Manga like Smuggler

The End

Also known as Dead End.

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

Shirou's ordinary life as a poor construction worker gets turned upside down when he comes across a naked girl, Lucy, who's fallen out of the sky! Her strange and unique personality entices him and he introduces her to his apartment buddies.
But after leaving for just a few minutes, he returns to the apartment to find Lucy gone, all his friends slaughtered and an ogre-like stranger standing amidst the carnage.

The big man suddenly pulls Shirou out of the apartment building just before it explodes! Shirou gets pushed down into the sewage system of the city and is saved by a mysterious man...



Tags: Seinen , Super Power , Superhero , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Amnesia

Freesia

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

Freesia is set in an alternative Japanese society that is at war, and has passed a law legalizing retaliatory killings. If somebody kills your loved one, you are legally sanctioned to kill, or hire someone to kill, the victimizer. The manga is set around a character who works for a firm that specializes in these retaliatory killings.



Tags: Seinen , Anti-Hero , Guns , Assassins , Dystopian , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Denpa , Philosophy , Gore , Work , Meta , Nudity , Revenge , Politics , War , Military , Suicide

GOTH

Also known as Goth.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological

Before they were friends, he had already noticed her. He wanted her hands - those beautiful, enchanting hands - to himself. And he hoped that the local madman who had been "collecting" the hands of anything that moved - babies, children, men, women, animals - would get them for him...until the day she asked him to teach her how to smile.



Tags: Anti-Hero , Seinen , Gore , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Crime , Body Horror , Twins , School , Suicide , Primarily Teen Cast

Yamikin Ushijima-kun

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

In recent years, Japan has become the shining light of Asia, with its noteworthy achievements in the fields of Science and Technology, Medicine and the like.

But while there are a great number of rich and successful Japanese people, there are even more who're engaged in a furious struggle simply to earn their day-to-day living expenses -- all the while battling dangerous and money-consuming addictions such as gambling and alcoholism. What will these people do when they require the cash to feed the never-ending desires that are part and parcel of being human? How miserable and dangerous might their lives become if they fall into traps set by black market money-lenders to ensnare just such weak-willed individuals?

Note: Won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 2011. And the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Social Impact Award in 2020.

Tags: Crime , Economics , Tragedy , Yakuza , Prostitution , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Nudity , Delinquents , Criminal Organization

Samehada-Otoko to Momojiri-Onna

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

Toshiko Momojiri—an ordinary kind of girl—falls in love with Kuroo Samehada, a gangster who is on the run after stealing the mob's loot. Toshiko, too, is on the run from a weird uncle. This is the story of two fugitives who meet and fall in love amid violence and gunfire.



Tags: Seinen , Mafia , Guns , Assassins , Survival , Fugitive

The World Is Mine

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Psychological

Meet Mon, a violent killer faithful only to his own eruptive desires, and his timid companion Toshi, a demolition-devil with a fanatical thirst for destruction. Their killing-spree across Japan is destined to intersect the path of the enormous "Higumadon", a mysterious beast on a Godzilla-like rampage from Hokkaido to Tokyo.



Tags: Seinen , Philosophy , Terrorism , Politics , Anti-Hero , Gore , Crime , Nudity , Kaiju , Tragedy , Crossdressing , Cult , Transgender , Conspiracy , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes