Manga like Manhole

Emerging

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror

Japan is a brilliant model of Asian success and obligation. But how would this country manage a large-scale sanitary crisis? What would happen in Shinjuku, one of Tokyo's biggest districts, if a man exploded in the street during broad daylight? How would the political and sanitation authorities manage such a crisis? Please consider this question as long as you can--because it's already too late for professors Onodera and Sekiguchi! Is an emerging virus slowly spreading itself into the arteries of the Japanese capital?

Tags: Pandemic , Medicine , Seinen

Heads

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

This manga is a story based on a thriller by Keigo Higashino. The main protagonist, the shy Jun Naruse, is a rather average guy who works for an electronics company and loves to paint. He falls in love with Megumi whom he met at an art supplies shop and an intimate relationship develops. Whilst looking for his dream apartment to move into with Megumi the real estate office he is at gets attacked, and when the criminal tries to shoot a little girl, he saves her by jumping in front of her.

A month passes until he wakes up again and is told that half his brain got destroyed and he only survived because someone donated half a brain. Everything seems to be fine, he quickly recovers and is happy, however, he begins to change… Is the donated brain the reason for that? Or is it just a side effect of the medicine?

Tags: Dissociative Identities , Denpa , Drawing , Revenge , Suicide , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Heterosexual , Conspiracy , Amnesia , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , Crime , Work , Twins , Bar , Nudity

pupa

Also known as Pupa.

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

The "life-and-death sibling" story follows Utsutsu and Yume Hasegawa, a boy and his little sister who find themselves all alone. One day, Yume sees a mysterious red butterfly and her body undergoes a strange metamorphosis—into a creature that eats humans. Utsutsu struggles to find a way to restore his sister.



Tags: Body Horror , Gore , Tragedy , Cannibalism , Shounen , Incest , Nudity , Shapeshifting , Rural , Estranged Family , Survival

Kiseijuu

Also known as Parasyte.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Psychological , Sci-Fi

They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade–and take control of–a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret–except an ordinary high school student. Shin is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come?



Tags: Male Protagonist , Seinen , Body Horror , Aliens , Environmental , Super Power , Gore , Shapeshifting , Tragedy , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Delinquents , School , Love Triangle , Nudity

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 , Anti-Hero , Gore , Body Horror , Homeless , Transgender , Masturbation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Economics , Class Struggle , Urban , Suicide

Kansen Rettou

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological

In the year 2011, 3rd of January
One day, a doctor name: Matsuoka Tsuyoshi treated one of his patient in the hospital.
He thought that his patient only caught a normal flu, nothing serious and only needs some rest, but who knows that the 2nd day, that patient began to have most of his organs fail and die!
Later on, more and more other patients and people began to have the same conditions as the 1st patient!
The whole japan began to panic and the unknown flu(virus) began to spread to the peoples and tragedy follows!

Tags: Medicine , Pandemic , Seinen

Smiley

Also known as Smile!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

Yuushi Kamome is a freelance writer who lost his beloved daughter in an accident. In despair, his wife leaves him, and he spends his days like a shell of a man.

One day, however, a flyer from a strange religious group, the "Heart Laughing Society," changes his fate. It shows the image of his wife, whom he has lost touch with...

This is a story of faith and madness. What is the black darkness of the cult that an evil smile invites? A chilling “new religion” suspense begins!



Tags: Cult , Seinen , Religion , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Police , Espionage

Mushihime

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

A dark romance story about a high school boy who falls helplessly in love with a beautiful girl who has to eat people to survive.

Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Incest , Shapeshifting , Monster Girl , Body Horror , Gore , Cannibalism , Urban , Male Protagonist , Yandere , Denpa , School , Memory Manipulation

Himenospia

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

Abused like a slave by everyone at school, and battered by the single mother she lives with at home… That was the girl’s, Endou Himeno’s, everyday life. However one day, a ‘wasp’ that stung the girl, changed her fate. Her fate, and that of humanity… Piercing the ‘species’ known as humanity, a thrilling insect suspense story begins!

Tags: Female Protagonist , Bullying , School , Conspiracy , Nudity , Torture , Body Horror , Slavery , Yuri , Seinen , Gore

Yokokuhan

Also known as Prophecy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

Tokyo Police Department’s Cybercrime Division is headed by the young, brilliantly ruthless Yoshino Erika. Her track record has been solid, but when a new threat appears online, it starts making all the headlines. A man who goes by Shinbunshi, because of the newspaper mask he wears, begins acting as a vigilante of justice. His message is simple: he can see what is wrong with society right now and although he doesn’t have the power to change it, he can help the frustrated citizens release their pent up anger from the crimes that go unpunished like people treating others like trash, corrupt government pushing their weight around and other issues the typical person has no control over. Although it starts relatively harmless, it quickly snowballs out of control thanks to the power of social media and the Shinbunshi becomes an overnight internet sensation with the severity of the crimes exponentially increasing.

Tags: Anti-Hero , Police , Seinen , Terrorism , Software Development , Urban , Tragedy , Detective