Top Eco-Horror Manga Recommendations

Jigokuraku

Also known as Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mystery , Supernatural

Gabimaru the Hollow is one of the most vicious assassins ever to come out of the ninja village of Iwagakure. He’s ruthlessly efficient, but a betrayal results in him being handed a death sentence. He has only one hope—in order to earn his freedom, he must travel to a long-hidden island and recover an elixir that will make the shogun immortal. Failure is not an option. On this island, heaven and hell are just a hair’s breadth away.



Tags: Survival , Samurai , Philosophy , Ninja , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Mythology , Gore , Tragedy , Historical , Gods , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Eco-Horror , Swordplay , Battle Royale , Body Horror , Gender Bending , Shounen , Nudity , Arranged Marriage , Heterosexual , Super Power , Travel , Amnesia , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crime , Yandere

Totsukuni no Shoujo

Also known as The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery

In a world split between the Inside and the Outside, those living in both realms are told never to cross over to the other side, lest they be cursed. A young girl named Shiva lives on the other side, in a vacant village with a demonic guardian known only as “Teacher.” Although the two are forbidden to touch, they seem to share a bond that transcends their disparate appearances. But when Shiva leaves Teacher’s care to seek out her grandmother, the secret behind her mysterious living arrangement comes to light.



Tags: Fairy Tale , Rural , Anthropomorphism , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Demons , Amnesia , Family Life , Pandemic , Philosophy , Adoption , Found Family , Body Horror , Curses , Teacher , Cosmic Horror , Gods , Orphan , Foreign , Tragedy , Religion , Travel , Lost Civilization , Survival , Politics , Eco-Horror , Medicine , Centaur

Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä

Also known as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Humanity, in its hubris, has precipitated a devastating environmental disaster. Flourishing industrial civilizations have been swallowed up by the Sea of Corruption, an enormous forest of fungi releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air. Nausicaa, a compassionate young princess, and her allies battle to heal a wounded world and its inhabitants...



Note: Won the 26th Seiun Award for Best Comic (1995).

Tags: Environmental , Post-Apocalyptic , Lost Civilization , War , Philosophy , Survival , Female Protagonist , Military , Aviation , Eco-Horror , Cult , Dystopian , Anachronism , Religion , Politics , Kaiju , Tanks , Ghost , Magic , Slavery , Travel , Tragedy

7SEEDS

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

Scientists had predicted this disaster, and in response, the leaders of every country met to develop a plan for human survival before the meteor hit. The Seven Seeds project was developed out of this meeting. Each country froze a number of young healthy people, which allowed them to survive the meteor. After the computer determined that Earth was once again safe for human life, it released them into the world.

The Japanese government created five groups of survivors: Winter group, Spring group, Summer group A, Summer group B, and Fall group. Each group consisted of seven members and one guide. The guide carried small tubes of poison on their necks to allow them to end their lives if their situation became unbearable. The Japanese government prepared seven "Fuji" as refuges for the groups. In each Fuji, the group would find seeds and numerous books instructing them on survival in the wilderness.

Notes:
- Winner of the 52th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shoujo category in 2006.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Survival , Josei , Post-Apocalyptic , Time Skip , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Travel , Wilderness , Heterosexual , Outdoor Activities , Coming of Age , Orphan , Guns , Gore , Love Triangle , Lost Civilization , Mountaineering , Robots , Natural Disaster , Eco-Horror , Shrine Maiden , Desert , Nudity , Baseball , Aviation , Tsundere , Suicide , Achronological Order , Revenge

Dragon Head

Also known as Dragon Head.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

In the horror of witnessing so many classmates perish before his eyes in a violent train wreck, Teru discovers two survivors in the tunnel: Ako and Nobuo. But salvation from this bloody carnage is far from their grasp. As they try to dig out from the wreck in order to come up with a plan to stay alive, the lack of light and food, combined with the stench of death and decay, will lead one member of the group down a dark and demented path. And with sudden, violent earthquakes shaking the tunnel, escaping to the outside world may lead them to an even greater danger...



Note: Won the 21st Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1997.

Tags: Survival , Tragedy , Seinen , Post-Apocalyptic , Trains , Drugs , Bullying , Natural Disaster , Guns , Eco-Horror , Female Protagonist , Conspiracy , Cosmic Horror , Cult

Fool Night

Also known as Fool Night.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

In a distant future where the sun no longer shines, Toshiro Kamiya gives up his body to a sinister floral metamorphosis for a payday.

The earth of the distant future is covered in thick clouds, and the sun no longer shines. Plants wither, and oxygen is thin. To fight extinction, humankind has developed a technology that turns humans into plants, providing a small amount of oxygen. Is this process sustainable? Is it ethical? Toshiro Kamiya must consider these questions as he’s faced with a difficult choice—save his family or save himself.

Kamiya is at the end of his rope. His mother is ill, and his job barely pays for her medication, much less food. With few options left, he considers the life-changing process of floromorphosis. Ready to give his body up for a payday, Kamiya is about to explore the limits of society’s waning humanity.



Tags: Eco-Horror , Seinen , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Class Struggle , Body Horror , Urban , Espionage , Work , Female Protagonist , Cult

Versus

Also known as Versus.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Centuries ago, humanity’s natural enemy, “Demons,” invaded the world and oppressed humankind. The Great Demon Lord and 47 subordinates known as Demon Lords have since dominated the world, while the human race lives on in fear. In desperation, a last-ditch effort for humanity’s very survival is placed in the hands of 47 people gathered from across the world. These heroes will oppose the demon army and win back humanity’s freedom…or die trying!



Tags: Isekai , Demons , Male Protagonist , Survival , Shounen , Alternate Universe , Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Magic , Aliens , Cosmic Horror , Military , Kaiju , Post-Apocalyptic , Eco-Horror , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy

Wild Strawberry

Also known as Wild Strawberry.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy

Plants have evolved. They can now feed on humans and become terrible monsters known as Jinka. Kingo and Kayano do their best to survive in a Tokyo overrun by plants, but when Kayano becomes a Jinka, Kingo will do anything he can to get her back!



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Gore , Conspiracy , Eco-Horror , Dystopian , Shounen , Body Horror , Urban Fantasy , Shapeshifting , Male Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Tragedy , Primarily Male Cast , Gyaru

Bakemono Yawa-zukushi

Also known as Phantom Tales of the Night.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Welcome to the Thundercloud Inn, a curious establishment that opens its doors to the troubled masses, human or otherwise. But to pay for the stay, the equally curious innkeeper takes payment only in the form of one's deepest secrets…Who will come calling today?



Tags: Shoujo , Ghost , Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Shapeshifting , Anthropomorphism , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Body Horror , Mythology , Gender Bending , Inn , Eco-Horror , Cannibalism

GREEN WORLDZ

Also known as GREEN WORLDZ.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Tokyo, 20XX. An era of intense greenification efforts meant to halt the effects of global warming. Akira has come to Tokyo to visit a girl named Yui, but finds himself trapped inside the subway after a sudden power outage... When he finally reaches the surface, he sees the unimaginable: giant plants attacking humans...



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Survival , Time Manipulation , Gore , Environmental , Body Horror , Eco-Horror

Getter Robo

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Mecha

The first Getter Robo series chronologically. Published 15 years before the rest of the manga, Getter Robo pioneered the idea of the combining and transforming robot.

Millions of years ago, the dinosaurs were driven deep underground due to the sudden arrival of "Getter Rays" on Earth. After evolving into sentient beings, they grew bitter and vengeful at the humans who replaced them on the surface and began plotting their attack on humanity.

Fighting against them is Getter Robo, a machine built by Professor Saotome which uses the mysterious Getter Rays as its power source. Piloting it are three strong-willed young men - the violent martial artist Nagare Ryoma, the psychopathic yet highly intelligent revolutionary Jin Hayato, and the hot-blooded Judo master Tomoe Musashi. Each controls one of three specially designed combat jets which can be combined together in different forms to form three different kinds of giant robots: the flying, axe-wielding Getter-1, the quick, drill-wielding Getter-2, and the tough, tank-like Getter-3.

Tags: Super Robot , Kaiju , Dinosaurs , Body Horror , Amnesia , Gore , Martial Arts , Shounen , Demons , Delinquents , Episodic , Eco-Horror , Guns , Natural Disaster , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , War , Space Opera

Fourteen

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Sci-Fi

A SF/horror manga that takes place in 2200. At a chicken manufacturing company, a certain chicken transforms into a supermutant named Chicken George. And so, a nightmarish journey through a twisted version of the future unfolds.

Tags: Environmental , Dystopian , Animals , Body Horror , Gore , Seinen , Anti-Hero , Foreign , Cosmic Horror , Aliens , Ensemble Cast , Eco-Horror , Conspiracy , Clone

Darwin Jihen

Also known as The Darwin Incident.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Sci-Fi

Created in a biological science lab, Charlie is a half human, half chimpanzee hybrid known as a "Humanzee". Raised by his adoptive human parents, Charlie is now 15 and starting high school. There he meets Lucy, a clever loner who becomes his first-ever friend. But his “normal” life is shattered when the animal rights extremists who freed his mother from the lab fifteen years ago reemerge as terrorists bent on kidnapping Charlie at all costs.



Note: Winner of the 15th annual Manga Taisho Award in 2022.

Tags: Environmental , Philosophy , Anthropomorphism , Terrorism , Foreign , Heterosexual , Criminal Organization , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Adoption , Eco-Horror , Animals , School , Tragedy

Dear Anemone

Also known as Dear Anemone.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Supernatural , Thriller

When Gaku lands on the Galapagos Islands, a paradise is the last thing he'll be experiencing. With creatures undergoing horrific evolutions, only one rule still stands--the survival of the fittest!



Tags: Chimera , Survival , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Environmental , Military , Shounen , Gore , Shapeshifting , Foreign , Eco-Horror , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Male Cast , Animals

Kakugo no Susume

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Horror , Mecha , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Kakugo and Harara are two siblings who have been trained to fight demons, monsters, and other creatures that are now roaming about in the post-apocalyptic 21st century. Along with their superior fighting techniques and specialized skills, they were also given special suits called Zero armor, which were made from the souls of dead warriors. Unfortunately Harara succumbs to evil within the Zero armor, and Kakugo is the only human alive that has the skills and equipment to defeat his sibling.

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Superhero , Henshin , Gore , Tokusatsu , Survival , Dystopian , Nudity , Cultivation , Super Power , Body Horror , Eco-Horror , Shounen , Bisexual , Monster Girl , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Zombie , Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Body Swapping , Samurai , Gods , Succubus

Xiao Mogu

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

“Until the day humanity falls.”

In the year 2020, Earth’s magnetic poles disappeared and humankind was nearly wiped out by cosmic radiation. Within the span of a hundred years, living creatures began to mutate and devour each other while the remaining humans, numbering in the tens of thousands, struggled bitterly in their man-made bases.

In the Abyss, home to the mutated xenogenics, there lived a sentient little mushroom. Because it had been nourished by the blood and flesh of the deceased human An Ze, not only did it take on a similar-looking human form, but a similar name as well: An Zhe.

An Zhe is determined to go to the human base to search for his spore, which had been harvested by humans. Once there, however, he faces the omnipresent risk of discovery and certain death as he tries to keep his non-human nature hidden from the Judges, whose responsibility is to inspect for and eliminate xenogenics like himself. And of all the Judges, Colonel Lu Feng is the most perceptive and merciless—as soon as he determines that someone is a xenogenic, he will execute that person on the spot.

But An Zhe’s mutation goes undetected by Lu Feng’s eyes, and so a tale of humans and xenogenics unfolds…

Note: Silver Award winner at the 12th Chinese Nebula Awards for Chinese Science Fiction.

Tags: Shapeshifting , Anthropomorphism , Dystopian , Post-Apocalyptic , Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Pandemic , Full Color , Military , Tragedy , Body Horror , Cosmic Horror , Denpa , Fugitive , Guns , Eco-Horror , Environmental

Getter Robo Saga

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha

A compilation of the long-running Getter Robo series into one continuous story. Includes several new pages and chapters as well as revisions to old material and a newer, more conclusive ending to Getter Robo Āḥ.

Getter Robo (1974)
Getter Robo G (1975)
Getter Robo Go (1991)
Shin Getter Robo (1997)
Getter Robo Āḥ (2001)

Tags: Super Robot , Anthology , Gore , Dinosaurs , Kaiju , Aliens , Male Protagonist , War , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Cosmic Horror , Space Opera , Body Horror , Delinquents , Demons , Martial Arts , Episodic , Eco-Horror , Guns , Natural Disaster , Amnesia , Lost Civilization , Pandemic , Heterosexual , Space , Military , Zombie , Cyborg , Foreign , Ghost , Tomboy , Time Manipulation , Monster Boy , Monster Girl , Werewolf , Revenge , Post-Apocalyptic , Gods

Godzilla

Also known as Terror of Godzilla.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Adaption of Toho's revival movie 'The Return Of Godzilla' (1984).
After 30 years absence, a volcanic eruption awaken's Godzilla from his hibernation and unleashes him upon the world once more.
After a Russian nuclear submarine is destroyed by the King Of The Monsters, the United Nations meet to discuss the use of nuclear weapons to stop the kaiju. Unfortunately, Godzilla has just hit Tokyo and inadvertantly triggered the doomsday weapon himself...

Tags: Kaiju , Male Protagonist , Eco-Horror , Military , Politics , Urban , Ships

Magic

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Sci-Fi

The first story "Magic" is set in the futuristic 2200's at the edge of the galaxy. Super model Kana has died in a space ship accident when she traveled to a planet on the edge of the galaxy. Her daughter was found 3 years after the magnetic storm has rested. A distant relative of Kana's adopted the young child, who was a former boyfriend of Kana's. Years later, Kana's child has grown up to be a teenager.

In the second story "Silent" is set in modern Japan. A teenage boy is seeking revenge for his brother who was murdered by gangsters. He rides on his bicycle, approaches each of his enemy and then pulls out his pistol. No one is supposed to find out but someone notices him.



Tags: Shoujo , Age Regression , Delinquents , Crime , Heterosexual , Guns , Eco-Horror

Sapiend

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

The year 2045 is the era of flourishing plants.

Parasite flowers mutated humanity into monsters in an instant. Only a few survived and constructed the underground 'City,' but they oppress and suppress the remaining humans as they please. Can 'Ga-Ram' find his brother Ga-On in this chaotic world?



Tags: Eco-Horror , Post-Apocalyptic , Full Color , Male Protagonist