Manga like Koisuru Kiseichuu

Jumyou wo Kaitotte Moratta. Ichinen ni Tsuki, Ichimanen de.

Also known as Three Days of Happiness.

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

Kusunoki used to believe he was destined for great things. But now, approaching the age of twenty, he’s a completely mediocre college student with no motivation, no dreams, and no money. After learning he can sell his remaining years, he chooses to divest himself of all but his last three months. Spending this remaining time with his monitor, Miyagi, has Kusunoki truly destroyed his final chance to find happiness…or has he somehow found it?



Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Philosophy , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Suicide , Kuudere , Photography , Drawing , Shounen , Mopeds

NHK ni Youkoso!

Also known as Welcome to the N.H.K..

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

Sato Tatsuhiro is a drug-addled "hikikomori" (a Japanese shut-in) who thinks a sinister organization, NHK (Nihon Hikikomori Kyoukai), is the cause of all his problems! He falls in love with a girl, Misaki, who he thinks is trying to assassinate him, but doesn't know how to talk to her or if he can trust her. The more he stay in his house watching anime porn, reading manga and doing drugs, the harder it is for him to leave. Only Misaki can keep him from rotting away in his own apartment!



Tags: Hikikomori , Otaku Culture , Rehabilitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Denpa , Suicide , Drugs , Bullying , Nudity , Shounen , Disability

Shounen no Abyss

Also known as Boy's Abyss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Reiji’s life is as miserable as the small town he can’t escape. The most interesting thing that’s ever happened there is a double suicide down by the river. Does Reiji have any power over his fate, or will he too fall into the abyss?



Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Suicide , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Psychosexual , Love Triangle , Crime , Yandere , Age Gap , Nudity , Teacher , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual , Idol , Rural , Female Harem , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bullying , Incest , Marriage , Hikikomori , Natural Disaster , Time Skip

Satougashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai: A Lollypop or A Bullet

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Yamada Nagisa is a bored teenager who finds everyday life extremely unappealing: thus her plans to join a military academy as soon she graduates. On the last term of middle school, a strange girl named Mokuzu Umino, who claims to be a mermaid, transfers into Nagisa's class and, much to her bewilderment, begins to follow her around incessantly.

An annoyed and discomfited Nagisa initially strives to avoid these encounters, but then she begins to catch glimpses of the pain...

Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , School , Bullying , Hikikomori , Shounen , Disability , Rural , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Class Struggle

Elise no Tame ni

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Thriller

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Bukimi no Tani no Roboko-san

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi

The manga centers on 28-year-old Sōsuke Kamikosugi, who is self-employed and has trouble coming in contact with others. One day, Sōsuke meets an android who looks like a high school student. They start their strange and troublesome life living together, and search for what it means to be human.



Tags: Shounen , Robots

Homunculus

Also known as Homunculus.

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

Nakoshi Susumu, age 34, is living out of his car. Between spending his days with the homeless and his nights in his vehicle, he has little to his name–but not so little that he’ll agree to be the subject of a scientific experiment. An unnerving medical student is stalking him and offering to pay Nakoshi a significant sum to test trepanation: the ability to draw out a sixth sense by drilling into the skull. Nakoshi refuses. When Nakoshi’s beloved car is towed, though, he finally agrees to cash and the operating table. At first, the experiment seems to bear no fruit, and Nakoshi’s life is unchanged. That is, until Nakoshi realizes his vision has warped in his left eye…showing him the twisted homunculus inside every human.



Tags: Philosophy , Seinen , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Denpa , Amnesia , Body Horror , Anti-Hero , Gore , Homeless , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Masturbation , Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Economics , Class Struggle , Suicide , Urban

Caldera no Majo

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

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Boogiepop Dual: Makeinu-tachi no Circus

Also known as Boogiepop Dual.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

When a female student is abducted and on the verge of being raped, Boogiepop rushes onto the scene just in time to save the day. But Boogiepop's new male alter-ego, Akimizuki Takaya, finds himself in the middle of a crime wave with ties going back to the previous owner of the Boogiepop mantle.



Tags: Shounen , Super Power

Manhole

Also known as Manhole.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery

What do two Japanese detectives, a naked man on a city street, and a roundworm from Botswana all have in common? In the first volume of Manhole, Ken Mizoguchi and Nao Inoue investigate a string of bloody and mysterious murders, but their work uncovers a deadly biological agent which poses a threat of epidemic proportions. An unlikely lead starts them in the pursuit of a mysterious self-titled photographer, but meanwhile the infections keep spreading. The series may be best described as the thrilling combination of a detective story with biological horror.

Tags: Revenge , Terrorism , Police , Seinen , Detective , Gore , Primarily Adult Cast , Pandemic , Suicide , Nudity