Manga like Kakugo no Susume

Devilman

Also known as Devilman.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror

Hordes of demons, once thought entombed forever in the underworld, have now returned to Earth. Evil and corruption begin to seep into our world, as demons seize human hosts. Mankind’s only hope for salvation is to use the demons’ power against them–and only a pure-hearted man like Fudo Akira can do so without losing his humanity. Once little more than a crybaby, Akira now wields the terrible power of a devil, yet holds the innocent soul of a man–Devilman!



Tags: Cosmic Horror , Demons , Tragedy , War , Gore , Male Protagonist , Survival , Urban Fantasy , Body Horror , Angels , Henshin , Nudity , Kaiju , Shounen , Amnesia , Heterosexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Time Loop , Time Skip , Drugs , Boys' Love

Kyoushoku Soukou Guyver

Also known as Bio-Booster Armor Guyver.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Sho and his friend, Tetsuro, stumble upon a strange orb-like mechanism, the Guyver Unit, in the woods. It physically bonds with Sho and turns him into the alien soldier, Guyver. His mission is to protect the Guyver Unit from the Japanese corporation known as Chronos. They are after it and two other units just like it. To retrieve the object, they send out vicious monsters known as Zoanoids. So no one is safe in Sho's life; not even himself.

Tags: Seinen , Henshin , Tokusatsu , Body Horror , Kaiju

Skullman: THE SKULL MAN

Also known as Skullman.

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

They took his family, they took his face, and they took his soul. Locked between the lethal but gorgeous assassin Maria and the mutant Spider Man, the Skull Man digs into the conspiracy that gave birth to his powers and those of his partner, Garo. Haunted by his past, he will not let them stand in the way of his revenge.



Tags: Conspiracy , Super Power , Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Tokusatsu , Henshin , Tragedy , Shapeshifting , Cyborg

Kamen Rider

Also known as Kamen Rider .

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

Fans the world over have long been enthralled by tales of Kamen Rider, the masked, motorcycle-riding superhero who protects the world from injustice. Kidnapped and experimented upon by the evil terrorist organization known as Shocker, Hongo Takeshi manages to escape their clutches and use his newfound strength to fight against their schemes. These are the first adventures in a legacy that spans dozens of television series and films, drawn and written by series creator and manga superstar Shotaro Ishinomori.



Tags: Henshin , Tokusatsu , Shounen , Super Power , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Superhero , Motorcycles

Shigurui

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

The story begins in 1629 Shizuoka during Tokugawa Tadanaga's rule. The daimyo staged a tournament where the participants fought with real steel Japanese swords rather than bokken, against his vassals' strong objection. The story revolves around the first match between the one-armed swordsman Fujiki Gennosuke and the blind samurai Irako Seigen and deals with the circumstances that led the two to participate in Tokugawa's tournament.



Tags: Tragedy , Swordplay , Revenge , Samurai , Disability , Gore , Nudity , Anti-Hero , Primarily Male Cast , Psychosexual , Class Struggle , Cultivation , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Body Horror , LGBTQ+ Themes , Martial Arts , Achronological Order , Torture , Suicide , Arranged Marriage , Ero Guro , Sadism , Love Triangle , Cannibalism , Time Skip , Oiran , Rural

Kamen Rider SPIRITS

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Horror , Sci-Fi

A lonely and bleak-spirited police officer named Taki Kazuya works in America, though the fires that once drove him seem to have burnt out. A supernatural attack on children - his friends - revives the fire that once burned brightly within! Together with the help of Kamen Rider 1, Hongo Takeshi, he drives off the threat. However, he learns that there is a greater threat looming on the horizon and sets out to find Kamen Rider 2, Ichimonji Hayato.

Kamen Rider Spirits is the continuation of the classic Kamen Rider story - a shounen action adventure that tells the tale of upstanding heroes and their fight against evil!

Tags: Henshin , Seinen , Tokusatsu , Superhero , Primarily Male Cast

Yousai Gakuen

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

A reform school for juvenile delinquents established in 200X is actually a government-sponsored laboratory, which makes ultra-human warriors with genetic modification. Three new kids enter the school. Itsuki, who is actually a girl dressed as a boy so she can get into the school to look for her lost brother; Mei, a very quiet, mysterious boy; and Gentaro, an energetic boy who is easily elated by flattery. The three revolt against the school rules and cause the other students to riot. The school turns into a battlefield.

Tags: Chimera , Clone , Conspiracy , Monster Boy , Prison , Super Power , Seinen , Dystopian , Gore , Body Horror , Gods , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Henshin , War , Delinquents , Dinosaurs

GUNNM

Also known as Battle Angel Alita.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Gally and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Gally remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Gally decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down and taking out those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she begins to revel in her own bloodlust?



Tags: Cyberpunk , Female Protagonist , Amnesia , Seinen , Dystopian , Tragedy , Robots , Post-Apocalyptic , Cyborg , Desert , Martial Arts , Gore , Nudity , Cosmic Horror , Heterosexual

Akumetsu

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

Nagasawa Shiina is just an average 3rd year high school student until her parents' company goes bankrupt. In order to pay the bills, she sells herself into prostitution. At her first job, a mysterious masked man crashes the party... and it's someone she knows.

Akumetsu is the story of Shou, a vigilante that's out trying to straighten the corrupt Japanese Government through terrorism with his "One man, One kill" code of action.

Tags: Crime , Politics , Anti-Hero , Economics , Police , Military , Gore , Shounen , Male Protagonist , School , Tragedy , Cars , Clone

Honoo no Tenkousei

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sports

Noboru Takizawa is your normal student. However upon being transferred to a new school the first thing that happens is that he steps on a land mine! From that point on, he fights against the hall monitor and gets past him. In the turmoil of it all, he meets the lovely Yukari and befriends her. Later on, he meets Ibuki, who later becomes his rival to win Yukari's heart.

It turns out that the school Takizawa has transferred to is trying to tyrannize the students of the class he's entered. It is now his job to try and help them out and keep their class! He does this by trying his best in showing the class has potential in a sports festival at the school. Meanwhile in the background, Takizawa's father is setting the teacher's straight and making them stop their evil ways.

Tags: School , Parody , Shounen , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Delinquents , Boxing , Volleyball , Martial Arts , Bowling