Manga like Jigokuhen

Nekome Kozou

Also known as Cat Eyed Boy.

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

Cat Eyed Boy is a half-human, half-monster child whose mostly human appearance bans him from the demon world. He lives hidden in the shadows of the human world, hated by humans and demons alike. Wherever he goes, awful events occur as the humans and demons interact. In 11 stories of revenge and retribution full of disturbing images, Cat Eyed Boy acts as a trickster, saving the innocent and helping the wicked receive the punishment that fate metes out.



Tags: Shounen , Episodic , Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Monster Boy

Kaiki! Shiniku no Otoko

Also known as Living Corpse.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

Yosuke Shinkai is haunted by a past he cannot recall...and a body that is rapidly decomposing. He is a living corpse, unclear who he is or why he has been brought back to life only to suffer again a slow gruesome death. A grotesque and disturbing account of life after horrific death, told by Japan's undisputed master of horror manga, and appearing here for the first time in English translation.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Seinen , Zombie

Seikimatsu Bansankai

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

A collection of stories.
Each story highlights, without hypocrisy, man's meanness towards those who are "different". Cursed stories of genetic mutations, where metamorphoses, painful and gruesome, become an act of purification towards a society that repudiates every "abnormality".

Tags: Cannibalism , Gore , Amnesia , Anthology , Shoujo

Jigoku Kozou

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

A mysterious old woman appears before doctor Rasetsu Emma, who has recently lost his son in an accident. She says she can bring Daio back to life. After agreeing to this sinister proposal, Daio returns to his father, but to Rasetsu's horror, he is half decomposed and inhuman. To make him human again, he needs fresh human organs. Rasetsu does everything he can to reincarnate his son, but Daio just turns into a different kind of monster. No one can stop him as he continues to feed his hunger, claiming victim after victim.

Tags: Zombie

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

Children

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery

Igarashi Tohru, a college student, took a 6-month part-time job in a child care facility located deep within the mountains to take care of children for 3 million yen. However, in this remote area, sin runs deep in the work to be done.

Tags: Tragedy , Primarily Child Cast , Gore , Revenge , Dissociative Identities , Amnesia , Rural , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Yakuza , Yandere , Crossdressing , Guns , Cannibalism , Nudity

Jigoku no Komoriuta

Also known as Lullabies from Hell.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

Six horrifying tales from the mad man Hideshi Hino. Everything from a child who loves butterflies, a mad doctor seeking perfection and boy terrorized by his father's tattoo.

This is the original collection that Dark Horse would later take one story from to title their anthology Lullabies from Hell.

Tags: Episodic , Anthology , Rural , Tragedy , Body Horror , Crime , Gore , Environmental , Nudity

Kyoufu Jigoku Shoujo

Also known as Hell Baby.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

This graphic novel by one of Japan's most accomplished artists tells the unsettling saga of twin sisters born on a dark and stormy night in Tokyo: one normal, and one a demon baby with a taste for blood--a Hell Baby. Tossed into a garbage dump in a plastic bag, Hell Baby dies, but is brought back to life by an unworldly bolt of lightning. Hell Baby develops hard-earned hunting techniques to survive life among the wild animals who roam the dump. After struggling along for seven years, she seeks revenge for her fate and returns to the city, where she applies her hunting skills for survival--this time against the good citizens of Tokyo.

Replete with Hino's trademark black humor and unflinching imagery, Hell Baby is a classic horror tour de force.



Tags: Survival , Female Protagonist , Gore , Anti-Hero , Twins , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy

Dorohedoro

Also known as Dorohedoro.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery

In a city so dismal it's known only as "the Hole," a clan of Sorcerers have been plucking people off the streets to use as guinea pigs for atrocious "experiments" in the black arts. In a dark alley, Nikaido found Caiman, a man with a reptile head and a bad case of amnesia. To undo the spell, they're hunting and killing the Sorcerers in the Hole, hoping that eventually they'll kill the right one. But when En, the head Sorcerer, gets word of a lizard-man slaughtering his people, he sends a crew of "cleaners" into the Hole, igniting a war between two worlds.



Note: Includes 23 side stories titled "Extra Evil" and the side story "The Lizard Head and the Magic Whistle."

Tags: Dissociative Identities , Magic , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Amnesia , Dystopian , Revenge , Seinen , Body Horror , Gore , Monster Boy , Urban Fantasy , Surreal Comedy , Demons , Primarily Adult Cast , Time Manipulation , Super Power , Cosmic Horror , Gangs , Body Swapping , Curses , Animals , Nudity , Zombie , Cyberpunk , Gender Bending