Manga like Tsumi to Batsu

Tsumi to Batsu: A Falsified Romance

Also known as Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance.

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

Taking inspiration from the Russian classic Crime and Punishment and then placing the behemoth of a book into a modern metropolis, Ochiai Naoyuki retells Dostoevsky's drama from the eyes of a struggling Japanese writer. In the 2006 remake Crime and Punishment ~A Falsified Romance~ Ochiai's lead is an incredible talent with award winning abilities. Tachi recently placed as the Best New Writer in a major literary competition, but the stress of living up to his family's goals of him becoming a powerful man has broken him on the cusp of greatness. He dropped out of college. However after moving to Tokyo he struggles with his identity and the duality of life in this surreal megalopolis. Despite being recognized for his tremendous potential, success does not come quite as easy, and life is a constant struggle. For Tachi Miroku life is nothing but a battle, with his past and his moral fiber. He hasn't been to work in four months and his dreams are a total mess filled with abuse, taunting, and the strong smell of blood. Tachi is alone and without direction in life right now. You could say he is a hikkikomori but that is only where his troubles start.



Tags: Seinen , Classic Literature , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Crime , Nudity , Philosophy , Hikikomori

Tsumi to Batsu

Also known as Crime and Punishment.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Psychological

An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment".
This manga is among to series of manga versions of classic literature named "Manga de Dokuha".

Tags: Historical , Classic Literature

Kafka: Classics in Comics

Also known as Kafka.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

A sublimely eerie manga adaptation of classic Kafka stories, with a starkly beautiful illustration style – part of Pushkin's second series of Japanese novellas.

Nine of Franz Kafka's most memorable tales are here given fresh life with dazzling graphic renderings by the brother-and sister manga creators Nishioka Kyodai . With their distinctive, surreal style of illustration, they have reimagined the fantastic, the imperceptible and the bizarre in Kafka's work, creating a hauntingly powerful visual world.

These stories of enigmatic figures and uncanny transformations are stripped to their core, offering profound new understandings.

The Cares of a Family Man
The Metamorphosis
The Bucket Rider
Jackals and Arabs
A Fratricide
The Vulture
A Country Doctor
A Hunger Artist
In the Penal Colony

Tags: Classic Literature , Anthology , Dystopian , Foreign , Tragedy , Torture , Body Horror , Henshin , Family Life

Dante Shinkyoku

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

Manga adaptation of Dante Alighieri's classic work, "The Divine Comedy."

Tags: Classic Literature , Historical , Gore , Religion , Body Horror , Afterlife , Philosophy , Angels , Demons , Torture , Nudity , Urban Fantasy , Amnesia

Frankenstein

Also known as Frankenstein.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the anguished and solitary monster—and the fouler beast who created him—to life with the brilliantly detailed chiaroscuro he is known for.



Tags: Tragedy , Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Historical , Foreign , Body Horror , Crime

Adolf ni Tsugu

Also known as Message to Adolf.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance

A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale of three Adolfs: Kamil, a Jew who grew up in Kobe, Japan, the son of a baker; Kaufmann, only child of a German consul stationed at that port city and his Japanese wife; and the Fuhrer with whom the Far Eastern nation made common cause.

Note: Won the 10th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1986.

Tags: Historical , War , Military , Torture , Fugitive , Espionage , Tragedy , Seinen , Travel , Foreign , Time Skip , Politics , Language Barrier , Guns , Suicide , Disability

Glass no Shiro no Kiroku

Also known as Record of the Glass Castle.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

IMMORTALITY, AT WHAT COST?

In the Glass Mansion, a family has been frozen in cryosleep for 20 years under the orders of their patriarch. When the oldest son Ichirou awakes, he struggles to accept the reality that he has slept away 20 years of his life. Ichirou plans to exact revenge on those in his family that stole his life from him. As Shirou, the youngest brother, attempts to stop Ichirou, he becomes aware of the dangerous side effect of cryosleep that led to its national ban years ago. How far will Ichirou fall, and will Shirou be able to stop him? In Record of the Glass Castle, Osamu Tezuka tackles the great quandary of immortality at the cost of humanity, in a different, much darker light than he often does in his better-known masterpieces like Phoenix. In this tale, the search for humanity seems more hopeless than ever, tangled in hatred, greed, and lust. This one volume series is a must-read for the fans of Tezuka’s dark side, as well as those who can appreciate a story that won’t spell out all the answers.



Tags: Seinen , Tragedy , Revenge , Fugitive , Crime , Nudity , Prison , Time Manipulation , Incest

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov: Tsumi to Batsu yori

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological

Tags: Classic Literature , Foreign , Shoujo , Anthology

Cthulhu no Yobigoe: Lovecraft Kessakushuu

Also known as H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu.

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

What links together two bands of worshippers, one deep in the Arctic snows, one hidden in the bayous of Louisiana, is more than their shared practice of blood sacrifice. It is the inhuman phrase they both chant: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn—“In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.” Now these nightmares will disturb the sanity of Francis Thurston, a young man pursuing an investigation into the cult of Cthulhu that leads to the most forsaken spot in the vast Pacific…and to Earth's supreme terror, the risen corpse-city of R'lyeh.



Tags: Cosmic Horror , Seinen , Cult , Foreign , Ships , Classic Literature , Kaiju , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast

Les Raskolnikov

Also known as Les Raskolnikov.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

Inspired by the novel "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Note: Published in AX Volume 1: A Collection of Alternative Manga.

Tags: Classic Literature