Manga like OMORI

What is OMORI about?

Status: Releasing

After—something—changed his life four years ago, Sunny has not left his house once, living in his own reclusive bubble. Hoping for a fresh start for her son, his mother decides to move their family out of town. However, when his childhood friend Kel re-enters his life, Sunny finds himself thrust back into a world he once knew. With only three days before the move, the duo come across familiar faces as they go through town—reawakening a dark past that Sunny has tried so hard to forget.



Tags: Tragedy , Hikikomori , Denpa , Male Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Dissociative Identities , Suicide , Coming of Age , Seinen , Found Family , Rehabilitation , Amnesia , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual
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The Summer Hikaru Died

Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu

Also known as The Summer Hikaru Died.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Two boys lived in a village: Yoshiki and Hikaru. The two did everything together...until the day Hikaru was encompassed by a mysterious light. That was when everything changed—Hikaru most of all. Yoshiki still wishes from the bottom of his heart to always stay by his side...but is there even a Hikaru left to be with?

Tags: Monster Boy , Male Protagonist , Rural , Cosmic Horror , Body Horror , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Boys' Love , Eco-Horror , LGBTQ+ Themes , Curses , Unrequited Love , Gods , Mountaineering , Urban Fantasy , Seinen
Goodnight Punpun

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 , Psychosexual , Suicide , Urban , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Anti-Hero , Time Skip , Fugitive , Surreal Comedy , Meta , School , Cult , Work , Nudity , Gods , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Ghost
NEEDY GIRL OVER DOSE: RUN WITH MY SICK

NEEDY GIRL OVER DOSE: RUN WITH MY SICK

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama

A former entertainment producer, who has fallen on hard times, sees a girl pass by. Recognizing a gem in the rough, the former producer offers to manage her - "Ame-chan" himself. The two of them work together to make Ame-chan into a star, and for him to get back into the industry, But it turns out that Ame-chan has a very strong desire for approval and a very unique sense of style...!

Tags: Otaku Culture , Denpa , Disability , Anti-Hero , Work , Drugs , Female Protagonist , Idol , VTuber , Tragedy , Video Games
Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.

Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.

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

A group of childhood friends drifts apart after one of them, Meiko "Menma" Honma, dies in an accident. Years later, the leader of the group, Jinta Yadomi, has become withdrawn and lives as a recluse. An older Meiko appears to him, and says that she must have a wish granted, though she does not know what it is.



Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Hikikomori , Tragedy , Ghost , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Crossdressing , Video Games
Erased

Boku dake ga Inai Machi

Also known as Erased.

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

Twenty-nine-year-old Satoru Fujinuma is floundering through life. Amid his daily drudgery, he finds himself in the grip of an incredible, inexplicable, and uncontrollable phenomenon that rewinds time, a condition that seems to only make his drab life worse. But then, one day, everything changes. A terrible incident forever changes Satoru's life as he knows it...and with it, comes a "Revival" that sends Satoru eighteen years into the past!

In the body of his boyhood self, Satoru encounters sights he never imagined he would see again--the smile of his mother, alive and well, his old friends, and Kayo Hinazuki, the girl who was kidnapped and murdered when he was a boy the first time around. To return to the present and prevent the tragedy that brought him back to his childhood in the first place, Satoru begins plotting a way to change Hinazuki's fate...But up against the clock and a faceless evil, does eleven-year-old Satoru even stand a chance?



Note: Was nominated for the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Reader Award in 2014 and for the 7th, 8th and 9th Manga Taisho Award between 2014 and 2016. Also nominated for the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Volume 9 contains the 5-chapter “Boku Dake ga Inai Machi:Re” side story.

Tags: Crime , Primarily Child Cast , Age Regression , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Time Skip , School , Seinen , Detective , Fugitive , Tragedy , Revenge , Bullying , Rehabilitation , Writing , Amnesia , Snowscape , Photography
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Boy's Abyss

Shounen no Abyss

Also known as Boy's Abyss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

In a town with nothing, in the middle of a daily life with seemingly no signs of change, high schooler Reiji Kurose was "just" living. Family, dreams for the future, childhood friends. All of them were binding him down to that city. He thought he would "just" keep on living like that. Until he met her. Is there hope in living? Is there light waiting ahead? It's the start of a boy meets girl series which reflects the "now".

Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

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

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