Manga like Sanctuary

Akumetsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Nagasawa Shiina is just an average 3rd year high school student until her parents' company goes bankrupt. In order to pay the bills, she sells herself into prostitution. At her first job, a mysterious masked man crashes the party... and it's someone she knows.

Akumetsu is the story of Shou, a vigilante that's out trying to straighten the corrupt Japanese Government through terrorism with his "One man, One kill" code of action.

Tags: Crime , Politics , Anti-Hero , Economics , Police , Shounen , Military , Gore , Male Protagonist , School , Tragedy , Cars , Clone

HEAT

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Heat is a crime story featuring a young man named Tatsumi Karasawa who suddenly rises in the criminal world of Shinjuku, Tokyo, and becomes the leader of a group of amateurs who show no reluctance to face police and gangs alike. His successes in the Tokyo underground make a chief and a yakuza boss plot a conspiracy to eliminate him.

Note: Winner of the 47th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2001 for General Youth Division.

Tags: Seinen , Crime , Yakuza , Gangs

Crying Freeman

Also known as Crying Freeman.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Ecchi , Romance

He is You Himomura, deadly assassin for the 108 Dragons, the Chinese Mafia. But to the criminal underworld who fear him, he is known as Crying Freeman, the killer who sheds tears at the fate of his victims. Young, handsome, sensitive, an artist, You has been hypnotically programmed by his Dragon masters to kill on command: he cannot resist his masters' commands to kill, his masters cannot stop his tears of remorse.



Tags: Triads , Seinen , Assassins , Nudity , Yakuza , Primarily Adult Cast , Police , Martial Arts

Gin to Kin

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sports

Morita Tetsuo's life changes when he meets Hirai Ginji, who works in the unknown and mysterious 'back world' of society full of villains.

Tags: Economics , Anti-Hero , Politics , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Yakuza , Crime , Tragedy , Gambling , Revenge , Primarily Adult Cast , Poker , Primarily Male Cast , Philosophy , Mahjong

Ouroboros

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery

Ikuo Ryuuzaki and Danno Tatsuya are 2 orphaned boys who were looked after by a person they called 'sensei'. Following their sensei's brutal murder, the two vow to hunt down the killers and the police officers who neglected to properly investigate the case.

15 years later, Ryuuzaki is a police detective and Tatsuya has become the leader of a group of mobsters. Helping each other out behind the scenes, they strive to rise to the tops of their respective fields so that they may exact their vengeance.

Tags: Revenge , Police , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Found Family , Guns , Orphan , Detective , Yakuza , Urban , Crime , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Torture , Nudity , Amnesia , Baseball , Ships

Strain

Also known as Strain.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Romance

Mysterious assassin Mayo, a Japanese man in Malaysia, will kill anyone you want for just five dollars.

Of course, he'll kill you for five dollars too, but doesn't that just even the score? With outcast allies at his side and formidable enemies against him, Mayo is the only one who can stop a conspiracy that stretches around the world!

Tags: Police , Seinen , Mafia , Yakuza , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Crossdressing , Assassins

GANGSTA.

Also known as GANGSTA..

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama

In the city of Ergastulum, a shady ville filled with made men and petty thieves, whores on the make and cops on the take, there are some deeds too dirty for even its jaded inhabitants to touch. Enter the "Handymen," Nic and Worick, who take care of the jobs no one else will handle. Until the day when a cop they know on the force requests their help in taking down a new gang muscling in on the territory of a top Mafia family. It seems like business (and mayhem) as usual, but the Handymen are about to find that this job is a lot more than they bargained for.



Tags: Gangs , Dystopian , Urban , Crime , Seinen , Drugs , Disability , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Guns , Gore , Swordplay , Anti-Hero , Nudity , Medicine

Benkei in New York

Also known as Benkei in New York.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Manga doesn't get much more noir than this. Benkei is just another expatriate Japanese arist living in the Big Apple. Or so it appears. As there "diabolical hard-boiled stories" show, surfaces aren't always what they seem. Flashbacks delve into sordid, secret past lives, and old scored, long festering, emerge without warning, asking to be settled.

And Benkei's secret? Maybe it's just that he's the only artist in town who isn't having fantasies of being a hitman-for-hire. He is one.

Tags: Seinen , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Noir , Guns , Nudity , Drawing , Primarily Adult Cast

Eagle

Also known as Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

It's election year 2000 in this graphic novel and third-generation Japanese-American senator Kenneth Yamaoka has just made the stunning announcement--only a month before the New Hampshire primary--that he will run for president of the U.S. Meanwhile, in Japan, handsome young reporter Takashi Jo loses his mother to an accidental gas leak. His mother's death also seems to end Takashi's chances of finding out more about his father, an unknown American serviceman whose identity his mother refused to divulge. Before he has time to come to grips with his grief, Takashi receives an unexpected prize assignment to cover Yamaoka's presidential campaign--at the senator's staff's request. Takashi is soon to discover the identity of his very powerful father.



Tags: Politics , Seinen , Foreign

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Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

The gangsters of the gloomy country x bureaucrats who ignite Japan!! The "violence" and "power" of this country released by Sho Fumimura x Ryoichi Ikegami of "Sanctuary"!! Kill the instigators of the Okinawa independence movement and sniper Chinese soldiers at the Senkaku. Encourage a revival of the Okinawa gangsters dominated by the Chinese mafia. On the other hand, Kai Kozu, who leads the public security special mission group "BEGIN". He wants to make Okinawa a battlefield for Japan to survive...!?

Tags: Seinen , Mafia , Gangs , Yakuza , Crime , Military , Police , Politics , Nudity , Primarily Adult Cast