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Tragedy manga
Stories that do not spare their characters, where loss and sacrifice are the point rather than the twist.
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Ongoing · 20171. Record of Ragnarok
by Umemura Shinya, Fukui Takumi, Azychika
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Tragedy (shared)
The gods have met and voted: humanity ends. One valkyrie objects and invokes Ragnarok, a final tournament of thirteen one-on-one duels between gods and the greatest humans in history. Zeus, Thor and Poseidon against Lu Bu, Adam, Kojiro Sasaki and Jack the Ripper. Win seven, and humanity lives.
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Ongoing · 20162. To Your Eternity
by Yoshitoki Ōima
- Adventure
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Philosophical
An orb is cast onto the earth to observe it. It becomes a rock, then a wolf, then a boy who has been left alone in the snow, learning what it means to live from everyone it meets. From the creator of A Silent Voice: an immortal's journey through love and loss, one life at a time.
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Ongoing · 20193. Latna Saga: Survival of a Sword King
by YKB (임경배), SOON Q (권순규), Studio Khit (스튜디오 크힛)
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Fantasy
Fresh out of military service, Hanbin Ryu is pulled into another world, where his guide system is so broken that he spends twenty years stuck in its tutorial. When he finally gets out, the world has turned against people from other worlds, and he has to survive as the most over-trained beginner anyone has met.
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Completed · 20144. Tokyo Ghoul:re
by Sui Ishida
- Action
- Drama
- Horror
- 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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Completed · 20115. Tokyo Ghoul
by Sui Ishida
- Action
- Drama
- Horror
- 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 · 20096. Attack on Titan
by Hajime Isayama
- Action
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Horror
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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Ongoing · 20217. Daemons of the Shadow Realm
by Arakawa Hiromu
- Action
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Mystery
Yuru lives happily in a mountain village watched over by two stone guardians, close to the only family he has left: his twin sister Asa, who serves the village from inside a cage. One night the village's secrets come out all at once. The new series from Hiromu Arakawa, the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist.
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Completed · 19908. 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 · 19999. Mushishi
by Urushibara Yuki
- Adventure
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Mystery
Mushi are the most basic forms of life, older than plants or animals, and most people cannot see them. Ginko can. A mushishi, he wanders from village to village, helping people whose lives the mushi have touched. Quiet, strange and beautiful stories, each complete in itself.
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Ongoing · 202210. The Bugle Call: Song of War
by Sora Mozuku, Toumori Higoro
- Action
- Fantasy
- Mystery
- Psychological
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.
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Completed · 199811. 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.
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Completed · 202112. Takopi's Original Sin
by Taizan 5
- Drama
- Psychological
- Sci-Fi
- Tragedy (shared)
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.
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Completed · 201613. Three Days of Happiness
by Taguchi Shouichi, Miaki Sugaru
- Drama
- Philosophical
- Romance
- Tragedy (shared)
Almost twenty and going nowhere, Kusunoki finds a shop that buys what is left of people's lives, and sells all but his last three months. He spends them under the eye of Miyagi, the woman sent to watch him, and finds out too late what they could have been worth.
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Completed · 201214. Erased
by Sanbe Kei
- Action
- Drama
- Mystery
- Psychological
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.
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Completed · 201715. Jujutsu Kaisen 0
by Akutami Gege
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama
- Horror
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 · 186516. Max und Moritz
by Wilhelm Busch
- Comedy
- Tragedy (shared)
Seven pranks by two boys, told in rhymed couplets under the pictures, ending with the pair of them ground into meal and fed to the ducks. Rudolph Dirks was asked to redraw it for an American paper and produced The Katzenjammer Kids instead.
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Completed · 184517. Struwwelpeter
by Heinrich Hoffmann
- Horror
- Tragedy (shared)
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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