Manga like Ultra Heaven

What is Ultra Heaven about?

Status: Finished

In a world where all feelings are artificial and where everyone is a potential drug addict, nothing is really changed: the excess is near at hand and very few substances are considered dangerous and put under a strict control by a hygiene office which has full power on the drug addicts who are in extreme condition.

The main character is Kabu, a little peddler and heavily addicted. Used to any kind of hallucinogenic trip, he is able to feel
the happiness through the ecstasy of the drug, while at the same time hypocritically hating who gave birth to the society that forced him the excess. After an overdose caused by mixing two incompatible drugs, he spends his days looking for stimulants until the encounter with an enigmatic man who offers him a new kind of illegal substance: Ultra Heaven.
From that moment, his incredible journey begins, where dreams and reality are fused in an undivided world, causing him hysterical and joyful reactions and unrestrained pains.

But what really is Ultra Heaven and who's really behind it? Who is the guru who is promoting the meditation as a powerful way to influence the whole universe surrounding us exploiting the quantum theory?

With the help of a special amplifier helmet, Kabu starts a trip into the deep and hidden layers of his conscience, diving into a nightmare he would never discover...

Tags: Seinen , Drugs , Dystopian , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Alternate Universe , Philosophy , Nudity , Cyberpunk , Tokusatsu
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Here is a list of Manga similar to Ultra Heaven

Homunculus

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: Seinen , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Amnesia , Primarily Adult Cast , Denpa , Anti-Hero , Gore , Homeless , Body Horror , Psychosexual , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Masturbation , Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Economics , Boys' Love
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Jun: Shotaro no Fantasy World

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 , No Dialogue , Achronological Order , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Magic , Tragedy , Nudity
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Opus

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
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Heaven's Door

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 Fallen Samurai And The Sea
Loopa
Kenbo's Diary
Sponge Generation
By Plane
Horizon
Landed

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

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: Police , Seinen , Cosmic Horror , Surreal Comedy , Crime , Lost Civilization , Gore , Memory Manipulation , Aliens
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Asteroid

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
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BLAME!

BLAME!

Also known as BLAME!.

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

Killy is a man of few words. He wanders, seemingly endlessly, through a lonely, gargantuan labyrinth of concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other futuristic nightmares, searching only for something called Net Terminal Genes. And he has a very powerful gun, which he uses without hesitation whenever anything resembling danger rears its ugly head.

Who is this quiet, violent, determined man and what are these Genes he seeks? The small communities he finds tucked into the crevices of this towering, dystopic ruin hardly give him leads on his treasure, driving him to find larger enclaves of civilization where people can reveal more about the world he lives in and the quarry he seeks.



Note: Includes 1 extra chapter.

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

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
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Plastic Girl

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: Seinen , Josei , Full Color , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Gore , Body Horror , Tragedy , Cosmic Horror
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Tsurebito

Tsurebito

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

Companion is about the people who escort you from purgatory into the world of the dead. After you die you must go through your personal gate into the world of the dead, and companions are the ones who lead you there.

Tags: Seinen , Afterlife , Ghost , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Gore , Nudity
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