Manga like Yume Nikki

Children

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery

Igarashi Tohru, a college student, took a 6-month part-time job in a child care facility located deep within the mountains to take care of children for 3 million yen. However, in this remote area, sin runs deep in the work to be done.

Tags: Tragedy , Primarily Child Cast , Gore , Revenge , Amnesia , Dissociative Identities , Rural , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Yakuza , Yandere , Crossdressing , Guns , Cannibalism , Nudity

Alien 9

Also known as Alien Nine.

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

In the future, alien invasion is a daily occurrence and everyone must be prepared. Elementary School #9 has assigned three students to fight off the extra-terrestrial threat.

Tags: Aliens , Denpa , Coming of Age , School , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Body Horror , Seinen , Cosmic Horror , Gore , Tragedy , Proxy Battle , Female Protagonist , Yuri , Teacher , Urban Fantasy , Age Regression

Shimeji Simulation

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Psychological , Slice of Life

A girl who shut herself in a closet for the last 2 years of middle school realizes she has to go to high school. When she exits her closet for the first time in two years and looks at herself in the mirror, she notices that she grew shimeji mushrooms out of her head.

Tags: Meta , Surreal Comedy , Philosophy , Augmented Reality , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Denpa , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , 4-koma , Post-Apocalyptic , Hikikomori , Yuri , Episodic , School , Suicide , Gods , School Club , Tragedy , Religion , Trains , Cohabitation , Seinen