Manga like Ultra Heaven

Homunculus

Also known as Homunculus.

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

Nakoshi Susumu, age 34, is living out of his car. Between spending his days with the homeless and his nights in his vehicle, he has little to his name–but not so little that he’ll agree to be the subject of a scientific experiment. An unnerving medical student is stalking him and offering to pay Nakoshi a significant sum to test trepanation: the ability to draw out a sixth sense by drilling into the skull. Nakoshi refuses. When Nakoshi’s beloved car is towed, though, he finally agrees to cash and the operating table. At first, the experiment seems to bear no fruit, and Nakoshi’s life is unchanged. That is, until Nakoshi realizes his vision has warped in his left eye…showing him the twisted homunculus inside every human.



Tags: Philosophy , Seinen , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Denpa , Amnesia , Anti-Hero , Body Horror , Gore , Homeless , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Masturbation , Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Economics , Class Struggle , Urban , Suicide

Jun: Shotaro no Fantasy World

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological

A experimental manga series about a boy named Jun and his surreal voyages. The character is a alter-ego of Ishinomori himself.

Tags: Drawing , Meta , Autobiographical , Philosophy , Achronological Order , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Magic , Tragedy , Nudity

OPUS

Also known as Opus.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

A manga artist planning a shocking surprise ending to his story gets literally pulled into his own work—to face for himself what he had planned for his characters!



Note: OPUS went on permanent hiatus after Satoshi Kon's directorial career took off and was not completed. A rough final chapter was found in Kon's files after his death and was published with his family's permission by Ryu Comics.

Tags: Meta , Seinen , Demons , Magic , Drawing , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Primarily Adult Cast , Isekai , Reincarnation

Heaven's Door

Also known as Heaven's Door.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi

A compilation of short stories by Keiichi Koike.

Knockin' on Heaven's Door
3000 Leagues Searching For Mother
Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour
The Ronin and the Sea
Looper
Kenbo's Diary
Sponge Generation
Airway
Horizon
Landed

Tags: Seinen , Surreal Comedy , Body Horror , Anthology , Dystopian , Drugs , Gore

Asteroid

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Sci-Fi

Take me to the end of the world... said Blaise Cendrars.
Come on, I'll take you, says Keiichi Koike.
He takes you on a trip through time and space to the end of the world that is also but the beginning of it all...

Background:
An unfinished, text-less narrative that was first published in Gekkan Agama between 1989 and 1991. The first two chapters were then re-published in Art Publisher's Error magazine in 2000, after which the first eleven chapters re-appeared in the initial three issues of MHz magazine published by Magazine Five in 2006. The manga was never collected and released in a tankoubon.

Tags: No Dialogue , Mythology , Travel

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

SPINOZA

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Psychological

In a nondescript lounge, a blonde-haired man plays a game of pool, unaware of the maddening trial he is about to face. When a voice behind him shouts, "Spinoza!" he is hit in the head with a glass bottle, knocking him out. When he awakens, he finds himself fishing in a rocky valley. A moment later, he catches a monstrous fish which swallows him whole. Coming to again, he awakens on the floor of a ring, now the contestant of a boxing match in a packed arena.

Again and again the man finds himself in entirely new locations, each time the center of a different conflict. He has little time to act, however, as he quickly finds himself awakening to a new scenario. With no end in sight, the man moves through time and space across different dimensions with only one recurring word to connect them: Spinoza.

Note: Published in PHOTO JAPON No. 26-32 (December 1985-June 1986). Each chapter is a single page consisting of 53 panels. In the tankoubon, each page is a single of these panels.

Tags: Full Color , Seinen , Episodic

BLAME!

Also known as BLAME!.

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

In a future version of Earth, there is a city grown so chaotically massive that its inhabitants no longer recall what “land” is. Within this megastructure the silent, stoic Killy is on a mission to find the Net Terminal Gene—a genetic mutation that once allowed humans to access the cybernetic NetSphere. Armed with a powerful Graviton Beam Emitter, Killy fends off waves of attacks from fellow humans, cyborgs and silicon-based lifeforms. Along the way, he encounters a highly-skilled scientist whose body has deteriorated from a lengthy imprisonment who promises to help Killy find the Net Terminal Gene, once she settles a score for herself…



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Cyborg , Seinen , Post-Apocalyptic , Cyberpunk , Robots , Lost Civilization , Survival , Travel , Body Horror , Dystopian , Guns , Cosmic Horror , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Urban , Time Skip , Artificial Intelligence , Gore , Alternate Universe , Kaiju , Time Manipulation , Amnesia , Agender

Plastic Girl

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

"My eyes were covered by Daddy so I wouldn't know the way. My mouth was gagged and my ears were plugged by Mommy so I would hear and speak no evil. Daddy forbade me from smiling so I wouldn't have dreams and hopes. Mommy spawned me...so I would bear all her sins."

Tags: Full Color , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Body Horror , Gore , Tragedy , Cosmic Horror , Pregnancy , Primarily Child Cast

Joshi Kouhei

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mecha , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

The future. The people that migrated to an alternate dimensional space, seeking a new world to live in, started an armed rebellion in order to declare independence from Earth. Thus, multi-dimensional war broke out with the United Army of Earth. The battlefronts spread, and the fight grew long.

In their desire to break the deadlock, the United Army of Earth decided to launch a large-scale offensive, deploying to the front line vast amounts of "Assault Girls" -- new arms that would render all previous weaponry ineffective. Piloted by outcasts and criminals, the members of the The 13th Independent Assault Girl Hunting Platoon -- dubbed "The Hyena Platoon" -- are tasked with hunting down and destroying rogue Assault Girl pilots, who have succumbed to the corruption that eventually befalls all pilots.

Tags: Seinen , Military , Gore , Nudity , Guns , Super Robot , War , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Cyberpunk , Drugs , Philosophy , Body Horror