Manga like Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Himatsubushi-hen

Sankarea

Also known as Sankarea: Undying Love.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

Since he was little, Chihiro has felt an unusual emotional connection to zombie movies. It's not that he feels bad for the survivors—instead he fantasizes about comforting the poor undead girls they slaughter! When his beloved pet passes away, he decides to brew up a resurrection potion in secret. But he's discovered by popular girl and local heiress Sanka Rea, whose life isn't as perfect as it seems ... and Furuya suggests that she could serve as a test subject!

Tags: Zombie , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Medicine , Amnesia , Gore , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Rural , Love Triangle , Ojou-sama , Tomboy , Animals , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Nudity , Maids , Shrine Maiden , School , Body Horror , Torture

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 4: Alliance of the Golden Witch

Also known as Umineko When They Cry Episode 4: Alliance of the Golden Witch.

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

Twelve years after her loved ones were brutally murdered at the annual family meeting, Ange Ushiromiya, now eighteen, is the sole heir of the Ushiromiya family. Ostracized by her peers, Ange seeks companionship in the pages of a diary left behind by her cousin, Maria. The diary offers a precious glimpse of Maria's world--her struggles at school, her friendship with stuffed--lion Sakutarou, and her fascination with magic. It's as if the diary contains the last remnants of Ange's dear cousin...and an opportunity for Ange to discover the magic within herself...



Tags: Magic , Witch , Bullying , Meta , Cosmic Horror , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Detective , Female Protagonist , Demons , Time Skip , Tragedy , Alternate Universe , School , Ojou-sama , Estranged Family

Shiki

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

The story takes place in a particularly hot summer in the nineties, in a small quiet village called Sotoba. A series of mysterious deaths begin to spread in the village, at the same time when a strange family moves into the long abandoned Kanemasa mansion. Toshio Ozaki, dean of the only hospital in Sotoba, initially suspects an epidemic. But as investigations continue and the deaths begin to pile up, he becomes convinced that they are the work of the undead plaguing the village. A young man named Natsuno Yuuki, who hates living in the village, begins to be pursued and surrounded by death.



Tags: Philosophy , Ensemble Cast , Vampire , Tragedy , Rural , Survival , Werewolf , Denpa , Medicine , Pandemic , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast

Ayako

Also known as Ayako.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Opening a few years after the end of World War II and covering almost a quarter-century, here is comics master Osamu Tezuka’s most direct and sustained critique of Japan’s fate in the aftermath of total defeat. Unusually devoid of cartoon premises yet shot through with dark voyeuristic humor, Ayako looms as a pinnacle of Naturalist literature in Japan with few peers even in prose, the striking heroine a potent emblem of things left unseen following the war.

The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur’s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmers—terrible news, if you’re landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with “the reds.” What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter?



Tags: Historical , Politics , Seinen , Espionage , Tragedy , Rural , Yakuza , Crime , Fugitive , Incest , Psychosexual , Nudity , Police , Time Skip , Gangs , Urban , Rehabilitation

Oni ga Warau

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Supernatural

Each year, the villagers of a certain mountain village hold a festival to celebrate the harvest. Tominaga Yuuki, a 17-year-old born outside the village, is chosen to play the role of purifier in the Oni exorcism, the festival's most important ritual, opposite 3-year veteran of the dance Kurashina Hana, his female classmate. In the days leading up to the festival, Yuuki gets more and more fru strated with his role, until he starts to see...?

Tags: Shoujo , Religion , Male Protagonist

Boku no Chikyuu wo Mamotte

Also known as Please Save My Earth.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Sci-Fi

Life's hard when you're shy, harder still when you move from your quiet hometown to the bustle of a big city and a new high school. Poor Alice also has to cope with being regularly harassed by the bratty neighbor boy, Rin. Her life turns upside-down when she's stuck babysitting Rin and the annoying chore ends in unexpected tragedy. What Alice doesn't realize is there could be a greater force at work than unhappy chance!



Tags: Space , Reincarnation , Shoujo , Love Triangle , Philosophy , Body Swapping , Aliens , Female Protagonist , Amnesia , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Ensemble Cast , Age Gap , War , Super Power , Nudity , Heterosexual , Boys' Love , Revenge , Urban , Environmental , Unrequited Love , LGBTQ+ Themes

Corpse Party: Blood Covered

Also known as Corpse Party: Blood Covered.

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

The end is nigh! Behind the truth of Sachiko's death lies a cruel and tragic past...The students of Class 2-9 struggle to hold on to their sanity as they fight both the ghosts of the school and the ever-encroaching Darkness that seeks to turn them against their friends. If they can't solve this mystery soon, it'll be too late! When living is this hellish, is death the only way out...?



Tags: School , Shounen , Gore

Corpse Party: Another Child

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

With their school shutting down for good, the students of a small town were heading for different directions in life. For Minase Tamaki, who was staying in town to find a job, it might be the last time she sees her crush Shindo Yuuma, who is moving to the city to attend a new school. She asks him to do a little prayer that is supposed to help people cross paths again even if they become separated. But her classmate, Yuzuki Erina, overhears their conversation and, out of jealousy, decides to ruin her plans by inviting their entire class on what was supposed to be an intimate spell.

As soon as the charm goes off, the ground splits in half, swallowing the entire class and, when they wake up, they find themselves in an old school campus. Unable to find a way out, they wander the corridors, trying to figure out where they are. But it seems that the building isn’t as abandoned as they thought it was and, in fact, something evil is lurking in the shadows.

Tags: Ghost , Shounen

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows

Also known as Corpse Party: Book of Shadows.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

After the events of Corpse Party: Blood Covered, the survivors try coming to terms with the traumatic incident that took place in Tenjin Elementary School. Though the curse was broken, they lost many friends, who have subsequently been forgotten by everyone else; anyone who perished in the hellish dimension has been erased from existence.

However, not everyone was forgotten, and it is this small ray of hope that leads two of the survivors to investigate the culprit's home and discover the origin of the curse. Here, they find the infamous Book of Shadows, an evil tome containing many dark curses, and surprisingly, even a spell for resurrecting the dead. With no other option, they perform the ritual, but end up with far more than they bargained for.

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows follows these two survivors as they tempt fate once again, while also providing a look at the intertwining stories of other characters from the series.

[Source: MAL Rewrite]

Tags: School , Primarily Child Cast

Shinsekai yori

Also known as From the New World.

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

About one thousand years into the future, civilization has been retrograded and humans are living dispersed within small communities. People in this era have a psychic power called "Juryoku" which materializes things they imagine. In the absence of advanced scientific technology, people are using this power as a major source of energy.

One day, a girl called Saki, along with her friends, finds a small archive robot outside the town. It records the ancient history of humans. It tells them that Juryoku was found in the 21st century and the discovery caused a world war between psychics and non-psychics. The psychics won this war and thus their reign of terror began.

When the adults in town figure out that the children discovered this forbidden knowledge, they seal their Juryoku and exile them. Saki and the others end up in a forest where they meet a huge hairless bipedal mouse known as a "Bakenezumi" and get involved in a violent war the creatures are currently engaged in.

Tags: Dystopian , Super Power , Female Protagonist , Bisexual , Nudity , Yuri , Time Skip , Slavery , Memory Manipulation , Revenge , LGBTQ+ Themes , Rural , Coming of Age , War , Tragedy , Ghost , Shounen