Manga like Livingstone

Smokin' Parade

Also known as Smokin' Parade.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Youkou lives in a future where organ transplants are common and available to all, but life's not as idyllic as it seems--it turns out a nefarious organization is using that technology for their own evil ends! Only the elite squad Jackalope has any chance of stopping them before it's too late.



Tags: Steampunk , Body Horror , Gore , Male Protagonist , Medicine , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Anti-Hero , Drugs , Nudity

Deadman Wonderland

Also known as Deadman Wonderland.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

The inmates of this insane penitentiary fight for survival every day to provide entertainment for the masses, and terrifying secrets lurk in the shadows. Ganta is determined to survive Deadman Wonderland and clear his name, but the price may be his soul…



Note: Volume 12 contains 6 short side stories, which counts as 1 whole chapter.

Tags: Death Game , Body Horror , Prison , Super Power , Gore , Dissociative Identities , Tragedy , Torture , Male Protagonist , Dystopian , Shounen , Philosophy , Suicide

Noragami

Also known as Noragami: Stray God.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Yato is a homeless god. He doesn’t even have a shrine, not to mention worshippers! So to achieve his ambitious goals, he’s set up a service to help those in need (for a small fee), hoping he’ll eventually raise enough money to build himself the lavish temple of his dreams. Of course, he can’t afford to be picky, so Yato accepts all kinds of jobs, from finding lost kittens to helping a student overcome bullies at school.



Tags: Gods , Reincarnation , Male Protagonist , Youkai , Mythology , Tragedy , Exorcism , Urban Fantasy , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Ghost , Swordplay , Heterosexual , Afterlife , Religion , Revenge , Nekomimi , Body Horror , Torture , Found Family

Satsujin Purgatorium

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

Takasugi Gen deeply regrets the day he killed his adoptive father. So when he dies at the age of 46, only to find himself transported back in time to several years before the murder, he decides to make a fresh start as a high school student.

Trapped in a world between heaven and hell that nonetheless feels like paradise, Takasugi's fight to regain his family and friends begins!

Tags: Assassins , Male Protagonist , Josei , Guns , Afterlife , Time Manipulation , Family Life , Revenge

Mushishi

Also known as Mushishi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi—creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze. They still exist parallel to our own lives and can only be seen by a select few. As a mushishi, Ginko is one of the few who are aware of their existense, and this young man with a sardonic smile roams from place to place with the knowledge and skill to aid those unwittingly affected by mushi.



Note: Won the Excellence Prize for Manga at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2003 and the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2006.

Tags: Travel , Episodic , Youkai , Environmental , Seinen , Rural , Mythology , Iyashikei , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Work , Historical , Demons

Shepherd House Hotel

Status: Releasing
Genres: Mystery

In Canada, nestled between a serene lake and the mountains, there is a mysterious hotel run by an elegant man and a cheerful maid. Their guests are the spirits of the dead on their last stop before eternal rest.

Tags: Foreign , Seinen , Maids , Ghost , Inn , Afterlife , Episodic , Tragedy

Tsurebito

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

Companion is about the people who escort you from purgatory into the world of the dead. After you die you must go through your personal gate into the world of the dead, and companions are the ones who lead you there.

Tags: Afterlife , Seinen , Ghost , Time Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Gore , Nudity

Butterfly Storage

Also known as Butterfly Storage.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

When a person dies, their soul leaves the body in the form of a butterfly and the body itself rots away quickly after.

Ono lost his entire family in a plane crash fourteen years ago. But since this tragedy, the body of Senri, his twin sister, is still intact while the butterfly that contains his soul was stolen by a mysterious individual during the accident, leaving her unconscious and in a vegetative state.

In order to get back his sister's butterfly, Ono joins the famous "Death Bureau", a state agency specialized in the capture, conservation and managment of the butterflies before they dissapear for good 49 days after their host death.

Using the butterflies, the family of the deceased can come in contact with their loved ones in the form of a 3D hologram.

Tags: Guns , Politics , Cyberpunk , Steampunk , Post-Apocalyptic , Urban Fantasy , Seinen