Top 10 Horror manga Everyone Should Read

When you think of Japanese horror, you might imagine a scary girl in a white dress with long dark hair covering her face. Although this image has its roots in Japanese folklore, particularly the yuri, or vengeful ghost, it is limited. Japanese horror has a rich tradition that transcends a popular trope so prevalent in Japanese horror movie fashion a decade ago. Just look at a shelf of horror manga to see this strain in action.


Here is a list of the Top 10 Horror manga Everyone Should Read!


Fragments of Horror

Fragments of Horror


A new collection of delicious horror tales from the master of horror manga. An old wooden palace turns against its occupants. An anatomy chapter with a more exotic subject. A funeral where the dead are certainly not buried. From gruesome to comedic, erotic to hateful, these stories feature Junji Ito's long-awaited return to the world of horror.


Ma no Kakera (also titled Shard of Evil or Fragments of Horror), is a short story series by Junji Ito.

Serialization began in the first issue of the relaunched Nemuki+ magazine on April 13, 2013. It was later released as a set in Japan in June 2014, with the final story, "Whispering Woman", previously published in Shinkan instead of Nemuki+. In December 2014, it was licensed by VIZ Media to be released in English in June 2015, under the title "Fragments of Horror".


Doubt

Doubt


Suspicion revolves around a fantasy mobile game called "Rabbit Doubt", in which players are rabbits in a colony; One of these players is randomly chosen to play the role of a wolf who infiltrates the pack. Each round the bunnies guess who the wolf is as the bunnies are eaten one by one until only the wolf is left.


In the story, four players from the game "Rabbit Doubt": Yū Aikawa, Eiji Hoshi, Haruka Akechi, Rei Hazama, and non-player Mitsuki Hayama meet to relax together. They lose consciousness and wake up in an abandoned mental hospital, filled with security cameras, to encounter medical student Hajime Kumaba and find that Rei has been hanged. The group finds Rei's cell phone and realizes that they are playing the real game "Rabbit Doubt". To survive, the wolf, called a liar, must die.


Uzumaki

Uzumaki


In the city of Kuruzu-cho, Kiri Goshima leads a fairly normal life with her family. While walking to the station one day to meet her boyfriend, Shuichi Saito, she saw her father staring at a snail shell in an alley. Thinking nothing, she mentioned the incident to Shuichi, who said his father had been acting strangely recently. Shuuichi reveals his growing desire to leave town with Kirie, saying the town is spiraling.


But her father's obsession with fitness soon proves murderous, setting off a series of horrific and inexplicable events that drive the people of Kurozu Chuo crazy.


Tomie

Tomie


The manga focuses on the main character: a mysterious and beautiful woman named Tomie Kawakami, identified by her sleek black hair and a beauty mark under her left eye.


Tomie acts like a sister and has an unspoken power that will make any man fall in love with her. By her mere presence or through psychological and emotional manipulations, she drives these people into a jealous rage that often leads to brutal acts of violence. Men kill each other for it, women go mad too even if there are some who are strong enough to resist it. Tommy is inevitably killed again and again, only to regenerate and spread his curse on other victims, thus making her immortal. His origins are never explained, although some of the older men in the series have suggested that he existed long before the events of the manga; In Boy, his acquaintance with his future mentor Satoru Takagi since he was a child is revealed...


Pupa

Pupa


Pupa's story revolves around two teenagers, Utsutsu and his little sister Yume. Their father was a very violent man, beating their mother and then their children after they were deported. After the divorce, their mother started dating another man, and the father left the two children alone. Now abandoned, Otsutsu promised himself that he would always protect my day.


After seeing red butterflies, these two brothers are infected with a virus known as Pupa. This virus turns living creatures into insatiable monsters, seeking only to feed any kind of life. Yume succumbs to the full effects of the Pupa virus, but reverts to human. Otsutsu, instead of transforming into a monster, gains regenerative powers. In order to suppress the virus in one day, Otsutsu must take medicine and feed on its flesh.


Sensor

Sensor


Beautiful Kyôko Byakuya walks alone at the foot of Mount Sengoku, among swirls of mysterious volcanic threads with golden reflections. At a bend in the road, she comes face to face with a wandering man who appears to be waiting for her to invite her to his village. Its inhabitants devote a peculiar cult to the god Amagami and his persecuted missionaries in the Edo period. That night, when Kyouko looked up at the sky with the other villagers, a cloud of golden fibers invaded the sky.


This is only the first incident in a terrifying series that is about to destabilize reality as we know it! Will the world fall under the mysterious yoke of Kyoko?


No Longer Human

No Longer Human


Suffering from mad anxiety and a terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yuzu Aoba plays the clown in his corrupt life, holding up a mask for those around him as he turns around constantly, locked together. with death.


An immortal – and presumably autobiographical – work of Japanese literature by Osamu Dazai is perfectly adapted here in a manga by Junji Ito. Keyframes open up the text of the novel one line at a time to refine Yuzu's mindscape into something more delicate and exotic. This is the best of Ito's art, proof that nothing can transcend the horror of the human soul.


Happiness

Happiness


Makoto Okazaki is an unpopular high school student who is bullied by some of his classmates and is forced to act as their mission boy. But his life is drastically changed one night when he is attacked by a mysterious young girl, who sinks her teeth into his neck and begins to drink his blood. Satisfying her passion, Makoto is offered a simple choice: become like her or die.


When he wakes up in the hospital after meeting him, Makoto can't stand the blinding flashing lights and finds the water can't quench his growing thirst.


Homunculus

Homunculus

Susumu Nakoshi is a middle-aged man who spends his days between a first-class luxury hotel and a park full of homeless people. One day, an eccentric young man approaches Nakoshi looking for people who would like to participate in the trepanation.


This enigmatic person claims that Nakoshi is the perfect man for the experiment. Initially rejecting the offer, he doubled down on his decision after towing his car. Nakoshi agrees to let Manabu Ito, a 22-year-old medical student, drill a hole in his skull for 700,000 yen. The procedure initially yielded no results and Nakoshi showed no abnormalities. This normalcy ends abruptly, when Nakoshi begins to see Homunculus in everyone. With his distorted perception, how will Nakoshi face these savages?


Gyo

Gyo


Sometimes in Okinawa it smells bad, and Tadashi and his girlfriend Kaori soon realize that the smell is from dead fish emerging from the sea. The fish attach themselves to metal legs and contract a communicable disease by the man that the Japanese government invented as a weapon.


After Kaori is infected, Tadashi goes to find a solution to this corrupt takeover, even if there is no answer to be found. It also contains two short stories: the sad story of the main post and the mystery of the Amijara error.

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