Manga like Kyuusai no Hi

Kono Yo no Owari e no Tabi

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Horror , Psychological

Every morning a man wakes up, gets dressed, and heads to work, returning home in the evening to go to sleep. Feeling suffocated by the mundanity and repetitiveness of life, the man takes a detour on his way to work one day. But after being swept up in a tide of piracy, cannibalism, and bizarre religious sects the man starts to wonder: was his boring old life so bad after all?

Tags: Denpa , Cosmic Horror , Philosophy , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Travel , Survival , Cannibalism , Dystopian , Gore , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Language Barrier , Nudity , Slavery , Cult

Kami no Kodomo

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

The latest work by the Nishioka siblings depicts the gruesome life story of a ruthless and brilliant serial killer as he grows up from a sociopathic child to a messiah-like figure.

Tags: Gore , Cult , Ero Guro , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Cannibalism , Coming of Age , Nudity , Josei , Scat , Bullying , Crossdressing , Suicide

Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou

Also known as Girls' Last Tour.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Civilization is dead, but Chito and Yuuri are still alive. So they hop aboard their beloved Kettenkrad motorbike and aimlessly wander the ruins of the world they once knew. Day after hopeless day, they look for their next meal and fuel for their ride. But as long as the two are together, even an existence as bleak as theirs has a ray or two of sunshine in it, whether they're sucking down their fill of soup or hunting for machine parts to tinker with. For two girls in a world full of nothing, the experiences and feelings the two share give them something to live for…



Note: Winner of the Best Comic Award at the Seiun Awards in 2019.

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Lost Civilization , Survival , Iyashikei , Primarily Female Cast , Travel , Episodic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Seinen , Snowscape , War , Urban , Chibi , Artificial Intelligence , Cosmic Horror , Military , Denpa , Tanks , Aviation , Aliens

Kafka: Classics in Comics

Also known as Kafka.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

A sublimely eerie manga adaptation of classic Kafka stories, with a starkly beautiful illustration style – part of Pushkin's second series of Japanese novellas.

Nine of Franz Kafka's most memorable tales are here given fresh life with dazzling graphic renderings by the brother-and sister manga creators Nishioka Kyodai . With their distinctive, surreal style of illustration, they have reimagined the fantastic, the imperceptible and the bizarre in Kafka's work, creating a hauntingly powerful visual world.

These stories of enigmatic figures and uncanny transformations are stripped to their core, offering profound new understandings.

The Cares of a Family Man
The Metamorphosis
The Bucket Rider
Jackals and Arabs
A Fratricide
The Vulture
A Country Doctor
A Hunger Artist
In the Penal Colony

Tags: Classic Literature , Torture , Tragedy , Foreign , Dystopian , Anthology , Family Life , Henshin , Body Horror

Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni

Also known as In This Corner of the World.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

1940’s Hiroshima Prefecture. Suzu, a young woman from the countryside, joins her new husband and his family in the shipbuilding city of Kure. As her beautiful home collapses around her, Suzu must confront the challenges of a new life while coming to grips with a world in turmoil. Unwilling to give up hope, Suzu struggles against the horrors of war to create her own happiness.

Tags: War , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Historical , Drawing , Seinen , Rehabilitation , Disability

Shinde Shimatta Boku no Mita Yume

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological

Told in the form of a picture book, this is the story of a young boy who decides to commit suicide, only to find himself in a strange world after his death.

Tags: Philosophy , Afterlife , Suicide , Full Color , Male Protagonist , Tragedy

Paranoia Star

Also known as Paranoia Star.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

Collection of short stories by Maruo.

It's almost impossible to summarize them, most of them aren't really plot driven but they deal with abnormal states of the mind and are permeated by a general surrealism.

As in many of this works, he shows references to the art and culture of 1920s and 1930s Japan and Germany which had inspired his own artistic style.

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Denki Ari: Waga Bunretsu no Hanasaku Toki (電気蟻＜吾が分裂の華咲く時＞)
Gansaku: Denki Ari (贋作・電気蟻)
Ishi no Shouri (意志の勝利)
Hokenshitsu no Kyuuketsuki (保健室の吸血鬼)
Nihonjin no Wakusei (日本人の惑星)
Genpin (玄牝)

Tags: Ero Guro , War , Gore , Military , Body Horror , Robots , Foreign , Tragedy , Historical