Manga like Jinruishoku

Boku ga Shinu Dake no Hyakumonogatari

Also known as 100 Ghost Stories That Will Lead to My Own Death.

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

Forever Haunted
A boy sits in a room.
Alone.
Telling tales of horror.
One by one. Night by night.
The shadows breed terror.
Shall we begin?

One day, an elementary school child named Yuuma tries to jump out of his classroom window. His classmate Hina stops him and, in a bid to stall for time, asks him, “Do you know the round of a hundred ghost stories?” Hina tells Yuuma about a ritual where, if you tell a hundred ghost stories, you’ll see ghosts afterward. Learning this gives Yuuma a new lease on life. Chapter by chapter, he shares ghost stories with the reader, slowly but surely inching his way toward one hundred…



Tags: Anthology , Tragedy , Body Horror , Episodic , Youkai , Male Protagonist , Ghost , Shounen , Gore , Urban Fantasy , Suicide , School , Work , Estranged Family , Police , Crime , Family Life , Detective

Jujutsu Kaisen

Also known as Jujutsu Kaisen.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Supernatural

Although Yuji Itadori looks like your average teenager, his immense physical strength is something to behold! Every sports club wants him to join, but Itadori would rather hang out with the school outcasts in the Occult Research Club. One day, the club manages to get their hands on a sealed cursed object. Little do they know the terror they’ll unleash when they break the seal…



Notes:
Ranked 1st in Japan's Bookstore Employees Top Manga of 2018.
Nominated for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2021.
Nominated for the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2019.
Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Demons , Super Power , Shounen , Curses , Tragedy , Monster Boy , Male Protagonist , Youkai , Magic , Martial Arts , Body Horror , Dissociative Identities , Death Game , Battle Royale , Gore , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Exorcism , Ensemble Cast , Cosmic Horror , Sadism , Body Swapping , Cult , School , Anthropomorphism , Assassins , Amnesia , Slapstick , Time Skip , Time Manipulation , Swordplay , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Primarily Male Cast

Dandadan

Also known as Dandadan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school’s UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames “Okarun” because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks the exact opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove each other wrong—Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love…and oddly horny aliens and spirits?



Note: Nominated for the 15th Manga Taisho Award in 2022.

Tags: Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Aliens , Ghost , Super Power , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Tokusatsu , Male Protagonist , Henshin , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Gyaru , Shapeshifting , School , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Exorcism , Conspiracy , Kaiju , Curses , Amnesia , Gore , Tragedy , Terrorism , Super Robot , Chuunibyou , Circus , Nudity , Gods , Dissociative Identities , Tsundere , Cannibalism , Bullying , Acrobatics , Suicide , Dinosaurs

Shokuryou Jinrui: Starving Anonymous

Also known as Starving Anonymous.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Sci-Fi

It's a day like any other, and high school students Ie and Kazu are on the bus home from school when, suddenly, it floods with a mysterious gas. The pair pass out and wake up to find themselves aboard a truck packed full of human bodies. They're surrounded by rows of frozen corpses... and a staff of living human beings sawing them into pieces. Where are they... and how can they escape from this nightmare?



Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Aliens , Survival , Seinen , Gore , Food , Conspiracy , Super Power , Fugitive , Primarily Male Cast , Body Horror , Tragedy , Cannibalism , Lost Civilization , Drugs , Nudity , Chimera , Bisexual

Ryouta wa Otouto wo Koroshita

Also known as Ryota Killed His Brother.

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

When their mother dies, junior high school student Ryouta takes care of his toddler brother Chika and their home. Overwhelmed by all the work, he begins neglecting himself. Without any time to himself, Ryouta comes to resent his little brother and soon the resentment turns into murderous thoughts. Little by little the pressures of childrearing make Ryouta lose his mind. But is Ryouta truly the issue? Or…



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Shounen , Tragedy , Monster Boy , Body Horror , Family Life , Gore , Male Protagonist

Yattara

Also known as Yattara.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Supernatural

A gluttonous monster, Yattara, is drawn to a city of splendor and opulence.

Its only pleasure in life: eating. It finds its favorite meal, children, and is ready to dig in as usual but then... a flash of inspiration strikes?



Tags: Class Struggle , Shounen , Family Life , Demons , Fugitive , Vore , Time Skip

Mob Psycho 100

Also known as Mob Psycho 100.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Do you or someone you know need an exorcist who works cheap? Reigen's your guy! What's his secret to busting ghosts while keeping prices low? Well, first, he's a fraud, and second, he pays the guy who's got the real psychic power—his student assistant Shigeo—less than minimum wage. Shigeo is an awkward but kind boy whose urge to help others and get along with them is bound up with the mental safety locks he's placed on his own emotions. Reigen knows he needs to exploit Shigeo to stay in business, yet for better or worse he's also his mentor and counselor. And he also knows whenever the normally repressed kid's emotions reach level 100, it may unleash more psychic energy than either of them can handle!



Note: Includes 12 extra chapters.

Tags: Coming of Age , Philosophy , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Ghost , Dissociative Identities , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Satire , School , Parody , Demons , Primarily Teen Cast , Surreal Comedy , Aliens , Youkai , School Club , Delinquents , Cult , Body Horror , Curses , Exorcism

I Am a Hero

Also known as I Am a Hero.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Psychological

A mentally unhinged manga artist witnesses the beginning of a zombie outbreak in Tokyo, and he’s certain of only two things: he’s destined to be the city’s hero, and he possesses something quite rare in Japan—an actual firearm!



Notes:
Nominated for the 3rd and 4th Manga Taisho Award (2010).
Includes a new epilogue chapter that was released 4 years after the official end of the manga.

Tags: Seinen , Survival , Zombie , Post-Apocalyptic , Male Protagonist , Gore , Guns , Body Horror , Urban , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Age Gap , POV , Disability , Hikikomori , Nudity , Cult , Otaku Culture

Ajin

Also known as Ajin: Demi-Human.

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

High school student Kei Nagai is struck dead in a grisly traffic accident, but immediately revives to learn that he may not be like every other human. Instead, he may be a mysterious almost immortal being granted not only the powers of rejuvination but the abilities to see super-natural beings. Scared, he runs away, and is aided in his escape from society by his friend. Unfortunately for Kei, the manhunt is on and he will soon be caught within a conflict between mankind and others like him as they prepare to fight a new war based on terror.



Notes:
Includes 13 extra chapters.
Nominated for the 7th annual Manga Taishou Award.
Nominated for the Readers Award in the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
Nominated for the 38th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards in the Seinen category.
Nominated for the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016 in the General category.

Tags: Fugitive , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Super Power , Suicide , Terrorism , Crime , Gore , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Anti-Hero , Guns , Philosophy , Torture , Military , Body Horror , Urban , Police , Revenge , Shapeshifting , Tragedy , Bullying , Cars , Ghost , Delinquents , Satire , Drugs

Kara no Kioku

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

On the day of his high school entrance ceremony, Rei is suddenly assailed by a feeling of languor. When he wakes up, he finds that his surroundings are filled with things that could not be called human. In a town where strange phenomena continues to stretch, a group of lonely youths have their encounter.

Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Shoujo , Demons , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation