24 Manga Like Tonari no Jiisan

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Cossette no Shouzou

Manga9 chHorror

Shared themes: Gore · Visual Arts.

Eiri Kurahashi is an art school student, with a job at a local antique store. It's there that he develops a strange obsession. He finds himself entranced by a portrait of a Victorian-era girl named Cossette. It's a portrait with a strange history--everyone who

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Ooedo Ukiyoe Kisou Tengai

Manga

Shared themes: Gore · Visual Arts.

An omnibus serialization about various Edo-period woodblock artists.

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9.5

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Berserk

MangaAction

Shared themes: Gore.

Guts, a former mercenary now known as the Black Swordsman, is out for revenge. After a tumultuous childhood, he finally finds someone he respects and believes he can trust, only to have everything fall apart when this person takes away everything important to

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8.6

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Blue Period

MangaAward Winning

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Second-year high school student Yatora Yaguchi is bored with his normal life. He studies well and plays around with his friends, but in truth, he does not enjoy either of those activities. Bound by norms, he secretly envies those who do things differently. Tha

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8.6

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Tokyo Ghoul

Manga144 chAction

Shared themes: Gore.

Lurking within the shadows of Tokyo are frightening beings known as ghouls, who satisfy their hunger by feeding on humans once night falls. An organization known as the Commission of Counter Ghoul (CCG) has been established in response to the constant attacks

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8.4

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Kiseijuu

Manga64 chAction

Shared themes: Gore.

"Parasites" are tennis ball sized creatures, whose numbers and origins are unknown. They invade and take over the human mind in order to survive. Shinichi Izumi is a 16-year-old high school student who lives with his parents in a quiet neighborhood. One night,

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8.4

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Tokyo Ghoul:re

Manga181 chAction

Shared themes: Gore.

Two years have passed since the CCG's raid on Anteiku. Although the atmosphere in Tokyo has changed drastically due to the increased influence of the CCG, ghouls continue to pose a problem as they have begun taking caution, especially the terrorist organizatio

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8.3

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Hellsing

Manga92 chAction

Shared themes: Gore.

For centuries, many secret organizations have taken part in exterminating various types of dangerous monsters. One of them is the England-based Hellsing, run by its cunning leader, Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing. Her greatest hunter, and trump card, i

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8.2

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Eden: It's an Endless World!

Manga127 chAction

Shared themes: Gore.

In the panic surrounding a worldwide pandemic which kills 15 percent of the population and cripples many more, a secret organization, the Propater, topples the UN and seizes control of much of the world. A boy and a girl, raised in an abandoned virology resear

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8.1

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Shigurui

Manga84 chAction

Shared themes: Gore.

The sadistic daimyo Tadanaga Tokugawa has decreed Japan's first martial arts competition with real swords, appalling even the most loyal of his retainers. However, when the spectators realize that the first match pits the one-armed Gennosuke Fujiki against the

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8.1

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Gantz

Manga383 chAction

Shared themes: Gore.

Lonely high school student Kei Kurono isolates himself out of a growing cynicism toward his fellow man and the cruelty they are capable of enacting. One day, while waiting to take the subway to school, Kei's classmate Masaru Katou leaps onto the tracks in an e

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Arte

Manga

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

It is early 16th-century Italy, and the city of Florence blossoms amid wondrous depictions of the newly-birthed Renaissance. Men are opening their art workshops, displaying their craft, and taking on aspiring artists as apprentices. Meanwhile, women are expect

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Hyouge Mono

Manga273 chAward Winning

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

It was the Sengoku-era, when the warlords usurped each other. There was a man whose soul was overtaken by the ways of tea and material greed, as he worked his way up toward greater power and status. His name was Sasuke Furuta, a subordinate warrior of Nobunaga

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7.8

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Battle Royale

Manga119 chAction

Shared themes: Gore.

Every year, a class is randomly chosen to be placed in a deserted area where they are forced to kill each other in order to survive. Initially believing to be on a graduation trip, Shuuya Nanahara and the rest of Shiroiwa Junior High's Class B find that they h

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7.8

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Franken Fran

Manga71 chComedy

Shared themes: Gore.

Deep within Japan's remote regions is the mansion of Dr. Naomitsu Madaraki, a surgeon notorious for his gruesome work. While he is away from home, his artificial daughter Fran takes over the mansion and his grisly surgical practice. With the aid of her violent

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7.8

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Elfen Lied

Manga113 chAction

Shared themes: Gore.

Lucy is a special breed of human referred to as Diclonius, born with a short pair of horns and invisible telekinetic hands that lands her as a victim of inhumane scientific experimentation by the government. However, once circumstances present her an opportuni

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7.7

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Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru!

Manga

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Mizuki Usami is a member of Tsukumori Middle School's art club. Despite putting a lot of effort into the club, Usami soon realizes one thing—all of the other members are not taking the club seriously at all! The president, who has never been motivated to draw

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7.6

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I Am a Hero

Manga264 chAward Winning

Shared themes: Gore.

Insecure 35-year-old Hideo Suzuki is forced to work as a mangaka's assistant when his own series fails due to low sales. As he struggles through a mundane life plagued by hallucinations, he comes to realize that his relationship with his girlfriend is not that

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7.6

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Koroshiya 1

Manga114 chAction

Shared themes: Gore.

Ichi may seem like a spineless weakling—but when the tears start flowing, a terrifying transformation takes place. Driven to his mental breaking point, Ichi becomes an unstoppable force of carnage, unleashing a torrent of violence on his next target. When his

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7.6

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Another

Manga21 chHorror

Shared themes: Gore.

During the spring of 1998 in the town of Yomiyama, Kouichi Sakakibara is supposed to start classes at a new school. Unfortunately, he is stuck in the hospital due to a collapsed lung. When he is wandering the hospital, he meets a dark-haired girl named Mei Mis

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7.4

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Hellsing: The Dawn

Manga6 chAction

Shared themes: Gore.

Hellsing, an organization devoted to the elimination of the vampire threat, has recently uncovered information regarding the attempted production of "man-made" undead. The world is presently in the thick of WWII, and the current leader of Hellsing fears the Na

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7.3

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Sora wo Matotte

Manga

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

The manga centers on high school student Haro Ogawa. In his childhood years, he saw a painting known as "Witch in the Nude." Ever since then, he has been teaching himself oil painting, mainly painting women in the nude, always chasing after the painting from h

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7.3

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Baki Gaiden: Scarface

Manga66 chAction

Shared themes: Gore.

Another story in the Baki world. This series follows Kaoru Hanayama's story.

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7.2

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Terra Formars

MangaAction

Shared themes: Gore.

After humanity's first manned mission to the Red Planet was lost, a second expedition arrives. The explorers prepare to exterminate the cockroaches that were used to transform the Martian environment, but are shocked to discover that the insects have mutated i