Manga like Blue Heaven

HIDEOUT

Also known as HIDEOUT.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Psychological

The cave beckons.

Deep in the rainforest of a southern resort island, where bones of forgotten soldiers abound, another corpse is nothing special.

A young couple grieves the death of their young son, but the husband sets out in search of a waterfall said to bring those who see it newfound happiness.

The wife is a skeptic, opposed to the trek, but "anything to start afresh," he says, so they try it.

Anything...



Tags: Tragedy , Gore , Survival , Seinen , Crime , Writing , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Cannibalism , Primarily Adult Cast

Jiraishin

Also known as Ice Blade.

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

Kyoya Ida is a hard-nosed detective from the Shinjuku Police precinct. He is known in the force as an unreasonable type who would use lethal force to solve cases, making him unpopular with the enlisted and high-ranking officers in the National Police Agency.

Despite this fact, there are some in the force that admire Ida for his bravery and cleverness in using lethal force to solve criminal cases whenever legal means are met in a dead end.

Tags: Seinen , Detective , Guns , Police , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Nudity , Anti-Hero

Alive

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

Yashiro Tenshuu killed five people, including his girlfriend, and is now on death row. However, a secret government organization is willing to take him off death row if he allows himself to become a test subject to an experiment that requires a killer's intent.

Tags: Seinen , Tragedy , Dissociative Identities , Male Protagonist

MONSTER

Also known as Monster.

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

Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension.

Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”



Tags: Seinen , Crime , Philosophy , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Amnesia , Twins , Fugitive , Noir , Foreign , Historical , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Detective , Primarily Adult Cast , Police , Medicine , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Suicide , Orphan , Adoption , Torture , Assassins , Achronological Order , Episodic , Gore

Silencer

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Shizuka is a policewoman who loves her silencer more than anything. Back in Japan after an internship in the United States, she is banned from the police. Transferred to the sordid "Security Annex Office," she has to team up with a corrupt and perverse coworker. During a trivial investigation, she witnesses an atrocious murder and decides to lead the investigation. She does not know it yet, but she's going to encounter a terrible threat!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Crime , Seinen

Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji

Also known as Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Ne'er-do-well Kaiji Itou's shiftless existence is suddenly rattled by a visit from the yakuza. Burdened by debt and resentment, Kaiji is coerced into gambling for his worthless life. As the stakes grow higher and the rules become increasingly more bizarre, Kaiji must finally take the future into his own hands!



Note: Won the 22nd Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1998.

Tags: Gambling , Seinen , Survival , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Death Game , Card Battle , Yakuza , Class Struggle , Tragedy , Nudity