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- Corpse Party. Written by: Makoto Kedouin. Illustrated by: Toshimi Shinomiya. A group of students and a teacher are thrown into an alternate world after performing a ritual called Sachiko Ever After.
- I Am A Hero. By: Kengo Hanazawa. Hideo Suzuki is an average 35-year-old male living in Japan. That suddenly changes when a virus called ZQN starts to turn people into hostile zombies, forcing him into a fight for his life, with only his shotgun.
- Battle Royale. Written by: Koushun Takami. Illustrated by: Masayuki Taguchi. Battle Royale tells the story of what you’d expect- being a battle royale to the death.
- Psyren. By: Toshiaki Iwashiro. One day after school, high school student Ageha Yoshida finds a calling card on the way home, simply titled Psyren. Finding out his classmate Sakurako Amamiya received a similar calling card, he inquires her about it before she goes missing.
Dec 11, 2023 · Chris Park. Updated: 11 Dec 2023. [Top 15] Best Survival Horror Mangas of All Time. By Chris Park. The suspense of having to survive in an unknown environment is terrifying enough for many. However, when being placed with another element of horror in the form of people or creatures, the stakes are most definitely raised.
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- Berserk. Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Psychological. His name is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a feared warrior spoken of only in whispers. Bearer of a gigantic sword, an iron hand, and the scars of countless battles and tortures, his flesh is also indelibly marked with The Brand, an unholy symbol that draws the forces of darkness to him and dooms him as their sacrifice.
- Dorohedoro. Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery. In a city so dismal it's known only as "the Hole," a clan of Sorcerers have been plucking people off the streets to use as guinea pigs for atrocious "experiments" in the black arts.
- Chainsaw Man. Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Supernatural. The name says it all! Denji's life of poverty is changed forever when he merges with his pet chainsaw dog, Pochita!
- Made in Abyss. Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi. In an age when the corners of the world have been scoured for their secrets, only one place remains unexplored–a massive cave system known as the Abyss.
- Corpse Party. Written by: Makoto Kedouin. Illustrated by: Toshimi Shinomiya. A group of students and a teacher are thrown into an alternate world after performing a ritual called Sachiko Ever After.
- I Am A Hero. By: Kengo Hanazawa. Hideo Suzuki is an average 35-year-old male living in Japan. That suddenly changes when a virus called ZQN starts to turn people into hostile zombies, forcing him into a fight for his life, with only his shotgun.
- Battle Royale. Written by: Koushun Takami. Illustrated by: Masayuki Taguchi. Battle Royale tells the story of what you’d expect- being a battle royale to the death.
- Psyren. By: Toshiaki Iwashiro. One day after school, high school student Ageha Yoshida finds a calling card on the way home, simply titled Psyren. Finding out his classmate Sakurako Amamiya received a similar calling card, he inquires her about it before she goes missing.
- Berserk – Kentaro Miura
- Blood on The Tracks – Shuzo Oshimi
- Chainsaw Man – Tatsuki Fujimoto
- The Drifting Classroom – Kazuo Umezu
- Domu: A Child’S Dream — Katsuhiro Otomo
- Doubt – Yoshiki Tonogai
- I Am A Hero – Kengo Hanazawa
- Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service – Eiji Ōtsuka & Housui Yamazaki
- Parasyte – Hitoshi Iwaaki
- Pet Shop of Horrors – Matsuri Akino
Technically falling in the dark fantasy genre, Berserk can easily find itself in a horror manga list due to its body horror, ultra-violence, and general grotesqueness. The grim manga shuffles engrossing storylines around with relative ease as it shocks with pummeling images of detailed, non-stop gore. Berserk is dark fantasy manga at its core, with...
Blood on the Tracks is a slow-burn horror manga about an overprotective mother and her paranoid son. Shy and timid, middle schooler Seiichi Osabe demonstrates a wariness toward his classmates, his emotions, and his cousin who questions Seiichi’s sheltered life. The child never questions his mother Seiko’s overbearing protectiveness until she sacrif...
Chainsaw Man is an ongoing dark comedy horror fantasy manga that has gained massive popularity in the manga sphere. Creator Tatsuki Fujimoto is not yet 30 years old, so revel in the sheer talent of this young visionary and try to contain your jealousy for the rest of this article. Denji’s story begins in media res as an impoverished young man whose...
The Drifting Classroom is a classic horror manga about a school transported through time into a post-apocalyptic future. Created by Kazuo Umezu in the 1970s, this disquieting series clearly influenced the horror manga genre that supervened its publication. Another story entering the realm of psychological horror, The Drifting Classroom follows the ...
Katsuhiro Otomo penned and illustrated the watershed cyberpunk manga series Akira from 1982 to 1990. However, readers can identify similar themes and influences in Otomo’s predecessor manga, the science-fiction horror series Domu: A Child’s Dream. In the twisted tale, a man imbued with extrasensory powers enslaves the tenants living inside a block ...
Japanese horror manga series Doubt will immediately bring to mind the intense terror from the Black Mirror anthology television series. Like Black Mirror, Doubt centres its horror and action around a technological framework. When a virtual murder mystery game called Doubt captures Japan’s attention, everyone wants in on the trend. The game follows ...
In I Am a Hero, protagonist Hideo, a 35-year-old manga artist assistant, finds every aspect of his life unfulfilling and tedious. Hideo’s low self-worth causes discontentment over his menial existence. But when a disease transforms normal people into homicidal beasts, Hideo changes from the side character to the protagonist of his life as he fights...
In the same vein as horror-themed stories with a lighthearted touch of humor, Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service delivers irreverent laughs. Five graduates of a Buddhist university in Japan use their unique gifts to help deliver the last wishes of the recently deceased. The friends travel throughout the city and use Kuro Karatsu’s special gift of hea...
Science fiction and horror collide in Hitoshi Iwaaki’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers-esque manga series, Parasyte. Alien invasion stories like Parasyte maximise the gruesome horror aspect of humans serving as hosts to invaders. High school student Shinichi Izumi awakens one morning in terror as he attempts to fend off a worm-like alien parasite tr...
Pet Shop of Horrors incorporates a mystery element tied into its horror-based story. This is a manga where each chapter is delineated as an “Episode,” with its main protagonist Count D recurring with a revolving cast of characters comprising the mostly self-contained chapters. Count D is our enigmatic Mr. Roarke and his Chinatown pet shop is our “F...
Feb 12, 2024 · Fort of the Apocalypse Is the Perfect Manga For Halloween. Zombie horror is often disregarded as one of the most clichéd and unoriginal subgenres in the medium. Nevertheless, Fort of Apocalypse makes the overused tropes shine in a new terrifying light, immersing the readers in one of the best zombie stories out there.
Dec 11, 2023 · What Are The Best Horror Mangas? Try these horror mangas to scratch that dark itch. 15. Gantz. A group of people fight aliens and monsters to survive...but they’re already dead? Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato find themselves in a whirlwind of danger after being hit by a subway train attempting to save the life of a homeless man.
