Top Ero Guro Manga Recommendations

Franken Fran

Also known as Franken Fran.

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

Somewhere, out in the sticks of rural Japan, there is a mysterious manor that is home to the greatest surgeon who ever lived. But when the surgeon goes missing, his reanimated daughter, Fran, takes up the family profession, and despite her Frankenstein-like ways, cares deeply for her patients and holds steadfast to the Hippocratic Oath. Fran’s creed? “All lives must be saved, no matter the cost!”

Join Fran, her twisted sister Veronica, and the rest of her monstrous entourage in a gruesomely hilarious tale that would put Mary Shelley to shame! Because for Franken Fran, the ends always justify the means, no matter what ungodly creations emerge from her lab.



Tags: Episodic , Body Horror , Female Protagonist , Medicine , Seinen , Parody , Urban Fantasy , Gore , Satire , Monster Girl , Philosophy , Cannibalism , Educational , Chimera , Ero Guro , Nudity , Superhero , Zombie , School ,

Koroshiya 1

Also known as Ichi the Killer.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological

Ichi is a cowardly man-until he's pushed into a mental breakdown and becomes a ruthless killer. When he gets mixed up with the sadomasochistic yakuza boss Kakihara, it triggers an orgy of blood and unmatched depravity.



Tags: Yakuza , Gore , Crime , Sadism , Masochism , Anti-Hero , Masturbation , Seinen , Body Horror , Revenge , Assassins , Primarily Male Cast , Nudity , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast , Martial Arts , Ero Guro , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Psychosexual , Tragedy

Kami no Kodomo

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

The latest work by the Nishioka siblings depicts the gruesome life story of a ruthless and brilliant serial killer as he grows up from a sociopathic child to a messiah-like figure.

Tags: Gore , Cult , Ero Guro , Anti-Hero , Tragedy , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Cannibalism , Coming of Age , Nudity , Josei , Scat , Bullying , Crossdressing , Suicide

Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Romance

Airi Sezaki and Hinako Hanamura. In the class, they are in a different group and caste with no interaction, but they have a secret that cannot be said to the others. The girls' secret is that of love, selfishness and fetishes...

Note: Includes 5 extra chapters.

Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Bullying , Primarily Female Cast , Yandere , Torture , Denpa , Hikikomori , Psychosexual , School , Suicide , Primarily Teen Cast , Ero Guro , Nudity , Urban , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Fugitive , Crime , Revenge , Survival , Gyaru

Litchi☆Hikari Club

Also known as Lychee Light Club.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Psychological , Romance

For the sooty industrial town's lads there's only one point of light: the Light Club, a secret brotherhood they've organized in an abandoned factory. They're on the verge of booting up their crowning achievement, a "thinking machine" fueled by lychee fruits. At the same time, the middle schoolers' cooties-fearing solidarity is devolving into a downright National Socialist muck of murderous paranoia, perverse aestheticism, and (not always) suppressed homosexuality.



Tags: Tragedy , Ero Guro , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Cult , Conspiracy , Artificial Intelligence , Yandere , Boys' Love , Crime , Robots , Nudity , Philosophy , Historical

Ijousha no Ai

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Thriller

Selfish, unreasonable, and violent "love". What is a beautiful emotion can quickly become something destructive.
Kazumi Ichinose, 16 years old, high school student. Still haunted by the death of his elementary school crush, he tries to fall in love - only to find out the ghosts of his past are back for him.

Tags: Yandere , Torture , Ero Guro , Time Skip , Tragedy , Gore , Heterosexual , Shounen , School , Amnesia , Nudity , Netorare

Kichikujima

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

University students were shipwrecked and forced to board a deserted island with a serial killer in a pig mask named Kaoru and the rest of his family. But things are much more than what they seemed on this island.

Tags: Gore , Tragedy , Body Horror , Seinen , Gods , Primarily Adult Cast , Ero Guro

Shoujo Tsubaki

Also known as Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

The basic plot is that an orphan girl named Midori is taken in (read: enslaved) by a traveling freak show. The freak show includes such unsavory characters as a mummyman, a snake woman, and a drooling man with no limbs. The owner of the freak show, the eponymous Mr. Arashi, is a strict man who allows his freaks very little freedom or joy in life. He is especially cruel to Midori, our heroine. Midori works, not as a freak since she is normal, but as a sort of caretaker of the freaks.



Tags: Ero Guro , Circus , Gore , Body Horror , Heterosexual , Nudity , Age Gap , Magic , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Urban Fantasy , Crossdressing , Love Triangle , Amputation , Trains

Fraction

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological

The first half of the book is made up by the titular story, a serial killer thriller that gets all kinds of meta and crazy as it progresses. The second half of the book consists of a short interview with Kago (and Ryuichi Kasumi, a Japanese crime fiction writer) and a number of short stories.

Tags: Crime , Meta , Gore , Ero Guro , Work , Drawing , Surreal Comedy , Body Horror , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Disability , Satire , Nudity , Suicide ,

Warau Kyuuketsuki

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

Volume 1 : The Laughing Vampire.
While a young boy, just resurrected as a vampire, commits acts of awful ferocity, the city around him shows all its perversion. The adults abuse their power, the boys degenerate and use all the available means to achieve their goal to give vent to their low instincts. Whoever can't understand and make opposition is doomed to change or becoming crazy. So which is the real horror? The vampire who kills in order to feed himself or the crawling disease hidden in society, which slowy corrupts without being noticed?

Volume 2 : Paradise.
Following the events narrated in the first volume, Luna and Konosuke are now living together with the old woman vampire as fellows, as lovers, in a diabolic innocence, killing for quieting their thirst for blood, joining death and love under the dream of eternal youth. Meanwhile, a young boy named Makoto is looking for his lost sister Miko, who disappeared years ago in mysterious circumstances. But what really happened to that girl who liked eating grubs and dreamed of becoming one of them? And is there really a terrible secret that someone is hiding? The paths of all the characters will dramatically collide, bringing unexpected consequences after the things are gradually revealed.

A story suspended between weirdness and decadence, showing a clear nostalgia for German cinematography and Federico Fellini, where blood is used to trace a great and only apparently amoral story.

Tags: Seinen , Vampire , Gore , Ero Guro , Body Horror , Historical ,

Paranoia Star

Also known as Paranoia Star.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

Collection of short stories by Maruo.

It's almost impossible to summarize them, most of them aren't really plot driven but they deal with abnormal states of the mind and are permeated by a general surrealism.

As in many of this works, he shows references to the art and culture of 1920s and 1930s Japan and Germany which had inspired his own artistic style.

Tags: Ero Guro , Gore , War , Military , Foreign , Body Horror , Robots , Tragedy , Historical

Mad Chimera World

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

Set in a ruined world overrun with chimerical creatures where the female creatures eat the males. Two creatures explore the land: Usagi, the elder sister, protects her brother Mitsuki, a curious chronicler who is able to read the books in their secret hiding place to know that the world was once different.

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Chimera , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Seinen , Nudity , Monster Girl , Dystopian , Crossdressing , Gore , Ero Guro

Garden

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Horror , Psychological , Sci-Fi

"Garden" is a collection of Furuya Usamaru's “indie” shorts that were published in Comic Cue, Manga Erotics and GARO respectively. The title is obviously a reference to Hieronymus Bosch’s famous triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, with the first story being a homage to said painting. The other stories range from absurd comedies to fantasy to horror. It’s a very eclectic mixture, but make no mistake: artistically, Garden might just be Furuya’s most accomplished work after The Music of Marie.

Tags: Seinen , Tragedy , Body Horror , Religion , Cosmic Horror , Gore , Anthology , Ero Guro ,

Heroine wa Zetsubou Shimashita.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Ecchi , Fantasy , Psychological

A high school girl gets transported to a virtual reality where she gets killed by monsters & returns to the real world, again & again.



Tags: Death Game , School , Torture , Slavery , Yandere , Shounen , Gore , Ero Guro

Kasutoro Shiki

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Horror

A collection of some of Kago Shintaro's works.

1. Oral Cavity Infectious Syndrome
On the surreal premise that women's mouths take the often weird shape of their partner's penis, Yoriko starts an investigation to discover with whom her boyfriend is cheating.

2. Local Tourist Information
A guide to an extraterritorial region of Japan.

3. Back Streets in Front of the Station
A girl goes crazy about reverse sides of different things, including streets, cars, and animals.

4. Genesis
The biblical story of the Genesis revised and depicted with the usual unholy irony of Kago, with delirious situations quickly following one each other.

5. Superglue
What happens when you step on something so disgusting that you never want to uncover it.

6. Akutagawa in Front of the Station
A surreal homage to the writings of Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

7. When All's Said and Done
A gruesome tale of hardened faeces, and a limbless girl.

8. Multiplication
A panel of a manga on an otherwise blank page becomes self-aware and decides to create other panels so it won't be lonely. What begins as a single panel quickly turns into a story of infinite possibilities.

9. Abstraction
A one-shot that utilizes distilled surrealism to smash the fourth wall and every other wall it throws up. An experiment in the distinctly non-linear nature of comics. The story is not important; its visual presentation is its substance.

10. Blow-Up
Macrocosm in a microcosm in a macrocosm. That's what this one-shot is about.

11. No Need for Caution
The action of the comic happens outside of the panels, literally, in the white space.

12. The Memories of Others
Imagine your past would float after you as a series of comic panels.

13. Lord of the Ring
An incompetent sumo wrestler uses the powers of a forbidden pair of pants to overcome and shame his competition, until one day someone rises to attempt to crush him and take the pants for himself.

14. Spinning Thoughts
Wearing urinary calculi is the latest fashion trend.

Tags: Anthology , Nudity , Ero Guro , Meta , Surreal Comedy , Gore , Scat , Philosophy

Yami no Hou e

Also known as Into Darkness.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

A bizarre one-shot by Takato Yamamoto, a Japanese artist known for incorporating "Heisei Estheticism" style to his works.

Tags: Seinen , Ero Guro , Male Protagonist , Demons , Philosophy

Choudouryoku Mouko Daishuurai

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Horror

For a long time, giants have existed in this world. They were used as tools and played an important role during turning points in history. The key to the secret lies in Mongolia. Discover Kago's peculiar vision of world history!

Tags: Ero Guro , Nudity , Historical , Tanks , War , Seinen

Jigoku

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological

1. Sou dewa Nai Tokoro e (そうではないところへ); Garo 1997-06
2. Tenshi (天使, Angel); Garo 1995-04
3. Boku wa Tora no You ni Hashitta (ぼくは虎のように走った); kakioroshi
4. Odekake no Hi (おでかけの日); シュジェ 1993-01
5. Kao no Nai Onna ni Tsuite (顔のない女について); Garo 1992-06
6. Fune (船, Boat); Garo 1993-05
7. Watashitachi no Mure (私たちの群れ); Garo 1997-04
8. Yoru (夜, Night); Garo 1994-02~09
9. Kagi (鍵, Key); Garo 1996-01
10. Kami (神, God); Garo 1996-11
11. Jigoku (地獄, Hell); Garo 1994-11
12. Ringo Uri no Uta (林檎売りの唄, Song of Selling Apples); Garo 1996-09

Tags: Anthology , Seinen , Gore , Ero Guro , Afterlife

Odoru! Kremlin Kyuuden

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

A very surreal, episodic manga about Russia. This entire manga is very NSFW, so beware. It contains nudity, violence, and bad taste. Read at your own risk.

Tags: Ero Guro , Episodic , Politics , Parody , Foreign , Seinen

Lunatic Lover's

Also known as Lunatic Lover's.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Supernatural

A collection of various stories by Suehiro Maruo.

Tags: Ero Guro , Gore , Anthology