Top Blackmail Manga Recommendations

Aku no Hana

Also known as The Flowers of Evil.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

The story opens as middle school student Takao Kasuga receives an F on a math test. But he doesn't even seem to notice because he's too engrossed in surreptitiously reading Beaudelaire's The Flowers of Evil. And the day goes downhill from there. In a moment of weakness, he finds and takes home the gym clothes belonging to sweet, pretty Nanako Saeki on whom he has a major crush. Unfortunately for Takao, there's a witness to the theft: Nakamura, who has a huge chip on her shoulder and a sadistic streak.

As the saga unfolds, we see Takao struggling to decide whether to confess or cover up his misdeeds at the same time that he tries to win over the girl of his dreams, and avoid the blackmail attempts of Nakamura, his new ”BFF.”

Smart, funny, and emotionally engaging, The Flowers of Evil introduces a character who's not a hero, but just an ordinary teenager in search of true love and real friendship.



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Denpa , Philosophy , Love Triangle , Rehabilitation , Classic Literature , School , Time Skip , Tragedy , Sadism , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Shounen , Suicide , Rural , Heterosexual , Writing , Blackmail , Urban , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Nudity

Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e

Also known as Classroom of the Elite.

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

Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom—if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks! Ayanokoji Kiyotaka has landed at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he meets Horikita Suzune, who’s determined to rise up the ladder to Class A. Can they beat the system in a school where cutthroat competition is the name of the game?



Includes Volumes: 4.5, 7.5, 11.5
Included Chapters: 14 Prologues, 13 Epilogues, 1 Extra

Tags: School , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Battle Royale , Ensemble Cast , Politics , Revenge , Fugitive , Survival , Heterosexual , Denpa , Philosophy , Blackmail , Coming of Age , Boarding School , Classic Literature , Conspiracy , School Club , Tragedy , Bullying , Disability , Martial Arts , Rehabilitation , Board Game , Tsundere , Athletics , Torture , Kuudere , Delinquents , Female Harem , Love Triangle , Suicide , Yandere , Teacher

Lonely Girl ni Sakaraenai

Also known as I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In this juicy yuri manga, the goody-goody high school girl Sakurai meets a lonely girl—and ends up entangled in a web of blackmail that might just lead to romance. It's hard to keep up with school when you can never say no to a devious classmate! Note: Chapter count includes five extra chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Bisexual , Blackmail , Kuudere

Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e: 2-nensei-hen

Also known as Classroom of the Elite: Year 2.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom–if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks! Ayanokouji Kiyotaka started at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he met Horikita Suzune, who was determined to rise up the ladder to Class A. Who can beat the system in a school where cutthroat competition is the name of the game? The second year of this intense school drama begins now!



Includes Volumes: 4.5, 9.5, 12.5
Included Chapters: 15 Prologues and 15 Epilogues.

Tags: School , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Boarding School , Conspiracy , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Battle Royale , Survival , Primarily Teen Cast , Politics , Fugitive , Bullying , Revenge , Classic Literature , Card Battle , Delinquents , Dissociative Identities , Orphan , Seinen , Blackmail , Torture , Martial Arts , Disability , School Club , Athletics , Love Triangle , Tragedy , Tsundere , Calligraphy , Kuudere , Suicide , Female Harem , Yandere , Maids

Adabana

Also known as Adabana.

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

After the gruesome murder of two small-town residents, a ramen shop owner, and a local student, the community is left shocked. Mizuki Aikawa, the best friend of one of the victims, confesses to the brutal crime. However, nothing is as it seems, and Mizuki's public defenders believe there has to be more to the story. When the truth unravels, they discover a tale of class, exploitation, and the deeper struggles of meeting family expectations.



Tags: Crime , Suicide , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Seinen , Achronological Order , Prostitution , Torture , Prison , Blackmail , Police , Nudity , Denpa , Sadism

Cloud

Also known as Lost in the Cloud.

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

Ha-Neul has a secret hobby: taking photos of his crush, Chan-Il. But when Hyeon-Un stumbles upon Ha-Neul's cloud storage with its impressive collection of Chan-Il's photos, things escalate pretty quickly. At first confident his secret is safe with Hyeon-Un, Ha-Neul continuously finds himself in compromising situations, making him question Hyeon-Un's true motives.



Tags: Boys' Love , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Yandere , Bullying , Blackmail , Tragedy , Full Color , Primarily Male Cast , Photography , Unrequited Love , School Club , Suicide , Age Gap , Long Strip , Heterosexual

Watashi ni xx Shinasai!

Also known as Missions of Love.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Cell phone novelist Yukina Himuro has decided that, in order to satisfy her fans’ demand for love stories, she must experience romance firsthand. But with her icy reputation, how can she find someone willing to play the part of boyfriend? By blackmailing the most popular boy in school, of course!



Tags: Shoujo , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , School , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Male Protagonist , Writing , Blackmail

Kyou wa Kanojo ga Inai kara

Also known as My Girlfriend’s Not Here Today.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Pent up and tired of her apathetic girlfriend, Asahina Yuni turns to an anonymous online account to let it all out. It’s just another day of doomscrolling after class when Asahina gets swept away in conversation with the beautiful, outgoing Taki. When Taki turns out to be following Asahina’s private account, it’s cute…right? Taki would never blackmail Asahina…right? With every new lie, the web of secrets and erotic desire grows ever-tighter!

Tags: Yuri , Netorare , Love Triangle , Cheating , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Blackmail , Yandere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Nudity , School , Gyaru , Scissoring , Volleyball

Netsuzou Trap: NTR

Also known as NTR: Netsuzou Trap.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Yuma and Hotaru have been friends since childhood. It is only natural that when Yuma is nervous about her new boyfriend, she asks Hotaru and her boyfriend along for a double date. But when Hotaru offers herself to Yuma as “practice”, both girls realize that they’re more interested in each other than they are in their own boyfriends. With boyfriends in the foreground but a secret, passionate tryst in the background, will Yuma and Hotaru try to forget what happened between them or have they fallen into a trap of true love and betrayal?



Note: The chapter count includes 5 bonus chapters.

Tags: Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Netorare , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , School , Tragedy , Bisexual , Nudity , Heterosexual , Bar , Blackmail

Zenbu Kowashite Jigoku de Aishite

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Kurumi Yoshizawa is the student council president with excellent grades and good manners... but in private, she is stressed by her strict mother and the excessive expectations of her teachers. One day, Yoshizawa is asked by her homeroom teacher to check on her truant classmate Naoi, but Naoi only scorns Yoshizawa, as if seeing through her true feelings. On the verge of a mental breakdown, Yoshizawa makes a clumsy attempt at shoplifting, but Naoi records the whole thing... This is a violent coming-of-age story about two people struggling in everyday life with no escape.

Tags: Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Psychosexual , Blackmail , Bullying , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Female Cast , Yandere , Love Triangle , Coming of Age , Torture , Unrequited Love

Guanyu Bei Banshang Lücha Weixie Na Jian Shi

Also known as I Got Blackmailed by the Green Tea Bitch in Class.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Green Tea Bitch (n.): A woman who pretends to be pure and innocent but in fact is manipulative and calculating.

After school ends, a good honor student is threatened by the class's green tea bitch.

"I never thought you wide-eyed goody-two-shoes would do something like this."
"If you don't want me to expose your shameful secret..."

A cute romance that stems from a misunderstanding begins in That Time I Was Blackmailed By the Class's Green Tea Bitch!

Note: Originally completed with 41 chapters (including extras and bonus chapters) on 2022-02-28. A second season was announced on 2024-09-14.

Tags: Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Full Color , School , Primarily Female Cast , Masochism , Long Strip , Gyaru , College , Cohabitation , Time Skip , Blackmail

Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori

Also known as Red River.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Yuri, a pretty Japanese girl, is ecstatic after passing her college entrance exam and having her first kiss with her childhood friend-turned boyfriend. However, her luck soon changes. She starts to notice that water becomes agitated whenever she goes near it. One night, hands appear out of a puddle on the street and drag her into the water! Transported to an ancient village in the Middle East, she is then captured by armed troops and taken to the Queen's palace for a human sacrifice.



Notes:
- Winner of the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shoujo category.
- Includes three extra chapters.

Tags: Historical , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Time Manipulation , Royal Affairs , Heterosexual , Swordplay , Kingdom Management , Assassins , Politics , Slavery , War , Class Struggle , Isekai , Nudity , Desert , Magic , Love Triangle , Tragedy , Medicine , Marriage , Crime , Revenge , Blackmail , Indigenous Cultures , Body Horror

Asahina Wakaba to ○○ na Kareshi

Also known as Asahina Wakaba & Her Chubby-Chubby Boyfriend.

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

Asahina Wakaba, a girl who is a bit clumsy and not good at socializing, gets bullied into asking out the school's biggest, most despised, otaku, Haruto Iruma. However, this experience changes her pitch-black high school years into the ultimate young-love experience.



Tags: Bullying , Heterosexual , Denpa , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Rehabilitation , School , Otaku Culture , Pregnancy , Urban , Blackmail , Body Image

Zankoku na Kami ga Shihai Suru

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Jeremy, a sensitive but outgoing 15 year old, is delighted to hear the news of his neurotic and excitable mother's remarriage to a wealthy British man. However, much to his horror, his sweet-talking new step-father Greg, soon begins to exhibit a disturbing trait...he is a sadistic pedophile and loses no time in making Jeremy his target. Zankoku na Kami ga Shihaisuru portrays the tale of two stepbrothers - Jeremy and Ian - as they each pursue their separate paths towards redemption.

Tags: Foreign , Family Life , Josei , Revenge , Tragedy , Suicide , Philosophy , Urban , Denpa , Body Horror , Torture , Inseki , Blackmail , Male Protagonist , Drugs , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Boys' Love , School , Detective , Marriage , Boarding School , Incest , Rehabilitation , Bisexual

Doushitara Osananajimi no Kanojo ni Naremasu ka!?

Also known as How Do I Turn My Best Friend Into My Girlfriend?.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Minami and Yuzu have been inseparable since elementary school. But now that they’re in high school, Minami just can’t accept that Yuzu may someday get a boyfriend. How come some random guy gets to wake her up in the morning, feed her lunch, take baths with her…? It doesn’t take long for Minami to realize that her feelings can’t quite be described as “friendship” anymore, but how can she get Yuzu to see her the same way?



Tags: Yuri , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Astronomy , Snowscape , Seinen , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love , Blackmail

Oboreru Knife

Also known as Drowning Love.

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

"I don't know what this feeling is … I don't know what I should do now … all I know is, I want him." They fight one another, they chase after one another, they capture one another—a turbulent tale of preteens on the brink of self-destruction, masterfully brought to life by George Asakura!

Tags: Shoujo , Gods , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Psychosexual , Rural , Love Triangle , Tragedy , Mythology , Fashion , School , Photography , Crime , Delinquents , Acting , Gangs , Coastal , Modeling , Religion , Estranged Family , Time Skip , Suicide , Blackmail , Body Image , Band

Norigam

Status: Hiatus
Genres: Action , Drama

Lee Myeong-Jun, Vice Chairman of Hyundo Group, lost his daughter to the Iljin group. For revenge, he adopts Yoon Ga-Ram, a psychopathic North Korean defector. She is a sadistic human weapon born after North Korea's drug experiments. A psychopath girl who killed everyone at the lab and escaped North Korea alone. Yoon Ga-Ram has just been released from a juvenile detention center in South-Korea.



Tags: Revenge , Blackmail , Crime , Criminal Organization , Tragedy , Full Color , Long Strip , Bullying , Adoption , Female Protagonist , Boxing , Asexual , Class Struggle

NINE PEAKS

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action

Gaku Mashio was a first-year high school student who lived with his father. He lost his father in a sudden accident, just as he got suspended from school after getting into a fight. On the night of his father's wake, Gaku went fishing on the shore in memory of his father, but he fell into the sea and was returned 22 years into the past. Gaku's father, Harumi, who was the same age as Gaku at that time, saved him from the water. Harumi's parents (Gaku's grandparents) took a liking to Gaku, and accepted him into their family under the name Gaku Miyagi. His grandparents even encouraged him to go to Seiha High School, same as his father. Twenty-two years ago, the town of Kurei was full of delinquents. Now Gaku and his father will fight their way to the top of the town!

Tags: Delinquents , Time Manipulation , Primarily Teen Cast , Gangs , Shounen , Male Protagonist , School , Blackmail , Crime , Fishing , Urban , Coastal

Sensei no Shiroi Uso

Also known as Sensei's Pious Lie.

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

Misuzu Hara is a quiet, reserved 24-year-old high school teacher whose world is turned upside down after her friend’s fiancé rapes her. Her attempt to connect with one of her students, himself a victim of sexual trauma, results in an unlikely romance, and the repercussions of these events affect everyone around them in often unpredictable ways.



Notes: Nominated to the 22nd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Tags: Teacher , Female Protagonist , Blackmail , Fake Relationship , Love Triangle , Non-fiction , Seinen , School , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Nudity , Psychosexual , Work , Polyamorous , Suicide , Unrequited Love , Time Skip

Netkama Punch!!!

Also known as Netkama PUNCH!!!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Netkama – a male who portrays himself as female online. This is what Kim Seyeong decides to become after reencountering Shin Heejae, the guy who destroyed Seyeong’s gaming career in “Arcadia” a year prior. His plan is to pretend to be a girl in the game, get Heejae to fall for him, and then make the big reveal to everyone so that his archnemesis will also be humiliated out of “Arcadia” forever. But being a dude trying to become the girlfriend of your worst enemy is no easy feat, especially more so when said worst enemy starts to show a bit too much interest in you. Will Seyeong come out the victor of this scheme? Or will he find himself losing to Heejae all over again?



Tags: Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Video Games , Full Color , Primarily Adult Cast , Yandere , Tsundere , Gender Bending , Bisexual , Blackmail , Orphan