Manga like The Voynich Hotel

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

This is a collection of one-shots from Douman Seiman. It contains 39 short stories about serial killers finding love, historical figures brought back from the dead, yaoi fan-girl ghosts making suggestions to the men she watches, and everything in between.

Volume 1: Aka (赤, Red)
Heart Food (Heart Food)
Kopi Kopi Luwak (コピ・コピ・ルアク)
Funny Game (ファニーゲーム)
Kakuriyo Jaunte (カクリヨジョウント, Afterlife Jaunte)
Taketori Paradigm (竹取パラダイム, The Kaguya Paradigm)
Facehugger (フェイスハガー)
Heel to Sneaker (ヒールとスニーカー, High Heels and Sneakers)
Vigilante (ヴィジランティ)
Doubutsu Jikisei Renai Shugi (動物磁気性恋愛主義, Animal Magnetism Theory)
Warren=Wilson wa Futatabi Korosareru (ウォレン＝ウィルソンは二度殺される, Warren Wilson Dies Again)
Puuta no Mori (ぷう太の森, Poohta's Forest)
Paracelsus no Manadeshi-tachi (パラケルススの愛弟子達, Paracelsus' Beloved Desciples)
Kaishuu Iin to Genshitsuu (回収委員と幻肢痛, The Collector and Phantom Pain)

Volume 2: Midori (緑, Green)
Columbine de Kyuushoku wo (コロンバインで給食を, Lunch at Columbine)
Futananoka (ふたなのか, Fourteen Days After Death)
Kawazu Curse (かわずカース, Frog Curse)
Inshu Banchou (飲酒番長, Delinquent Drinker)
Koiwazurai Rappart (恋わずらいラポール, Lovesick Rappart)
Yuusei yori Ai wo Komete (遊星より愛をこめて, Love Before Planets)
Keiyaku (契約, Contracts)
Dökk=álfr no Ana (デック＝アールヴの穴, Lair of the Dökkálfr)
Kamisama Legacy (カミサマレガシィ, God Legacy)
Hikki & Gakki (ヒッキー＆ガッキー)
Kamisama Mythology (カミサマミソロギィ, God Mythology)
Suijin Iwa (水神岩, Water Spirit Stone)
Paranoid Android (パラノイドアンドロイ)

Volume 3: Ao (青, Blue)
Grim Dead (Grim Dead)
Maigo no Chiiko (迷子のチーコ, Lost Chiiko)
Renovate at Random (リノベート・アト・ランダム)
Shokuji no Shoudou (食餌の衝動, Dietary Impulse)
Miwaku no Wunderkammer (魅惑のヴンダーカンマー, Wunderkammer of Fascination)
Toaru Kazoku no Urophilia (とある家族の飲尿法〈ウロフィリア〉, A Certain Family's Urophilia)
Fushitai Constraints (不死体コンストレイント, Immortal Constraints)
Kaibami Yuurei (かいばみ幽霊, The Peeping Ghost)
Micheline to Sono Naka no Mono-tachi no Hanashi (ミシュリーヌとその中の者たちの話, The Tale of Micheline and Those Inside of Her)
Houkiboshi no Naruna (ほうき星のナルナ, Comet Naruna)
Tsumenai Houteishiki (積めない方程式, The Uncarriable Formula)
Okeya (OKEYA, Bucket Maker)
Utakata no Hibi (うたかたの日々, Froth on the Daydream)

Tags: Seinen , Anthology , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Yuri , Ensemble Cast , Suicide , Transgender , Ghost , Boys' Love , Nudity , Age Gap , Gore , Memory Manipulation , Twins , Afterlife , Historical , Cannibalism , Aliens , Angels , Disability

Dorohedoro

Also known as Dorohedoro.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery

In a city so dismal it's known only as "the Hole," a clan of Sorcerers have been plucking people off the streets to use as guinea pigs for atrocious "experiments" in the black arts. In a dark alley, Nikaido found Caiman, a man with a reptile head and a bad case of amnesia. To undo the spell, they're hunting and killing the Sorcerers in the Hole, hoping that eventually they'll kill the right one. But when En, the head Sorcerer, gets word of a lizard-man slaughtering his people, he sends a crew of "cleaners" into the Hole, igniting a war between two worlds.



Note: Includes 23 side stories titled "Extra Evil" and the side story "The Lizard Head and the Magic Whistle."

Tags: Dissociative Identities , Magic , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Amnesia , Revenge , Seinen , Dystopian , Gore , Body Horror , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Monster Boy , Demons , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Time Manipulation , Body Swapping , Gangs , Tragedy , Nudity , Zombie , Cyberpunk , Gender Bending , Curses

Oddman 11

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

There are 11 kids in Setsu's school who have special quirks and characteristics, called Oddman. Setsu wants to date the only male Oddman, Itami, so she proceeds to challenge all the other Oddman since they're his ex-girlfriends. In the process, she makes several Oddman fall for her instead.

Tags: Monster Girl , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Yuri , Nudity , Seinen , Female Harem , Ensemble Cast , Meta , School , Bisexual , School Club , Kemonomimi , Heterosexual

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Also known as Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Nozomu Itoshiki is depressed. Very depressed. He's certifiably suicidal, but he’s also the beloved schoolteacher of a class of unique students, each charming in her own way: The stalker. The shut-in. The obsessive-compulsive. The girl who comes to class every day with strange bruises. And Kafuka, the most optimistic girl in the world, who knows that every cloud has a silver lining. For all of them, it's a special time, when the right teacher can have a lasting positive effect on their lives. But is that teacher Itoshiki, a.k.a. Zetsubou-sensei, who just wants to find the perfect place to die?



Tags: Satire , Teacher , School , Philosophy , Ensemble Cast , Meta , Parody , Primarily Female Cast , Anachronism , Dissociative Identities , Tragedy , Suicide , Politics , Female Harem , Shounen , Ghost

Yofukashi no Uta

Also known as Call of the Night.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

One sleepless night, Ko slips out to walk the streets. Life after dark is a revelation! When flirtatious Nazuna invites Ko to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he’s stoked! But then he awakens to kisses on his neck with a little too much bite to them... Is it just the delicious taste of his blood that makes her meet him night after night for late-night adventures, conversation and...naps? Or something else? Then, when a cute girl from Ko’s past shows up and competes for his attention, his budding relationship with the undead is put to the test!



Notes:
-Seventh place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.
-First place of Daruma 2023 Award (France) in the new manga category (released in 2022 in France).

Tags: Vampire , Urban Fantasy , Age Gap , Male Protagonist , Monster Girl , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Yandere , Surreal Comedy , Hikikomori , Heterosexual , Outdoor , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Urban , Monster Boy , Detective , Primarily Teen Cast , Philosophy , Gore , Maids , Suicide , Gyaru , LGBTQ+ Themes , Iyashikei , Boys' Love , Yuri , Femboy

Suicide Parabellum

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

From the creator of Voynich Hotel, the plot involves the main character chasing down a mysterious girl through various levels.

Tags: Suicide , Achronological Order , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Afterlife , Yuri , Alternate Universe , Crime , Tragedy , Ghost , Mafia , Idol , Hikikomori , Transgender

Kurayami Dance

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological

Undertaker by day, biker by night, Kaido Wataru dreams of one day riding at an unsurpassed speed. But the moment he finally reaches 300 kmh, a terrible accident sends him into a 3-year coma. When Wataru awakes, he finds that the Japan he once knew is long gone. Now followed by an otherworldly creature and equipped with a mysterious transplanted eye, Wataru embarks on his very own road movie...

Kurayami Dance is a manga based on the original draft for Shadows of the Damned, which was a loose adaptation of Kafka’s The Castle.

Tags: Seinen , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Time Skip , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Meta , Assassins , Motorcycles , Afterlife , Revenge , Bullying

FLCL

Also known as FLCL.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi

Naota is a normal Japanese 6th grade boy but when his older brother leaves for America to play baseball, his brother leaves his 17 year old girlfriend Mamimi behind. Mamimi is sending mixed signals and advances to Naota, and he doesn't know what to do about her. But to make matters worse, Naota's world is totally turned upside down when he is run over by a woman on a Vespa. During their first encounter, she hits him over the head with her guitar, which then causes a horn to grow out of his forehead. She calls herself "Haruko" and her presence changes Naota's life to even further insanity.



Tags: Shounen , Coming of Age , Age Gap , Surreal Comedy , Robots , Aliens , Slapstick , Mopeds , Baseball

Heion Sedai no Idaten-tachi

Also known as The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Ecchi , Fantasy

It’s been eight hundred years since the powerful Idaten deities sealed away the demons who plagued humanity. To the foul-mouthed Hayato, a young deity, the story is mostly a myth. For this new generation of idle deities, there’s just not much to do as they watch over humans in peace. But when the seal on the demons breaks, it’s up to Hayato and his oddball compatriots to come to humanity’s rescue! Can these misfit gods who know nothing of war rise to the challenge, or is a demon threat in a messy mortal world too much to handle?



Tags: Seinen , Gods , Nudity , Demons , War , Slavery , Slapstick , Anti-Hero , Cyborg , Nun , Urban Fantasy

Vivarium de Choushoku wo

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

The manga centers on three friends who meet up at morning to get to the bottom of their town's "seven mysteries."

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Ghost , Time Manipulation , Ensemble Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Shounen , Nudity , Boys' Love , Age Gap , Artificial Intelligence , Detective , Love Triangle , Yuri , Shapeshifting