Manga like Jisatsu Circle

Black Paradox

Also known as Black Paradox.

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

It follows four people who meet for a group suicide, but their attempt to die instead makes them aware of a bizarre phenomenon that could change the world.



Included one-shots:
The Licking Woman, Mystery Pavillion

Tags: Body Horror , Seinen , Afterlife , Tragedy , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Cosmic Horror , Philosophy , Suicide , Robots , Clone , Love Triangle , Nudity , Full Color , Alternate Universe , Heterosexual

Tomie

Also known as Tomie.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Supernatural , Thriller

Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. She can seduce nearly any man, and drive them to murder as well, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. While one lover seeks to keep her for himself, another grows terrified of the immortal succubus. But soon they realize that no matter how many times they kill her, the world will never be free of Tomie.



Notes:
While a collection of mainly independent short stories, Tomie was originally published as Volumes 1 and 2 of the Ito Junji Kyofu Manga Collection. This entry is for the standalone release of Tomie first published in February 2000 with previously unreleased chapter "小指/Little Finger".
Later collections such as the 'Complete Deluxe edition' by VIZ combines this and the sequel entry Tomie: Again for a total of 20 chapters.
The short story “Painter” has been adapted in the first part of episode 9 of Ito Junji: Collection.

Tags: Body Horror , Monster Girl , Gore , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Shoujo , Male Harem , Yandere , Urban Fantasy , Demons , Suicide , Nudity , Succubus , Bullying , Cannibalism , School

Jisatsutou

Also known as Suicide Island.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

In a story evoking both Lord of the Flies and Battle Royale, a young Japanese man, Sei, is transported to the mysterious, remote Suicide Island after a failed suicide attempt—where he must live the rest of his days or figure out how to die! With society turning its back on many suicidal citizens, the island fills up with haunted, driven characters, often in conflict with each other and sometimes barely holding onto sanity!



Tags: Suicide , Seinen , Environmental , Educational , Food , Archery , Tragedy , Survival , Crime , Fishing , Cult , LGBTQ+ Themes , Delinquents , Nudity

Reset

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Sci-Fi

An online game is causing players to commit suicide. One hacker rises to solve the mystery.

Tags: Seinen , Suicide , Anti-Hero , Virtual World , Male Protagonist , Software Development , Police

Kami no Kodomo

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

The latest work by the Nishioka siblings depicts the gruesome life story of a ruthless and brilliant serial killer as he grows up from a sociopathic child to a messiah-like figure.

Tags: Gore , Cult , Ero Guro , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Cannibalism , Nudity , Josei , Scat , Bullying , Crossdressing , Suicide

Line

Also known as Line.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Normal. Carefree.

That was Chiko's life before the day she found the cell phone. Before the voice on the other end said she had scant minutes to save the life of someone she'd never met.

Now, accompanied by her classmate, Bando, Chiko has just one night to stop a series of gruesome suicides before they can occur.

Tags: Suicide , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Urban , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Super Power

Koukai no Naraku

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

This short one-shot will go through a speculation, the horrors and the life sentencing of suicide.

Tags: Suicide , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Afterlife

Uzumaki

Also known as Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror.

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

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...



Notes:
Includes the extra chapter "Uzumaki Tokubetsu-hen: Ginga", which was included in editions later released.
Chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) as one of the Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2009. (Vol. 1)

Tags: Tragedy , Body Horror , Cosmic Horror , Seinen , Survival , Female Protagonist , Gore , Episodic , Lost Civilization , Philosophy , Rural , Cannibalism , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Suicide , Curses , Bullying , Demons , Unrequited Love , Cult , Yandere

Smiley

Also known as Smile!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

A journalist risks everything to uncover the truth behind a sinister cult...

Yuushi Kamome is a freelance journalist who lost his beloved daughter in an unforeseen accident. His descent into despair following her death drove his wife to leave him, and he lives each day a shell of the man he once was. But his fate changes one day when members from a religious organization he had never heard of, the Smiling Hearts Society, knock on his door and hand him a flyer. He’s ready to dismiss them until he notices the face of his estranged wife on the flyer, smiling ever so softly. And so begins a tale of religion and insanity. What kind of sinister darkness lurks behind this religion and its strange smiles?



Tags: Cult , Seinen , Religion , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Police , Espionage

Litchi☆Hikari Club

Also known as Lychee Light Club.

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

For the sooty industrial town's lads there's only one point of light: the Light Club, a secret brotherhood they've organized in an abandoned factory. They're on the verge of booting up their crowning achievement, a "thinking machine" fueled by lychee fruits. At the same time, the middle schoolers' cooties-fearing solidarity is devolving into a downright National Socialist muck of murderous paranoia, perverse aestheticism, and (not always) suppressed homosexuality.



Tags: Tragedy , Ero Guro , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Cult , Conspiracy , Artificial Intelligence , Yandere , Boys' Love , Crime , Robots , Nudity , Philosophy , Historical