Manga like Kishibe no Yume

Billy Bat

Also known as Billy Bat.

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

It’s 1949 Los Angeles, and Kevin Yamagata, a Japanese American comic book author, is drawing his bestselling character, Billy Bat: a quick-witted detective who is, unsurprisingly, a cartoon bat. Everything is going well for Kevin until he discovers an unfortunate truth: He may have unintentionally plagiarized his beloved character from a drawing he once saw in Japan. Devastated by the news, Kevin returns to war-torn Japan to find the drawing’s original artist . . . but the character’s origins turn out to be far older and more perplexing than he had ever imagined.



Note: Won the Max und Moritz Prize for "Best international Comic" in 2014.

Tags: Drawing , Historical , Time Manipulation , Seinen , Philosophy , Conspiracy , Politics , Ensemble Cast , Urban Fantasy , Travel , Foreign , Achronological Order , War , Time Skip , Primarily Adult Cast , Police , Religion , Male Protagonist , Dystopian , Ninja , Guns , Swordplay , Anachronism , Espionage , Terrorism , Nudity , Pregnancy

Cthulhu no Yobigoe

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

The narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of notes left behind by his grand-uncle, Brown University linguistic professor George Gammell Angell after his death in the winter of 1926–27. Among the notes is a small bas-relief sculpture of a scaly creature which yields "simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature." The sculptor, a Rhode Island art student named Henry Anthony Wilcox, based the work on delirious dreams of "great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths." Frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh are found in Wilcox's papers. Angell also discovers reports of mass hysteria around the world.

Tags: Lost Civilization , Cosmic Horror , Classic Literature

Series Tomie no Kyoufu: Gaka

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

Gaka/Painter (画家)
Ansatus/Assassins (暗殺)
Mouhatsu/Hair (毛髪)
Youjo/Adopted Daughter (養女)
Takitsubo (滝壺)

Tags: Female Protagonist , Gore , Body Horror

Amigara Dansou no Kai

Also known as The Enigma of Amigara Fault.

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

A short horror manga story by Junji Ito, printed as a bonus one-shot alongside his fish-zombie-apocalypse manga Gyo. A boy named Oowaki, and a girl, Yoshida, meet on Amigara Mountain, where an unsettling discovery has been made. Human shaped holes are scattered across the mountain, and it soon becomes clear that the holes are "calling" to the people they are shaped like. So what happens when they enter the hole? Well, you can be sure that massive amounts of claustrophobia and Nightmare Fuel are involved.

Tags: Tragedy , Outdoor Activities , Body Horror , Seinen , Cosmic Horror , Male Protagonist , Lost Civilization , Primarily Adult Cast , Rural , Heterosexual , Gore

Yume Onna

Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi , Supernatural

She is popular and has a hunk for a boyfriend, but there is that boy in her class who always stares at her, but never talks to anybody. On the way home that boy loses his phone, she picks it up, but he runs away before she can return it. Inside she finds article on lucid dreaming, and this is where it all begins...

Tags: Seinen , Nudity , Female Protagonist , School , Heterosexual

Chaos Game

Also known as Chaos Game.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

Ran Suzuki, a self-righteous journalist, receives a tip about a politician who has connections to the underworld. But her knowledge is exposed, and now her life is in danger....... However, "something" even more dangerous than the underworld is lurking out there.

Tags: Gods , Conspiracy , Cosmic Horror , Cult , Urban Fantasy , Politics , Female Protagonist , Super Power , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast