Manga like Yuureitou

Himitsu: Top Secret

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

It's the 2060s, and Japan has perfected the "MRI System," a piece of neurotechnology that, when given the brain of a person who died within the past 48 hours, can analyze the visual memories contained within; even being able to give scientists a look into what the deceased saw in their final moments. Needless to say, this is a highly regarded – and greatly feared – method that has been placed under stringent restrictions and is only authorized for use by a special police unit, Section Nine, for the investigation of baffling or high-profile crimes.

Aoki Ikkou is a talented newbie who has just been assigned to Section Nine. He initially has qualms about delving into people's most private moments and analyzing their darkest fears and fantasies, but as he settles in with his teammates and warms up to his boss, the highly intelligent Maki Tsuyoshi, he becomes more and more competent at his job.

Though quick to develop pride in his career, Aoki still struggles to balance his family relationships and love life with his demanding workload, further complicated when he's drawn into the dark past and murky circumstances surrounding the outwardly cool and self-controlled but internally tormented Maki.

Note: Won an Excellence Award for manga at the 15th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2011.

Tags: Shoujo , Tragedy , Police , Episodic , Detective , Primarily Male Cast , Crime , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Conspiracy , Gore , Espionage , Suicide , Nudity

Mouryou no Hako

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

Manga adaptation of the second novel in Kyougoku Natsuhiko's award-winning Kyougokudou Series.

Right after the war, Showa era in Japan. Kusumoto Yoriko and Yuzuki Kanako who attend an all girls school plan to take the last train to go to the lake. However, Kanako ends up getting run over by the train. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Detective Kiba who happened to be there when it happened, is asked to watch the confused Yoriko. Kiba goes with the worried Yoriko to the hospital Kanako is taken to, and there Kiba meets a woman who calls herself Kanako's sister; Yuzuki Youko. That happened to be the actress Kiba had been admiring, Minami Kinuko.

Tags: Historical , Detective , Body Horror , Youkai , Seinen , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Denpa , Incest , Yuri , Ensemble Cast

MONSTER

Also known as Monster.

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

Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension.

Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”



Tags: Seinen , Conspiracy , Philosophy , Crime , Tragedy , Amnesia , Twins , Noir , Fugitive , Foreign , Historical , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Detective , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Police , Medicine , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Suicide , Orphan , Adoption , Torture , Assassins , Achronological Order , Episodic , Gore

Golden Kamuy

Also known as Golden Kamuy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama

In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.



Note: Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016 and the 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018. Nominated for the 20th and 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Tags: Historical , Conspiracy , Military , Outdoor Activities , Indigenous Cultures , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Politics , Food , Educational , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Male Cast , Travel , Snowscape , Found Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Gore , Survival , Guns , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Male Harem , Revenge , Language Barrier , Anti-Hero , LGBTQ+ Themes , Slapstick , Crime , Prison , Wilderness , Trains , Animals , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Archery , Swordplay , Disability , Suicide , Tanned Skin , Transgender , Twins , Cannibalism , Heterosexual , Zoophilia , Yakuza , Time Skip , Dissociative Identities , Crossdressing

Niku wo Hagu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Chiaki Ogawa, a "meat-handling" YouTuber, has been living with deep worries he can't express to his father.

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Transgender , Male Protagonist , Outdoor Activities , Coming of Age , Shounen , Family Life , Nudity

Ore to Akuma no Blues

Also known as Me and the Devil Blues: The Unreal Life of Robert Johnson.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Horror , Music , Mystery , Psychological

Legend has it that if you take your guitar and stand at a crossroads at the witching hour, the devil will appear. He’ll grab your instrument, play a song, and hand it back to you. You’ll walk away an expert bluesman, but you’ll have to pay the price: your immortal soul.

The year is 1929. Deep in the Mississippi Delta, a young man named RJ dreams of becoming a bluesman. RJ is a simple farmer who can barely play guitar, but when he takes a midnight stroll, his life is forever changed. A phantasmagoric reimagining of the life of legendary blues great Robert Johnson, Me and the Devil Blues follows the journey of a man who really did sell his soul to the devil. Why not come along for the ride?



Note: Won the 2009 Glyph Comics Awards in the Best Reprint Publication category.

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Musical Theater , Foreign , Travel , Anachronism , Demons

Hone ga Kusaru made

Also known as Until Your Bones Rot.

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

The summer they were eleven, they killed a man and buried his body in a cave. Since then, every year, one summer night has marked a ritual: a ritual never to forget, and never to betray. Five years have passed. Their sixteenth summer. The body, now a skeleton. Unraveled lies. A faceless blackmailer. The phone rings and a life is torn apart. The bones, like their crime: never rotting, never fading away. Now, a living hell begins.



Tags: Gore , Love Triangle , Revenge , Shounen , Nudity , Crime , Ensemble Cast , Suicide ,

Change the World: Kyou Kara Satsujinki

Also known as CHANGE THE WORLD -BLOODTHIRSTY KILLER FROM TODAY-.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

Saito Yuichi, a self-proclaimed social reject, has accidentally switched bodies with an elite police officer, Mitsumune Sakutaro! He still has his consciousness, but his body is completely different. Now with a whole new life ahead of him, he thought he could enjoy being an elite detective. But it seems that his new body is hiding a few important secrets!



Tags: Body Swapping , Police , Revenge , Suicide , Male Protagonist , Detective , Cult , Guns , Gore , Crime , Seinen , Assassins , Cars , Yakuza ,

Shimanami Tasogare

Also known as Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare.

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

Not only is high schooler Tasuku Kaname the new kid in town, he’s also terrified that he’s been outed as gay. Just as he’s contemplating doing the unthinkable, Tasuku meets a mysterious woman who leads him to a group of people dealing with problems not so different from his own. In this realistic, heartfelt depiction of LGBT+ characters from different backgrounds finding their place in the world, a search for inner peace proves to be the most universal experience of all.



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Coming of Age , Found Family , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Ensemble Cast , Transgender , Crossdressing , Agender , Boys' Love , Asexual , Suicide , Rehabilitation , Aromantic , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Yuri

Kimi wa Nazotoki no Ma Cherie

Also known as My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Romance

Hoshino Mitsuko is a determined and hard-working woman living in the 1930s, where career women are a rarity and looked down upon. Despite rampant sexism and pressure to “stay home,” she’s determined to prove herself as a successful detective no matter what. One day, she’s approached by the handsome waiter Yoshida Saku, who presents Mitsuko with her very first solo case. Together, the two work closely to solve the mystery, and Mitsuko finds Saku quite capable—but very curious—and takes him on as her new assistant. Can this duo tackle cases and the turbulent atmosphere of the Showa era?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Historical , Detective , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Work , LGBTQ+ Themes , Episodic , Police , Yuri , Transgender , Boys' Love