Manga like The World Is Mine

Kiichi!!

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Left to himself at an early age in the slummiest parts of today’s Japan, Kiichi learns how to survive on his own. As a teenager, how can he adapt to a society whose rules he rejects? Unless he creates his own rules… Kiichi, a raw icon of strength and integrity, stands alone against the world’s injustice and becomes an unforgettable character.

Tags: Conspiracy , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Seinen , Philosophy , Crime , Urban , Politics , Bullying , Orphan , Prostitution , Terrorism , Nudity , Primarily Child Cast , Time Skip , Homeless , Yakuza , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Hikikomori , Aliens , Photography

Kiichi VS

Also known as Kiichi VS.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Ever more uncompromising in the face of injustice, Kiichi has become a star. Known around the world for shaking the Japanese establishment, he doesn't intend to stop there. Now at the head of a big company, between school of thought and mafia, whose members number in the thousands, he wants once again to get the population moving, even if it means provoking the powerful of the country!



Tags: Class Struggle , Philosophy , Politics , Crime , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Criminal Organization , Seinen , Terrorism , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Nudity , Torture

Freesia

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

Freesia is set in an alternative Japanese society that is at war, and has passed a law legalizing retaliatory killings. If somebody kills your loved one, you are legally sanctioned to kill, or hire someone to kill, the victimizer. The manga is set around a character who works for a firm that specializes in these retaliatory killings.



Tags: Seinen , Anti-Hero , Guns , Assassins , Dystopian , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Denpa , Philosophy , Gore , Work , Meta , Nudity , Revenge , Politics , War , Military , Suicide

MONSTER

Also known as Monster.

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

Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension.

Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”



Tags: Seinen , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Philosophy , Amnesia , Fugitive , Twins , Noir , Foreign , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Detective , Historical , Ensemble Cast , Crime , Police , Medicine , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Orphan , Adoption , Suicide , Torture , Gore , Achronological Order , Assassins , Episodic

Akumetsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Nagasawa Shiina is just an average 3rd year high school student until her parents' company goes bankrupt. In order to pay the bills, she sells herself into prostitution. At her first job, a mysterious masked man crashes the party... and it's someone she knows.

Akumetsu is the story of Shou, a vigilante that's out trying to straighten the corrupt Japanese Government through terrorism with his "One man, One kill" code of action.

Tags: Crime , Politics , Anti-Hero , Economics , Police , Shounen , Military , Gore , Male Protagonist , School , Tragedy , Cars , Clone

EDEN: It's an Endless World!

Also known as Eden: It's an Endless World!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

In the near future, a large portion of humanity is wiped out by a brutal, new virus that hardens the skin while dissolving internal organs. Those who aren't immune are either severely crippled or allowed to live with cybernetically enhanced bodies. Taking advantage of a world in chaos, a paramilitary force known as the Propater topples the United Nations and seeks world domination. Elijah, a young survivor searching for his mother, travels towards the Andes Mountains with an artificially intelligent combat robot. When he encounters a group of anti-Propater freedom fighters, a maelstrom of unique characters unfolds. Graphic, cyberpunk, and philosophical, Eden is a place where endearing heroes face a constant struggle for survival and violent surprises wait around every corner!

Note: The chapter count included 5 extra stories.

Tags: Foreign , Tragedy , Gangs , War , Anti-Hero , Drugs , Seinen , Post-Apocalyptic , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Cyberpunk , Gore , Terrorism , Revenge , Dystopian , Pandemic , Male Protagonist , Guns , Conspiracy , Gods , Alternate Universe , Religion , Travel , Survival , Artificial Intelligence , Environmental , Heterosexual , Prostitution , Military , Coming of Age , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , Class Struggle , Time Skip , Tanned Skin , Age Gap , Acting , Cult , Suicide , Cosmic Horror , Fellatio , Cunnilingus

Koroshiya 1

Also known as Ichi the Killer.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological

Ichi is a cowardly man-until he's pushed into a mental breakdown and becomes a ruthless killer. When he gets mixed up with the sadomasochistic yakuza boss Kakihara, it triggers an orgy of blood and unmatched depravity.



Tags: Yakuza , Gore , Crime , Sadism , Masochism , Anti-Hero , Masturbation , Seinen , Body Horror , Revenge , Assassins , Primarily Male Cast , Nudity , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast , Martial Arts , Ero Guro , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Psychosexual , Tragedy

Itoshi no Irene

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

Iwao Shishido, who has old parents, is 42 years old and still single. After receiving his birthday present, he began to have a romantic feeling with his colleague Aiko. However, his colleague informs him that she has relationships with multiple men at work. Iwao, who confessed with his last hope, became desperate and visited an international marriage agency that had been told by the president.

Tags: Seinen , Language Barrier

Shamo

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Sports

At the age of sixteen Ryo Narushima was a genius and looked to have no trouble of getting into Tokyo University and joining the elite of society. However, that summer something cracked inside Ryo's head. With a small knife he brutally murdered both of his parents only leaving his sister alive and cowering in a corner. It is at this grotesque incident that our story begins.

Note: At volume 20, the series changed publishers, which created a restart of the chapter numbers. Starting from chapter 61 in volume 26, the first chapter from when the series returned from a long hiatus, the series has been completely written & drawn by Tanaka Akio. While Hashimoto Izou did write the series in the beginning, he had been doing less and less work starting from volume 4. Tanaka and Hashimoto reached a settlement and Shamo continued.

Tags: Martial Arts , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Rehabilitation , Seinen , Tragedy , Survival , Gore , Boxing , Triads , Drugs , Nudity , Yakuza , Delinquents , Gangs , Swordplay , Coming of Age , Prison , Bullying

Devilman

Also known as Devilman.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror

Hordes of demons, once thought entombed forever in the underworld, have now returned to Earth. Evil and corruption begin to seep into our world, as demons seize human hosts. Mankind’s only hope for salvation is to use the demons’ power against them–and only a pure-hearted man like Fudo Akira can do so without losing his humanity. Once little more than a crybaby, Akira now wields the terrible power of a devil, yet holds the innocent soul of a man–Devilman!



Tags: Cosmic Horror , Demons , Tragedy , Gore , War , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Survival , Body Horror , Henshin , Angels , Kaiju , Nudity , Shounen , Time Loop , Amnesia , Heterosexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Time Skip , Drugs , Boys' Love