Manga like Heaven's Door

Ultra Heaven

Also known as Ultra Heaven.

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

In a world where all feelings are artificial and where everyone is a potential drug addict, nothing is really changed: the excess is near at hand and very few substances are considered dangerous and put under a strict control by a hygiene office which has full power on the drug addicts who are in extreme condition.

The main character is Kabu, a little peddler and heavily addicted. Used to any kind of hallucinogenic trip, he is able to feel
the happiness through the ecstasy of the drug, while at the same time hypocritically hating who gave birth to the society that forced him the excess. After an overdose caused by mixing two incompatible drugs, he spends his days looking for stimulants until the encounter with an enigmatic man who offers him a new kind of illegal substance: Ultra Heaven.
From that moment, his incredible journey begins, where dreams and reality are fused in an undivided world, causing him hysterical and joyful reactions and unrestrained pains.

But what really is Ultra Heaven and who's really behind it? Who is the guru who is promoting the meditation as a powerful way to influence the whole universe surrounding us exploiting the quantum theory?

With the help of a special amplifier helmet, Kabu starts a trip into the deep and hidden layers of his conscience, diving into a nightmare he would never discover...

Tags: Drugs , Seinen , Dystopian , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Alternate Universe , Philosophy , Nudity , Cyberpunk , Tokusatsu

G

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

G takes place at these points we call boundaries. Boundaries between times, dimensions, destinies, life and death, …It tells the story of young Tomak through his initiatic journey. The Death Grass Spirit is never far...

This story is related to the short story "Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour" published in Heaven's Door.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Seinen , Nudity , Religion , Space , Spearplay , Archery

Kakusan

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

Katsuhiko Tobe faces an odd dilemma. Losing control of his physical self, his body diffuses into nothingness as his disembodied consciousness flows throughout the world constantly contemplating both the world and his current situation. Meanwhile, his best friend Azami Seshimo waits in their native Japan for Katsuhiko's return.



Note: the 1st edition also includes 2 short-stories.

Tags: Seinen , Travel , Nudity

Violence & Peace

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

1) Otoko wa Dokyou (男は度胸)
2) Kokoro no Uchinaru Koe wo Kike! (心の内なる声を聞け！)
3) Uchuu e Mukatte Tobidasenai (宇宙へ向かってとび出せない)
4) Zetsumeisha (絶滅者)
5) Choukousoku no Kaori (超高速の香織)
6) Government wo Motta Shounen (ガバメントを持った少年)

Tags: Anthology , Shounen

Jun: Shotaro no Fantasy World

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological

A experimental manga series about a boy named Jun and his surreal voyages. The character is a alter-ego of Ishinomori himself.

Tags: Drawing , Meta , Autobiographical , Philosophy , No Dialogue , Seinen , Achronological Order , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Magic , Nudity

Chijou Saikyou no Otoko Ryu

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Supernatural

Karate fighter Raion Ryu is so unflinchingly powerful that, during a sanctioned match, his strikes accidentally explode his opponent into piles of steaming meat. As punishment he dons a sutra-infused mask to suppress his horrific might and goes into hiding with his psychic sister, but the two are eventually hunted down by his ex-master and the fiancé of the man Ryu killed. While their modus operandi would appear to be revenge, they follow divine instructions from up above—Destroy Ryu before he can awaken as the Antichrist! God himself has put out a hit on our masked hero.

Tags: Martial Arts , Super Power , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Religion , Gods , Demons , Philosophy , Cosmic Horror , Reincarnation

Asteroid

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Sci-Fi

Take me to the end of the world... said Blaise Cendrars.
Come on, I'll take you, says Keiichi Koike.
He takes you on a trip through time and space to the end of the world that is also but the beginning of it all...

Background:
An unfinished, text-less narrative that was first published in Gekkan Agama between 1989 and 1991. The first two chapters were then re-published in Art Publisher's Error magazine in 2000, after which the first eleven chapters re-appeared in the initial three issues of MHz magazine published by Magazine Five in 2006. The manga was never collected and released in a tankoubon.

Tags: No Dialogue , Mythology , Travel

Heads

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

This manga is a story based on a thriller by Keigo Higashino. The main protagonist, the shy Jun Naruse, is a rather average guy who works for an electronics company and loves to paint. He falls in love with Megumi whom he met at an art supplies shop and an intimate relationship develops. Whilst looking for his dream apartment to move into with Megumi the real estate office he is at gets attacked, and when the criminal tries to shoot a little girl, he saves her by jumping in front of her.

A month passes until he wakes up again and is told that half his brain got destroyed and he only survived because someone donated half a brain. Everything seems to be fine, he quickly recovers and is happy, however, he begins to change… Is the donated brain the reason for that? Or is it just a side effect of the medicine?

Tags: Dissociative Identities , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Suicide , Revenge , Drawing , Denpa , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Heterosexual , Conspiracy , Crime , Work , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , Amnesia , Twins , Bar , Nudity