Manga like Hitsuji no Uta

GOTH

Also known as Goth.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological

Before they were friends, he had already noticed her. He wanted her hands - those beautiful, enchanting hands - to himself. And he hoped that the local madman who had been "collecting" the hands of anything that moved - babies, children, men, women, animals - would get them for him...until the day she asked him to teach her how to smile.



Tags: Crime , Anti-Hero , Seinen , Tragedy , Gore , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Twins , School , Body Horror , Suicide , Primarily Teen Cast , Yandere

Chi no Wadachi

Also known as Blood on the Tracks.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological

Ordinary middle school student Seiichi Osabe receives love and care from his mother Seiko. Until one summer an incident changes the family dynamic forever. This is a story of a mother’s love that has gone too far….



Tags: Seinen , Tragedy , Family Life , Denpa , Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Suicide , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Crime , Time Skip , Amnesia , Bullying , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , School , Police , Nudity , Cosmic Horror , Tomboy , Dissociative Identities , Acting

Happiness

Also known as Happiness.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Nothing interesting is happening in Makoto Ozaki’s first year of high school. His life is a series of quiet humiliations: low-grade bullies, unreliable friends, and the constant frustration of his adolescent lust. But one night, a pale, thin girl knocks him to the ground in an alley and offers him a choice. Now everything is different. Daylight is searingly bright. Food tastes awful. And worse than anything is the terrible, consuming thirst. The tiny shames of his old life have been replaced by two towering horrors: the truth of what will slake his awful craving and high school itself.



Tags: Vampire , Primarily Teen Cast , Torture , Tragedy , Gore , Cult , Time Skip , Cannibalism , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Body Horror , Shounen , Religion , Urban , Nudity , Delinquents , School , Bullying

Shi ni Itaru Yamai

Also known as Sickness Unto Death.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

This is the mysterious story of Futaba Kazuma's first patient. At 18, Futaba Kazuma went to school to get his qualification in clinical psychology. While attending school, he boards at a creepy mansion, which even has a butler. Also living there is a strange young woman called Emiru. She is suffering from a terminal illness of the heart --- despair. This deep psychological problem has eerie physical effects as well: her hair has turned white, her body temperature is well below normal, and her blood pressure is also bizarre. No psychologists or counselors have been able to help cure her of this problem. Will Kazuma be able to determine the cause of Emiru's despair and save her before it's too late? [tethysdust]



Tags: Tragedy , Philosophy , Nudity , Seinen

Acony

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Supernatural

When Motomi Utsuki moves in his grandfather's apartment , he meets this girl named Acony who claims to be a dead person and eventually he gets to know that this place and the people living in the building are not normal.

Tags: Ghost , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Primarily Child Cast , Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Family Life , Zombie

Sakura Gari

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

The manga is set in the Taisho era, and centers on Masataka Tagami, a teenager who leaves his provincial home to try his luck at enrolling in a preparatory school in Tokyo. Just as he arrives in Tokyo, he is involved in a small traffic incident with the 25-year-old Soma Saiki, the scion of the Saiki family and president of the family's trading company. With Masataka's housing prospects grim, he decides to make his services available to the Saiki family as a servant, and grows closer to the young Soma, while learning more about the family's dark secrets.



Tags: Boys' Love , Historical , Yandere , Josei , Tragedy , Bisexual , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes

Zankoku na Kami ga Shihai Suru

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Jeremy, a sensitive but outgoing 15 year old, is delighted to hear the news of his neurotic and excitable mother's remarriage to a wealthy British man. However, much to his horror, his sweet-talking new step-father Greg, soon begins to exhibit a disturbing trait...he is a sadistic pedophile and loses no time in making Jeremy his target. Zankoku na Kami ga Shihaisuru portrays the tale of two stepbrothers - Jeremy and Ian - as they each pursue their separate paths towards redemption.

Tags: Foreign , Family Life , Josei , Revenge , Tragedy , Suicide , Philosophy , Urban , Denpa , Body Horror , Torture , Inseki , Blackmail , Male Protagonist , Drugs , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Boys' Love , School , Detective , Marriage , Boarding School , Incest , Rehabilitation , Bisexual

Ningyo no Mori

Also known as Mermaid Saga.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Romance , Supernatural

This is Rumiko Takahashi at her darkest, but her trademark humor and romance also pop up in this three-volume series. Legend has it that if a human eats a mermaid's flesh, they will be granted eternal life. But is that a blessing or a curse? Immortal lovers Yuta and Mana travel through Japan and the centuries longing for a normal life. On their journey, they meet others who have consumed the flesh of a mermaid in hope of becoming immortal. But the powerful substance affects each person differently. Yuta and Mana are two of the lucky ones. Others are fated to die or transform into a savage monster, a "lost soul."



Note: This is the first volume of the Mermaid Saga series from the original tankoubon release, which includes the two-chapter stories "A Mermaid Never Smiles" (人魚は笑わない, Ningyo wa Warawanai), "The Village of Fighting Fish" (闘魚の里, Tōgyo no Sato), and "Mermaid Forest" (人魚の森, Ningyo no Mori Zenpen).

Tags: Mythology , Mermaid , Episodic , Body Horror , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Gore , Tragedy , Shounen , Achronological Order , Pirates , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Heterosexual