Manga like Chichi no Tamashii

Tomino no Jigoku

Also known as Tomino the Damned.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological

The manga centers on a set of twins with an older brother and younger sister. The twins were born with a set of odd matching birthmarks on their sides. After their mother abandoned them their stepfather sold them off to a freak show. The story tells what becomes of the twins afterward.



Tags: Seinen , Twins , Ero Guro , Circus , Historical , Tragedy , Adoption , Gore , Cult , Body Horror , Nudity

Batman

Also known as Bat-Manga!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mystery

In the 1960s, during the height of Bat-mania, mangaka Jiro Kuwata was commissioned to write and draw a series of original Batman comics for the Japanese market. Many Western readers were only recently introduced to the existence of this unique take on the Caped Crusader. Now DC Comics presents the series in its entirety for the first time, fully translated and unabridged!



Tags: Shounen , Superhero

Ashita no Joe

Also known as Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow.

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

Joe Yabuki is a troubled young man who runs away from an orphanage. Wandering through the Tokyo slums, he meets former boxing trainer Danpei. Joe is later arrested and goes to a temporary jail where he fights Nishi, his future best friend, ​and leader of a group of hooligans. He and Nishi then go to a juvenile prison miles away from Tokyo. There Joe meets Rikiishi, a former boxing prodigy, and a rivalry develops between them. They face each other in a match in which Rikiishi dominates Joe until the latter hits him with a cross-counter, resulting in both being knocked out. This inspires the other prison inmates to take up boxing. Joe and Rikiishi vow to fight again.



Tags: Boxing , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Class Struggle , Anti-Hero , Orphan , Urban , Athletics , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Delinquents , Prison , Foreign , Yakuza , War

COCOON

Also known as cocoon.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A heart-wrenching chronicle of loss and resilience based on the true story of the Himeyuri corps of student nurses in WWII.

San and her best friend Mayu attend a boarding school for girls in Okinawa, but their studies are interrupted when they and the other students are recruited to help the war effort as assistant nurses. Sent to the front lines, the girls must deal with more than just the threat of enemy bombs overhead. Stuck working in the horrifying caves of a field hospital, San wishes she could wrap herself and her friends in a cocoon of protection. But invisible threads of affection are no match for the carnage that surrounds them, and day by day, more students perish. Worn down by starvation and loss, what will San and her remaining friends do when they are told to find their way home through the fields of total war?



Tags: War , Tragedy , Historical , Survival , Female Protagonist , Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Suicide , Gore , Primarily Female Cast , Rural , Crossdressing , Primarily Teen Cast , Medicine

Kyojin no Hoshi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

The story is about Hyuma Hoshi, a promising young baseball pitcher who dreams of becoming a top star like his father Ittetsu Hoshi in the professional Japanese league. His father was once a 3rd baseman until he was injured in World War II and was forced to retire. The boy would join the ever popular Giants team, and soon he realized the difficulty of managing the high expectations. From the grueling training to battling the rival Mitsuru Hanagata on the Hanshin Tigers, he would have to take out his best pitching magic to step up to the challenge.



Tags: Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Baseball , Tragedy

Yuureisen

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Mecha , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Hayato's city is devastated by a giant robot, his parents are killed in the massacre. The only friend left to him is his dog Jack, the only things left are mom's shoe and a picture of a man and a woman who, as his father tells him on his deathbed, are his real parents. Now Hayato wants revenge on the one who is said to have sent the robot: the terrible Ghost Ship which threatens ships and is rumored to wish to exterminate everything.


Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Robots , Ships , Primarily Adult Cast , Conspiracy

Manga Grimm Douwa: Ogou to Sengoku no Onna-tachi

Also known as Ogo and women in Warring States period.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy

Nidai Shougun Midai Ogou [Okada Junko] Hosokawa Garasha [Matsuzaki Akemi] Naoe Osen [Yasutake Wataru] Onna-tachi no Sengoku: Azai Sanshimai [Kuuro] Chacha [Tsuka Emuko]

Tags: Anthology , Josei

Touma

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Tags: Male Protagonist , Seinen

Son Gokuu

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

Tags: Seinen

Judo Sanka

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Tags: Judo , Shounen , Male Protagonist