Manga like Change the World: Kyou Kara Satsujinki

Brutal: Satsujin Keisatsukan no Kokuhaku

Also known as Brutal.

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

The manga centers on homicide detective Hiroki Dan, the son of a former police superintendent general, and who seems to be on the fast track to career success. He maintains a hidden identity as a serial killer responsible for more than a hundred murders of people he deems beyond the reach of the law.



Tags: Crime , Detective , Anti-Hero , Sadism , Gore , Torture , Josei , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Nudity , Tragedy

Ouroboros

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery

Ikuo Ryuuzaki and Danno Tatsuya are 2 orphaned boys who were looked after by a person they called 'sensei'. Following their sensei's brutal murder, the two vow to hunt down the killers and the police officers who neglected to properly investigate the case.

15 years later, Ryuuzaki is a police detective and Tatsuya has become the leader of a group of mobsters. Helping each other out behind the scenes, they strive to rise to the tops of their respective fields so that they may exact their vengeance.

Tags: Revenge , Police , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Found Family , Guns , Orphan , Detective , Yakuza , Urban , Crime , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Torture , Nudity , Amnesia , Baseball , Ships

DEATH NOTE

Also known as Death Note.

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

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?



Tags: Detective , Police , Anti-Hero , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Crime , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Gods , Primarily Male Cast , Espionage , Time Skip , Shounen , Memory Manipulation , Demons , Amnesia , Politics , Cult

Tajuu Jinkaku Tantei Psycho

Also known as MPD Psycho.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological

Police detective Yosuke Kobayashi's life is changed forever after a serial killer notices something "special" about him. That same killer mutilates Kobayashi's wife and kick-starts a "multiple personality battle" within Kobayashi that pushes him into a complex tempest of interconnected deviants and evil forces. Earning praise for its consistently shocking plot lines and Tajima's clean, arresting art style, MPD-Psycho is the manga event of the decade!



Tags: Dissociative Identities , Detective , Clone , Male Protagonist , Police , Seinen , Body Horror , Terrorism , Anti-Hero , Nudity

Yuureitou

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

In the 1950s, an old woman was brutally murdered on the face of a clock tower by her adopted daughter. Two years later, the clock tower is known as the 'ghost tower' and it is supposedly haunted. Through an unusual series of events, a young NEET man named Amano Taichi is attacked by someone or something in the same clock tower, and finds himself bound to the clock face to be killed in the same way as the old woman. Luckily for Amano, he doesn't meet the same fate. He's rescued by a mysterious person who claims his name is Tetsuo.

Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Noir , Detective , Transgender , Historical , Conspiracy , Crime , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Body Horror , Boys' Love , Bisexual , Body Swapping , Adoption , Nudity

Dendrobates

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

Sengawa's day job is as an accountant working for the police. But at night... he transforms into a ruthless assassin bringing death to anyone who deserves it. Meet and hire the man with 1000 guns.

Tags: Seinen , Revenge , Assassins , Gore , Police , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Guns , Episodic

Yokohama-sen Doppelganger

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery

Kenzaki Makoto, a debuting sculptor, was arrested as the serial killer of the Yokohama Line series of murders. He insisted that he was innocent but was sentenced to the death penalty. He was executed 11 years after the crime. But when he reopened his eyes, by a twist of fate, he had returned to 11 years ago, 25 days before the crime was committed. Burning with the desire for revenge against the real murderer, Kenzaki begins to take action. The only one he can trust is HIMSELF. The crime suspense story of two selves fighting against fate unfolds.

Tags: Seinen , Crime , Reincarnation , Revenge , Urban , Espionage , Primarily Adult Cast , Time Manipulation , Torture , Tragedy , Conspiracy

Jukgeona Punch

Also known as Deathwish Covenant.

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

Min-Ho is a fish out of water at his prestigious school. After getting beaten to a bloody pulp by his classmates, he’s reached a breaking point. He needs protection or he’s done for. Lucky for him, a mysterious man, Kang U-Hyeok, happens to be in the right place at the right time. These seemingly vastly different people both have what the other needs. U-Hyeok can be Min-Ho’s bodyguard, and Min-Ho…he can provide U-Hyeok’s deathwish!



Tags: Male Protagonist , Full Color , Gore

Heads

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

This manga is a story based on a thriller by Keigo Higashino. The main protagonist, the shy Jun Naruse, is a rather average guy who works for an electronics company and loves to paint. He falls in love with Megumi whom he met at an art supplies shop and an intimate relationship develops. Whilst looking for his dream apartment to move into with Megumi the real estate office he is at gets attacked, and when the criminal tries to shoot a little girl, he saves her by jumping in front of her.

A month passes until he wakes up again and is told that half his brain got destroyed and he only survived because someone donated half a brain. Everything seems to be fine, he quickly recovers and is happy, however, he begins to change… Is the donated brain the reason for that? Or is it just a side effect of the medicine?

Tags: Dissociative Identities , Denpa , Drawing , Revenge , Suicide , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Heterosexual , Conspiracy , Amnesia , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , Crime , Work , Twins , Bar , Nudity

Jeonguiui Yeonswae

Also known as Serial Justice.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological , Thriller

A serial killer with a mission.

Aria has been a victim of domestic violence since childhood. Eventually, she sees only one way out: murder. After she kills her father, she sets out to save other victims, and crosses paths with a detective who decides to help her. But can she really justify murder in the name of justice?



Tags: Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Crime , Police , Female Protagonist , Full Color , Urban