Mokumokuren
title: モクモクれん
title: Mokomoku Ren

Inuki, Kanako
title: 犬木 加奈子
coverage: 1958/2026

Tonogai, Yoshiki
title: 外海 良基

Asano, Inio
title: 浅野 いにお

Kago, Shintaro
title: 駕籠 真太郎

Yamamoto, Hideo
title: 山本英夫

Otsuka, Eiji
title: 大塚 英志
contributor: Sarah Romero
coverage: 1958/2026

Kawashima, Norikazu
title: 川島のりかず
title: 川島範一 (birth name)
coverage: 1950/2018

AidaIro
title: あいだいろ

Samura, Hiroaki
title: 沙村 広明
coverage: 1970/2026

Ishida, Sui
title: 石田 スイ
coverage: 1986/2026

Urasawa, Naoki
title: 浦沢 直樹
coverage: 1960/2026

Aso, Haro
title: 麻生羽呂
coverage: 1980/2026

Hayashida, Q
coverage: 1977/2026

Nagabe
coverage: 1993/2026

Igarashi, Daisuke
title: 五十嵐 大介
coverage: 1969/2026

Ito, Junji
title: 伊藤 潤二
coverage: 1963/2026

Umezu, Kazuo
coverage: 1936/2024

Midorikawa, Yuki
title: 緑川ゆき
coverage: 1976/2026

The Summer Hikaru Died
subject: Death
subject: Friendship
subject: Monsters
description: Yoshiki Tsujinaka can tell that his best friend isn't the same: Something has taken over Hikaru’s body. It may walk, talk, and look like Hikaru, but it’s not Hikaru.
creator: Mokumokuren
creator: Oloye, Ajane (translator)
creator: Blackman, Abigail (letterer)
publisher: Kadokawa Shoten
publisher: Yen Press
date: 2021-present
contributor: Jess Barnes
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 2021/2026

Dai Dark
subject: Fantasy
subject: Science Fiction
subject: Comedy
description: Zaha Sanko's body has great and terrible powers -- they say that possessing his bones will grant you any wish, even the desire to become ruler of the universe. But Sanko is still a teenage dude with his own life, and he isn't about to let every monstrous lowlife in the galaxy rip him limb from limb
creator: Hayashida, Q
creator: Daniel Komen (Translator)
publisher: Shogakukan
publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
date: 2019-2021
contributor: Jessika Goncalves
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language: English
language: Japanese
type: Manga
coverage: 2019/2021

Blood on the Tracks
subject: Drama
subject: Suspense
description: Seiichi's mother loves him very much, and his days pass with placid regularity. School, friends, and even the attention of his attractive classmate Fukiishi. Until one terrible summer day, that all changes.
creator: Oshimi, Shuzo
publisher: Vertical, Inc
date: 2017-2023
contributor: Andrew Bryan
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language: English
language: Japanese
type: Manga
coverage: 2017/2023

No Longer Human
subject: Anxiety
subject: Suicide
subject: Alienation (Social psychology)
description: Mine has been a life of much shame. I cannot even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Manga adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s supposedly autobiographical novel No Longer Human, this adaptation shows that horror is human.
creator: Ito, Junji
creator: Donald Keene (translator)
creator: Jocelyne Allen (translator)
creator: James Dashiell (illustrator, letterer)
publisher: Big Comic Original
publisher: VIZ Media
date: 2017-2018
contributor: Jess Barnes
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 2017/2018

The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún
subject: Fantasy
subject: Mystery
description: In a land of two kingdoms -- the Outside, where twisted beasts roam, cursing with a touch, and the Inside, where humans live in safety and peace -- a girl and a demonic guardian known only as Teacher share a bond that transcends their disparate appearances.
creator: Nagabe
creator: Adrienne Beck (Translator)
publisher: Mag Garden
publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
date: 2015-2017
contributor: Jessika Goncalves
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language: English
language: Japanese
type: Manga
coverage: 2015/2017

Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
subject: Ghosts
subject: Blessing and cursing
subject: Spirits
description: A high schooler becomes tied to the ghost of a boy who attended her school over fifty years before her, attempts to resolve the school’s seven mysteries.
creator: AidaIro
creator: Nibley, Alethea (translator)
creator: Nibley, Athena (translator)
publisher: Monthly G Fantasy
publisher: Yen Press
date: 2014 - present
contributor: Jess Barnes
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 2014/2026

Dementia 21
subject: Surrealism
subject: Paranoia
subject: Satire
description: A young home health aid finds herself helping her elderly patients with bizarre and grotesques adventures.
creator: Kago, Shintaro
publisher: BookLOUD
publisher: Fantagraphics Books
date: 2011-2023
contributor: Sarah Romero
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 2011/2023

Tokyo Ghoul
subject: Ghouls and ogres
subject: Cannibalism
subject: Humanity
description: Tokyo Ghoul is set in an alternate reality, where humans live alongside ghouls who must eat human flesh to survive. After an accident, an unassuming college student becomes a half-ghoul, thrusting into the secret underworld of Tokyo’s ghouls, as he struggles to maintain his humanity.
creator: Ishida, Sui
creator: Joe Yamazaki (translator)
publisher: Weekly Young Jump
publisher: Viz Media
date: 2011-2014
contributor: Dan'o Reid
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 2011/2014

Alice in Borderland
subject: Games
subject: Near-death experiences
subject: Survival
description: Strange fireworks in Tokyo send a group of strangers to a parallel world where they must play life or death games in order to survive. Each game brings new alliances and gut-wrenching choices. Each victory buys them only a few more days of life.
creator: Aso, Haro
creator: Jonah Mayahara-Miller (translator)
creator: Joanna Estep (translator)
publisher: Shōnen Sunday S
publisher: Weekly Shōnen Sunday
publisher: Viz Media
date: 2010-2016
contributor: Dan'o Reid
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 2010/2016

Rabbit Doubt
subject: Psychological warfare
subject: Survival
subject: Predator hunting
description: The popular cell phone game, "Rabbit Doubt," becomes a reality for a group of four. In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, the four must survive the killer wolf player, who watches the four through the hospital's surveillance system.
creator: Tonogai, Yoshiki
creator: Alexis Eckerman (translator)
publisher: Square Enix
publisher: Yen Press
date: 2007-2009
contributor: Sarah Romero
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language: English
language: Japanese
type: Manga
coverage: 2007/2009

Nijigahara Holograph
subject: Traumatic shock
subject: Psychological aspects
subject: Pain in adolescence
description: In childhood, seven children push their classmate down a tunnel to appease a supposed monster that will bring end to the world. A decade later, the now adults remain haunted by their act as children. As their classmate remains in a coma, their lives continue with guilt and new acts of violence.
creator: Asano, Inio
creator: Rachel Thorn (translator)
publisher: Ohta Publishing
publisher: Fantagraphics Books
date: 2006-2014
contributor: Sarah Romero
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 2006/2014

Natsume's Book of Friends
subject: Yōkai (Japanese Folklore)
subject: Exorcism
subject: Loneliness
description: Natsume's Book of Friends is a touching and emotional story about a lonely teenager with supernatural powers. Takashi Natsume can see yokai and other spirits. While some spirits are fun and friendly, most are dangerous. Despite the danger, Natsume feels drawn to the world of spirits and the work of exorcists who alternately help and threaten him, while at the same he is desperate to protect his normal friends and family from the supernatural beings that constantly loom over them unseen. Natsume's Book of Friends is beautiful and frightening, sad and hopeful, nostalgic and spooky.
creator: Midorikawa, Yuki
creator: Lillian Olsen (translator)
publisher: Lala DX
publisher: Lala
publisher: Viz Media
date: 2003-2026
contributor: Dan'o Reid
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 2003/2026

Homunculus
subject: Horror
subject: Mystery
subject: Psychological
description: A homeless man undergoes trepanation for money. Little does he know, this procedure will allow him to see the "homunculi"-- distorted, monstrous versions of people's inner selves. This new ability leads him on his own psychological journey to discover oneself, identity, and confront the dark truths of humanity,
creator: Yamamoto, Hideo
publisher: Shogakukan
date: 2003-2023
contributor: Sarah Romero
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 2003/2023

Witches
subject: Fantasy
subject: Magic
description: On a visit to a city in the far west of Asia, a British girl named Nicola falls in love. The object of her affection is Mimar, a man who works at the city's bazaar—yet despite her attempts, he turns her down. Upon returning home to England, the ache of her unrequited love festers. After years spent obtaining wealth, fame, and the Secret of the World, Nicola returns to the bazaar to exact her deadly revenge upon Mimar and those he holds dearest.
creator: Daisuke, Igurashi
creator: Katheryn Henzler (Translator)
publisher: Shogakukan
publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
date: 2003-2022
contributor: Jessika Goncalves
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language: English
language: Japanese
type: Manga
coverage: 2003/2022

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
subject: Black Humor
subject: Drama
subject: Supernatural
description: Five students from a Buddhist college in Japan use their unique spiritual and scientific talents to carry out the last wishes of their dead clients. By contacting corpses’ spirits and speaking to them, these students help their souls move on.
creator: Otsuka, Eiji
creator: Housui Yamazaki
publisher: Kadokawa Mystery
publisher: Shōnen Ace
publisher: Young Ace
publisher: Dark Horse Manga
date: 2002-2006
contributor: Sarah Romero
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language: English
language: Japanese
type: Manga
coverage: 2002/2006

Dorohedoro
subject: Demonology
subject: Wizards
subject: Magic
description: Caiman is a person who has lost all of his memories after being transformed into a lizard-headed man by a sorcerer. Living in a grim urban region called Hole, he now hunts magic users in search of the one responsible for his metamorphosis in an attempt to recover his past and his face.
creator: Hayashida, Q
creator: James Gaubatz (Translator)
publisher: Shogakukan
publisher: VIZ Media
date: 2000-2010
contributor: Jessika Goncalves
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language: English
language: Japanese
type: Manga
coverage: 2000/2010

Uzumaki
subject: Drama
subject: Supernatural
description: In the town of Kurouzu-cho, Kirie Goshima lives a fairly normal life with her family. As she walks to the train station one day to meet her boyfriend, Shuuichi Saito, she sees his father staring at a snail shell in an alley. Thinking nothing of it, she mentions the incident to Shuuichi, who says that his father has been acting weird lately. Shuuichi reveals his rising desire to leave the town with Kirie, saying that the town is infected with spirals.
creator: Ito, Junji
publisher: Shogakukan
publisher: Viz Media
date: 1998-1999
contributor: Andrew Bryan
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language: English
language: Japanese
type: Manga
coverage: 1998/1999

Blame!
subject: Action
subject: Sci-Fi
description: In an enormous steel labyrinth riddled with horrifying creatures, humanity is forced to isolate itself in small enclaves while living in constant fear of its annihilation. In this dystopia, only a strange young man known as Killy is brave enough to traverse its unforgiving territories.
creator: Nihei, Tsutomu
publisher: Kodansha
publisher: Tokyopop (former)
publisher: Vertical (current)
date: 1997-2003
contributor: Andrew Bryan
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language: English
language: Japanese
type: Manga
coverage: 1997/2003

Monster
subject: Neurosurgeons
subject: Serial murderers
subject: Conspiracies
description: Dr. Kenzo Tenma saves the life of Johan, a young boy who grows up to become a serial killer with secret ties to the government, and Tenma, finding himself implicated as the main suspect in a series of murders, sets out to find and stop Johan.
creator: Urusawa, Naoki
creator: Agnes Yoshida (translator)
creator: Satch Watanabe (translator)
publisher: Big Comic Original
publisher: Viz Media
date: 1994-2001
contributor: Dan'o Reid
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 1994/2001

Blade of the Immortal
subject: Rōnin
subject: Redemption
subject: Murder
description: A samurai cursed with immortality seeks redemption by killing 1,000 evil men.
creator: Samura, Hiroaki
creator: Dana Lewis (translator)
creator: Toren Smith (translator)
publisher: Monthly Afternoon
publisher: Dark Horse Comics
date: 1993-2012
contributor: Dan'o Reid
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 1993/2012

Berserk
subject: Action
subject: Fantasy
description: 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 Guts for the purpose of fulfilling his own desires. Now marked for death, Guts becomes condemned to a fate in which he is relentlessly pursued by demonic beings.
creator: Miura, Kentaro
publisher: Hakusensha
publisher: Dark Horse Comics
date: 1989-present
contributor: Andrew Bryan
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language: English
language: Japanese
type: Manga
coverage: 1989/2026

Tomie
subject: Psychological
subject: Supernatural
subject: Femmes fatales
description: She can seduce nearly any man, and drive them to murder as well, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. While one lover seeks to keep her for himself, another grows terrified of the immortal succubus.
creator: Ito, Junji
creator: Naomi Kokubo (Translator)
publisher: Asahi Sonorama
publisher: Viz Media
date: 1987-2024
contributor: Jessika Goncalves
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language: English
language: Japanese
type: Manga
coverage: 1987/2024

Her Frankenstein
subject: Interpersonal relationships
subject: Monsters
subject: Mental illness
description: A tale almost as old as time: boy meets girl, girl doesn’t like boy, boy becomes monster for girl.
creator: Kawashima, Norikazu
creator: Ryan Holmberg (translator)
publisher: Hibari Shōbo
publisher: SMUDGE
date: 1986
date: 2024
contributor: Jess Barnes
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 1986

The Drifting Classroom
subject: Mystery
subject: Sci-Fi
description: Sixth grader Shou Takamatsu is a troublemaker who refuses to grow up. However, one fateful day, his world is turned upside down, forcing him to quickly mature—or die. When Shou arrives at school that morning, an earthquake of mysterious origin strikes, and the campus is teleported to an empty wasteland, far removed from society.
creator: Umezu, Kazuo
publisher: Shogakukan
publisher: Viz Media
date: 1972-1974
contributor: Andrew Bryan
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language: English
language: Japanese
type: Manga
coverage: 1972/1974

Cat-Eyed Boy
subject: Abnormalities
subject: Monsters
subject: Ostracism (Psychology)
description: Hated by demons and humans alike!: The tales of a chaotic neutral cat-eyed boy who is hated by both demons and humans.
creator: Umezu, Kazuo
creator: JN Productions (translator)
publisher: Shōnen Gaho
publisher: Shōnen King
publisher: Weekly Shōnen Sunday
publisher: Viz Media
date: 1967-1976
date: 2008
contributor: Jess Barnes
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language: Japanese
language: English
type: Manga
coverage: 1967/1976