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Psychological manga

Stories that get inside people's heads: mind games, obsession and the pressure that changes who someone is.

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  1. unOrdinary
    Ongoing · 2016

    1. unOrdinary

    by Uru-chan

    • Action
    • Drama
    • Psychological (shared)

    In a world where almost everyone has a power, the strongest rule the school and the powerless get crushed. John is a quiet student with no ability at all — supposedly. A story about bullying, power and what it does to people.

    Read on WEBTOONOpen
  2. Blue Lock
    Ongoing · 2018

    2. Blue Lock

    by Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura

    • Drama
    • Psychological (shared)
    • Sports

    After another World Cup exit, Japan's football union locks 300 young strikers inside a facility called Blue Lock. Only one will become the national team's ace; the rest are banned from ever playing for Japan. Yoichi Isagi, who passed when he should have shot, has to learn to be selfish — a football story played like a survival game.

    Read on K MANGAOpen
  3. The Tutorial Is Too Tough!
    Ongoing · 2021

    3. The Tutorial Is Too Tough!

    by gandara, Imae Daiki (이마에 다이키)

    • Action
    • Adventure
    • Fantasy
    • Isekai

    Former pro gamer Lee Ho-Jae is invited into a Tutorial World and, sure of himself, picks Hell difficulty. Then he finds out he cannot leave. The survival rate is 0.01 percent, and every floor makes him wonder why he, of all people, was invited.

    Read on TapasOpen
  4. The Promised Neverland
    Completed · 2016

    4. The Promised Neverland

    by Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu

    • Fantasy
    • Horror
    • Mystery
    • Psychological (shared)

    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.

    Read on MANGA PlusOpen
  5. Tokyo Ghoul:re
    Completed · 2014

    5. Tokyo Ghoul:re

    by Sui Ishida

    • Action
    • Drama
    • Horror
    • Psychological (shared)

    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.

    Read on MANGA PlusOpen
  6. Oshi no Ko
    Completed · 2020

    6. Oshi no Ko

    by Aka Akasaka, Mengo Yokoyari

    • Drama
    • Mystery
    • Psychological (shared)

    A country doctor is reborn as the son of Ai Hoshino, the idol he adored, with his memories intact. When tragedy strikes her, he grows up with one aim: to find out who was behind it. A sharp, dark look at the entertainment industry, from idols and reality TV to the stage, wrapped around a mystery.

    Read on MANGA PlusOpen
  7. The Summer Hikaru Died
    Ongoing · 2021

    7. The Summer Hikaru Died

    by Mokumokuren

    • Drama
    • Horror
    • Mystery
    • Psychological (shared)

    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.

    Read on ComicWalkerOpen
  8. Tokyo Ghoul
    Completed · 2011

    8. Tokyo Ghoul

    by Sui Ishida

    • Action
    • Drama
    • Horror
    • Psychological (shared)

    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.

    Read on MANGA PlusOpen
  9. Land of the Lustrous
    Completed · 2012

    9. Land of the Lustrous

    by Haruko Ichikawa

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Philosophical
    • Psychological (shared)

    Far in the future, living gems guard their island against the Lunarians, who come down from the moon to shatter them and carry them off. Phosphophyllite is the youngest and most fragile of them, and wants desperately to be useful. A strange, beautiful and devastating story about what Phos becomes in trying.

    Read on K MANGAOpen
  10. Death Note
    Completed · 2003

    10. Death Note

    by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata

    • Crime
    • Mystery
    • Psychological (shared)
    • Supernatural

    Top student Light Yagami finds a notebook dropped by a death god: whoever's name is written in it dies. He decides to rid the world of criminals and becomes "Kira", a killer the world cannot see. The police call in L, a reclusive genius detective, and a battle of wits begins in which one mistake is fatal.

    Read on MANGA PlusOpen
  11. Moriarty the Patriot
    Ongoing · 2016

    11. Moriarty the Patriot

    by Ryosuke Takeuchi, Hikaru Miyoshi

    • Crime
    • Drama
    • Mystery
    • Psychological (shared)

    Victorian England is rotten with privilege, and William James Moriarty means to tear it down. With his brothers he becomes a consultant for crime, solving people's problems in ways the law never would. Sherlock Holmes's great enemy, told from his side, as a clever, stylish crime story.

    Read on VIZOpen
  12. Ajin: Demi-Human
    Completed · 2012

    12. Ajin: Demi-Human

    by Gamon Sakurai

    • Action
    • Horror
    • Psychological (shared)
    • 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.

    Read on K MANGAOpen
  13. Dungeon ni Hisomu Yandere na Kanojo ni Ore wa Nandomo Korosareru
    Ongoing · 2023

    13. Dungeon ni Hisomu Yandere na Kanojo ni Ore wa Nandomo Korosareru

    by Nikita Kitagawa, Eiji Nomura

    • Action
    • Fantasy
    • Psychological (shared)

    Kiska is framed for the murder of Namia, the only person in his village who was ever kind to him, and thrown into a dungeon no one escapes. There he finds he can save his progress and start again each time he dies. He is going to need it: something down there knows him, and it kills him again and again.

    Read on ComicWalkerOpen
  14. Parasyte
    Completed · 1988

    14. Parasyte

    by Iwaaki Hitoshi

    • Action
    • Horror
    • Philosophical
    • Psychological (shared)

    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.

    Read on K MANGAOpen
  15. Pepper & Carrot
    Ongoing · 2014

    15. Pepper & Carrot

    by David Revoy

    • Adventure
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Medical

    Pepper, a young witch, and her cat Carrot brew potions that almost never turn out the way they were planned. Released by David Revoy under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence.

    Read here, freeOpen
  16. Ping Pong
    Completed · 1996

    16. Ping Pong

    by Taiyo Matsumoto

    • Drama
    • Psychological (shared)
    • Sports

    Peco plays table tennis with dazzling confidence; his friend Smile hides his talent behind indifference. As stronger opponents test them, both must decide what competing means to them. A sports drama in which friendship, effort and the burden of natural ability matter as much as winning.

    Read on VIZ MangaOpen
  17. The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins
    Completed · 2022

    17. The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins

    by Taizan 5

    • Drama
    • Mystery
    • Psychological (shared)

    Tsubasa Ichinose wakes up after a car accident with no memories, and so does the rest of his family. They decide to start over as a perfect, happy family. But the memories they lost were hiding things. From the creator of Takopi's Original Sin.

    Read on MANGA PlusOpen
  18. The Bugle Call: Song of War
    Ongoing · 2022

    18. The Bugle Call: Song of War

    by Sora Mozuku, Toumori Higoro

    • Action
    • Fantasy
    • Mystery
    • Psychological (shared)

    Nine ancient towers stand over a world at war, and every nation wants them. Luca, a bugler in a mercenary company, wants only to leave the battlefield and become a real musician. He can see the sound of his own instrument, a curse that drags him into the war whether he wants it or not.

    Read on VIZOpen
  19. Roxana
    Hiatus · 2021

    19. Roxana

    by Kin (킨), Baek Jiyeon (백지연), Summer Light (여름빛)

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Isekai
    • Psychological (shared)

    In the novel The Abysmal Flower, Roxana Agrece's criminal family is doomed to fall. When her father kidnaps Cassis Pedelian, the heroine's brother, Roxana sees her chance. She can wait for the heroine's revenge, or bring her family down herself, with the help of a captive she is not sure she can trust.

    Read on TapasOpen
  20. No. 5
    Completed · 2000

    20. No. 5

    by Taiyo Matsumoto

    • Action
    • Adventure
    • Psychological (shared)
    • Sci-Fi

    In a desert-dominated future, a member of an elite group of peacekeepers abandons his post and becomes its target. The hunt draws the other numbered guardians into a conflict shaped by their loyalties and doubts. An eccentric science-fiction journey through a world of striking landscapes and unstable ideals.

    Read on VIZ MangaOpen
  21. Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White
    Completed · 1993

    21. Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White

    by Taiyo Matsumoto

    • Action
    • Drama
    • Psychological (shared)
    • Supernatural

    Black and White are two street children fiercely attached to Treasure Town and to each other. When outsiders arrive with plans to remake their neighbourhood, their freedom comes under threat. An urban fable about violence, change and the fragile balance between two very different companions.

    Read on VIZ MangaOpen
  22. Uzumaki
    Completed · 1998

    22. Uzumaki

    by Itou Junji

    • Drama
    • Horror
    • 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.

    Read on VIZ MangaOpen
  23. Takopi's Original Sin
    Completed · 2021

    23. Takopi's Original Sin

    by Taizan 5

    • Drama
    • Psychological (shared)
    • Sci-Fi
    • Tragedy

    Takopi, a cheerful alien from the Planet Happy, lands on Earth with gadgets meant to make people smile. The first person he meets is Shizuka, a girl who never smiles. He wants to help, and has no idea how cruel the world around her is. Two volumes that look like a children's story and hit like a tragedy.

    Read on MANGA PlusOpen
  24. Erased
    Completed · 2012

    24. Erased

    by Sanbe Kei

    • Action
    • Drama
    • Mystery
    • Psychological (shared)

    Satoru Fujinuma, twenty-nine and drifting, sometimes slips back a few minutes in time to stop something bad from happening. It never seems to help him much. Then a terrible crime sends him eighteen years into the past, into his own childhood, in the weeks before a classmate disappeared.

    Read on Yen PressOpen

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