Manga like Strain

Sanctuary

Also known as Sanctuary.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Thriller

Two young men vow to transform the destiny of Japan, by any means. As children, they survived the horrors of the Cambodian killing fields together. Now, can they topple the leaders of both the Japanese Parliament and the yakuza crime syndicate?

Although cold and calculating when need be, Hojo and Asami exemplify the traits their colleagues lack: loyalty to friends, compassion for the downtrodden...and an irresistible way with women.

Deputy Police Chief Ishihara sets out to expose their ingenious machinations, but instead falls helplessly in love with Hojo...

Tags: Yakuza , Politics , Seinen , Crime , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Noir , Nudity , Police , Tragedy , Triads , Gore

C.A.T.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

The third World War is nearing. Each super power country is going through a communications war to prepare for it, a war to obtain the top profiles' information of enemy countries using the Russian's secret weapon BEAR, China's Hao Long, and the United State's Confidential Assasination Troop, a.k.a. CAT.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Politics , Assassins , Guns , Conspiracy , Revenge

Jiraishin

Also known as Ice Blade.

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

Kyoya Ida is a hard-nosed detective from the Shinjuku Police precinct. He is known in the force as an unreasonable type who would use lethal force to solve cases, making him unpopular with the enlisted and high-ranking officers in the National Police Agency.

Despite this fact, there are some in the force that admire Ida for his bravery and cleverness in using lethal force to solve criminal cases whenever legal means are met in a dead end.

Tags: Seinen , Detective , Police , Male Protagonist , Guns , Episodic , Anti-Hero , Nudity

Texas no Taka

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Thriller

Tags: Gore , Mafia , Seinen , Guns , Nudity

Trigger

Also known as Trigger.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

In the near future the political system of Japan had become a monarchy, and then the king enacted the law of shooting license. The triggers who were arranged in each prefecture and Tokyo were permitted to shoot unconditionally. They shoot the one whom they judged as evil by their firm belief. This is the ultimate hard-boiled action cartoon.



Tags: Assassins , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Gangs , Crime , Urban , Yakuza , Delinquents , Achronological Order , Drawing , Work

MONSTER

Also known as Monster.

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

Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension.

Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”



Tags: Seinen , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Philosophy , Twins , Amnesia , Fugitive , Noir , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical , Detective , Ensemble Cast , Police , Medicine , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Orphan , Adoption , Suicide , Torture , Gore , Achronological Order , Assassins

MUJINA INTO THE DEEP

Also known as Mujina into the Deep.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action

A young assassin girl armed with a katana is hunting down her targets in a busy metropolitan city named Tsukumo.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Swordplay , Assassins , Seinen , Dystopian , Gore , Urban , Class Struggle , Crime , Nudity , Ensemble Cast , Bisexual , Cyberpunk , Tragedy

Rakuda ga Warau

Also known as Rakuda Laughs.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

The series includes:

Rakuda Laughs (Manga Action Lab, 1994)
Dance with Rakuda (Comic Gekiman Vol.5, 1996)
Rakuda Sings (Comic Gekiman Vol.6, 1998)
Rakuda to Warae:
Laugh with Rakuda (Comic Ryu Vol.44, 2010)
Laugh with Rakuda THE LAST (Comic Ryu Vol.45, 2010)

Tags: Seinen , Bisexual , Gore

Tokyo Rinchi Keisatsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Tags: Seinen , Gore , Nudity , Police

Shiganbana

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Thriller

Tags: Assassins , Seinen