High school student Shinichi wakes up while an alien is attempting to take over his brain. Thankfully, this process is not fool-proof. In this manga, the aliens are Parasites, worm-like creatures that take over human hosts by entering their brains. Parasyte is an alien invasion story gone awry. Domu is currently out of print, but I highly recommend tracking it down if you can. But that changes when a new family moves into the complex, including a little girl with psychic powers of her own.

What can regular investigators do against that? Nothing, as it turns out. But when investigators begin looking into the case, they discover something more sinister going on-specifically a senile old man with monstrous psychic powers who has turned the housing complex into his own personal playground.

Left on their own, the children must band together to survive this wasteland filled with monsters, plagues, and limited resources, in the hopes of finding a way home again.īefore he penned the seminal science fiction manga Akira, Otomo wrote this single-volume horror manga about an apartment complex plagued by a series of apparent suicides. Others abandon their main responsibility of looking after the kids. Some teachers turn into homicidal maniacs. The Drifting Classroom delves into the ways this stressful environment affects people. Not a great turn of events, especially when the children discover that this is the future. This classic from the early 1970s follows the students of a school that is mysteriously teleported into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. (No shame in that!) And if you’re well-versed in your horror manga series, maybe you’ll find something new to you. Here, I’ve collected 12 titles that you should give a try if you’re interested in reading a horror manga, whether you’re new to the genre or even if you’re a bit of scaredy-cat.

Thankfully, there are many kinds of horror manga out there-ranging from action horror to downright disturbing “I can’t go to sleep at night” horror-so I firmly believe there’s something out there for everyone. You need only look at a shelf of horror manga to see that variety in action.īut like other manga genres, it can be difficult to figure out where to start. Japanese horror has a rich tradition that goes well beyond the popular trope so pervasive in the U.S. While this image does have its roots in Japanese folklore-specifically the yurei, or vengeful ghost-it is limiting. When you think of Japanese horror, you may picture a creepy girl wearing a white dress with long black hair covering her face.

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