Manga like The Flowers of Evil

What is The Flowers of Evil about?

Status: Finished

The story opens as middle school student Takao Kasuga receives an F on a math test. But he doesn't even seem to notice because he's too engrossed in surreptitiously reading Beaudelaire's The Flowers of Evil. And the day goes downhill from there. In a moment of weakness, he finds and takes home the gym clothes belonging to sweet, pretty Nanako Saeki on whom he has a major crush. Unfortunately for Takao, there's a witness to the theft: Nakamura, who has a huge chip on her shoulder and a sadistic streak.

As the saga unfolds, we see Takao struggling to decide whether to confess or cover up his misdeeds at the same time that he tries to win over the girl of his dreams, and avoid the blackmail attempts of Nakamura, his new ”BFF.”

Smart, funny, and emotionally engaging, The Flowers of Evil introduces a character who's not a hero, but just an ordinary teenager in search of true love and real friendship.

Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Philosophy , Denpa , Rehabilitation , Love Triangle , School , Classic Literature , Tragedy , Time Skip , Male Protagonist , Sadism , Shounen , Bullying , Suicide , Writing , Heterosexual , Urban , Blackmail , Female Protagonist , Rural , Nudity , Crossdressing

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Manga Planet

Oyasumi Punpun

Also known as Goodnight Punpun.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town.
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back.
He wants to find some porn.
That’s what he wants, but what does he get…?

Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Tragedy , Philosophy , Denpa , Suicide , Psychosexual , Urban , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Anti-Hero , Time Skip , Fugitive , Surreal Comedy , School , Cult , Meta , Work , Nudity , Gods , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Ghost

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No reading links available

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

Where to read?

Pixiv Comic

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Onani Master Kurosawa

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Kakeru Kurosawa is an asocial junior high school student. He rarely associates with his classmates, and he looks down on them. But this behavior is topped off by a certain bad habit, his closely guarded secret: every day after school, he sneaks in to the rarely used girls' toilet on the 3rd floor and masturbates in a stall. Kakeru's shadowy routine remains undisturbed until one day, when a diminutive girl from his class, Aya Kitahara, almost discovers him. Their meeting begins a coming-of-age story dealing with blackmail, bullying, revenge, heartbreak, and ultimately, redemption.

Note: Includes a side story.

Tags: Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Masturbation , Bullying , Philosophy , School , Revenge , Tragedy , Anti-Hero , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Delinquents , Tsundere

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No reading links available

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Shounen no Abyss

Also known as Boy's Abyss.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

In a town with nothing, in the middle of a daily life with seemingly no signs of change, high schooler Reiji Kurose was "just" living. Family, dreams for the future, childhood friends. All of them were binding him down to that city. He thought he would "just" keep on living like that. Until he met her. Is there hope in living? Is there light waiting ahead? It's the start of a boy meets girl series which reflects the "now".

Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Tragedy , Suicide , Seinen , Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Crime , Yandere , Age Gap , Nudity , Heterosexual , Teacher , Idol , LGBTQ+ Themes , Ensemble Cast , Female Harem , Rural , Bullying , Incest , Marriage , Hikikomori , Time Skip , Natural Disaster , Boys' Love , Transgender

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Tonari no Young Jump

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Happiness

Also known as Happiness.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Nothing interesting is happening in Makoto Ozaki’s first year of high school. His life is a series of quiet humiliations: low-grade bullies, unreliable friends, and the constant frustration of his adolescent lust. But one night, a pale, thin girl knocks him to the ground in an alley and offers him a choice. Now everything is different. Daylight is searingly bright. Food tastes awful. And worse than anything is the terrible, consuming thirst. The tiny shames of his old life have been replaced by two towering horrors: the truth of what will slake his awful craving and high school itself.

Tags: Vampire , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Gore , Cult , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Torture , Cannibalism , Urban Fantasy , Body Horror , Urban , Shounen , Delinquents , School , Nudity , Bullying , Religion

Where to read?

Pocket Magazine Manga Planet

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Bokutachi ga Yarimashita

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life , Thriller

Although satisfied with his average lifestyle, Tobio Masubuchi wishes for a long and fun existence, hoping that nothing will get in his way. Alongside his good friends Sho Isami, Yuki "Maru" Maruyama, and Hidero "Paisen" Kosaka, the group passes each day worry free, doing as they please. But when delinquents from a neighboring school overhear Maru saying that they should die, their troubles begin.

After being kidnapped and brutally assaulted, Maru is found by his friends, who are shocked to see what has been done to him. Angry, Tobio proposes that they take immediate revenge, and after deciding how they should do so, the four put their plan into action. But when what should have been just a prank turns deadly, Tobio's aspirations for an undisturbed life are shattered forever.

Tags: Seinen , Tragedy , Terrorism , Philosophy , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Satire , Revenge , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Delinquents , Ensemble Cast , Suicide , Nudity , Time Skip , Crime , Age Gap

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No reading links available

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Boku wa Mari no Naka

Also known as Inside Mari.

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

A young man is a shut-in, with nothing to do but kill time. The sole pleasure in his life is following home an angelic high school girl he sees every day in a convenience store. Today, like any other day, he follows her, but…

Tags: Female Protagonist , Body Swapping , Dissociative Identities , Gender Bending , Seinen , Philosophy , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Hikikomori , Primarily Female Cast , Rehabilitation , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Masturbation , Primarily Teen Cast , Nudity , Unrequited Love , Bullying , Tragedy

Where to read?

Mangas.io

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Okaeri Alice

Also known as Welcome Back, Alice.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

The manga centers on three shy middle school students: Youhei, Kei, and Yui. All three have been together since kindergarten, and are childhood friends. As Youhei starts to become conscious that Kei is a girl, he witnesses a scene that he can't quite believe.

Where to read?

Pocket Magazine

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Sundome

Also known as Sundome.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Psychological , Romance

The "Roman Club," a school group interested in the occult, to which he's practically enslaved, has become boring for one Hideo Aiba. In fact, he finds his entire existence pretty tiresome until, one day, when a girl named Kurumi Sahana shows up and wants to join up. When the two are left alone in the club classroom, Kurumi makes a special "request" of Hideo, which makes him (understandably) freak out. Though he doesn't know what to think, one thing's for sure, Hideo's life just became anything but boring.

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No reading links available

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Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Romance

Airi Sezaki and Hinako Hanamura. In the class, they are in a different group and caste with no interaction, but they have a secret that cannot be said to the others. The girls' secret is that of love, selfishness and fetishes...

Note: Includes 5 extra chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Bullying , Primarily Female Cast , Yandere , School , Denpa , Torture , Hikikomori , Suicide , Primarily Teen Cast , Psychosexual , Ero Guro , Nudity , Urban , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Fugitive , Crime , Survival , Revenge , Gyaru

Where to read?

Pocket Magazine

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