Manga like Ningen Shikkaku

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

Oyasumi Punpun

Also known as Goodnight Punpun.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town.
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back.
He wants to find some porn.
That’s what he wants, but what does he get…?



Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Tragedy , Philosophy , Denpa , Suicide , Psychosexual , Urban , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Time Skip , School , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Gods , Fugitive , Cult , Work , Nudity , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Religion

Bokutachi ga Yarimashita

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life , Thriller

Although satisfied with his average lifestyle, Tobio Masubuchi wishes for a long and fun existence, hoping that nothing will get in his way. Alongside his good friends Sho Isami, Yuki "Maru" Maruyama, and Hidero "Paisen" Kosaka, the group passes each day worry free, doing as they please. But when delinquents from a neighboring school overhear Maru saying that they should die, their troubles begin.

After being kidnapped and brutally assaulted, Maru is found by his friends, who are shocked to see what has been done to him. Angry, Tobio proposes that they take immediate revenge, and after deciding how they should do so, the four put their plan into action. But when what should have been just a prank turns deadly, Tobio's aspirations for an undisturbed life are shattered forever.



Tags: Seinen , Tragedy , Terrorism , Coming of Age , Primarily Male Cast , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Satire , Revenge , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Delinquents , Suicide , Ensemble Cast , Nudity , Psychosexual , Time Skip , Crime , Age Gap

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

Shounen no Abyss

Also known as Boy's Abyss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Reiji’s life is as miserable as the small town he can’t escape. The most interesting thing that’s ever happened there is a double suicide down by the river. Does Reiji have any power over his fate, or will he too fall into the abyss?



Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Suicide , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Psychosexual , Love Triangle , Crime , Yandere , Age Gap , Nudity , Teacher , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Idol , Female Harem , LGBTQ+ Themes , Rural , Bullying , Incest , Marriage , Hikikomori , Time Skip , Natural Disaster ,

Himizu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Every day in Japan, 2500 people die due to any number of causes. Do you think you'll be one of the ones to die? No, of course not. Do you think you'll win the lottery? You'd like to think so, we all would. But Sumida is different. He wants the status quo to remain in every way; live a normal life, get a normal job, have normal kids, never to be anyone fortunate or unfortunate, content in normalcy. Anyone who doesn't agree is foolish, doomed to live their life scraping up a mountain that they can never conquer, fated to die in despair wishing things had been better.

When his mother kicks his father out of the house and onto the streets, he thinks he'll be fine. When his mother leaves him to live with her boyfriend, he makes the best of it. When he realizes that he's no longer average, he strives to make his life worthwhile the only way he knows how. When the demons in the back of his mind speak to him, he tries his best to ignore them.

Tags: Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Denpa , Suicide , Crime , Seinen , Philosophy , Psychosexual , Yakuza , Male Protagonist , Nudity

DEATH NOTE

Also known as Death Note.

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

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?



Tags: Detective , Police , Anti-Hero , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Crime , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Gods , Primarily Male Cast , Espionage , Time Skip , Shounen , Memory Manipulation , Demons , Amnesia , Politics , Cult

Human Lost: Ningen Shikkaku

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

Tags: Seinen , Cyberpunk , Classic Literature

Isekai Shikkaku

Also known as No Longer Allowed In Another World.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

An adventure in another world with cute girls by your side and video game-like powers–sounds like an anime fan’s dream, right? Not so for melancholic author Osamu Dazai, who would quite literally prefer to drop dead. Video games haven’t even been invented yet when he gets yanked into another world in 1948. Really, all the fantastical adventure he keeps running into is just getting in the way of his poetic dream of finding the perfect place to die. But no matter how much he risks his hide, everything seems to keep turning out okay. Follow a miserable hero like no other in this cheerfully bleak isekai comedy!



Note: Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category.

Tags: Isekai , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Parody , Anachronism , Heterosexual , Female Harem , Travel , Tragedy , Magic , Nekomimi , Medieval , Werewolf

Kokou no Hito

Also known as The Climber.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Psychological , Sports

Transfer student Buntaro Mori starts his first day at his new school already on the administration’s radar. He’s withdrawn and sullen, and the teachers are just waiting for him to explode. When his annoying classmate Miyamoto promises to leave him alone forever if he climbs to the top of the school, Mori eagerly takes up the challenge and shocks everyone when he makes it all the way to the roof. Flushed with the victory of his first successful climb, Mori can’t resist the lure of the local peak, despite warnings from more experienced climbers about the risks of climbing alone. But Mori doesn’t care. A little danger is nothing in the face of his new obsession.

Tags: Mountaineering , Coming of Age , Travel , Seinen , Outdoor Activities , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Survival , Hikikomori , Wilderness , Classic Literature , Philosophy , Snowscape , Time Skip , Fitness , Suicide , Anti-Hero , Dissociative Identities , Foreign , Delinquents , School , Nudity , School Club , Pregnancy , Marriage