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Thriller manga
High stakes and a ticking clock: tense stories built to keep the reader on edge until the last page.
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Completed · 20141. The Fable
by Minami Katsuhisa
- Action
- Comedy
- Crime
- Drama
Fable is a hitman of legendary skill. His boss sends him to live quietly in Osaka for a year, under a new name and with one rule: he may not kill anyone. Living like an ordinary person turns out to be his hardest job yet.
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Ongoing · 20212. The Return of the Crazy Demon
by Yu Jin Sung (유진성), JP, Ihy (이히)
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Fantasy
Ja-Ha Lee, the Mad Demon, dreamed of becoming the God of Martial Arts until he fell off a cliff fleeing the Demonic Cult with a stolen treasure. He wakes in his twenties again, with everything he knows about the future and about the martial arts. This time he plans to get it right, and to pay a few people back.
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Completed · 20163. The Promised Neverland
by Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu
- Fantasy
- Horror
- 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 · 20034. Death Note
by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- Crime
- Mystery
- Psychological
- 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.
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Completed · 20125. Ajin: Demi-Human
by Gamon Sakurai
- Action
- Horror
- 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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Completed · 19906. Battle Angel Alita
by Kishiro Yukito
- Action
- Drama
- Philosophical
- Sci-Fi
In the Scrapyard beneath the sky city of Zalem, cyber-doctor Ido finds the head of a cyborg girl with no memory, and gives her a new body. Alita remembers nothing, except a deadly martial art. The cyberpunk classic behind the film.
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Completed · 20177. Sweet Home
by Kim Carnby, Hwang Young-chan
- Drama
- Horror
- Thriller (shared)
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 · 20218. Shotgun Boy
by Carnby Kim, Hongpil
- Horror
- Thriller (shared)
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 · 19999. 20th Century Boys
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama
- Mystery
- Psychological
- Sci-Fi
A symbol Kenji and his friends invented as children resurfaces at the centre of a dangerous movement. Their forgotten games seem to predict disasters in the adult world, forcing the scattered friends to piece together their shared past. A mystery spanning generations, where remembering the right detail could change the future.
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Completed · 200610. 21st Century Boys
by Naoki Urasawa
- Drama
- Mystery
- Psychological
- Sci-Fi
The final questions left by 20th Century Boys lead Kenji back into the memories and secrets of his childhood. This concluding sequel brings the friends' long struggle into focus as the meaning of their old games finally emerges. Best read after the original series.
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Completed · 199411. Monster
by Naoki Urasawa
- Crime
- Drama
- Medical
- Mystery
Surgeon Kenzo Tenma chooses to save a child's life, sacrificing his standing at the hospital. Years later, a series of murders forces him to confront the consequences of that decision. His search across Germany becomes a psychological mystery about responsibility, identity and the value of a human life.
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Completed · 200312. Pluto
by Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Nagasaki
- Drama
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller (shared)
A string of killings targets humans and some of the world's most advanced robots. Robot detective Gesicht follows the connections, uncovering questions about memory, grief and the legacy of war. Naoki Urasawa reimagines an Astro Boy story by Osamu Tezuka as a science-fiction detective drama.
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