Manga like The Summer of the Ubume

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Status: Finished

Manga adaptation of the first novel in Kyougoku Natsuhiko's award-winning Kyougokudou Series.

Tokyo, 1952: The bizarre case of a missing doctor and his supernaturally pregnant wife captures the imagination of novelist Sekiguchi Tatsumi, so he enlists the help of an old friend, Chuuzenji Akihiko, a bookstore owner and part-time exorcist who begrudgingly agrees to help investigate the disappearance. They'll face a family's darkest secrets... Secrets that Sekiguchi himself can't escape.

Tags: Historical , Detective , Seinen , Dissociative Identities , Memory Manipulation , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Tragedy , Drugs

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Toukei Ibun

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

29 years after Tokyo was established as the capital of Japan, a series of bizarre and mysterious crimes happening in the city of Kawara. Mysterious flame demon, dark red princess, fireflies seller, puppeteers also appearing near the place of accident. The perpetrator might be spirits or human's dark side.

Hirakawa Shintaro, a journalist, is investigating those mysterious cases with Manzo's help. Their investigation to find the perpetrator brings them to an intrigue inside Takatsukasa family.

Tags: Historical , Seinen , Tragedy

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Mononobe Koshoten Kaikitan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

Shoutaro is a man of few words. He manages an old book store called Mononobe Koshoten and has an admirable young boy named Shiro helping out in store as he spends his days reading. But behind this, Shoutaro has another job; the collection of some rather unpleasant old books...

Tags: Historical , Demons , Episodic , Youkai , Male Protagonist , Gore

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Magcomi

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Mukahi Usagidou Nikki

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

In the Meiji restoration period of Japan, the government bans ghost stories and tales about demons. Despite this, a rental book shop called “the Reflected Rabbit” lends out books about ghouls and ghosts to its patrons.

Tags: Youkai , Historical , Seinen , Episodic , Mythology

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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: Revenge , Crime , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , Tragedy , Classic Literature , Primarily Adult Cast

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