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Horror manga
Dread that builds page by page: monsters, the uncanny and the things that should not be there.
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Completed · 20181. Chainsaw Man
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Action
- Comedy
- Horror (shared)
- Supernatural
Denji is poor, in debt to the yakuza, and hunts devils for pocket change with Pochita, his little chainsaw devil dog. Betrayed and killed on the job, he comes back fused with Pochita — a man who can turn into a chainsaw. Now a devil hunter for the government, Denji only wants an ordinary life: good food, a warm bed, maybe a girlfriend. Wild, violent and strangely tender.
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Completed · 20162. The Promised Neverland
by Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu
- Fantasy
- Horror (shared)
- Mystery
- Psychological
Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest children at Grace Field House, a loving orphanage with a kind "Mom". Then they learn what adoption really means there. Three children plan an escape from a place built so that no one ever escapes — a tense, clever thriller.
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Completed · 20143. Tokyo Ghoul:re
by Sui Ishida
- Action
- Drama
- Horror (shared)
- Psychological
Two years on, the ghoul-hunting CCG trains the Quinx: humans given ghoul powers. Their mentor, investigator Haise Sasaki, has no memory of who he used to be. The sequel to Tokyo Ghoul, where the war between humans and ghouls comes to its end.
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Ongoing · 20214. The Summer Hikaru Died
by Mokumokuren
- Drama
- Horror (shared)
- Mystery
- Psychological
Yoshiki knows his best friend Hikaru died in the mountains. Something came back wearing his face, his voice and his memories, and asks to stay his friend. A quiet, unsettling horror story set in a small village, about grief, an impossible friendship and what is waking up around them.
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Completed · 20015. Claymore
by Norihiro Yagi
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama
- Fantasy
Shape-shifting demons called yoma prey on humans in a dark medieval land, and the only ones who can kill them are the Claymores: silver-eyed women who carry demon flesh inside them, and risk becoming monsters themselves. Clare is one of them, and a boy whose family she avenged follows her — a grim, powerful dark fantasy.
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Completed · 20116. Tokyo Ghoul
by Sui Ishida
- Action
- Drama
- Horror (shared)
- Psychological
Ghouls live hidden in Tokyo and can only survive by eating people. Quiet student Ken Kaneki learns this the hard way: after a deadly date he wakes up half-ghoul, hungry for what he cannot bear to eat. Caught between two worlds that want each other dead, he tries to stay human — dark, graphic and heartbreaking.
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Completed · 20097. Attack on Titan
by Hajime Isayama
- Action
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Horror (shared)
Humanity lives behind three enormous walls, safe for a century from the Titans — giants that eat people for no reason anyone understands. Then a Titan taller than the walls kicks a hole through the outer gate, and Eren Yeager watches his town fall. He joins the army sworn to wipe them out, and what he learns about the walls, the Titans and himself turns a monster story into one of the boldest epics manga has produced.
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Completed · 20188. Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku
by Yuji Kaku
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Horror (shared)
Gabimaru the Hollow, a ninja on death row, is offered a pardon: travel to a mysterious island and bring back the elixir of life. His executioner, Sagiri, goes with him. The island is beautiful and full of horrors — a savage, lushly drawn survival story.
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Completed · 20129. Ajin: Demi-Human
by Gamon Sakurai
- Action
- Horror (shared)
- Psychological
- Sci-Fi
Kei Nagai is hit by a truck, dies, and gets up again. He is an Ajin, one of the rare people who cannot die, and the government wants him for experiments. On the run, he is drawn into a war between the state and an Ajin terrorist who has learned to use immortality as a weapon.
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Ongoing · 202110. Choujin X
by Sui Ishida
- Action
- Drama
- Horror (shared)
- Supernatural
In a world where some people turn into superhumans, Tokio Kurohara is the kind, unremarkable best friend of Azuma, a girl who is good at everything. When a monster attacks, both of them change. From the creator of Tokyo Ghoul: a strange, beautifully drawn story about bodies, friendship and what makes someone a hero.
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Completed · 198811. Parasyte
by Iwaaki Hitoshi
- Action
- Horror (shared)
- Philosophical
- Psychological
Alien parasites fall from the sky, take over human bodies and feed on people while wearing ordinary faces. The one meant for Shinichi Izumi misses his brain and takes his right hand instead. Now the two of them share a body, and neither can afford to lose. A horror classic.
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Ongoing · 201812. Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
by Haro Aso, Kotaro Takata
- Action
- Comedy
- Horror (shared)
Akira has spent three years being crushed by a company that never lets him go home. The morning zombies overrun Tokyo, his first thought is that he never has to go to work again. He writes a list of a hundred things to do before he turns into one of them, and sets about doing every single one.
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Completed · 198713. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1: Phantom Blood
by Hirohiko Araki
- Action
- Adventure
- Horror (shared)
- Supernatural
Victorian England. Jonathan Joestar, a gentleman's son, gains an adopted brother: Dio Brando, who sets out to take everything Jonathan has. An ancient stone mask turns their rivalry into something inhuman. Where the Joestar family saga begins — loud, strange and unforgettable.
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Completed · 199814. Uzumaki
by Itou Junji
- Drama
- Horror (shared)
- Mystery
- Philosophical
Kurouzu-cho, a foggy town on the coast, is cursed not by a ghost but by a shape: the spiral. Kirie's boyfriend Shuichi sees it first, in his father's obsession, in the wind, in people's bodies. Junji Ito's horror classic, as the whole town is drawn into the pattern.
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Completed · 201715. Sweet Home
by Kim Carnby, Hwang Young-chan
- Drama
- Horror (shared)
- Thriller
After losing his family, withdrawn teenager Hyun Cha moves into a rundown apartment block, planning to give up on life. Then people start turning into monsters shaped by their own desires. The tenants barricade themselves inside: a tense, gory survival horror.
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Completed · 202116. Shotgun Boy
by Carnby Kim, Hongpil
- Horror (shared)
- Thriller
Hyeongseok is bullied relentlessly at a remote mountain school. The night monsters overrun it, he finds a shotgun. From the writer of Sweet Home: a brutal survival horror about what fear and power do to people.
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Completed · 201717. Jujutsu Kaisen 0
by Akutami Gege
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama
- Horror (shared)
Yuta Okkotsu is haunted, quite literally, by Rika, the childhood friend who died in front of him and came back as a monstrous curse. Satoru Gojo brings him to Jujutsu High to learn to control her. The prequel to Jujutsu Kaisen, in one volume.
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Completed · 184518. Struwwelpeter
by Heinrich Hoffmann
- Horror (shared)
- Tragedy
A doctor wrote it for his three-year-old because the children's books in the shops were unbearable. The result: a boy who sucks his thumbs loses them to a tailor with shears. Cheerfully drawn, and among the most frightening books ever aimed at children.
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Hiatus · 201619. The Witch and the Beast
by Kousuke Satake
- Action
- Fantasy
- Horror (shared)
- Supernatural
Ashaf, a smiling man with a coffin on his back, and Guideau, a girl with a beast's fangs, hunt witches across a gothic world. They are looking for one witch in particular: the one who cursed Guideau. A stylish, violent dark fantasy with gorgeous art.
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