Manga like Yamikin Ushijima-kun

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Status: Finished

In recent years, Japan has become the shining light of Asia, with its noteworthy achievements in the fields of Science and Technology, Medicine and the like.

But while there are a great number of rich and successful Japanese people, there are even more who're engaged in a furious struggle simply to earn their day-to-day living expenses -- all the while battling dangerous and money-consuming addictions such as gambling and alcoholism. What will these people do when they require the cash to feed the never-ending desires that are part and parcel of being human? How miserable and dangerous might their lives become if they fall into traps set by black market money-lenders to ensnare just such weak-willed individuals?

Note: Won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 2011. And the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Social Impact Award in 2020.

Tags: Seinen , Crime , Male Protagonist , Prostitution , Yakuza , Tragedy , Economics , Nudity

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

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Usogui

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological , Thriller

There are gamblers out there who even bet their lives as ante. But to secure the integrity of these life-threatening gambles, a violent and powerful organization by the name of "Kakerou" referees these games as a neutral party. Follow Baku Madarame a.k.a. Usogui (The Lie Eater) as he gambles against maniacal opponents at games—such as Escape the Abandoned Building, Old Maid, and Hangman—to ultimately "out-gamble" and control the neutral organization of Kakerou itself.

Tags: Gambling , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Crime , Anti-Hero , Death Game , Martial Arts , Philosophy , Memory Manipulation , Amnesia , Poker , Mafia , Tragedy , Gore , Terrorism , Fairy Tale , Guns

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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 , Male Protagonist , Psychosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Denpa , Amnesia , Anti-Hero , Gore , Body Horror , Homeless , Transgender , Masturbation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Heterosexual , Economics , Class Struggle , Boys' Love

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The World Is Mine

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Psychological

Meet Mon, a violent killer faithful only to his own eruptive desires, and his timid companion Toshi, a demolition-devil with a fanatical thirst for destruction. Their killing-spree across Japan is destined to intersect the path of the enormous "Higumadon", a mysterious beast on a Godzilla-like rampage from Hokkaido to Tokyo.

Tags: Seinen , Philosophy , Terrorism , Politics , Anti-Hero , Gore , Crime , Nudity , Kaiju , Tragedy , Crossdressing , Cult , Conspiracy , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bisexual

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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 , Politics , Crime , Bullying , Urban , Orphan , Prostitution , Terrorism , Nudity , Primarily Child Cast , Time Skip , Homeless , Yakuza , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Hikikomori , Aliens , Photography

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

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Smuggler

Also known as Smuggler.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

The smugglers in our tale--guys who have to clean up the bodies after mob assassinations in which heads get ripped off--are a cold-hearted silent veteran, an old man, and a young guy forced to do dirty work to pay back money he owes the mob.
When the young smuggler makes a mistake by allowing a captured rival to escape, the price he must pay for his error gets horrifically high...

Tags: Seinen , Crime , Criminal Organization

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Ashita, Watashi wa Dareka no Kanojo

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

"One time a week, I will be the girlfriend of [someone]." A bitter love story depicting the realities of love between female college students who earn money on behalf of her and men attracted by her. The first volume is a young office worker who rents the protagonist snow as a fake girlfriend, and draws a distorted love pattern of sota and snow. A substitute girl who plays the customer and the woman of their ideals to the end... Is the distance between two people's mind really close?

Nominated for the Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Web Manga Category.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Work , Heterosexual , Prostitution , Philosophy , Fashion , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Age Gap , LGBTQ+ Themes , Makeup , Boys' Love

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Cycomics

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Kujou no Taizai

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Taiza Kujou is a lawyer that will defend anyone, even the worst scums that roam the surface of the Earth.

Tags: Crime , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Police , Yakuza , Gangs , Bullying , Drugs , Delinquents , Prostitution , Prison , Torture , Male Protagonist , Economics , Suicide ,

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