Manga like Embalming: THE ANOTHER TALE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Busou Renkin

Also known as Buso Renkin.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Romance

Buso Renkin is the story of teenager Kazuki Muto, who dies trying to save a girl who was being attacked by an eerie monster. The next morning, however, Kazuki is left wondering whether it was all a dream. Lo and behold, the girl, the monster, and his death are all real! The girl, Tokiko Tsumura, was actually trying to slay the homunculus (a beast that can take the form of humans, but whose main source of food is people), but Kazuki got in her way. To revive Kazuki, Tokiko replaces his heart with a "kakugane," an alchemic device that allows him to summon a lance with which to fight the monsters. It turns out that Tokiko is a member of Renkin Kenshi (Alchemist Soldiers), an organization sworn to protect the world from the diabolical creatures. Soon, Kazuki joins Tokiko in her quest to terminate the sinister being that creates and controls the homunculus.



Tags: Shounen , School , Twins , Alchemy , Super Power , Male Protagonist

Alabaster

Also known as Alabaster.

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

Once a famous athlete, now an infamous villain, James Block seeks revenge against all things “beautiful.” After he’s arrested and convicted for assaulting his girlfriend who insulted his appearance, he meets a mad scientist in prison who tells him of the ‘F Laser’ he invented that can turn any carbon based organism invisible. When James finishes his prison term, he finds the ‘F Laser’ and points it on himself, however the imperfect laser beam leaves him disfigured with only his skin invisible. On a vicious revenge spree, he takes the nom de guerre of Alabaster and is joined by Ami, the granddaughter of the scientist who experimented on his pregnant daughter and left Ami fully invisible. Together they pull off several heists, but Ami’s innocence may cause Alabaster’s downfall…



Tags: Shounen , Crime , Revenge , Anti-Hero , Body Horror , Terrorism , Male Protagonist , Crossdressing

Fuji no Yamai wa Fushi no Yamai.

Also known as The Dark Doctor Ikuru.

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

A catastrophic event has thrust the world into an age where disease begets disease. Ostracized for his unconventional treatment methods, the dark Doctor Ikuru is stricken with an immortalizing disease. On a desperate mission to die, he must save a world desperate to live. This medical science-fiction adventure will go to the very edge of humanity and back in one man's search for an ending to his suffering, all while saving the world he wishes to leave.



Note: The manga got originally published as a short series of 4 chapters on February, 2020 in Shounen Jump +. On September 6, 2022, the manga got serialized and its 4 original chapters got republished as part of the serialization.

Tags: Super Power , Medicine , Zombie , Suicide , Shounen

Trigun Maximum

Also known as Trigun Maximum.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi

Much of the damage attributed to "Vash" is caused by the activities of bounty hunters who are after the 60,000,000,000$$ (sixty billion "double dollars") reward on Vash's head for the destruction of a city called July. Vash does not clearly remember the destruction of July, and only wants "love and peace", as he puts it; though he is a gunfighter of inhuman skill, he uses his weapons only to save lives wherever he can.

As the series progresses, more is gradually learned about Vash's mysterious history and the history of the human civilization on Gunsmoke, the desert planet the series is set on. The series is often humorous in tone, but at the same time it involves very serious character development and especially in later episodes it becomes quite emotionally intense. Vash is occasionally joined by a priest, Nicholas D. Wolfwood, who is almost as good a gunfighter as Vash himself, and later is targeted by a band of assassins known as the Gung-Ho Guns for reasons which are mysterious at first.

Trigun evolves into a very serious discussion of the nature of morality, posing questions such as: What is the nature of morality? Can we judge different moral codes? If a person is forced to betray their moral code, does that betrayal invalidate that moral code, and can the person still try to live up to that moral code? Can the person find redemption from their wrongs, and if so, how?



Originally serialized in 102 chapters, condensed then to 96 in the tankoubon release. Vol.8 contains 2 extra chapters: “FREED BIRD”; Young King Ours 1999-09, 10.

Tags: Dystopian , Guns , Male Protagonist , Steampunk , Seinen , Post-Apocalyptic , Twins , Religion , Philosophy , Aliens , Cosmic Horror , Assassins , Body Horror , Super Power , Desert , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Tragedy , Environmental , Gore , Space , Transgender , Dissociative Identities

HELLSING

Also known as HELLSING.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

Hellsing, a secret organization of the British government, have long been battling supernatural threats to keep the people safe from creatures of the night. The current leader, Integra Wingates Hellsing controls her own personal army to eliminate the undead beings, but even her highly trained soldiers pale in comparison to her most trusted vampire exterminator, a man by the name of Alucard, who is actually a powerful vampire himself. Along with Integra's mysterious butler and Alucard's new vampire minion, Seras Victoria, The Hellsing Organization must face not only regular ghouls and vampires, but a rivaling secret organization from the Vatican, and Millennium, an enigmatic group of madmen spawned by a certain war over 50 years ago...

A bloody battle between monsters is about to begin, The dead are dancing, and all hell is singing...

Note: The chapter count includes a three-chapter side-story, "Crossfire".

Tags: Vampire , Seinen , Gore , Guns , Anti-Hero , Police , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Butler , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Historical , Cannibalism , Drugs , Female Protagonist , Nekomimi , Super Power , Tragedy

Akuma-jou Dracula: Yami no Juin

Also known as Castlevania: Curse of Darkness.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Horror

A manga series based on the PS2 game, Castlevania: Curse of Darkness.

Tags: Vampire , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Demons , Werewolf

Van Helsing: Darkness Blood

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Supernatural

Tags: Vampire , Seinen , Parody

Tegami Bachi

Also known as Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Gauche Suede is on his last delivery before a big promotion. In the outskirts of Yodaka, the darkest area of Amberground, Gauche is surprised to find that the package is a young boy named Lag Seeing. Lag had been traumatized by his mother's abduction and is due to be delivered to his aunt. In this remote area rife with Gaichuu, Lag and Gauche face a dangerous journey that inspires Lag to become a Letter Bee.



Included Special Chapter:
Volume 3: A Bee and His Dingo


Tags: Shounen , Guns , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Dystopian , Demons , Monster Girl , Disability , Steampunk

D.Gray-man

Also known as D.Gray-man.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

A born exorcist, Walker's primary anti-akuma weapon is the cross that's embossed on his red, disfigured left hand, which contains Innocence. But not only does Walker destroy akuma, he sees the akuma hiding inside a person's soul! Together with his fellow exorcists fighting under the command of the Black Order, Walker leads the battle against the Millennium Earl, the evil being out to destroy mankind.



Tags: Demons , Amnesia , Found Family , Tragedy , Super Power , Foreign , Dissociative Identities , Male Protagonist , Religion , Cult , Shounen , Adoption , Circus , Exorcism , Primarily Male Cast , Historical , Steampunk , Post-Apocalyptic , Curses