Manga like Mesh

What is Mesh about?

Status: Finished

The story follows the life of a teenage boy named "Mesh," so-called for his unique "mesh"-colored hair: blonde with silver strands on the sides. It begins with a scene where Mesh, after being beaten, escapes from a mob and encounters Milon, a forger and painter. Mesh ends up staying at Milon's house, and the two form an unlikely bond as they navigate life together. Each chapter is a poetic blend of crime, peaceful everyday moments, or the vibrant nightlife of artists in a fictionalized Paris. Mesh is regarded as one of Hagio Moto's defining works, marking a pivotal shift in her artistic style. It was her first series to adopt a more realistic look while retaining the ethereal beauty characteristic of 1970s shoujo art. The story ventures into more mature themes while continuing to explore Hagio's recurring motifs, such as parent-child relationships and adolescence. Volume 1:
Mesh Rouge
Volume 2:
Haru no Hone
Volume 3:
Kakumei Montmartre
Volume 4:
Mimi wo Katamukete Buran Volume 5:
Sen no Ya Nigate na Jinshu
Volume 6:
Shanikusai
Volume 7:
Surreal na Ai no Real na Shi
Volume 8:
Fune

Note: In 2024 a digital only eight volume was released which included the story Fune

Tags: Shoujo , Foreign , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Crime , Crossdressing , Drugs , Estranged Family , Bisexual , Boys' Love

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Flower Comics

Poe no Ichizoku

Also known as The Poe Clan.

Status: Finished
Genres: Supernatural

The Poe Clan: a race of undead that feeds on the energy of the living, whiling away the centuries in a village of roses where time and geography have no meaning. Circumstances lead to a brother and sister, Edgar and Marybelle, being initiated into the clan too young, and therefore doomed to live out eternity forever on the brink of adulthood, until a wooden stake or a silver bullet should cut them down. In this groundbreaking manga, through three immortal adolescents and the mortals whose lives they touch, Moto Hagio explores what it means to live and to die, to have loved and to have lost.

Tags: Vampire , Shoujo , Achronological Order , Historical , Foreign , Tragedy , Found Family , Male Protagonist , Estranged Family , Boys' Love , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Fugitive

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Piccoma

Flower Comics

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

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Flower Comics

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California Monogatari

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Heath Swanson, an 18-year-old high school dropout, runs away from his home in San Diego, California, to make a fresh start in New York City. Along his travels he meets Eve, another troubled teen who latches onto him. Although annoyed by his presence and idealistic dreams of life in California at first, the two form an inseparable bond. Living among artists in SoHo, the two help and support each other as they try to make a living in the city.

Tags: Shoujo , LGBTQ+ Themes , Rehabilitation , Coming of Age , Foreign , Urban , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Found Family , Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Drugs , Heterosexual , Achronological Order , Survival , Unrequited Love , War , Mixed Gender Harem

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Let Dai

Also known as Let Dai.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Is this desire for freedom the very thing that entrapped us?

Let Dai is a tragic tale of forbidden love and unforgivable betrayal.

Set in a soulless neo-Seoul ruled by young punks and pleasure seekers, an amoral teenager named Dai is the living embodiment of the city's beauty and cruelty.

As the leader of the vicious Furies gang, Dai seduces everyone who lays eyes on him, only to blind them to his own barbaric nature. When an honest schoolboy named Jae-Hee rescues a beautiful girl from being mugged by the Furies, he can't possibly realize how this brief encounter will plunge him into a downward spiral of unbridled passion and unfathomable pain.

From his brutal gang initiation to an unspeakable act committed against his girlfriend, Jae-Hee wavers uncomfortably between revulsion and fascination. And in Dai he finds a tender, caring friend one moment and a heartless sociopath the next, awakening strange and unhealthy desires in Jae-Hee that he could never before have imagined.

Tags: Boys' Love , Suicide , Tragedy , School , Male Protagonist

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