Manga like Danganronpa/Zero

Danganronpa Kirigiri

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Follows Kyoko Kirigiri's past of working as a detective with the 16 year old Yui Samidare.

Tags: Detective , Female Protagonist , Work , Death Game , Criminal Organization , Crime

Danganronpa Togami

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Horror , Sci-Fi

Living as the heir to the Togami Conglomerate, Byakuya Togami is suddenly attacked while on a trip to Prague with his biographer, a fellow student at Hope's Peak Academy referred to as "Blue Ink". Having his identity (and clothes) stolen from him, Byakuya listens as the imposter announces on live broadcast that, should he not be killed in 24 hours, he will take over the world. As the world descends into chaos with the propagation of the mysterious "Despair Book", it's up to Byakuya and Blue Ink to escape assassins and uncover the truth.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Death Game , Incest , Inseki , Yandere , Assassins , Male Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Twins , Meta

Kyokugen Dasshutsu 9-jikan 9-nin 9 no Tobira: Alterna

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

A novelization of the game, Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, with some slight difference.

The story follows Junpei who was abducted and placed aboard an empty, sinking cruise liner along with eight other people. The cruise liner resembles the RMS Titanic, a ship which killed over 1500 in the early 20th century. The nine people were forced to participate in the “Nonary Game”, a deadly game which involves numerical bracelets, small bombs in each player’s stomach that will detonate and kill them if they disobey, exploring the ship and solving escape-the-room puzzles in order to survive and escape before they drown in 9 hours. The players also attempt to find out why they were kidnapped.

Tags: Death Game , Survival , Tragedy , Alternate Universe , Crime , Primarily Adult Cast , Super Power , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Ships , Foreign , Detective , Ensemble Cast , Guns

Fate/Zero

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

War of the Holy Grail - Pursuing the power of the "Holy Grail" which grants a miracle, this is a contest in which seven magi summon seven Heroic Spirits to compete for it. In that battle whose conclusion was postponed three times, now, the fourth war commenced again. Entrusting their dearest wish of victory, the magi joined the battleground called "Fuyuki", but amongst them, there was a man who was always alone, and could not find out the meaning behind his fights. His name was Kotomine Kirei. Not comprehending the guidance of fate, Kirei was lost, and had kept questioning. Why someone like his was given the Command Seals. However, the fate of his fights crossed Kirei's path with a nemesis by chance. That person is - Emiya Kiritsugu. A man who was sterner than anyone else, more merciless than anyone else, and who sought the miracle of the Holy Grail.

Merely recited in fragments in Fate/Stay Night, this is the Fourth War of the Holy Grail 10 years ago. The truth which unfolded behind the battle between Shirō's foster father, Rin's father, and the younger Kotomine Kirei, is finally revealed...

Tags: Tragedy , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Urban , Succubus , Swordplay , Spearplay , Vampire , Zombie , Religion , Assassins , Motorcycles , Urban Fantasy , Battle Royale , Primarily Adult Cast , Magic , Mythology , Dissociative Identities , Heterosexual

Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregotozukai

Also known as Decapitation: Kubikiri Cycle.

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

A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind—one of whom ends up headless one fine morning.



Tags: Philosophy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Detective , Meta , Primarily Female Cast , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Hikikomori , Crossdressing , Maids , Gore

Kubishime Romanticist: Ningen Shikkaku - Zerozaki Hitoshiki

Also known as Strangulation: Kubishime Romanticist.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Psychological

Now that he’s a cool college student, our anti-hero Iichan thinks his crime-solving days are behind him. Cynical, sarcastic and minimally engaged in his studies, Iichan is much more interested in his own feelings of disaffection and isolation. But despite his resolve to remain aloof, he’s pulled into the narrative when he encounters and bonds with a serial killer named Hitoshi Zerozaki – a homicidal maniac with the soul of an artist whose talent is on display at the grisly scenes of his crimes.



Tags: Crime , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , Urban , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Detective , Mopeds , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Suicide , Yandere , Love Triangle

Owarimonogatari

Also known as Owarimonogatari: End Tale.

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

Volume 1:
Before we witness the series’ climactic showdown in the third volume of the End Tale—each part of which forms its own cohesive whole—narrator Araragi wrestles with a crucial bit of history that had turned him into the loner we met at the very beginning, who opined that friendships only lowered his intensity as a human.
What initiates his pilgrim’s progress of a reckoning is his first encounter, at school, with the mysterious freshman Ogi Oshino, self-described niece of the equally enigmatic aberration expert Mèmè, and the book’s opening chapter is a harrowing standalone novella of a who-dunit involving a locked room of sorts.
Our increasingly well-adjusted hero kept on beingdecent at one thing even when he was just hanging on, but this forte, an unlikely aptitude for math, of all things, becomes the focus of a cheating scandal and a web of recollections that forces him to come to terms with, what do you know, his capacity to connect to people.

Volume 2:
When an old flame who gave up on life and chose to go up in flames—because he wanted to leave you but couldn’t—comes crawling back after four hundred years, you might not appreciate it, especially if you’re in a new relationship. But nothing’s ever simple between people, and that’s even truer between monsters.
For the first time in months, our heroic loser Araragi is human, parted by previous events from the ex-legendary vampire bound to his shadow. Before he, the second-ever thrall of the former Kissshot, can resume his partnership with the donut-loving waif that she’s turned into, she must make a choice—about that first-ever.
Before the End Tale can end, some loose ends must be tied, and in this volume, the fixer Gaen calls in her favor, requesting an introduction to her niece; the errand of the amulet that Araragi ran with Kanbaru comes into crisp focus; and the time-traveling and -spanning Dandy and Demon Tales see their devastating resolution.

Volume 3:
No good deed goes unpunished, they say, and so does friendship and lowering your intensity as a human, they don’t say—alas, for all his literally painful hustle and inveterate need to save others, our brave fool of a hero ends up in hell, a conception of the inferno in its full Buddhist glory, and muses (lol) if there’s a return ticket.
Told in three chapters, the final part of End Tale concludes the story proper and resolves the series’ panoply of ongoing mysteries: the dues of a do-gooder for relying on a power not his own, the identity of a shady transfer student, the outcome of a class president’s questing abroad, and even the true name of a park.
Araragi, indeed, is the one who knows, but along the way he meets old faces, really every last one of them, who aid him on his journey for understanding, and perhaps for salvation, and you for one might not be surprised if he had another rendezvous with an erstwhile “cloistered princess” before it—guess what it is—sees an end.



Tags: Philosophy , Achronological Order , Coming of Age , Detective , Vampire , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Afterlife , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual

Kubitsuri High School: Zaregotozukai no Deshi

Also known as Suspension: Kubitsuri High School – The Nonsense User's Disciple.

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

An earnestly honest guy who doesn’t even grant pipe dreams to himself, physiologically incapable of letting a single contradiction go, in other words me, got dragged this June to a renowned academy for rich girls, no questions allowed, by the world’s strongest contractor. No matter how you put it, no matter how you spin it, there was probably no point to it. Because the case that arose there was, in and of itself, a bit of nonsense.



Tags: School , Crossdressing , Crime , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Detective , Gore , Primarily Female Cast

Another

Also known as Another.

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

In a third-year classroom of Yamakita Middle School 26 years ago, there was a student named Misaki. As an honors student who was also good at sports, the charming girl was popular with her classmates. When she suddenly died, her classmates decided to carry on as if she was still alive until graduation. Then, in the spring of 1998, a boy named Sakakibara Kouichi transfers to that classroom, and he grows suspicious of the fearful atmosphere in it. In particular, there is a beautiful, aloof girl named Mei Misaki who wears an eyepatch and is always alone drawing pictures.

Note: Originally serialized in literary magazine Yasei Jidai between 2006 to 2009. Illustrated version printed under the light novel Sneaker Bunko label in 2012.

Tags: Memory Manipulation , Tragedy , School , Rural , Urban Fantasy , Survival , Kuudere , Curses , Gore , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Denpa

Tsukimonogatari

Also known as Tsukimonogatari: Possession Tale.

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

Launching the third or “Final Season” of the international cult-hit series, Possession Tale returns the narrator’s headset back to high school senior and amateur savior Koyomi Araragi, who used to eschew friendship once upon a time because it’d lower his “intensity as a human”—a loner’s misgiving that was perhaps on the mark in a different way than he intended.

At issue now is not the precarious fate of one of his cherished confrères, or rather consœurs, whom he’d aid, sight unseen, with a monster’s resilience, but his own aberrant state and its prolonged abuse. If everything comes with a bill, and if no man is an island, then is the price of self-sacrificing amity—and the bloodshed it ironically occasions—becoming inhuman for good?

That being said! Our hero, whose first name means “calendar” but who has none in his room, sees no need to rush, so, on our way to the profound mysteries of the superhuman aspect, expect a super-shallow deconstruction of the alarm clock. On hand this volume to (hardly ever) humor his humor: his little sisters, a living doll of a corpse, and its violent mistress.



Tags: Vampire , Achronological Order , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Alternate Universe , Female Harem , Coming of Age , Dissociative Identities , Detective , Urban Fantasy , Gods , Meta , School , Afterlife , Astronomy , Female Protagonist