Manga like Umineko When They Cry Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch

What is Umineko When They Cry Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch about?

Status: Finished

Each year, the Ushiromiya family gathers at the secluded mansion of its patriarch, the elderly Kinzo. It has been six years since Battler joined his cousins at the annual event, but their happy reunion is overshadowed by worsening weather and an eerie premonition from his youngest cousin—not to mention their parents’ feud over the inheritance. Battler doesn’t hold much stock in dark omens, nor does he believe the tales of the witch rumored to have given his grandfather a fortune in gold…and who walks the halls of the mansion to this day… But when the eighteen family members and servants are trapped on the island by the raging typhoon, the grisly events that follow leave Battler shaken to his core. Is one of his relatives desperate enough to kill for the family fortune? Or is this the work of the Golden Witch?

Note: Volume 4 also contains the tea party chapter for this episode.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Detective , Male Protagonist , Time Loop , Coastal , Maids , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Witch , Tragedy , Gore , Magic , Meta , Primarily Adult Cast , Ojou-sama , Foreign , Butler

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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Onikakushi-hen

Also known as Higurashi WHEN THEY CRY: Abducted by Demons Arc.

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

After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had occurred in Hinamizawa. From this point on, horrific events unfold in front of Keiichi, as he soon learns his close friends may not be all that they seem. Based on the amateur mystery game by 7th Expansion, the story is told in a series of different scenarios.

Onikakushi is the first in a series of manga following the different scenarios of the Higurashi games. It focuses on Maebara Keiichi's arrival to Hinamizawa.

Tags: Conspiracy , Rural , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Gore , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , School Club , Crime , Mythology , Denpa , Shounen , School , Yandere , Gods

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Pandora Hearts

Also known as Pandora Hearts.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius’s coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing. He is thrown into an eternal, inescapable prison known as the Abyss from which there is no escape. There, he meets a young girl named Alice, who is not what she seems. Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn, do they lead only to crushing despair for Oz, or is there some shred of hope for him to grasp on to?

Note: Includes two extra chapters and the pilot one-shot.

Tags: Tragedy , Philosophy , Amnesia , Ensemble Cast , Fairy Tale , Found Family , Time Manipulation , Body Swapping , Reincarnation , Dissociative Identities , Memory Manipulation , Suicide , Time Skip , Twins , Male Protagonist , Butler , Alternate Universe , Denpa , Gore , Magic , Shounen , Tsundere , Yandere , Guns , Body Horror , Female Protagonist , Afterlife , Primarily Adult Cast

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Summer Time Render

Also known as Summertime Rendering.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

A tragic incident calls a young man named Shinpei back to his hometown on the remote island of Higotoshima, Japan. But something sinister awaits upon his return, and a chilling sequence of events unfolds that will have dire consequences for Shinpei, for Japan, and for the entire world!

Tags: Time Manipulation , Rural , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Body Swapping , Time Loop , Urban Fantasy , Demons , Survival , Shapeshifting , Aliens , Reincarnation , Gore , Tanned Skin , Dissociative Identities , Mythology , Crime , Cosmic Horror , Tragedy , Suicide , Gods , Denpa , Religion , Swimming , Love Triangle , Outdoor Activities , Amnesia , Nudity , Historical , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love

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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Gou

Also known as Higurashi When They Cry: GOU.

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

Life couldn’t be better for Keiichi Maebara. Sure, not much happens in the sleepy mountain village of Hinamizawa…but in the three short weeks since moving here, he’s already found some amazing new buddies—who are all cute girls! However, when he discovers hints of Hinamizawa’s violent history, his dear companions insist on keeping him in the dark. Keiichi can’t escape his growing unease—will it be enough to shake his faith in his best friends?

Tags: Witch , Seinen , Rural , Primarily Female Cast , Yandere , Gore , Tragedy , School Club , Alternate Universe , Female Protagonist , Conspiracy , Reincarnation , Time Manipulation , Gods , Twins , Anti-Hero , Denpa , Dissociative Identities , Body Horror , Yuri , Achronological Order , Detective , Time Skip , Drugs , Demons

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

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Majo no Ie: Ellen no Nikki

Also known as The Witch's House: The Diary of Ellen.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Supernatural

"I know all too well...the beginning of that diary I never wrote-"

Ellen, who has been plagued by sickness her whole life, heavily relies on her mother's care and love. When the bond between them decays in a horrific turn of events, Ellen despairs that she'll never get the love she so desperately craves and thinks she's done for-that is, until she crosses paths with a mysterious black cat. The cat offers her powers and a house to live in, which seems to change Ellen's life for the better. But the new witch soon discovers the gruesome secrets within this ever-changing house...

Tags: Magic , Witch , Tragedy , Body Swapping , Demons , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Disability , Orphan , Time Skip

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Meitantei Conan

Also known as Detective Conan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Mystery , Romance

Precocious high school student Jimmy Kudo uses his keen powers of observation and astute intuition to solve mysteries that have left law enforcement officials baffled. Hot on the trail of a suspect, Jimmy is accosted from behind and fed a strange chemical which physically transforms him into a grade schooler! Taking on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa, he attempts to track down the people who did this to him. But until he finds a cure for his bizarre condition, Jimmy continues to help the police solve their toughest cases. Can you crack the case before Conan does?

Note: Won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category in 2001.

Tags: Detective , Crime , Age Regression , Police , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Episodic , Shounen , Heterosexual , Educational , Ensemble Cast , School , Guns , School Club , Magic , Mahjong

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Shiki

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

The story takes place in a particularly hot summer in the nineties, in a small quiet village called Sotoba. A series of mysterious deaths begin to spread in the village, at the same time when a strange family moves into the long abandoned Kanemasa mansion. Toshio Ozaki, dean of the only hospital in Sotoba, initially suspects an epidemic. But as investigations continue and the deaths begin to pile up, he becomes convinced that they are the work of the undead plaguing the village. A young man named Natsuno Yuuki, who hates living in the village, begins to be pursued and surrounded by death.

Tags: Philosophy , Ensemble Cast , Vampire , Tragedy , Rural , Survival , Werewolf , Denpa , Medicine , Pandemic , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast

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DEATH NOTE

Also known as Death Note.

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

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?

Tags: Detective , Police , Anti-Hero , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Crime , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Gods , Primarily Male Cast , Espionage , Time Skip , Shounen , Memory Manipulation , Demons , Amnesia , Politics , Cult

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Kimi ga Shine: Tasuuketsu Death Game

Also known as Your Turn to Die: Majority Vote Death Game.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological

Joe Tazuna has always been the most selfless person Sara Chidouin has ever known, someone she could count on to take a bullet for her. But that trust is put to the test when they wake up restrained to some strange tables and discover Joe holds a key that can set only one of them free. Thus begins a mysterious and sadistic game that will require all of their wits and faith in each other to survive…!

Tags: Death Game , Survival , Shounen , Artificial Intelligence , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Detective , Body Horror

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Kadocomi

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