Manga like Les Misérables

Les Miserables

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Manga based in the story Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.

Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Classic Literature

Innocent

Also known as Innocent.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

In the 18th century, seeking "freedom and equality," the event that gave birth to modern French society, the French Revolution, began. There was one protagonist that lived within the darkness, Charles-Henri Sanson. He was the fourth-generation head of the Sanson family, and the executioner of Paris. This is the story of a man nobly facing his harsh fate...



Notes:
Nominated for the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize "Reader Award" in 2014
Nominated for the 8th Manga Taishou Award in 2015.

Tags: Historical , Seinen , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Foreign , Politics , Gore , Torture , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Work , Bisexual , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Time Skip , Ensemble Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Boys' Love , Swordplay , Crossdressing

Vinland Saga

Also known as Vinland Saga.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama

As a child, Thorfinn sat at the feet of the great Leif Ericson and thrilled to wild tales of a land far to the west. But his youthful fantasies were shattered by a mercenary raid. Raised by the Vikings who murdered his father, Thorfinn became a terrifying warrior, forever seeking to kill the band's leader, Askeladd, and avenge his father. Sustaining Thorfinn through his ordeal are his pride in his family and his dreams of a fertile westward land, a land without war or slavery … the land Leif called Vinland.



Notes:
Won the Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2009.
Winner of the 36th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category in 2012.

Tags: Rehabilitation , Coming of Age , Vikings , Historical , Foreign , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Seinen , War , Revenge , Tragedy , Travel , Found Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Slavery , Time Skip , Gore , Ships , Politics , Swordplay , Medieval , Class Struggle , Rural , Parenthood , Anti-Hero , Agriculture , Pirates , Religion , Environmental , Achronological Order , Language Barrier , Heterosexual , Mythology , Adoption , Indigenous Cultures , Nudity , Archery , Wilderness , Tomboy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Transgender

MONSTER

Also known as Monster.

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

Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension.

Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”



Tags: Seinen , Conspiracy , Philosophy , Tragedy , Amnesia , Fugitive , Twins , Noir , Foreign , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Detective , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical , Crime , Police , Medicine , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Orphan , Adoption , Suicide , Torture , Achronological Order , Gore , Assassins , Episodic

Aa Mujou

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Manga adaptation of "Les Misérables" by Victor-Marie Hugo.

Tags: Classic Literature , Foreign