10 best horror manga

Doubt is a manga written and drawn by Yoshiki Tonogai which was originally released in 2007 in Square Enix’s Shonen Gangan magazine (the same home as Fullmetal Alchemist) and was completed in 4 volumes in 2009.

The story focuses on the mobile game “Rabbit Doubt”, with rules similar to those of Mafia. Players must find the wolf, or killer, among their group of rabbits as they are slaughtered one by one. Six players in this game are trapped in a building with one of the group already dead; To avoid the same fate, the remaining five must play a real-life game of “Rabbit Doubt” and find the (lying) wolf hiding among them.

The wolf kills one rabbit each round, and the rest of the rabbits must try to figure out who the wolf is. Taking this game as inspiration, Doubt’s plot involves the game’s players meeting in real life and being drawn into a deadly version of the online game.

Hideout is a manga written and illustrated by Masasumi Kakizaki which began to be published in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in 2010 and compiled into a single volume.

On a supposedly idyllic vacation island, Seichi Kirishima and his wife Miki Kirishima are trapped by heavy rain in a place in the interior of the island. But this doesn’t discourage Seichi, his decision is clear: tonight he will kill his wife.

Just a year ago, he was a happy man – an aspiring writer, a satisfied husband and father of a young boy… back then, everything was going well for him. But that happiness is over. The day his editor ended their collaboration, darkness entered his life faster than a bullet. A terrifying descent into hell begins, page by page of what appears to be his last novel…

Hideout may not appeal to everyone, but for those interested in horror, it is a standout work in the genre.

I am a Hero is a manga Kengo Hanazawa which was published from 2009 to 2017, being compiled in 22 volumes.

The live-action film adaptation of I am a Herotook home the awards for Best Special Effects and the Audience Award at the 48th edition of the Sitges Film Festival.

In the original manga, Hideo is an aspiring mangaka who struggled with discontent with his job as an assistant and his relationship with his girlfriend – until people started turning into the undead “ZQN”. After being attacked by his infected girlfriend, he flees the metropolis of Tokyo with the shotgun he owns as a hobby. He now travels with Hiromi, a student he meets by chance and they now face a desperate situation with the help of a nurse named Yabu.

I Am a Hero can be classified as a mixture of several genres. In addition to the horror aspects, the manga incorporates great action elements.

The manga Tomie in Junji Ito was released from 1987 to 2000 and consists of 3 volumes.

The work is made up of a series of short stories unsettling, full of mystery and terror, in which we are introduced to a character whose mysterious beauty and inexplicable fatality create an aura of irresistible horror. Throughout the pages, we will witness the devastating effect that Tomie has on everyone around her, triggering a series of disturbing events that explore the fragility of the human mind.

It became one of the most successful cult mangas, being adapted into a feature film, directed by Ataru Oikawa.

The manga is a collection of loosely connected stories, rather than a linear narrative, with Tomie being the common thread that ties them together.

Portus is a single-volume manga Jun Abe published in 2006.

Asami Kawakami’s 17-year-old friend, Chiharu, stopped answering her phone and never returned to school. She prefers to spend her time playing Portus, an old video game. There is an urban legend that says there is a secret level where a boy appears and asks if they want to go to the other side. If you say yes, you die. When Chiharu slits her own throat, Asami and art club teacher Keigo Sawa set out to discover the truth behind the legend and Chiharu’s suicide.

The game is much scarier than anything they could have imagined.

PTSD Radio is a manga Masaaki Nakayama.

Brought from a forgotten past to modern Japan, the being known as Ogushi haunts and tortures humans of all kinds. Little is known about Ogushi’s curse, except that it resides in an unexpected place: human hair.

The stories are linked by a mysterious radio station, which plays a significant role throughout the series. The radio station appears to have some connection to the terrifying phenomena encountered by the characters, adding to the series’ eerie atmosphere.

Like Junji Ito’s Uzumaki, PTSD Radio takes something ordinary and turns it into a series of chilling, enigmatic, twisted, repellent and compelling stories that become something more than they first appear.

The manga Gyo in Junji Ito it was published from 2001 to 2002, being compiled in 2 volumes.

In the story, Tadashi and his girlfriend Kaori are trapped on an island whose animal life has undergone a grotesque mutation deliberately caused by humans, who will be responsible?

Gyo is a disturbing horror manga that showcases Junji Ito’s signature bizarre and disturbing art style.

Homunculus is a manga Hideo Yamamoto with 15 volumes. It was published from 2003 to 2011.

Trepanation is the procedure of drilling holes in a person’s head, supposedly increasing blood circulation and helping to improve pressure within the skull, bringing out a person’s sixth sense and causing them to gain superhuman powers, such as being able to see ghosts and control objects remotely with your mind.

Susumu Nakoshi is a 34-year-old homeless man who lives in his car. For two weeks, he refused his fellow homeless people’s invitations to pitch a tent with them, preferring to sleep in his car. However, one day, he is approached by a strange-looking man looking for participants to undergo trepanation.

Nakoshi tells the man to leave and discards the pamphlet he placed on the windshield. However, when his car is towed, he agrees to let medical student Manabu Itoh drill a hole in his skull in exchange for 700,000 yen. Itoh claims to be interested in trepanation for the sake of science; he is interested in humans, fascinated by the sixth sense, and wants to disprove the existence of the occult.

Itoh’s father owns a laboratory, as his father is a wealthy hospital director. Itoh performs trephination surgery on Nakoshi and runs a variety of tests. When Nakoshi reveals that he sees distorted humans when using only the left side of his body, Itoh researches and discovers that Nakoshi can see homunculi.

The title “Homunculus” is a reference to an ancient belief in the existence of a “little man” inside the human brain, responsible for our thoughts and actions, which further emphasizes the psychological themes present in the manga.

The Drifting Classroom is a horror manga written and illustrated by Kazuo Umezu. It was published from 1972 to 1974 in Weekly Shōnen Sunday and compiled into 11 volumes.

Sho Takamatsu travels to school after a heated argument with his mother Emiko. Meanwhile, a thief breaks into the school to steal money. During class, a tremor shakes the facilities and the school is transported to an otherworldly desert. Yu, a three-year-old boy who was hit by the tremor, shows Sho a memorial buried in the dust honoring his school’s disappearance. It turns out that the school has time-traveled to a post-apocalyptic future ravaged by environmental disasters.

As the desperate situation becomes clear, most adults descend into madness. Delivery man Sekiya hoards the school’s food and immolates the teachers who try to stop him, but is subdued by Sho’s gang. Meanwhile, Professor Wakahara kills his colleagues and several students before being killed by Sho in self-defense. With all the adults dead except Sekiya, Sho and his companions attempt to lead the children as a quasi-government. Nishi, a telepathic student capable of communicating with individuals from the past, manages to contact Emiko, who prepares objects in her own time to help children in the future.

The manga is known for exploring the human capacity for both cruelty and compassion in extreme circumstances.

Uzumaki was published in Japan by the magazine Big Comic Spirits in three volumes between 1998 and 1999. The story takes place in the quiet town of Kurozu-cho, where its residents begin to have a strange and morbid interest in spirals.

Without giving spoilers, the manga’s conclusion is highly praised for its unexpected and chilling nature, leaving readers with a lingering feeling of discomfort. Junji Ito’s art is highly detailed and has a distinct style that perfectly complements the horror genre.