in a secret unit during WWII. Now, four years later, he appears in front of his fated enemy.

"I won't let ANYONE get in the way of my revenge."

Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Umibe no Onnanoko

Also known as A Girl on the Shore.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

Koume Sato and Keisuke Isobe are two teenagers living in a sleepy seaside town. After getting used and dumped by her crush, the emotionally damaged Koume decides to start a sexual relationship with Keisuke, without any emotions involved. However, they both soon discover that sex with no strings attached leads to unexpected complications, not just for themselves but also the people surrounding them.

Killing Stalking

Also known as Killing Stalking.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

Yoon Bum, a scrawny and quiet man, has a crush on one of the most popular and handsome guys in his college: Sangwoo. After the two cross paths again, Yoon Bum's feelings grow in intensity until they become an obsession–and he breaks into Sangwoo's home. But what he sees inside is not the Sangwoo of his fantasies; his dreams of this alluring man abruptly turn into a nightmare.



Notes:
- Won the Grand Prize in Lezhin's 2nd World Comic Contest.
- Includes four extra chapters.

DEAD Tube

Status: Releasing
Genres: Ecchi , Horror , Psychological , Thriller

Dead Tube is a website that hosts videos from the macabre to the sensual. The more graphic the video, the more views it receives; and online, this is a sordid business.

Tomohiro Machiya is a member of the Film Research Club and has always been an avid fan of filming. One day he is confronted by Mai Mashiro, an attractive girl on the swim team. She asks him to film her nonstop for two days straight. But, on the second day of filming, Machiya witnesses Mashiro brutally murder one of their classmates. However, someone else takes the fall for the crime, and Mashiro gleefully informs him that their film was a "winner" on Dead Tube.

As more and more of the school starts to get involved with Dead Tube, many quickly get in over their heads from the punishments for failing the contests. And, since he helped with Mashiro's video, Machiya must participate, and continue filming for this deadly game.

Okaeri Alice

Also known as Welcome Back, Alice.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Childhood friends Yohei, Kei, and Yui are reunited in high school. But what seemed like a straightforward love triangle between the three of them takes an unexpected turn when Kei shows up looking and dressed like a girl.

Sundome

Also known as Sundome.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Psychological , Romance

The "Roman Club," a school group interested in the occult, to which he's practically enslaved, has become boring for one Hideo Aiba. In fact, he finds his entire existence pretty tiresome until, one day, when a girl named Kurumi Sahana shows up and wants to join up. When the two are left alone in the club classroom, Kurumi makes a special "request" of Hideo, which makes him (understandably) freak out. Though he doesn't know what to think, one thing's for sure, Hideo's life just became anything but boring.

Ten Count

Also known as Ten Count.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. One day he meets Kurose, a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion. As the two go through each of the ten steps, Shirotani 's attraction to his counselor grows.

Kimi ni Aisarete Itakatta

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Kanae is a girl who is struggling to fit in with the popular clique at her high school. Because she had been bullied in middle school, she has developed an acute inferiority complex that had led her to engage in compensated dating in order to feel wanted.

In comes Hiroshi, a high-school baseball star who became drawn to her after finding her crying during a group date at a karaoke bar. Thus begins an unhealthy relationship between a mentally unstable high-school girl and a guy who will eventually knife her to death at the end.

JK Haru wa Isekai de Shoufu ni Natta

Also known as JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Fantasy , Psychological , Slice of Life

The otaku boys get to have adventures when they’re hit by the inevitable truck and find themselves in yet another fantasy world. The girls, on the other hand…well, Haru finds out the hard way when her classmate Chiba gets the two of them truck-murdered into a fantasy world that treats women even worse than our world does. But a girl’s gotta do what she can to make the cash for survival, and Haru? She intends to thrive.



Note: Includes four extra chapters.

Ingoshima

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

The Yoshinomiya Municipal High School 2nd year students embarked on what they'd hoped was an educational trip with their friends and away from family but it was not meant to be... Their ship was hit by unexpected rough seas and crashed on a strange island! The surviving students are trying to understand what happened but soon they realize they are not alone on this island and the locals don't appear to be very friendly to strangers!!!

MADK

Also known as MADK.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological , Supernatural

Makoto has long been ostracized because of his odd hobbies and a sexual kink others would see as disgusting. One day he finds a book on summoning demons and manages to summon the intimidatingly beautiful and rather chatty Archduke J. The demon offers to grant Makoto’s deepest twisted desire in exchange for his life. Once Makoto has sated his demented appetites, he fulfills his end of the bargain, only to find he’s been reborn as a monster…in hell!



Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Mulgaui Bam

Also known as Low Tide in Twilight.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Romance

Kim Eui-Hyun is an omega at his limit. After living a life of troubles and owing an unpayable debt that isn’t even his, he’s ready to give up. Hoping to spare himself and his little brother a life of more pain, he opts to walk into the cold depths of the sea. With his escape in reach, it seems like everything will be over soon—until someone catches him. Yeo Tae-Ju, a sadistic alpha who seems to take pleasure in other’s pain, gives Eui-Hyun the choice to pay off his debt with his body but when the omega refuses, Tae-Ju proves he has no other choice.

Still desperate for escape, Eui-Hyun tries to plan his next attempt while doing restaurant work. But with a sorry paycheck that barely covers his interests and his little brother to care for, will Eui-Hyun have to sell his body after all just to survive? And, is it even worth surviving if this is what his life is meant to be?



Note: Includes 17 extra chapters.

Love or Hate

Also known as Love or Hate.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

Hae-Soo is a cynical writer of a romance column, while Joo-Won, his former stepbrother, is a famous actor. The two go way back - thrust together when their parents remarried, their relationship is far from simple. Brothers? Soulmates? Friends with benefits? Or nothing at all? Theirs is a delicate balance between lust and loathing, dating and breaking up, irritation and infatuation.

When the mysterious photographer “K” takes an interest in Hae-Soo, events begin to spiral out of control. As the lines between art and reality become increasingly blurred, what direction will this story take? Cheap romance? Sensual erotica? Or something much more twisted?



Note: Chapter count includes two special side stories released in 2024.

Pizza Baedalbuwa Gold Palace

Also known as The Pizza Delivery Man and the Gold Palace.

Status: Hiatus
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

U-Won is a pizza delivery guy down on his luck, and Seo-An is wealthy man suffering from panic attacks and social phobia. You wouldn’t think these two would have any reason to get to know one another, but one small kindness leads to a series of encounters that bring the two men closer together than either of them anticipated. Maybe they can find the solutions to their problems together…or perhaps they don’t need solutions, but simply each other.

Caste Heaven

Also known as Caste Heaven.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

It’s a cruel game where the card you possess determines your class rank. Azusa has the king, the most powerful of the cards, which allows him to rule his class however ruthlessly he chooses. But all bets are off when Azusa gets double-crossed, shattering his pride as he drops to target, the lowest of the ranks. Now bullied by the very people he himself mistreated, Azusa is given a choice—become the new king’s plaything…or service the entire class!



Note: Includes 11 extra chapters.

Geotji Anneun Dari

Also known as Legs That Won't Walk.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Retired boxer Soo-Young discovers he has to pay off his father's debt when Tae-Seung hunts him down. Fascinated by Soo-young's persistence, Tae-Seung offers him an alternative - to learn the ropes and start from the rock bottom. Will this dangerous relationship work, or will this be another living hell for Soo-Young?



Note: Includes 26 extra chapters.

Gimuldeurui Segye

Also known as The Pawn's Revenge.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Thriller

As a male prostitute in the slums, Je-oh is at the bottom of the social hierarchy. A pawn among pawns. Sure, he's tried to break away, but each attempt has only left him with more wounds. Until one day, he gets rescued...by a serial killer who kidnaps him along with his pimp. The killer, Seong-rok, is on a mission for his lover, a former prostitute plotting to turn the tables. Why he rescued Je-oh is unclear, but a slick-talking manwhore was definitely not part of anyone's plan. Regardless, Je-oh is no ordinary pawn. Now that he has entered the game, he will use every trick up his sleeve—or in his pants—to get revenge.

Color Recipe

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Shoukichi is a stylist who struggles with being unpopular due to him being unfriendly and overly serious about everything. Fukusuke, a top stylist who is frivolous and sarcastic, starts working at Shoukichi’s salon. One night, Shoukichi lets Fukusuke stay over at his place because Fukusuke missed the last train. While Shoukichi is sleeping, Fukusuke climbs on top of him and pushes his dick in his face. Because of this perverted thing that Fukusuke does, Shoukichi begins to hate him more and more. However, as creepy things continue to happen to Shoukichi, his thoughts about Fukusuke begin to change…

Maybe he’s a prince…?
What happens to someone who is stubborn but passionate about something they really want….?

Checkmate

Also known as Checkmate.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Detached. Disinterested. Dispassionate. All words used to describe Su-Hyeon and his uneventful, mediocre life. He's nothing like he once was. As a teen, he had a fire, a passion burning within, all thanks to one person: bright-haired and brilliant Eun-Seong. Throughout high school, Su-Hyeon obsessively competed with Eun-Seong for the top spot in all things, only to consistently come in second place. And as high school ended without victory, so did his passion for anything. But all this changes when, as an adult, he suddenly sees Eun-Seong again—except the other man is in the news, embroiled in scandal! Seeing Eun-Seong in a state of shame ignites something in Su-Hyeon. Fiery hate, long thought dead, comes alive within him once more.

Determined to see a fallen Eun-Seong with his own eyes, Su-Hyeon reinvents himself as a reporter and begins dishing out one dirty article after another. He's sure that with each scathing article, Eun-Seong will come crawling to Su-Hyeon and begging for mercy. Except, it doesn't happen. Eun-Seong doesn't react at all the way Su-Hyeon expects! Just who is being manipulated, and who, the manipulator?



Note: Includes 11 extra chapters.

Strategic Lovers

Also known as Strategic Lovers.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Mystery , Psychological , Romance

Kouta Higashiyama’s father is the enormously wealthy founder of a corporate behemoth—but his mother was the man’s twenty-third mistress! He thought the issue of succession and inheritance had nothing to do with him. And it didn’t—until he was suddenly kidnapped as a candidate to be the next chairman, and dropped in front of five beautiful girls, all of whom are in contention to become his lover… But is his whole life really all about choosing whatever and whoever he wants? Or will Kouta himself be the one to be chosen…?