If you liked OMORI
12 manga like OMORI
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with OMORI (psychological, horror, slice of life), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like OMORI
Readers also like it1. The Summer Hikaru Died
by Mokumokuren
- Drama (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- Mystery
- Psychological (shared)
In a remote village surrounded by mountains, Yoshiki and his best friend Hikaru have done everything together for years. Then Hikaru goes missing in the mountains for a week. When he returns, Yoshiki realises the truth: Hikaru died up there, and the thing that came back is something else wearing his face, his voice and his memories. The creature asks Yoshiki to keep its secret and to stay its friend, and Yoshiki, unable to let go of Hikaru, agrees. But strange, terrible things begin happening around the village, and its older residents seem to know more than they say about what lives in the mountains, and what the thing beside Yoshiki really is. Mokumokuren's series is a quiet, deeply unsettling horror story about grief, longing and an impossible friendship, with an atmosphere of humid summer dread. It was adapted into an anime.
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Horror · Psychological2. Tokyo Ghoul:re
by Sui Ishida
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
Two years after the events of Tokyo Ghoul, the CCG, the agency that hunts ghouls, has created the Quinx: young investigators implanted with ghoul organs so that they can fight with the same powers as their prey. Their mentor is Haise Sasaki, a gentle, bookish investigator who is himself a hybrid, and who cannot remember anything about his life before a certain point. The Quinx squad is a difficult team to lead: the ambitious Urie, the anxious Mutsuki, the lazy but gifted Saiko and the hard-working Shirazu each have reasons of their own to fight. As they take on dangerous ghoul organisations, Haise is haunted by dreams and fragments of memory, and by the growing suspicion that his past may change everything. Sui Ishida's sequel deepens every theme of the original, from identity and memory to the cycle of violence between humans and ghouls, with striking, experimental artwork. It was adapted into an anime and brings the story of Tokyo Ghoul to its conclusion.
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Horror · Psychological3. Tokyo Ghoul
by Sui Ishida
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
Ghouls live hidden among the people of Tokyo, looking human but able to survive only by eating human flesh. Shy, bookish student Ken Kaneki learns this the hard way when a date with the beautiful Rize ends in an attack. After a desperate surgery, he wakes up half-ghoul, the first of his kind, and hungry for what he cannot bear to eat. Caught between two worlds that want each other dead, Kaneki finds an unexpected refuge at Anteiku, a quiet coffee shop run by ghouls who try to live without killing, where the fierce waitress Touka reluctantly helps him. Meanwhile the investigators of the CCG hunt ghouls without mercy, and Kaneki must decide how much of his humanity he can keep. Sui Ishida's series is dark, graphic and heartbreaking, a story about identity, prejudice and the monstrous things people do to survive. It was adapted into an anime and continues in the sequel Tokyo Ghoul:re.
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Psychological · Slice of Life4. Sunny
by Taiyo Matsumoto
- Drama (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
In the 1970s, a group of children live at Star Kids' Home, a residential home for kids whose parents cannot look after them. In the yard sits an old, broken-down Nissan Sunny 1200, and to the children it is everything. Inside the car, they take imaginary journeys, hide from the world, fight, dream and wait for families who may never come back. Through the eyes of children such as the wild, angry Haruo and the newly arrived Sei, the series captures the joy, loneliness and resilience of growing up together while feeling apart. Taiyo Matsumoto, drawing on his own childhood experience, creates a poignant, beautifully drawn story that never pretends care can simply replace a family. Sunny won the Shogakukan Manga Award and is considered one of his masterpieces.
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Horror · Psychological5. Ajin: Demi-Human
by Gamon Sakurai
- Action
- Horror (shared)
- Psychological (shared)
- Sci-Fi
High-school student Kei Nagai is struck and killed by a truck, then gets up again moments later. He is an Ajin, one of the rare people who cannot die: whatever happens to them, they come back to life. The news makes him a target, because the government captures Ajin and uses them in secret experiments. On the run, with help from his childhood friend Kai, Kei discovers that Ajin can also summon an invisible, ghostlike black figure that fights for them. He is soon drawn into a war between the authorities and Sato, a calm, ruthless Ajin who has learned to use immortality as a weapon and plans a campaign of terror. Kei, cold and calculating himself, must decide whom to stand with. Gamon Sakurai's series is a sharp, tactical thriller about bodies, power and the value of a life. It was adapted into an anime, films and a live-action movie.
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Horror · Seinen6. Choujin X
by Sui Ishida
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- Supernatural
Best friends Tokio Kurohara and Azuma do everything together, though Tokio always feels like he is stumbling along in Azuma's cooler, more talented footsteps. One night they are attacked by a choujin, a superhuman mutant, and Tokio takes a desperate risk to save his friend: he becomes a choujin himself. Being a superpowered creature is not as glamorous as it sounds. Tokio has to hide his transformation, learn to control a strange body and survive in a world where choujin are feared, hunted and sometimes celebrated. With guidance from Ely, an experienced choujin, he struggles to find an identity that is his own rather than a shadow of Azuma's. Sui Ishida, creator of Tokyo Ghoul, combines quirky humour, body horror and vivid, experimental artwork in this story about friendship, self-worth and becoming who you are.
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Horror · Seinen7. The Witch and the Beast
by Kousuke Satake
- Action
- Fantasy
- Horror (shared)
- Supernatural
Ashaf is a soft-spoken man with delicate features, a coffin strapped to his back and a flock of black crows. Guideau is a feral, violent girl with long fangs and the eyes of a beast. This ominous pair arrive in towns ruled by witches, beings feared for their magic, and they have one creed: where there is a witch, they hunt. Guideau was cursed by a witch, and the two travel together searching for the one responsible, the only way to break the curse. Their cases bring them into societies where witches are feared, admired or misunderstood, and into dangerous magic that rarely fits neat categories of good and evil. Kousuke Satake's series is a stylish, violent dark fantasy with gorgeous gothic art and a sharply mismatched partnership. It was adapted into an anime.
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Horror · Psychological8. Uzumaki
by Itou Junji
- Drama (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- Mystery
- Philosophical
Kurouzu-cho, a small, foggy town on the coast of Japan, is cursed, not by a ghost or a monster but by a shape: the spiral. Kirie Goshima's withdrawn boyfriend, Shuichi Saito, is the first to notice it, as his father becomes obsessed with spirals in seashells, ferns, whirlpools and everything around him. At first the signs are small and eerie, but soon the curse spreads through the whole town: in the wind, in people's hair and bodies, in the lighthouse and the sea. Kirie tries to understand what is happening and protect the people she loves, while the town is drawn ever deeper into the pattern and escape seems less and less possible. Junji Ito's masterpiece is one of the most celebrated horror manga ever made, a slow, surreal and unforgettable descent drawn with breathtaking detail. It was adapted into a black-and-white anime series.
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Seinen · Slice of Life9. CITY
by Keiichi Arawi
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
Midori Nagumo is broke, behind on her rent and running out of excuses. Her best friend has stopped lending her money, her landlady has stopped believing her promises, and getting a job would mean less time for fun. Every scheme she invents to get by spirals into something stranger, and drags half the neighbourhood along with it. The city around her is full of people with lives just as odd: students, shopkeepers, police officers and a small restaurant that is never quite under control. Their stories cross in unexpected ways, and a gag that starts in one chapter may only land several chapters later, when the whole town gets involved. Keiichi Arawi, the creator of Nichijou, builds CITY like a carefully timed machine of absurd comedy, drawn with clean lines and boundless energy. Warm, ridiculous and surprisingly touching, it was adapted into an anime by Kyoto Animation, and it is best read as a long walk through a town you will want to visit again.
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Horror · Psychological10. Doubt
by Yoshiki Tonogai
- Action
- Drama (shared)
- Horror (shared)
- Mystery
Rabbit Doubt is a mobile game that has taken Japan by storm: players are rabbits who must uncover the wolf hiding among them before it picks them off one by one. A group of young players decides to meet in person for fun. They lose consciousness and wake up trapped in an abandoned building, with mysterious barcodes tattooed on their bodies and a corpse hanging nearby. The game has become real: one of them is the wolf, a killer hiding among the rabbits. As suspicion spreads and trust collapses, the survivors must investigate each other and find a way out before the wolf strikes again. Yoshiki Tonogai's psychological thriller is a tense, twisting death-game mystery in which every conversation could be a deception, and every alliance could be fatal.
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Seinen · Slice of Life11. Blue Period
by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
- Drama (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Yatora Yaguchi is a popular high-school student with good grades who seems to have everything figured out, yet he feels nothing about any of it. Then, one morning, he paints the Shibuya streets at dawn the way they look to him, in shades of blue, and for the first time he feels that he has truly communicated something. Yatora sets his sights on Tokyo University of the Arts, the most competitive art university in Japan, despite having almost no experience. He throws himself into drawing and painting, learning technique, theory and the art of seeing, alongside classmates such as the talented Ryuji Ayukawa, and confronts the doubt, cost and pressure that come with choosing art. Tsubasa Yamaguchi's series is a passionate story about the hard work behind talent and the courage to pursue what you love. It won the Manga Taisho Award and the Kodansha Manga Award, and was adapted into an anime.
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Psychological · Seinen12. Shadows House
by Soumatou
- Fantasy
- Mystery
- Psychological (shared)
- Supernatural
In a mansion on a lonely hill lives the Shadow family, mysterious nobles with no faces, who give off soot whenever they feel strong emotions. Each Shadow is served by a Living Doll, a human-looking servant who acts as their face, cleaning their soot and mimicking their expressions. Emilico is a cheerful new doll who serves Kate, a young Shadow. As Emilico learns her duties and the two grow closer, she begins to notice that the house's strict rules hide something sinister. Along with other pairs of Shadows and dolls, Kate and Emilico prepare for the debut that will decide their future, and start to uncover the truth about the house and what the dolls really are. Soumatou's series is a gorgeous gothic mystery about identity, obedience and friendship, with a charming heroine and a chilling secret. It was adapted into an anime.
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