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 , Dissociative Identities , Amnesia , Rural , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Yandere , Yakuza , Crossdressing , Guns , Cannibalism , Nudity

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 , Hikikomori , 4-koma , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Gods , Post-Apocalyptic , School , Episodic , Seinen , School Club , Suicide , Religion , Cohabitation , Tragedy , Trains

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 , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Surreal Comedy , School , Body Horror , Seinen , Tragedy , Gore , Cosmic Horror , Female Protagonist , Yuri , Proxy Battle , Urban Fantasy , Teacher , Age Regression

OMORI

Also known as OMORI.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Horror , Psychological , Slice of Life

After—something—changed his life four years ago, Sunny has not left his house once, living in his own reclusive bubble. Hoping for a fresh start for her son, his mother decides to move their family out of town. However, when his childhood friend Kel re-enters his life, Sunny finds himself thrust back into a world he once knew. With only three days before the move, the duo come across familiar faces as they go through town—reawakening a dark past that Sunny has tried so hard to forget.



Tags: Tragedy , Hikikomori , Denpa , Male Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Dissociative Identities , Suicide , Coming of Age , Seinen , Found Family , Rehabilitation , Amnesia , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual