Manga like Shibatarian

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 , Cosmic Horror , Mythology , Rural , Tragedy , Body Horror , Primarily Teen Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Boys' Love , Curses , Urban Fantasy , Unrequited Love , Gods , School , Seinen , Aromantic , Asexual , Mountaineering

Sayonara Eri

Also known as Goodbye, Eri.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

With his mother dying, Yuuta attempts to capture her last days on his phone. After her death, Yuuta heads to the roof of the hospital to commit suicide, but a meeting with a strange girl leads him on the path to making a movie.



Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on July 4, 2022.

Tags: Filmmaking , Meta , POV , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Acting , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Vampire , Family Life , Time Skip , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Suicide , Disability , Shounen

Summer Time Render

Also known as Summertime Rendering.

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

Hearing the news of the passing of his childhood friend Ushio, Shinpei returns to his hometown in the remote island of Hitogashima to attend her funeral. Little does he know that it is the beginning of a summer full of mystery and horror! No one is prepared for the time twisting adventures ahead that defy life and death!



Tags: Time Manipulation , Rural , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Body Swapping , Time Loop , Urban Fantasy , Demons , Survival , Shapeshifting , Aliens , Reincarnation , Gore , Tanned Skin , Dissociative Identities , Mythology , Crime , Cosmic Horror , Tragedy , Suicide , Gods , Denpa , Religion , Swimming , Love Triangle , Outdoor Activities , Amnesia , Nudity , Historical , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love

Planaria Ningen

Also known as Planarian Humans.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

Yuu Kaneko has lived his whole life on a small, peaceful island, and he wants nothing more than to leave it behind for Tokyo and the big-city life. But one day, that peace is shattered when his fellow islanders are mysteriously infected and start to tear one another apart! Those afflicted regenerate at inhuman speeds, even growing back severed limbs, and nothing seems capable of stopping them. As the numbers swell, how are the few left unaffected going to survive…?


Tags: Seinen

Ryouta wa Otouto wo Koroshita

Also known as Ryota Killed His Brother.

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

When their mother dies, junior high school student Ryouta takes care of his toddler brother Chika and their home. Overwhelmed by all the work, he begins neglecting himself. Without any time to himself, Ryouta comes to resent his little brother and soon the resentment turns into murderous thoughts. Little by little the pressures of childrearing make Ryouta lose his mind. But is Ryouta truly the issue? Or…



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Shounen , Tragedy , Monster Boy , Body Horror , Family Life , Gore , Male Protagonist

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 , Military , Gore , Shounen , Clone , Male Protagonist , Yakuza , School , Tragedy , Cars

Shiki

Also known as Shiki.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

During the scorching summer of 199X, three bodies are discovered for unknown reasons in Tonoba Village, a village of only 1,300 people surrounded by mountains. At the same time, a high school girl named Megumi Shimizu goes missing after coming into contact with the Kirishiki family, who have moved into an old Western-style house. A series of mysterious incidents occurs... A terrifying summer begins!

Tags: Philosophy , Ensemble Cast , Vampire , Tragedy , Rural , Survival , Werewolf , Denpa , Medicine , Pandemic , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast

Chi no Wadachi

Also known as Blood on the Tracks.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological

Ordinary middle school student Seiichi Osabe receives love and care from his mother Seiko. Until one summer an incident changes the family dynamic forever. This is a story of a mother’s love that has gone too far….



Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Family Life , Denpa , Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation , Suicide , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Crime , Time Skip , Amnesia , Bullying , Philosophy , Anti-Hero , School , Police , Nudity , Cosmic Horror , Tomboy , Dissociative Identities , Acting

Piaoliu Jiaoshi

Also known as The Drifting Classroom.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Horror

There is a classroom in the school. No one except me can see it and I accidently entered it one night…After that I have to study in that class with my ghost classmates and ghost teacher who all died in a fire. Why didn’t they go reincarnation but choose to stay in the school? What’s the secret behind the ghost girl that is pregnant? I have to find out truth…



Tags: Full Color , Male Protagonist , School

Seikou Ooja

Also known as Stellar Friends.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Unable to accept the death of his best friend Octo-chan, Yota makes a forbidden wish on a night of despair. What appeared before his eyes was...? The genius Ichinohe-sensei debuts with an impactful serialization! A new sensational fantasy tale of everlasting friendship!!



Tags: Aliens , Tragedy , Reincarnation , Body Horror , Shounen , Dissociative Identities , Primarily Teen Cast , Survival