Top Surreal Comedy Manga Recommendations

Chainsaw Man

Also known as Chainsaw Man.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

The name says it all! Denji's life of poverty is changed forever when he merges with his pet chainsaw dog, Pochita! Now he's living in the big city and an official Devil Hunter. But he's got a lot to learn about his new job and chainsaw powers!



Notes:
- Nominated for the 2020 Manga Taisho Award.
- Winner of the 2021 Kono Manga ga Sugoi Award.
- Winner of the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category.
- Winner of the 2021 and 2022 Harvey Award for Best Manga.
- Chapters 1-97 were released in Weekly Shounen Jump from Dec 3, 2018 to Dec 13, 2020. The series resumed from Ch. 98 in Shounen Jump+ on July 12, 2022

Tags: Tragedy , Demons , Urban Fantasy , Dissociative Identities , Male Protagonist , Psychosexual , Gore , Body Horror , Cosmic Horror , Coming of Age , Henshin , Urban , Monster Boy , Female Protagonist , Survival , Found Family , Work , Memory Manipulation , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Anti-Hero , Heterosexual , Cult , Politics , Guns , Assassins , Yandere , Femdom , Monster Girl , Human Pet , Revenge , Shapeshifting , Terrorism , Meta , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Philosophy , Primarily Teen Cast , Super Power , Afterlife , Nudity , School , Cannibalism , Delinquents , Angels , Necromancy , Amnesia , Time Skip , Yakuza , Mafia , Tsundere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Zombie , Chimera , Denpa , Motorcycles , Yuri , Vore

ONE PIECE

Also known as One Piece.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

As a child, Monkey D. Luffy was inspired to become a pirate by listening to the tales of the buccaneer "Red-Haired" Shanks. But his life changed when Luffy accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Devil Fruit and gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, still vowing to become the king of the pirates, Luffy sets out on his adventure...one guy alone in a rowboat, in search of the legendary "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world...



Tags: Pirates , Travel , Found Family , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Super Power , Tragedy , Ships , Politics , Fugitive , Crime , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Military , Slapstick , War , Terrorism , Time Skip , Lost Civilization , Slavery , Post-Apocalyptic , Anachronism , Primarily Adult Cast , Gods , Swordplay , Mythology , Religion , Animals , Environmental , Gangs , Espionage , Anti-Hero , Prison , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Male Cast , Skeleton , Samurai , Cyborg , Henshin , Adoption , Food , Medicine , Robots , Mermaid , Assassins , Drugs , Guns , Battle Royale , Revenge , Meta , Board Game , Dragons , Amnesia , Monster Girl , Desert , Surreal Comedy , Oiran , Time Manipulation , Kemonomimi , Demons , Memory Manipulation , Ninja , Transgender , Zombie , Trains , Aliens , Clone , Centaur , Dinosaurs , Gender Bending , Angels , Shapeshifting , Bar , Female Protagonist , Body Swapping , Curses , Arranged Marriage , Artificial Intelligence , Episodic

Oyasumi Punpun

Also known as Goodnight Punpun.

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

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town.
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back.
He wants to find some porn.
That’s what he wants, but what does he get…?



Tags: Coming of Age , Seinen , Tragedy , Philosophy , Denpa , Suicide , Psychosexual , Urban , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Time Skip , Surreal Comedy , School , Fugitive , Gods , Meta , Cult , Work , Nudity , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Religion

One Punch-Man

Also known as One-Punch Man.

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

In this new action-comedy, everything about a young man named Saitama screams "AVERAGE,” from his lifeless expression, to his bald head, to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking fellow doesn't have your average problem... He's actually a superhero that's looking for tough opponents! The problem is, every time he finds a promising candidate he beats the snot out of them in one punch. Can Saitama finally find an evil villain strong enough to challenge him? Follow Saitama through his hilarious romps as he searches for new bad guys to challenge!



Tags: Superhero , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Parody , Surreal Comedy , Kaiju , Satire , Meta , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Slapstick , Gods , Cosmic Horror , Seinen , Philosophy , Urban , Martial Arts , Cyborg , Swordplay , Gore , Aliens , Time Manipulation , Nudity , Tragedy , Guns

SPY×FAMILY

Also known as SPY x FAMILY.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The master spy codenamed <Twilight> has spent his days on undercover missions, all for the dream of a better world. But one day, he receives a particularly difficult new order from command. For his mission, he must form a temporary family and start a new life?! A Spy/Action/Comedy about a one-of-a-kind family!



Notes:
- Includes 2 "Extra Missions" and 11 “Short Missions”.
- Nominated for the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020.
- Nominated for the 13th and 14th Manga Taisho Award in 2020 and 2021.
- Nominated for the 44th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2020.

Tags: Family Life , Espionage , Found Family , War , Assassins , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Adoption , Work , Fake Relationship , School , Aliens , Politics , Orphan , Shounen , Heterosexual , Marriage , Super Power , Slapstick , Guns , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Parody , Parenthood , Foreign , Terrorism , Hikikomori , Satire , Iyashikei , Urban , Historical , Anachronism , Tsundere , Urban Fantasy

Dandadan

Also known as Dandadan.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school’s UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames “Okarun” because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks the exact opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove each other wrong—Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love…and oddly horny aliens and spirits?



Note: Nominated for the 15th Manga Taisho Award in 2022.

Tags: Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Ghost , Aliens , Super Power , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Tokusatsu , Male Protagonist , Henshin , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Gyaru , Shapeshifting , School , Body Horror , Love Triangle , Exorcism , Conspiracy , Kaiju , Curses , Gore , Tragedy , Terrorism , Super Robot , Chuunibyou , Amnesia , Circus , Nudity , Gods , Dissociative Identities , Tsundere , Cannibalism , Bullying , Acrobatics , Suicide

Komi-san wa, Komyushou desu.

Also known as Komi Can't Communicate.

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

Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. But all that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly realizes she isn’t aloof—she’s just super awkward. Now he’s made it his mission to help her on her quest to make 100 friends!



Notes:
- Winner of the 67th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2021.
- Includes 37 extra chapters.

Tags: School , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Slapstick , Disability , Heterosexual , Shounen , Meta , Gyaru , Yandere , Surreal Comedy , 4-koma , Agender , Chuunibyou , Crossdressing

Fire Punch

Also known as Fire Punch.

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

Orphaned siblings Agni and Luna, like the Ice Witch who cursed their world, are two of the “blessed,” humans who hold special abilities. However, not all who are blessed are friendly, and after another of their kind attacks Agni and decimates the orphans' village, Agni fights to survive, vowing revenge.



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Tragedy , Suicide , Dystopian , Revenge , Philosophy , Cult , Anti-Hero , Super Power , Survival , Religion , Body Horror , Torture , Meta , Gore , Male Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Filmmaking , Acting , Snowscape , Time Skip , Coming of Age , Cannibalism , Incest , Transgender , Slavery , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gods , Surreal Comedy , Urban Fantasy , Memory Manipulation , Denpa , Politics , Amputation , Shounen , Heterosexual , Orphan , Psychosexual

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 , Nudity , Animals , Anthropomorphism , Zombie , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Cyberpunk , Gender Bending

Grand Blue

Also known as Grand Blue Dreaming.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life , Sports

After moving out on his own to a seaside town, Iori Kitahara makes a college debut he never anticipated. A new chapter of his life unfolds, full of diving with beautiful girls and shenanigans with a gaggle of lovable bastards! Idiot-expert Kenji Inoue and au naturel authority Kimitake Yoshioka bring you a glorious college tale filled with booze-fueled antics!



Tags: Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , College , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Coastal , Bar , Scuba Diving , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Kuudere , Meta , Female Harem , Tsundere , Bisexual , Gore , Yandere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gyaru

Yofukashi no Uta

Also known as Call of the Night.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

One sleepless night, Ko slips out to walk the streets. Life after dark is a revelation! When flirtatious Nazuna invites Ko to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he’s stoked! But then he awakens to kisses on his neck with a little too much bite to them... Is it just the delicious taste of his blood that makes her meet him night after night for late-night adventures, conversation and...naps? Or something else? Then, when a cute girl from Ko’s past shows up and competes for his attention, his budding relationship with the undead is put to the test!



Notes:
- Seventh place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category and first place of Daruma 2023 Award (France) in the new manga category (released in 2022 in France).
- Includes three extra chapters.

Tags: Vampire , Urban Fantasy , Monster Girl , Tragedy , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Coming of Age , Suicide , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Hikikomori , Monster Boy , Urban , LGBTQ+ Themes , Detective , Philosophy , Outdoor Activities , Maids , Gore , Guns , Yandere , Gyaru , Iyashikei , Femboy

MASHLE

Also known as Mashle: Magic and Muscles.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy

This is a world of magic where magic is used for everything. But deep in the forest exists a young man who spends his time training and bulking up. He can't use magic, but he enjoys a peaceful life with his father. But one day, his life is put in danger! Will his muscular body protect him from the magic users who are out to get him? Powerfully trained muscles crush magic as this abnormal magical fantasy begins!



Note:
- Eleventh place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category.

Tags: Magic , Fitness , Surreal Comedy , Shounen , Parody , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Slapstick , Time Manipulation , War , Primarily Male Cast , Food , Unrequited Love , Volleyball , Tennis , LGBTQ+ Themes , Asexual , Aromantic

Yeokdaegeum Yeongji Seolgyesa

Also known as The Greatest Estate Developer.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

When civil engineering student Su-Ho Kim falls asleep reading a fantasy novel, he wakes up as a character in the book! Su-Ho is now in the body of Lloyd Frontera, a lazy noble who loves to drink, and whose family is in a mountain of debt. Using his engineering knowledge, Su-Ho designs inventions to avert the terrible future that lies in wait for him. With the help of a giant hamster, a knight, and the world’s magic, can Su-Ho dig his new family out of debt and build a better future?



Note: includes 12 extra chapters.

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Anachronism , Male Protagonist , Economics , Slapstick , Isekai , Kingdom Management , Anti-Hero , Royal Affairs , Demons , Long Strip , Full Color , Parody , Politics , Magic , Rural , Angels , Found Family , Agriculture , Butler , Dragons , Animals , Cult , Zombie , Reincarnation , Swordplay , Military , Necromancy , Chimera

Golden Kamuy

Also known as Golden Kamuy.

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

In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.



Note: Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016 and the 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018. Nominated for the 20th and 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Tags: Historical , Conspiracy , Military , Outdoor Activities , Indigenous Cultures , Seinen , Politics , Ensemble Cast , Surreal Comedy , Educational , Food , Travel , Found Family , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Survival , Guns , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Revenge , Male Harem , Language Barrier , Anti-Hero , LGBTQ+ Themes , Slapstick , Crime , Snowscape , Prison , Trains , Animals , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Wilderness , Archery , Swordplay , Disability , Suicide , Tanned Skin , Transgender , Twins , Cannibalism , Zoophilia , Heterosexual , Yakuza , Time Skip , Dissociative Identities , Crossdressing , Gender Bending

Mob Psycho 100

Also known as Mob Psycho 100.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Do you or someone you know need an exorcist who works cheap? Reigen's your guy! What's his secret to busting ghosts while keeping prices low? Well, first, he's a fraud, and second, he pays the guy who's got the real psychic power—his student assistant Shigeo—less than minimum wage. Shigeo is an awkward but kind boy whose urge to help others and get along with them is bound up with the mental safety locks he's placed on his own emotions. Reigen knows he needs to exploit Shigeo to stay in business, yet for better or worse he's also his mentor and counselor. And he also knows whenever the normally repressed kid's emotions reach level 100, it may unleash more psychic energy than either of them can handle!



Note: Includes 12 extra chapters.

Tags: Coming of Age , Philosophy , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Ghost , Dissociative Identities , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Satire , School , Demons , Primarily Teen Cast , Surreal Comedy , Aliens , Youkai , Parody , School Club , Delinquents , Cult , Body Horror , Curses

Choujin X

Also known as Choujin X.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Psychological

Best friends Tokio and Azuma do everything together, even if most of the time it feels like Tokio is just stumbling along in Azuma’s cooler, more talented footsteps. But when they’re attacked one night by a superhuman mutant called a choujin, Tokio finally has a chance to shine—by turning into a choujin himself!

Being a superpowered creature isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, though. Tokio has to hide his transformation from his family and dodge a truancy charge at school, all while dealing with the increasingly odd incidents happening around town!



Note: The manga chapters are irregularly released on Tonari no Young Jump. At the same time, it received a serialization in Weekly Young Jump, starting from chapter 1. Some chapters receive a version with fewer pages in the magazine, also counting with additions of new pages in certain situations. After chapter 15, the manga went back to being exclusive to Tonari no YJ, ending the serialization in the magazine.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Henshin , Super Power , Body Horror , Seinen , Superhero , Gore , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Drugs , Female Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Religion , Time Skip , Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation , Clone , Heterosexual

Oemo Jisangjuui

Also known as Lookism.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Supernatural

Daniel is an unattractive loner who wakes up in a different body. Now tall, handsome, and cooler than ever in his new form, Daniel aims to achieve everything he couldn't before. How far will he go to keep his body... and his secrets?



Tags: Body Swapping , Gangs , Full Color , Delinquents , Martial Arts , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , School , Bullying , Heterosexual , Surreal Comedy , Fitness , Boxing , Love Triangle , Meta , Found Family , Fashion , Primarily Male Cast , Cult , Parody , Homeless , Gambling , Detective , Drugs , Memory Manipulation , Primarily Teen Cast , Long Strip , LGBTQ+ Themes

Kimi no Koto ga Dai Dai Dai Dai Daisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo

Also known as The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

Aijou Rentaro tried and tried again, but after asking a hundred girls out on a date, he was rejected every single time. In desperation, he prays for guidance…only to be told by a god that his rejections were due to some cosmic error! Now the god is going to set things right by making sure that Aijou gets one hundred dates. Except, as things often do with gods, the dates come with a catch: one hundred girls are destined to be Aijou’s soulmate, and unless he returns their feelings each and every time, they’ll die in horrible accidents! Sure enough, girls start confessing their love to Aijou left and right. But how is he supposed to choose?! He doesn’t want to kill anyone! When he looks at each potential soulmate, it feels like a bolt of lightning. Can someone really love a hundred other people? This hilarious romantic comedy takes the harem concept to a wild extreme!


Note: Won second place of Tsugimanga 2020 Award in the Manga Category

Tags: Polyamorous , Female Harem , Ensemble Cast , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Seinen , Primarily Female Cast , Parody , Male Protagonist , Kuudere , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Tomboy , Large Breasts , Tsundere , Heterosexual , Slapstick , MILF , Gyaru , School , Chuunibyou , Maids , Incest , Age Gap , Drugs , Bisexual , Food , Age Regression , Crossdressing , Idol , Body Swapping , Baseball , Ghost

Prison School

Also known as Prison School.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Psychological , Romance

On the outskirts of Tokyo stands Hachimitsu Private Academy, an all-girls boarding school for elite young women. But as the new school year rolls around, one tradition is going out the window: For the first time in the school's long history, boys are being allowed to enroll. On the first day of school, though, it turns out only five boys have made the cut. Thrilled by this discovery, these young men's adolescent hearts leap with joy at the thought of being surrounded by all those girls, but little do the five boys suspect the shocking fate that awaits them...



Notes:
- Includes 1 extra chapter and the epilogue.
- Won the Kodansha Manga Award 2013 for best general manga.

Tags: Seinen , School , Surreal Comedy , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Slavery , Slapstick , Prison , Heterosexual , Bullying , Revenge , Love Triangle , Kuudere , Ensemble Cast , Femdom , Watersports , LGBTQ+ Themes

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Sentou Chouryuu

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 2: Battle Tendency.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Supernatural

The beginning of the Battle Tendency Arc! The Joestar family is called upon to do battle against evil again! This time, it’s Joseph Joestar, the grandson of Jonathan Joestar! And his enemies are more powerful and diabolical than ever! Behold! The terror of the Pillar Men!



Tags: Super Power , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Cultivation , Vampire , Tragedy , Travel , Gore , Urban Fantasy , Historical , Surreal Comedy , Body Horror , Military , Bisexual , Cyborg