Top Human Experimentation Manga Recommendations

Tokyo Ghoul

Also known as Tokyo Ghoul.

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

Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she’s only interested in his body—eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own.



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Tragedy , Cannibalism , Urban Fantasy , Gore , Male Protagonist , Survival , Seinen , Philosophy , Dystopian , Coming of Age , Shapeshifting , Body Horror , Torture , Police , Primarily Adult Cast , Kuudere , Terrorism , Human Experimentation , Cosmic Horror , Heterosexual , Twins , Mythology , Suicide

Tokyo Ghoul:re

Also known as Tokyo Ghoul:re.

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

In Tokyo, an unchanging despair is lurking. Mysterious man-eating beings, ghouls, run rampant in Tokyo. Living hidden during everyday life, the existence of ghouls, whose true identities are shrouded in mystery, permanently terrorizes Tokyo's residents.

At CCG, the sole institution that investigates and resolves cases related to ghouls, Haise Sasaki has been assigned a certain mission. While dealing with the unruly four problem children known as "Quinx", Haise's days of suffering begin...?!

Note: Includes one extra chapter and the one-shot "Tokyo Ghoul: Joker".

Tags: Tragedy , Dissociative Identities , Seinen , Amnesia , Philosophy , Dystopian , Body Horror , Shapeshifting , Gore , Coming of Age , Urban Fantasy , Conspiracy , Police , Rehabilitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual , Suicide , Kuudere , Yandere , Human Experimentation , Work , Meta , Cosmic Horror , Terrorism , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Transgender , Nudity , Mythology , Incest , Gender Bending

Dorohedoro

Also known as Dorohedoro.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery

In a city so dismal it's known only as "the Hole," a clan of Sorcerers have been plucking people off the streets to use as guinea pigs for atrocious "experiments" in the black arts. In a dark alley, Nikaido found Caiman, a man with a reptile head and a bad case of amnesia. To undo the spell, they're hunting and killing the Sorcerers in the Hole, hoping that eventually they'll kill the right one. But when En, the head Sorcerer, gets word of a lizard-man slaughtering his people, he sends a crew of "cleaners" into the Hole, igniting a war between two worlds.



Note: Includes 23 side stories titled "Extra Evil" and the side story "The Lizard Head and the Magic Whistle."

Tags: Dissociative Identities , Magic , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Amnesia , Seinen , Revenge , Dystopian , Body Horror , Gore , Monster Boy , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Demons , Urban Fantasy , Curses , Time Manipulation , Super Power , Henshin , Gangs , Cosmic Horror , Body Swapping , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Class Struggle , Nudity , Animals , Anthropomorphism , Zombie , Human Experimentation , Cyberpunk , Gender Bending , Brainwashing

Hagane no Renkinjutsushi

Also known as Fullmetal Alchemist.

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

Alchemy tore the Elric brothers’ bodies apart. Can their bond make them whole again?
In this world, alchemists are those who study and perform the art of alchemical transmutation—the science of manipulating and transforming matter. They are bounded by the Law of Equivalent Exchange: in order to gain something, one must sacrifice something of equal value.
In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical “auto-mail” limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother’s bodies...the legendary Philosopher’s Stone.



Note: Includes eight extra chapters.

Tags: Alchemy , Conspiracy , Politics , Philosophy , Military , War , Tragedy , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Disability , Travel , Steampunk , Ensemble Cast , Super Power , Body Horror , Magic , Lost Civilization , Chimera , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Shapeshifting , Guns , Gore , Historical , Tsundere , Cars , Heterosexual , Kuudere , Tomboy , Trains , Urban Fantasy , Human Experimentation , Coming of Age

Soul Eater

Also known as Soul Eater.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Supernatural

Maka is a scythe meister, working to perfect one particular scythe until it is good enough to become Death's Weapon -- the weapon used by Shinigami-sama, the spirit of Death himself. As if that wasn't unusual enough, her scythe is a demon scythe called Soul Eater, which can change form from a scythe to a human-looking boy. In order to make Soul Eater powerful enough to be Death's Weapon, he must eat the souls of 99 humans and 1 witch. Along the way, the two of them face many different challenges, including a cat witch named Blair (who happens to have a thing for Soul) and a teacher who's been turned into a zombie (and wants him to join her!). Her fellow students, like the shadow ninja weapon meister named Black Star who always needs to be the center of attention, aren't much help, either. It'll be a miracle if Maka even survives, let alone manages to make Soul Eater into the Death Scythe.



Note: Includes four extra chapters.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Magic , Shounen , Henshin , Super Power , Female Protagonist , Gods , Guns , Witch , Shapeshifting , School , Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Twins , Foreign , War , Agender , Nudity , Travel , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Human Experimentation , Alternate Universe , Assassins , Tragedy , Zombie , Werewolf , Body Horror , Urban , Gender Bending , Kemonomimi , Nekomimi , Tanned Skin , Unrequited Love , Space , Martial Arts , Heterosexual

Vanitas no Carte

Also known as The Case Study of Vanitas.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

Rumors revolving around The Book of Vanitas, a clockwork grimoire of dubious reputation, draw Noé, a young vampire in search of a friend's salvation, to Paris. What awaits him in the City of Flowers, however, is not long hours treading the pavement or rifling through dusty bookshops in search of the tome. Instead, his quarry comes to him...in the arms of a man claiming to be a vampire doctor! Thrust into a conflict that threatens the peace between humans and vampires, will Noé cast in his lot with the curious and slightly unbalanced Vanitas and his quest to save vampirekind?



Tags: Vampire , Tragedy , Conspiracy , Historical , Steampunk , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , Class Struggle , Medicine , Shounen , Revenge , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Curses , Foreign , Bisexual , Religion , Interspecies , Ensemble Cast , Twins , LGBTQ+ Themes , Alternate Universe , Suicide , Time Manipulation , Amnesia , Anachronism , Human Experimentation , Detective , Assassins , Acting

Sankarea

Also known as Sankarea: Undying Love.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

Since he was little, Chihiro has felt an unusual emotional connection to zombie movies. It's not that he feels bad for the survivors—instead he fantasizes about comforting the poor undead girls they slaughter! When his beloved pet passes away, he decides to brew up a resurrection potion in secret. But he's discovered by popular girl and local heiress Sanka Rea, whose life isn't as perfect as it seems ... and Furuya suggests that she could serve as a test subject!

Tags: Zombie , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Medicine , Amnesia , Gore , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Rural , Love Triangle , Ojou-sama , Tomboy , Animals , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Nudity , Maids , Shrine Maiden , School , Body Horror , Human Experimentation , Torture

Dengeki Daisy

Also known as Dengeki Daisy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

After orphan Teru Kurebayashi loses her beloved older brother, she finds solace in the messages she exchanges with DAISY, an enigmatic figure who can only be reached through the cell phone her brother left her. Meanwhile, mysterious Tasuku Kurosaki always seems to be around whenever Teru needs help. Could DAISY be a lot closer than Teru thinks?

One day at school, Teru accidentally breaks a window and agrees to pay for it by helping Kurosaki with chores around school. Kurosaki is an impossible taskmaster though, and he also seems to be hiding something important from Teru...



Included one-shot:
Volume 16: Hetakuso Cupid (The Hopeless Cupid)

Tags: Shoujo , Software Development , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , School , Heterosexual , Crime , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Delinquents , Bullying , Ojou-sama , Urban , Horticulture , Orphan , Human Experimentation , Suicide

Munou na Nana

Also known as Talentless Nana.

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

An academy on an island in unnavigable waters. There, students trained tirelessly, to fight back against the enemies of humanity. The protagonist, a student newly transferred there, also sets out with the intention of eradicating all enemies of humankind. An unpredictable, intellectual suspense story of justice and evil.



Tags: Conspiracy , Dystopian , Tragedy , Assassins , Super Power , Anti-Hero , Female Protagonist , Detective , Time Skip , Found Family , Primarily Teen Cast , Crime , Espionage , Ensemble Cast , School , Prison , Military , Politics , Gore , Shounen , Urban , Rural , Terrorism , Amnesia , Kuudere , Shapeshifting , Adoption , Human Experimentation , Time Manipulation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Bullying , Twins , Zombie , Necromancy , Time Loop , Photography , Suicide , Chibi

Gu Zhenren

Also known as Reverend Insanity.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Supernatural

A story of a villain, Fang Yuan who was reborn 500 years into the past with the Spring Autumn Cicada he painstakingly refined. With his profound wisdom, battle and life experiences, he seeks to overcome his foes with skill and wit! Ruthless and amoral, he has no need to hold back as he pursues his ultimate goals. In a world of cruelty where one cultivates using Gu - magical creatures of the world - Fang Yuan must rise up above all with his own power.

Tags: Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Cultivation , Time Manipulation , Age Regression , Asexual , Conspiracy , Natural Disaster , Philosophy , Shapeshifting , Slavery , Survival , Super Power , Tragedy , Travel , Martial Arts , Reincarnation , Full Color , Torture , Memory Manipulation , Human Experimentation , Isekai , Body Swapping , Acting , Blackmail , Brainwashing , Clone , Desert , Dragons , Gambling , Gore , Interspecies , Kaiju , Politics , Zombie , Femboy

MAD

Also known as MAD.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Mysterious alien life-forms invade Earth! Most of humanity is wiped off the face of the planet. John, his sister, and the remaining survivors hope to find a new world to inhabit… But one day, they’re targeted by aliens again!



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Aliens , Tragedy , Human Experimentation , Henshin , Cult , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Cannibalism , Guns , Tokusatsu , Swordplay , Monster Girl , Monster Boy , Survival , Gore , Body Horror , Slavery

Goedame Tteoreojyeodo Chulgeuneul Haeya Haneunguna

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Supernatural

I sacrificed my precious vacation to attend a pop-up event of a certain modern fantasy I loved so much. And on that very day, I got transported into that fantasy world. As none other than a newly hired employee at a renowned major corporation! A dream workplace with tons of benefits, a high salary, and kind, competent supervisors. Using my knowledge of the world, I quickly climb the corporate ladder!

But am I happy, you ask? Please, let me go back home.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Ghost , Full Color , Human Experimentation , Survival , Work , Long Strip , Cult , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Adult Cast , Isekai , Death Game , Gore , Body Horror , Youkai , Werewolf , Found Family , Aliens , Gambling , Trains

Charlotte

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Very few adolescent boys and girls have an onset of special abilities. Yuu Otosaka uses his ability unbeknownst to others in order to lead a satisfying school life. And then, a girl named Nao Tomori suddenly appears before him. Their encounter reveals the destiny for wielders of special abilities.



Tags: Super Power , School , Tragedy , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Baseball , Ensemble Cast , Body Swapping , Ghost , Human Experimentation , Delinquents , Idol

MW

Also known as MW.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations.

During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island’s inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witness—one whose sense of right and wrong, however, the potent nerve agent managed to obliterate.

Now, fifteen years later, Yuki is a social climber of Balzacian proportions, infiltrating the worlds of finance and politics by day while brutally murdering children and women by night—perversely using his Kabuki-honed skills as a female impersonator to pass himself off as the women he’s killed. His drive, however, will not be satiated with a promotion here and a rape there. Michio Yuki has a far more ominous objective: obtaining MW, the ultimate weapon that spared his life but robbed him of all conscience.

There are only two men with any hope of stopping him: one, a brilliant public prosecutor who struggles to build a case against the psychopath; the other, a tormented Catholic priest, Iwao Garai, who shares Yuki’s past—and frequently his bed.



Tags: Crime , Seinen , Politics , Conspiracy , Crossdressing , Primarily Adult Cast , Torture , Urban , Psychosexual , Work , Economics , Detective , Religion , Nudity , Boys' Love , Age Gap , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tragedy , Bisexual , Espionage , Suicide , Zoophilia , Gekiga , Human Experimentation

Rai Rai Rai

Also known as Rai Rai Rai.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Sumire Ichigaya’s got it tough. She’s drowning in debt, surrounded by noisy neighbors, fighting for discount supermarket meals, and working a dead-end job exterminating space vermin left over from a failed alien invasion. It seems like things just can’t get any worse—until she’s abducted by aliens and wakes up with a monstrous new arm and a voice in her head urging her to kill all of humanity!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Aliens , Monster Girl , Shounen , Work , Shapeshifting , Gore , Human Experimentation , Dissociative Identities , Amnesia , Swordplay , Politics , Found Family

Gosu, Hugungeuro Kkaeeonada

Also known as A Martial Master Wakes Up as a Concubine.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

Once a notorious master of the deviant sects, Nyeon-Bi Cheon pays a hefty price for her romance with a man of a virtuous sect, Won Gae of the True-spirited Sword. As her lover poisons her to death with a dragonsbane fruit, Nyeon-Bi perishes with more questions than answers. When she wakes up, however, she finds herself in a different sort of peril, as she reincarnates in the body of Noble Lady So-Yeo Cheon, a concubine of the imperial palace. As So-Yeo, Nyeon-Bi must rely on her knowledge from her past life to navigate both intrigue and romance in the palace!



Tags: Martial Arts , Reincarnation , Female Protagonist , Full Color , Royal Affairs , Slapstick , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Criminal Organization , Long Strip , Villainess , Wuxia , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Revenge , Body Swapping , Magic , Pregnancy , Cultivation , Human Experimentation , Zombie , Crossdressing , Archery

Hangye Jjinneun Cheonjaemabeopsa

Also known as Limit-Breaking Genius Mage.

Status: Hiatus
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Verden, a first-tier mage with a genius intellect but no innate magical talent, is condemned to life as a secret test subject after a devastating betrayal at the Magic Tower. Driven by a thirst for revenge and survival, he develops the "Theory of Celestial Reversal," unlocking limitless potential. But with the tower’s dark forces still looming and mysterious organizations entwining with his fate, will Verden’s quest for vengeance and self-discovery lead to triumph, or will he be shackled once more by inescapable limitations?



Tags: Full Color , Long Strip , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Magic , Bullying , Human Experimentation

Zaijian, Wo De Guowang

Also known as The King and Me.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

When Zhang Li left for a trip to the Ebiz ruins, he didn’t expect to bring back company, especially not a man made of stone! Though Li grows fond of the living statue, their time together doesn’t last long, as “Rocky” soon crumbles before Li’s eyes. Wishing for a miracle, Li suddenly finds himself in Ebiz far back in the past and reunites with Rocky. However, his companion is no longer a statue but rather the nation’s king, who doesn’t recognize Li at all and imprisons him! How will Li escape this predicament and get his beloved back?



Tags: Boys' Love , Full Color , Royal Affairs , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Tanned Skin , Class Struggle , Foreign , Historical , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Slavery , Work , Religion , Assassins , Gods , Mythology , Archery , Crossdressing , Medicine , Yandere , Love Triangle , Necromancy , Gender Bending , Incest , Brainwashing , Long Strip , Cannibalism , Body Horror , Desert , Dancing , Human Experimentation , Prison , Swordplay , Torture , Unrequited Love , Zombie

Yasha

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery

Arisue Sei is a youth who lives alone with his mother on an outlying island of Okinawa. Though his mother is quiet and fears being conspicuous, they were living happily. But on a certain day, that tranquility is suddenly destroyed. Sei's mother is killed by a group of mysterious men, and he is taken captive. What kind of secret does he have!?

Tags: Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Twins , Fugitive , Primarily Male Cast , Conspiracy , Terrorism , Pandemic , Crime , Primarily Adult Cast , Super Power , Revenge , Boys' Love , Medicine , Tragedy , Politics , Guns , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Adoption , Assassins , Orphan , Work , Human Experimentation

Nekome Kozou

Also known as Cat-Eyed Boy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Horror , Psychological , Supernatural

Cat Eyed Boy is a half-human, half-monster child whose mostly human appearance bans him from the demon world. He lives hidden in the shadows of the human world, hated by humans and demons alike. Wherever he goes, awful events occur as the humans and demons interact. In 11 stories of revenge and retribution full of disturbing images, Cat Eyed Boy acts as a trickster, saving the innocent and helping the wicked receive the punishment that fate metes out.



Tags: Shounen , Episodic , Youkai , Monster Boy , Urban Fantasy , Human Experimentation , Body Swapping , Revenge