Manga like Hibari no Asa

Zankoku na Kami ga Shihai Suru

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Jeremy, a sensitive but outgoing 15 year old, is delighted to hear the news of his neurotic and excitable mother's remarriage to a wealthy British man. However, much to his horror, his sweet-talking new step-father Greg, soon begins to exhibit a disturbing trait...he is a sadistic pedophile and loses no time in making Jeremy his target. Zankoku na Kami ga Shihaisuru portrays the tale of two stepbrothers - Jeremy and Ian - as they each pursue their separate paths towards redemption.

Tags: Foreign , Family Life , Josei , Revenge , Tragedy , Suicide , Philosophy , Urban , Denpa , Body Horror , Torture , Inseki , Blackmail , Male Protagonist , Drugs , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Boys' Love , School , Detective , Marriage , Boarding School , Incest , Rehabilitation , Bisexual

My Broken Mariko

Also known as My Broken Mariko.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Tomoyo Shiino has stood by her friend Mariko through years of abuse, abandonment, and depression. However horrific her circumstances, their friendship has been the one reassuring constant in Mariko's life-and Tomoyo's too. That is, until Tomoyo is utterly blindsided by news of Mariko's death. In life, Tomoyo felt powerless to help her best friend out of the darkness that ultimately drove her over the edge. Now, Tomoyo is determined to liberate Mariko's ashes for one final journey together... to set free her dear, broken Mariko.



Notes:
Includes the one-shot "YISKA".
includes the extra "Home Sweet Home!".

Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Coastal , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Rehabilitation , Philosophy , Tomboy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Denpa

River's Edge

Also known as River's Edge.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Haruna Wakakusa and Yamada become friends after she saves him several times from her boyfriend's constant bullying. Through him she gets to know Kozue Yoshikawa, a fellow student who also models professionally. The three emotionally stunted teens' lives briefly yet intensely intertwine for one semester before splintering from the aftereffects of one disastrous night. For both Wakakusa and Yamada, their emotional awakening fosters an unlikely friendship between the two battered souls.

Tags: Coming of Age , Tragedy , Josei , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Primarily Teen Cast , Nudity , Bisexual , Cheating , Drugs , Gore , Heterosexual , Yuri , Body Image

Musume no Iede

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

The remarried mother. After their divorce, the father who lives with his "boyfriend".
Living surrounded by such family, highschooler Mayuko is now at the height of her adolescence. Beginning from Mayuko's "runaway", intersecting various life, these are the runway story which will dye in to your heart.

Tags: Coming of Age , School , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Family Life , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bullying , Idol , Primarily Female Cast , Hikikomori , Love Triangle , Age Gap , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Yuri , Boys' Love , Heterosexual

Dansei Kyoufushou datta Watashi ga AV Jouyu ni Naru made no Hanashi

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Nazuna Nonohara is a porn actress with androphobia. This manga revolves around Nazuna's past, and the tragedy that she experienced.

The manga is based on the mangaka's personal experiences.

Tags: Autobiographical , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Incest , Seinen , Nudity

Adabana

Also known as Adabana.

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

After the gruesome murder of two small-town residents, a ramen shop owner, and a local student, the community is left shocked. Mizuki Aikawa, the best friend of one of the victims, confesses to the brutal crime. However, nothing is as it seems, and Mizuki's public defenders believe there has to be more to the story. When the truth unravels, they discover a tale of class, exploitation, and the deeper struggles of meeting family expectations.



Tags: Crime , Suicide , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Seinen , Achronological Order , Prostitution , Blackmail , Nudity , Prison , Police , Torture , Denpa , Revenge , Sadism

not simple

Also known as not simple.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Ian, a young man with a fractured family history, travels from Australia to England to America in the hope of realizing his dreams and reuniting with his beloved sister. His story unfolds backwards through the framing narrative of Jim, a reporter driven to capture Ian’s experiences in a novel: not simple. A story within a story, a book within a book, a tale about the search for family, for an emotional home.



Tags: Tragedy , Coming of Age , Seinen , Achronological Order , Estranged Family , Foreign , Writing , Travel , LGBTQ+ Themes , Boys' Love , Male Protagonist ,

Toumei Ningen no Hone

Also known as Invisible.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Supernatural

An emotional father. An indifferent older brother. A mother who silently endures. Aya Kinomiya is a young girl growing up in a broken household. One day, she wishes “I don’t want to be here…” and suddenly, she gains the ability to become invisible.

This is the story of a girl’s journey to reclaim "normality" in her life—and to rediscover her pain.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Crime , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Family Life , Philosophy , Photography , School , Work , Yuri , Super Power , Shounen

Gene Bride

Also known as Gene Bride.

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

Isahaya Ichi is fed up with men, a woman navigating a world where she’s underestimated at work because of her gender and sexually harassed. But when her former classmate, Masaki, unexpectedly shows up, everything changes. He claims to be the other half of her “destined pair” from a junior high school event called “Gene Bride,” where genetic information matched students into couples for a day. While Ichi barely remembers the event, Masaki’s sudden reappearance sparks a journey of rediscovery and buried secrets.



Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Conspiracy , Clone , Pandemic , Boarding School , Disability , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Memory Manipulation , Artificial Intelligence , Bullying

Oyasumi Punpun

Also known as Goodnight Punpun.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town.
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back.
He wants to find some porn.
That’s what he wants, but what does he get…?



Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Tragedy , Philosophy , Denpa , Psychosexual , Suicide , Urban , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Anti-Hero , Time Skip , School , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Gods , Fugitive , Cult , Work , Nudity , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Religion