Manga like Ayako

Saint Rosalind

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

The main character, Rosa, is the child of the devil. Although her appearance is patently innocuous, the terrible things that befall everyone around her soon prove that she is anything but.

A dark, gruesome story, made all the more eerie by the sparkly, feminine 1960s shoujo art style Watanabe continues to use.

Tags: Shoujo , Tragedy , Religion , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Gore , Detective , Ojou-sama , Demons , Suicide , Butler , Nun , Adoption

Yami no Purple Eyes

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

Rinko is an ordinary girl who was born with a mysterious birthmark on her left arm. But when that mark starts to get darker, strange accidents begin to happen everywhere around her, involving even the people she cares about. What will the powerful magic awakening inside Rinko bring her?

Tags: Shoujo , Henshin , Tragedy , Torture , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Adoption , Female Protagonist

Ayako

Also known as Ayako.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Opening a few years after the end of World War II and covering almost a quarter-century, here is comics master Osamu Tezuka’s most direct and sustained critique of Japan’s fate in the aftermath of total defeat. Unusually devoid of cartoon premises yet shot through with dark voyeuristic humor, Ayako looms as a pinnacle of Naturalist literature in Japan with few peers even in prose, the striking heroine a potent emblem of things left unseen following the war.

The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur’s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmers—terrible news, if you’re landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with “the reds.” What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter?



Tags: Historical , Politics , Seinen , Espionage , Incest , Rural , Tragedy , Police , Fugitive , Crime , Time Skip , Yakuza , Nudity , Urban , Gangs , Rehabilitation

Akujo Seisho

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

A wedding ruined by the suicide of a woman rumored to be a witch...

Eiichi's affair ends in disaster as his lover hangs herself during his wedding to another woman. To the horror of the wedding guests, the dead woman gives birth to a girl. Eiichi and his new wife are forced to raise a child they don't want and don't care for. They name her Tsumiko (Great Shame).

Now as a teenager Tsumiko resembles her dead mother more every day. She must compete with a younger sister, Megumi, who is everything she is not. As tensions rise at home and at school, Tusmiko will do everything she can to make her life better...

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Revenge , Suicide , School , Family Life , Tragedy , Nudity , Gore