Manga like Tengoku ni Musubu Koi

Shoujo Tsubaki

Also known as Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

The basic plot is that an orphan girl named Midori is taken in (read: enslaved) by a traveling freak show. The freak show includes such unsavory characters as a mummyman, a snake woman, and a drooling man with no limbs. The owner of the freak show, the eponymous Mr. Arashi, is a strict man who allows his freaks very little freedom or joy in life. He is especially cruel to Midori, our heroine. Midori works, not as a freak since she is normal, but as a sort of caretaker of the freaks.



Tags: Ero Guro , Body Horror , Gore , Circus , Heterosexual , Nudity , Age Gap , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Crossdressing , Love Triangle , Trains , Amputation

Tomino no Jigoku

Also known as Tomino the Damned.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological

The manga centers on a set of twins with an older brother and younger sister. The twins were born with a set of odd matching birthmarks on their sides. After their mother abandoned them their stepfather sold them off to a freak show. The story tells what becomes of the twins afterward.



Tags: Seinen , Twins , Ero Guro , Circus , Historical , Tragedy , Nudity , Body Horror , Cult , Gore , Adoption

Sakuran

Also known as Sakuran.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Romance

The story follows Kiyoha, sold into a brothel as a child and forced to work as a maid and her rise to prominence as one of the top-ranking courtesans in Yoshiwara. The allure of the "flower and willow world" as it was called by artists in the day is underscored by the very real tragedy, heartbreak and difficult lives led by those seemingly glamorous courtesans. Will Kiyoha's fox-like wiles give her a chance to break free of her gilded cage? Or will her fighting spirit ruin her chances of ever escaping the brothel?



Tags: Oiran , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Historical , Tragedy , Prostitution , Time Skip , Orphan , Nudity