Manga like Kodomo no Kuni Yori

Zetsubou Shouraku

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

In a certain town of a certain prefecture, Misawa, a high school boy, lives a dull unchanging life. He goes to school, and then spends his free time afterschool at the nearby shopping mall. He thought such days would go on forever. But then, his older sister gets roughed up and is taken to the hospital. Meanwhile, Tsuruta, a high school girl who goes out hunting with her grandfather, notices something strange in the mountains.... These are just the beginnings of the horrors that Misawa, Tsuruta, and many others would soon face....... Be killed or be raped, the worst kind of monster is here!

Tags: Rural , Vore , Survival , Shounen

Apocalypse no Toride

Also known as Fort of Apocalypse.

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

Yoshiaki Maeda has been falsely accused and detained, along with delinquents from all over the Kanto region, in the juvenile correctional facility, Shouran Institute. Yoshiaki is as typical as a boy can get, so when he finds himself living in this violence-ridden prison, he can’t think of anything worse. His cellmates, Iwakura, Yamanoi, and Yoshioka, are a cunning crew and soon Yoshiaki finds himself pulled into a feud going on in the prison. Then suddenly, a prison van crashes into the facility and what shambles out of the wreckage are flesh-eating zombies … and so the curtain is raised on this bone-chilling story of panic and horror …



Tags: Zombie , Survival , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Prison , Anti-Hero , Delinquents , Gore , Guns , Pandemic , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Tragedy , Cars , Medicine , Agender , Cult , Post-Apocalyptic , Age Regression , Religion

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 , Gore , Guns , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Urban , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Age Gap , POV , Hikikomori , Disability , Nudity , Cult , Otaku Culture