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 , Family Life , Female Protagonist , 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: Female Protagonist , Twins , 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

Umi no Yami, Tsuki no Kage

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

Lumi and Luka Kobayakawa are identical twins who both are members of the track team and have a crush on a handsome upperclassman Katsuyuki Tohma, but he chooses the latter. While Luka doesn't want to hurt Lumi's feelings, Lumi feels betrayed by her own sister. On their way to the party celebrating the graduation of eldest members of the team, they take shelter in a cave, which turns out to be a mass grave, and all members were killed by the strange smell from the cave, with Lumi and Luka only survivors. After the tragedy, Lumi has become a completely different person, and one day she literally emerges from the floor of Luka's room...



Tags: Twins , Super Power , Survival , Revenge , Torture , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Shoujo , Gore , Yandere , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual

S no Kaihou

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

After the death of Michiko Kawabata, Mei Kashiyama began to suffer from anxiety, hallucinations, and fainting spells, as if someone else is in her head. Tatsuhiko Emaya met Mei when he saved her from a fall after she fainted. Through hypnosis by Emaya's uncle, a psychologist, she learns about the cause of her mental illness, and breaks free with Emaya's help. Note: Includes the additional chapter, M no Kaihou.

Tags: Shoujo , Dissociative Identities , Suicide , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy

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