Top Metal Music Manga Recommendations

BASTARD!!: Ankoku no Hakaishin

Also known as Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy.

Status: Hiatus
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy

In a postapocalyptic world of heavy metal fantasy, the only thing able to save humans from orcs, lizard men, and other monsters is something even MORE evil. Sealed within a 14-year-old boy, the chaotic wizard Dark Schneider is unleashed to fight four mighty generals and their plot to resurrect the evil god Anslasax!



Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Wizard!!: Bakuen no Seifukusha (pilot)
Volume 22: Binetsu Rouge
Volume 26: Virgin Tyrant

Tags: Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Magic , Seinen , Swordplay , Gore , Heterosexual , Female Harem , Nudity , Demons , Elf , War , Gods , Succubus , Metal Music , Time Skip , Dragons , Angels , Goblin

Tonari no Metaller-san

Also known as The Metalhead Next Door.

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

Impoverished graduate student Kento nearly freezes to death outside his new cheap (unheated) apartment during a blizzard. Luckily, he's saved by neighbor Soushi, a quiet and somewhat frightening young man who dresses in all black. Although he exudes an aura that screams "keep away," his eyes, hidden behind long rocker hair, plead for something else. Over the following year, the two share meals together, but as the time passes, the closeted Kento finds it increasingly difficult to ignore his growing feelings. Will he choose to maintain the peaceful, happy times he's grown to love or risk it all for the possibility of something more?



Tags: Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Time Skip , LGBTQ+ Themes , Metal Music , Food , Disability , Nudity , Snowscape

Detroit Metal City

Also known as DMC: Detroit Metal City.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music

Souichi Negishi is a common boy, timid, quiet. He loves flowers, walking and musical hits like the ones that radios play. But he is also Krauzer II, leader of Detroit Metal City (DMC), the most popular underground metal band of Japan! Souichi would like to change his life and start to play Swedish pop songs with peaceful and loving lyrics instead of the violent and vulgar ones of DMC, but when he is playing with his band he completely changes his attitude and behavior...

Note: Includes 8 extra chapters.

Tags: Band , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Metal Music , Parody , Language Barrier , Urban , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Rural , Bullying , Drugs

Isekai Metaller

Also known as Isekai Metaller.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Music

Isekai comedy about a die-hard metalhead who got electrocuted during his own metal band's farewell gig. He finds himself transported to a fantasy world filled with everything true metal fans can only dream about ranging from dragons to werewolves. Now this metalhead is determined to bring peace to this new world with his burning metal spirit!

Tags: Metal Music , Male Protagonist , Isekai , Dragons , Seinen , Fairy

BanG Dream! Ave Mujica -manuscriptus-

Also known as BanG Dream! Ave Mujica -manuscriptus-.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music

Welcome to the World of "Ave Mujica"――. This is the official comic adaptation of TV anime "BanG Dream! Ave Mujica".
“Will you give me the rest of your life?”



Note: Chapter count reflects the original serialization. The chapters were later combined into 17 chapters for the tankōbon release.

Tags: Metal Music , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Acting , Estranged Family , Dissociative Identities , Disability , Band , Rock Music , Ojou-sama , Tragedy

Juukinzoku Kanojo

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

The Heavy Metal Music Group at the high school consists of just Amanokawa Rinko and the main character, a teenage boy madly in love with her. The club is intended for people who enjoy the music genre to discuss their passion for heavy metal. However, there’s only one kind of passion going on in this club house located in the outskirts of campus, and it is definitely rockin’.



Tags: Metal Music , School , Shounen

Nishi Tokyo Metal Brothers

Also known as West Tokyo Metal Bros.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Music

Haruo is a high schooler from Biei, Hokkaido. When he was younger, expressing his emotions wasn't easy, but one day metal set him free. Since then, he's been honing his skills day in and day out, but now it's for him to decide on his next stage in life…?!



Tags: Metal Music , Coming of Age , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Rural

Mary-neun Oebakjung

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Mary, who has not dated for a long time, meets a death metal group's vocalist and begins a relationship with him. However, a perfect man interferes in their relationship...

Note: This was originally a web-comic that was then compiled and published in print form by Anibooks.

Tags: Metal Music

Beast Man: Death Metal Majin-den - Jigoku no Live Goumon Mokushiroku

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Music

The story centers on college student Ayato Hirose. He is popular with his classmates, good-looking, and has great communication skills. He enjoys a fulfilling university life, until an unexpected incident happens...

After meeting Sakura Itou, who studies in the same university as him, he is forced to join her death metal band. What will happen to Ayato's peaceful university life?



Tags: Metal Music , Urban , Blackmail , Band , College , Seinen , Male Protagonist