Manga like Hanshin

Iguana no Musume

Also known as Iguana Girl.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

A girl who appears to her mother and herself to be a hideous anthropoid iguana struggles to overcome her mother’s rejection and find happiness ... but her mother has a secret.



Tags: Josei , Body Image , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Coming of Age , Time Skip , Tragedy

Touta

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

A pair of conjoined siblings prepares for surgery, where they will finally be split into two separate people.

Tags: Tragedy , Primarily Male Cast , Twins , Male Protagonist

Kyoufu Jigoku Shoujo

Also known as Hell Baby.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

This graphic novel by one of Japan's most accomplished artists tells the unsettling saga of twin sisters born on a dark and stormy night in Tokyo: one normal, and one a demon baby with a taste for blood--a Hell Baby. Tossed into a garbage dump in a plastic bag, Hell Baby dies, but is brought back to life by an unworldly bolt of lightning. Hell Baby develops hard-earned hunting techniques to survive life among the wild animals who roam the dump. After struggling along for seven years, she seeks revenge for her fate and returns to the city, where she applies her hunting skills for survival--this time against the good citizens of Tokyo.

Replete with Hino's trademark black humor and unflinching imagery, Hell Baby is a classic horror tour de force.



Tags: Survival , Female Protagonist , Gore , Anti-Hero , Twins , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy

U

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

Yuu has spent her entire life with a “copy” of herself, her twin sister. Now science has created a copy more perfect than nature ever could, and Yuu seems like the perfect test subject. But as her copy becomes more intelligent day by day and begins questioning its own existence, the experiment threatens to spiral out of control. Who is real and who is a copy? And what is a “copy” that has surpassed its original? Just a copy, the original, or something else entirely?

Tags: Twins , Female Protagonist , Clone , Josei , Tragedy , Cannibalism , Heterosexual , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Body Horror

Futagoza Umare

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery

Futagoza Umare (ふたご座生まれ)
Hattekuru Kami (這ってくる髪)

Tags: Anthology

Yanagi no Ki

Also known as The Willow Tree.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

A woman stands day to day under a growing willow tree and watches the people who pass by...

Note:
Published in English as a part of the "A Drunken Dream and Other Stories" manga anthology by Fantagraphics.

Tags: Josei , Ghost , Female Protagonist