Manga like Hen na Ie

Hen na E

Also known as Strange Pictures.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Thriller

At its core lie nine childlike sketches. A pregnant woman’s doodles on her blog conceal a dire warning. A boy’s simple drawing of his home hides a message no child should know. A murder victim’s final sketch becomes a clue that drags an amateur sleuth into a labyrinth of secrets. Each picture is innocent at first glance ­– yet when pieced together, they reveal a web of unsolved mysteries and shattered psyches.

Tags: Crime

Jukkakukan no Satsujin

Also known as The Decagon House Murders.

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

The members of a particular university's Mystery Club travel to a ten-sided house on a remote island...which just happens to have been the scene of a gristly, and unsolved, mass murder. Armed with details of the murder and keys to the property, they set out to dig deeper...but can they trust the "facts" of the case? And moreover...can they trust each other?



Tags: Ensemble Cast , Revenge , Crime , Coastal , Detective , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Gore , Classic Literature

Eizen Karukaya Kaiitan

Also known as Strange Tales from the Handy Shop Karukaya.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Supernatural

Based on the popular novel by Fuyumi Ono, adapted into manga by Kazue Kato of Blue Exorcist fame! Obana, the building maintenance houseman, brilliantly solves strange occurrences haunting homes. Includes six terrifying yet tender horror short stories.



Tags: Youkai , Episodic , Ghost , Rural , Shounen , Work , Male Protagonist

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

SOIL

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like a routine case at first quickly turns into a complex and deadly riddle where nothing is what it seems to be. Will the two disparate investigators manage to solve the mystery before it's too late?

Tags: Seinen , Police , Philosophy , Cosmic Horror , Crime , Surreal Comedy , Aliens , Conspiracy , Gore , Lost Civilization , Memory Manipulation , Detective , Female Protagonist

Yuureitou

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

In the 1950s, an old woman was brutally murdered on the face of a clock tower by her adopted daughter. Two years later, the clock tower is known as the 'ghost tower' and it is supposedly haunted. Through an unusual series of events, a young NEET man named Amano Taichi is attacked by someone or something in the same clock tower, and finds himself bound to the clock face to be killed in the same way as the old woman. Luckily for Amano, he doesn't meet the same fate. He's rescued by a mysterious person who claims his name is Tetsuo.

Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Noir , Detective , Transgender , Historical , Conspiracy , Crime , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Body Horror , Boys' Love , Bisexual , Body Swapping , Adoption , Nudity

Jigoku Kurayami Hana mo Naki

Also known as Hell Is Dark with No Flowers.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Seiji Tohno sometimes sees the people around him as monsters. It's a curse that has driven him to a life of despair...but all that changes one evening when he stumbles across a bewitchingly beautiful boy in a huge European mansion. The boy introduces himself as Shiroshi Saljou, and before he knows it, Seiji has agreed to become Shiroshi's part-time assistant. It turns out that Shiroshi's "proxy service" is to consign yokal-possessed sinners to Hell, which will bring Seiji face-to-face with an unimaginable host of horrors!

Tags: Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Detective , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Episodic , Suicide , Work , Gore

Mystery to Iu Nakare

Also known as Don't Call it Mystery.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Mystery

Totonou is a young man who stands out—partly for his bushy hair, partly for his finely honed abilities of observation and deduction. When Totonou is accused of murder, he puts his skills to work delving into the lives of the cops investigating him and uses his insights to find the real murderer. After clearing his name, all Totonou wants to do is return to his laidback, mundane life, but he can’t help but be drawn into one mystery after another. In his own blunt but gentle way, Totonou is just trying to make sense of a chaotic world.



Tags: Crime , Philosophy , Detective , Josei , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Fugitive , Revenge , Dissociative Identities , Suicide , Bisexual

Mayu no Uta

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological , Romance

"I'll be your mother."

After losing her biological mother, Mayu Kanda was abused by her guardian uncle every day, and could barely eat properly, but she just laughed it off. Until she met a mysterious beauty, Kamakura Komachi, who suddenly appeared.

Is she, who acts like a mother, a ray of hope for Mayu? Or...?



Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Gore , Monster Girl , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Bullying , Tragedy , Body Horror , Curses , Found Family