Manga like Kakusan

Apollo no Uta

Also known as Apollo's Song.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological

Apollo’s Song follows the tragic journey of Shogo, a young man whose abusive childhood has instilled in him a loathing for love so profound he finds himself compelled to acts of violence when he is witness to any act of intimacy or affection whether by human or beast. His hate is such that the gods intervene, cursing Shogo to experience love throughout the ages ultimately to have it ripped from his heart every time. From the Nazi atrocities of World War II to a dystopian future of human cloning, Shogo loses his heart, in so doing, healing the psychological scars of his childhood hatred.



Note: The Japanese version of this manga includes the one-shot "Garakuta no Uta", however the English release does not contain this story.

Tags: Tragedy , Dystopian , Rehabilitation , Augmented Reality , Shounen , Cosmic Horror , Male Protagonist , Reincarnation , Suicide , Curses

Heaven's Door

Also known as Heaven's Door.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

A compilation of short stories by Keiichi Koike.

Knockin' on Heaven's Door
3000 Leagues Searching For Mother
Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour
The Fallen Samurai And The Sea
Loopa
Kenbo's Diary
Sponge Generation
By Plane
Horizon
Landed

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Seinen , Body Horror , Anthology , Dystopian , Drugs , Gore

Majo

Also known as Witches.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

On a visit to the capital of a small country in the far west of Asia, a British girl named Nicola falls in love. The object of her affections is Mimar, a young man who works at a bazaar–yet despite her attempts, he doesn’t notice her. Back at home in England, the ache of her unrequited love festers. After years spent obtaining wealth, fame, and “the secret of the world,” she returns to the bazaar to exact her deadly revenge upon Mimar and those he holds dearest. This story is just one of many in this dramatic collection, which features tales of witchcraft across the globe and even in the far reaches of outer space.



Note: Won the Excellence Prize in the Manga Division at Japan Media Arts Festival in 2004.

Tags: Anthology , Witch , Philosophy , Magic , Environmental , Seinen , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Mythology , Primarily Female Cast , Gods , Body Horror , Nudity , Denpa

Sasurai Emanon

Also known as Emanon Wanderer.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Adventure , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Emanon's wanderings across late-1960s Japan bring her across other lives in small country towns, with each encounter leaving people transformed in her wake. Yet when love once again leads to pregnancy and the start of a new cycle in Emanon's birth and rebirth, she is confronted with something she has never before borne: twins, one of them, for the first time, a boy. Will he too grow up to inherit her immortal memories, as all her daughters have before?



Volume 1:
- Sasurai Emanon, chapter 1-8, revised and colorized chapters from Emanon - Sasurai Emanon Episode: 1
Sasurai Emanon '67, chapter 1-7

Volume 2:
Sasurai Emanon '73, chapter 1-9
Sasurai Emanon '80, chapter 0

Volume 3:
Sasurai Emanon '80, chapter 1-2
Sasurai Emanon '88, chapter 1-5
Sasurai Emanon '90, chapter 1-4
Epilogue

Tags: Female Protagonist , Seinen , Philosophy , Amnesia , Memory Manipulation , Nudity , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Body Swapping , Time Manipulation , Environmental , Historical , Dinosaurs , Wilderness

G

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

G takes place at these points we call boundaries. Boundaries between times, dimensions, destinies, life and death, …It tells the story of young Tomak through his initiatic journey. The Death Grass Spirit is never far...

This story is related to the short story "Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour" published in Heaven's Door.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Seinen , Nudity , Archery , Religion , Space , Spearplay

Omoide Emanon

Also known as Memories of Emanon.

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

The year is 1967, and a young Japanese man is thinking about the future. On one side of the water, the war is raging in Vietnam; far away on the other side, the Apollo Project has just met with disaster as three astronauts die in a capsule fire. And here and now, on a long nighttime ferry ride back home, he will meet and fall in love with a mysterious young woman who carries a past deeper and more profound than his dreams and fears of tomorrow. Her name, she jokes, is no name—Emanon, and she can never be forgotten, any more than she can forget.



Tags: Seinen , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Reincarnation , Heterosexual , Historical , Amnesia , Time Skip , Travel , Environmental , Nudity , Ships , Super Power , Autobiographical

Munou no Hito

Also known as The Man Without Talent.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The Man Without Talent is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs—used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with. Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan.



Tags: Autobiographical , Seinen , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Rural , Male Protagonist , Drawing

Shitsu Rakuen

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

This work is a collection of 7 stories:

Shitsu Rakuen (失楽園)
Adamu no Sukekotsu (アダムの助骨)
Otokotachi no Fuukei (男たちの風景)
Teisougou no Sounan (貞操号の遭難)
Seibutsu Toshi (生物都市)
Shoumei (詔命)
Manhattan no Kurofune (マンハッタンの黒船)


Tags: Historical , War , Parody , Dystopian , Anthology , Aliens , Nudity