Manga like Usogui

LIAR GAME

Also known as LIAR GAME.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

A package shows up at your door without warning. Inside is a letter: "Congratulations. You have beaten the odds of one in 100,000 and have been selected to enter the Liar Game." Along with it comes $100 million in cash. The rules are simple. After 30 days, you must return the money in your possession. Outwit your opponent and steal their money, and you walk away with it all. Lose, and you're left drowning in $100 million of debt. Who can you trust? And who is waiting to betray you? A provocative work that lays bare human nature in the face of big money!



Tags: Seinen , Gambling , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Cult , Ensemble Cast , Conspiracy , Death Game , Transgender , Bullying

Batuque

Also known as Batuque.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Ichiri Sanjo, a middle school student raised in a typical household, lives under a persistent shadow of loneliness and suffocating restriction. One day, after school, while caught in the middle of a convenience store robbery, she is swept into a surreal experience—the very moment her journey of discovery and liberation ignites. Music, combat, dance, philosophy, and religion... Through the lens of Capoeira—a martial art encompassing every facet of human expression—visionary creator Toshio Sako pours his technical mastery into this extraordinary, coming-of-age violent epic. A genre-defying saga of youth begins.

Tags: Martial Arts , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Seinen , Mafia , Revenge , Crime , Adoption , Ghost , Historical

Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji

Also known as Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Ne'er-do-well Kaiji Itou's shiftless existence is suddenly rattled by a visit from the yakuza. Burdened by debt and resentment, Kaiji is coerced into gambling for his worthless life. As the stakes grow higher and the rules become increasingly more bizarre, Kaiji must finally take the future into his own hands!



Note: Won the 22nd Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1998.

Tags: Gambling , Seinen , Survival , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Death Game , Card Battle , Yakuza , Class Struggle , Tragedy , Nudity

Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: One Poker-hen

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Kaiji and Kazuya face off against each other in a high-stakes game of "One Poker," a modified version of standard poker. Kazuya sets forth a gamble of 2,000,000,000 yen! How will Kaiji survive?!

Chapter count for this arc is 101-254 in the original tankoubon.

Tags: Poker , Gambling , Card Battle , Death Game , Survival , Seinen , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast

Tomodachi Game

Also known as Tomodachi Game.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

Play a game that costs a lot of money with your best friends! The key to clearing the game is "don't doubt your friends." However, one betrayal raises suspicion, and the game becomes a psychological warfare! Money or friends?

The ultimate intellectual game manga that shakes people's hearts has been born!



Note: Includes three extra chapters.

Tags: Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Death Game , Battle Royale , Survival , Crime , Tragedy , Revenge , Shounen , Yandere , Ships , Snowscape , Torture , Gambling , Adoption , LGBTQ+ Themes , Card Battle , Ensemble Cast , School , Gangs , Poker , Prison

Akagi: Yami ni Oritatta Tensai

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

While mahjong is a game that is often played with family and friends, it is also a game that is played in the darkest corners of society. Nangou is a compulsive gambler who has accumulated debt over three million yen. In a last ditch attempt to clear his record, he decides to wager his life on a game of mahjong with the mafia. Unfortunately, as the game progresses, Nangou only moves further from the prize and closer to death.

When all hope seems lost, the game parlor is suddenly intruded upon by Shigeru Akagi, a young boy on the run from the police. Desperate to turn the game around, Nangou hands the game over to Akagi after teaching him a few of the rules. The mafia can only smirk as Akagi sits down to play. However, they soon come to learn that Akagi is a natural born gambler. An imposing figure who does not fear death. One who is destined to become a legend.



Tags: Gambling , Mahjong , Death Game , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , Kaiju , Tsundere , Anti-Hero , Yakuza , Time Skip , Historical , Afterlife , Gods , Demons , Board Game

One Outs

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Sports

The story begins when Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the fictional Lycaons in Japan's Pacific League, heads to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to train and bring himself out of a slump. There, he meet Tōa Tokuchi, a 134-kmph (83 miles per hour) pitcher and the undisputed king of a gambling form of baseball called "One Out." At Kojima's urging, Tokuchi signs up with the Lycaons under an unusual contract: he gets 5,000,000 yen (about US$46,000) for every out he pitches, but loses 50,000,000 yen (US$460,000) for every point he gives up.

Notes:
- The main story was completed in 168 chapters with 19 volumes on 2006-10-19. An additional side story Giwaku no All Star Sen Hen (疑惑のオールスター戦編) was serialized from 2008-2009 and published as volume 20 of the series.
- Chapter count includes an additional chapter included in the 7th volume.

Tags: Seinen , Baseball , Gambling , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Philosophy

Hanma Baki

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Baki trains for the the final showdown between him and his father.

Tags: Martial Arts , Shounen , Gore , Boxing , Cultivation , Demons , Primarily Male Cast , Dinosaurs , Crime , Military , Cannibalism ,

Imawa no Kuni no Alice

Also known as Alice in Borderland.

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

Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future feels like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can’t be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn’t an empty paradise, it’s a vicious game. And the only way to survive is to play.

Note: Chapter count includes 22 side story chapters.

Tags: Tragedy , Death Game , Survival , Philosophy , Amnesia , Urban , Male Protagonist , Gore , Battle Royale , Gambling , Afterlife , Alternate Universe , Shounen , Isekai , Dystopian , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Revenge , Guns , Outdoor Activities , Heterosexual , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Martial Arts , Drugs , Gods , Parkour , Mahjong , Nudity

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