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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou

Also known as Higurashi When They Cry: GOU.

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

Life couldn’t be better for Keiichi Maebara. Sure, not much happens in the sleepy mountain village of Hinamizawa…but in the three short weeks since moving here, he’s already found some amazing new buddies—who are all cute girls! However, when he discovers hints of Hinamizawa’s violent history, his dear companions insist on keeping him in the dark. Keiichi can’t escape his growing unease—will it be enough to shake his faith in his best friends?



Tags: Witch , Seinen , Rural , Denpa , Primarily Female Cast , Yandere , Gore , Tragedy , School Club , Alternate Universe , Female Protagonist , Conspiracy , Reincarnation , Time Manipulation , Gods , Twins , Anti-Hero , Dissociative Identities , Body Horror , Yuri , Achronological Order , Detective , Time Skip , Drugs , Demons

Yakedo Shoujo

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

Shiina Hinami, a high school student with a bright personality that wears an eye patch covering her left eye is loved by everyone in her class. Kaname Aizawa, a classmate, one day sees her secret notebook entitled "Mind Note". Upon reading the notebook, Kaname makes a grim discovery about Shiina.

Tags: Tragedy , Suicide , Female Protagonist , Gore , Seinen , School , Bullying , Crime , Nudity , Love Triangle , Yandere , Male Protagonist , Chuunibyou

Tasogare Otome x Amnesia

Also known as Dusk Maiden of Amnesia.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

Legend states that the ghost of a student who died at Seikyou Private Academy still haunts the grounds to this day... A truth that first year student Teiichi uncovers when he stumbles into that very ghost, Yuuko! However, with no memories of her previous life, she enlists the help of Teiichi and opens a paranormal investigations club to unravel the school’s ghastly mysteries. From Maybe, the author of "Tales of Wedding Rings".



Tags: Ghost , School , Denpa , Male Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Amnesia , Nudity , Shounen , School Club , Crossdressing , Urban Fantasy

Tokyo Ghoul

Also known as Tokyo Ghoul.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she’s only interested in his body—eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own.



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Tragedy , Cannibalism , Urban Fantasy , Gore , Male Protagonist , Dystopian , Seinen , Survival , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Shapeshifting , Body Horror , Torture , Police , Cosmic Horror , Kuudere , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Chimera , Twins , Mythology , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Demons

Jukkakukan no Satsujin

Also known as The Decagon House Murders.

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

The members of a particular university's Mystery Club travel to a ten-sided house on a remote island...which just happens to have been the scene of a gristly, and unsolved, mass murder. Armed with details of the murder and keys to the property, they set out to dig deeper...but can they trust the "facts" of the case? And moreover...can they trust each other?



Tags: Ensemble Cast , Revenge , Crime , Coastal , Detective , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Gore , Classic Literature

Uzumaki

Also known as Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror.

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

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...



Notes:
Includes the extra chapter "Uzumaki Tokubetsu-hen: Ginga", which was included in editions later released.
Chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) as one of the Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2009. (Vol. 1)

Tags: Tragedy , Body Horror , Cosmic Horror , Seinen , Survival , Female Protagonist , Gore , Episodic , Philosophy , Lost Civilization , Rural , Cannibalism , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Suicide , Curses , Bullying , Demons , Unrequited Love , Cult , Yandere

Touhyou Game: Anata ni Kuroki Ippyou wo

Also known as Tohyo Game: One Black Ballot to You.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

The class popularity contest was supposed to be for fun...but now the unpopular ones are dying grisly deaths. The classroom has become a horrific struggle for survival. Someone is keeping the game going, but who? Can anyone survive the game and expose the truth?



Tags: School , Gore , Survival , Incest , Seinen , Death Game , Heterosexual , Battle Royale

Dark Gathering

Also known as Dark Gathering.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Horror , Supernatural

Keitaro is ready to stop living as a shut-in. He’s starting university. He’s reconnecting with his childhood friend. He’s taking a tutoring job. And he’s not messing around with ghosts anymore. At least that’s what he thinks, until he finds out the elementary schooler he’s tutoring is an occult-obsessed genius who’s hunting down dangerous spirits and won’t stop until she’s found the one that took her mom!



Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Ghost , Shounen , Revenge , Necromancy , Exorcism , Gods , Urban Fantasy , Gore , Female Protagonist , Body Horror , Yandere , Male Protagonist , Suicide , Rehabilitation , Cannibalism

Usotsuki Satsuki wa Shi ga Mieru

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

"You... are going to die tomorrow."

Satsuki Minazuki, 16 years old. Apart from being antisocial and declaring the death of her classmates, she is a normal second-year high school student. Her nickname is "Liar Satsuki." However, her eyes alone are abnormal. What she is gazing at is...



Note: The chapter count includes an epilogue chapter included in the last volume.

Tags: Detective , Female Protagonist , Denpa , School , Super Power , Gore , Bullying , Primarily Female Cast , Tragedy , Delinquents , Crime , Philosophy , Suicide , Yandere , Shounen , Yuri , School Club

Tomie

Also known as Tomie.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Supernatural , Thriller

Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. She can seduce nearly any man, and drive them to murder as well, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. While one lover seeks to keep her for himself, another grows terrified of the immortal succubus. But soon they realize that no matter how many times they kill her, the world will never be free of Tomie.



Notes:
While a collection of mainly independent short stories, Tomie was originally published as Volumes 1 and 2 of the Ito Junji Kyofu Manga Collection. This entry is for the standalone release of Tomie first published in February 2000 with previously unreleased chapter "小指/Little Finger".
Later collections such as the 'Complete Deluxe edition' by Viz combines this and the sequel entry Tomie: Again for a total of 20 chapters.
The short story “Painter” has been adapted in the first part of episode 9 of Ito Junji: Collection.

Tags: Body Horror , Monster Girl , Gore , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Shoujo , Male Harem , Yandere , Urban Fantasy , Demons , Suicide , Nudity , Succubus , Bullying , Cannibalism , School