Manga like Jigoku ni Ochita Kyoushidomo

Ozanari-kun

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

Ozanari-kun is a story in the style of traditional gag manga about the titular character's adventures working in the sales promotion department of Murakami Co.

A different take on the classic office atmosphere, his boss, section chief Yabusaka has to endure Ozanaris physical and verbal abuse every day. Within his lonely heart, complicated feelings start to bloom.

Tags: Slapstick , Seinen , Work , Band , LGBTQ+ Themes , Boys' Love , Surreal Comedy , Satire , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast

Watashi wa Baka ni Naritai

Also known as I Wish I Was Stupid .

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

Originally published in 1982, I Wish I Was Stupid surpasses in shamelessness the artist’s cult classic Pits of Hell. With 13 stories about love, family, work and raging frustration culled from avant-garde porn mags and Garo, Ebisu probes dangerously deep into the inner mucosal of the human condition. If you’ve ever considered setting your child on fire, pooping with double buttholes, or windmilling your dingdong, this book is for you.

Tags: Seinen , Anthology

Jounetsu no Penguin Gohan

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Often cited as the origin of the heta-uma (or 'bad but good' ) style of manga art, Penguin Gohan is a classic Garo gag manga featuring the crude, lewd, and gory exploits of a penguin and his family. It is a wild anthology of 20 surreal stories characterized by a grotesque humor bordering on ero-guro and nonsense.

In Penguin Gohan, the literary genius of the eclectic Shigesato Itoi combines with the singular art of Teruhiko Yumura, one of the greatest masters of Japanese underground illustration.

The series has been published three times since its original run in Garo, and each edition has been slightly different: first by JOHO Center Publishing in 1980 (Jounetsu no Penguin Gohan), by Chikuma Bunko in 1993 (Kanpon Jounetsu no Penguin Gohan), and by Hobonichi Books in 2011 (Sayonara Penguin).

Tags: Seinen , Animals

Tokyo Zombie

Also known as Tokyo Zombie.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Horror

A horror-comedy manga about two blue-collar factory workers and jiu-jitsu experts who deal with a zombie uprising in Tokyo. When the story begins, Fujio and Mitsuo dream of training in martial arts overseas and becoming famous. When they accidentally kill their overbearing boss, they bury him at a man-made garbage mountain known as Dark Fuji, where tons of rotting garbage have been contaminated with industrial waste which, naturally, transforms the bodies of the dead into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies.

Fuji and Mitsuo try their best to survive in this horrific new landscape, but the hapless pair become separated after an idiotic mistake involving potato chips and a stray dog. A few years later, post-apocalyptic Tokyo has become a feudalistic society, in which the rich have enslaved the lower classes, and created gladiator death matches, pitting zombies against slaves, and Fuji and Misuo meet again.




Tags: Seinen , Zombie , Martial Arts

Daihakken

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

A collection of short stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi.

Otoko Ippatsu (男一発, Just a Man)
Haittemasu (はいってます, Occupied)
Wakaremichi (わかれみち, Forked Road)
Sasori (さそり)
Shiiku (飼育)
Tokyo Ubasuteyama (東京うばすて山, Abandon the Old in Tokyo)
Kemono Namida (けもの・なみだ)
Kotsu Kotsu Kotsu (コツコツコツ, Click Click Click)
ORIZURU -S-kun e no Tegami- (ORIZURU -S君への手紙-)
Saikai (再会)
Itoshi no Monkey (いとしのモンキー, Beloved Monkey)
Goodbye (グッドバイ)
Daihakken (大発見)

Several of the stories in this collection were published in English by Drawn & Quarterly in the collections Abandon the Old in Tokyo and Goodbye in 2009.



Tags: Tragedy , Anthology , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical