Manga like Shoujo Tsubaki

also known as Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show

Genres: Horror

What is Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show about?

Status: Finished

The basic plot is that an orphan girl named Midori is taken in (read: enslaved) by a traveling freak show. The freak show includes such unsavory characters as a mummyman, a snake woman, and a drooling man with no limbs. The owner of the freak show, the eponymous Mr. Arashi, is a strict man who allows his freaks very little freedom or joy in life. He is especially cruel to Midori, our heroine. Midori works, not as a freak since she is normal, but as a sort of caretaker of the freaks.



Tags: Ero Guro , Circus , Gore , Body Horror , Heterosexual , Nudity , Age Gap , Magic , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Urban Fantasy , Crossdressing , Love Triangle , Amputation , Trains
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Here is a list of Manga similar to Shoujo Tsubaki

Tengoku ni Musubu Koi

Tengoku ni Musubu Koi

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

They are two and they are one. They were born on the same day and they shall die on the same day.



Note: This work was serialised in Garo throughout 14 issues, starting in June and ending in December. It was later compiled into one single story in tankobon format.

Tags: Historical , Twins , Tragedy , Nudity , Rural , Circus , Adoption , Time Skip , Suicide , Seinen , Ero Guro
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Tomino the Damned

Tomino no Jigoku

Also known as Tomino the Damned.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological

The manga centers on a set of twins with an older brother and younger sister. The twins were born with a set of odd matching birthmarks on their sides. After their mother abandoned them their stepfather sold them off to a freak show. The story tells what becomes of the twins afterward.



Tags: Seinen , Twins , Ero Guro , Circus , Historical , Tragedy , Nudity , Body Horror , Cult , Gore , Adoption
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Tsuki Kuu Mushi

Tsuki Kuu Mushi

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

A series of poisonings imitating fiction occur. Is the murderer targeting the author, the bizarre mystery novelist Shide Benisuke? In addition to the title story "Tsuki Kuu Mushi", this revised edition also includes "Motif", which was originally published in "Manga no Oni". A short story collection of masterpieces in which light and darkness intertwine. Contains a commentary by Wajima Shinji.



Note: This is a revised version published by Seirin Kogeisha of a manga of the same title, originally published by Seirindou in 1995. It contains two new stories and removes one story from the original.

Tags: Anthology , Ero Guro , Gore , Nudity , Seinen , Cyborg , Urban , Anti-Hero , Incest , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical , Crossdressing
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Kami no Kodomo

Kami no Kodomo

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

The latest work by the Nishioka siblings depicts the gruesome life story of a ruthless and brilliant serial killer as he grows up from a sociopathic child to a messiah-like figure.

Tags: Gore , Cult , Ero Guro , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Cannibalism , Coming of Age , Nudity , Josei , Scat , Bullying , Crossdressing , Suicide
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Paranoia Star

Paranoia Star

Also known as Paranoia Star.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

Collection of short stories by Maruo.

It's almost impossible to summarize them, most of them aren't really plot driven but they deal with abnormal states of the mind and are permeated by a general surrealism.

As in many of this works, he shows references to the art and culture of 1920s and 1930s Japan and Germany which had inspired his own artistic style.

Tags: Ero Guro , Gore , War , Military , Foreign , Body Horror , Robots , Tragedy , Historical
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Yuugatou

Yuugatou

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological

Attracted by that light—

Note: Honorable Mention in the 51st Shonen Sirius Newcomer Prize

Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Denpa , Gore , Shounen , Historical , Suicide , Tragedy
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Dementia 21

Dementia 21

Also known as Dementia 21.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Horror , Mystery

Yukie Sakai is a sprightly young home health aide eager to help her elderly clients. But what seems like a straightforward job quickly turns into a series of increasingly surreal and bizarre adventures that put Yukie’s wits to the test! Cartoonist Kago, who is well known for combining a more traditional manga style with hyper realistic illustration technique, an experimental visual storytelling approach, and outrageously sexual and scatological subject matter, has single-handedly created his own genre: “fashionable paranoia."



Note: Includes the unrelated oneshots "Detective SumoKING" and "Separate."

Tags: Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Parody , Meta , Seinen , Body Horror , Family Life , Work , Medicine , Primarily Adult Cast , Super Power , Amnesia , Urban , Philosophy , Aliens , Artificial Intelligence , Death Game , Dystopian , Gambling , Age Gap , Tokusatsu
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Paranoia Trap

Paranoia Trap

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror

This work is a collection of 8 short stories:

Rakusa (落差)
Yakou (夜行)
Michi (未知)
Rakkan (楽観)
Hyakumanako no Kyojin (百眼の巨人)
Last Game (ラストゲーム)
Silent (サイレント)
Purple Magic (パープル マジツク)

Tags: Ero Guro , Nudity , Demons
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Warau Kyuuketsuki

Warau Kyuuketsuki

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

Volume 1 : The Laughing Vampire.
While a young boy, just resurrected as a vampire, commits acts of awful ferocity, the city around him shows all its perversion. The adults abuse their power, the boys degenerate and use all the available means to achieve their goal to give vent to their low instincts. Whoever can't understand and make opposition is doomed to change or becoming crazy. So which is the real horror? The vampire who kills in order to feed himself or the crawling disease hidden in society, which slowy corrupts without being noticed?

Volume 2 : Paradise.
Following the events narrated in the first volume, Luna and Konosuke are now living together with the old woman vampire as fellows, as lovers, in a diabolic innocence, killing for quieting their thirst for blood, joining death and love under the dream of eternal youth. Meanwhile, a young boy named Makoto is looking for his lost sister Miko, who disappeared years ago in mysterious circumstances. But what really happened to that girl who liked eating grubs and dreamed of becoming one of them? And is there really a terrible secret that someone is hiding? The paths of all the characters will dramatically collide, bringing unexpected consequences after the things are gradually revealed.

A story suspended between weirdness and decadence, showing a clear nostalgia for German cinematography and Federico Fellini, where blood is used to trace a great and only apparently amoral story.

Tags: Seinen , Vampire , Gore , Ero Guro , Body Horror , Historical ,
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Circus Kitan

Circus Kitan

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

"The Great Dark Circus descends from a rotten, cursed, demon-related lineage. Every sin, every flaw and every torment from men are represented in our show.

Come and watch, meet the tragedy of the ventriloquist mother, the secret of the butterfly princess and the angst of the mist-man...

Going into the roaming black tent of the Great Dark Circus is acceding to the magic of its phenomena, and that magic will be the source of our misfortune, because we are all of them."

Source: My Anime List

Tags: Circus , Seinen
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