Here at Recommend Me Anime, we don’t do manga series in our recommendations, just anime. However, that doesn’t mean that anime fans don’t also like to lie in bed and read a few good chapters of manga every now and then.
And besides, where do many good anime series come from in the first place – The pages of manga.
If you want to read some good horror manga, and want to be someone who can potentially say you enjoyed a good series before it was all cool and animated, then check out these great horror manga recommendations that don’t have anime adaptations – yet.
Fair warning: Some pictures from the manga below may not be wholesome.
Best Horror Manga With No Anime
Dead Tube
Dead Tube is a video streaming website flush with videos of sex and violence. The more disturbing the video, and the more views it gets, the better the profit the creator receives.
Tomohiro is a member of his school’s film club. At present, he is being pestered by a girl from the swim team to make a video for her.
When he accepts, he watches this girl murder a classmate brutally while naked for a Dead Tube submission. She continues to pull him down into the brutal world of Dead Tube stardom.
Like God Says
Shun Takahata’s day started off as usual, right up until his teacher’s head explodes.
Now, he and his fellow classmates are forced to play children’s games with death on the line. No one knows why, all they know is they must win to survive.
I Am A Hero
Relatively failed manga artist Hideo Suzuki lives a rather meager, mundane life. After confronting his girlfriend that he suspects of cheating, he decides to revisit her house only to find that she has changed into a living nightmare – a zombie.
Soon, the rest of the world begins to change and he does what he can to survive it.
Screaming Lessons
This is a manga of numerous short horror stories. Every chapter is another chilling tale, many based on popular Japanese urban legends and scary tales.
Fort of Apocalypse
After being framed for murder, Yoshiaki Maeda is sentenced to a juvenile detention center where he manages to make friends with much more vicious criminals than himself.
Unfortunately, things get so much worse when the zombie apocalypse suddenly storms the world.
Doubt
Rabbit Doubt is a popular cell phone game. People are grouped together where they must hunt down the wolf hidden among them. Every turn, the wolf will eliminate one player until they are found or everyone else is dead.
Unfortunately for Yuu Aikawa and his friends, he’s playing it for real after being abducted.
The Drifting Classroom
Sixth grader Shou is much like any sixth grade boy, wild and unwilling to grow up. However, that all changes when an earthquake seemingly dislodges the campus of his school and transports it into a dangerous wilderness.
Now, facing food shortages, threats within and without, and adults not adjusting well, Shou must shoulder a large burden on his small shoulders.
Suicide Island
The suicide rate in Japan has become such a problem that the government decides they will send those unsuccessful at killing themselves that also do not want to live anymore to an island.
On this island, they are free to live or die as they please.
Real Account
One day, Ataru was scrolling through his social media when he found himself transported inside it with a series of people he didn’t know.
It seemed pretty cool, until everyone realizes it is a game of life and death. If you have no followers, you die.
If you fail at playing a game, you and your followers die. Is Ataru worth his followers lives?
MPD Psycho
Kazuhiko Amamiya is a detective, but he also has multiple personality disorder.
Will his many variant personalities help him solve some of the most brutal and twisted cases that come his way or is there something more complex going on.
The Friends-Eater Classroom
Today was the day. Shouta Amano was ready to confess to his crush Koharu. Today was also the day he received a strange e-mail that marked him as healthy in the “Friend-Eater Game”.
However, when his crush called him to the roof, he finds out she is marked as infected and the cure to this infection is to eat his duodenum (part of the stomach).
They both pass it off as a stupid prank, right up until his crush dies violently in front of him. From there on, his class learns that if you want to live, you better be ready to eat your friends.
51 Ways to Save Her
Attempting to get a job at a TV station, college senior Jin Mishima went to a recruitment orientation in Odaiba. Afterwards, he met a gothic Lolita trying to attend a concert who also happened to be his old junior high classmate.
This would have been an inconsequential meeting if a massive earthquake didn’t hit afterwards and send the entire city into chaos.
Liar Satsuki Can See Death
With eyes the color of blood, Satsuki Minazuki has the ability to see death. Her eyes allow her to see the illusion of corpses 24 hours before they become reality. However, while she often gives ominous warnings to those whose corpses she can see, no one believes her and she has gained the reputation as a compulsive liar.
Shunned at school, Satsuki is alone until she ends up preventing the death of the kind-hearted Komako Komachi. This small change in fate continues to ripple outwards as Satsuki begins to take a more active interest in preventing deaths.
Me & the Devil Blues
Legends say that if you head down to the crossroads with your guitar at midnight, the devil will appear. He’ll take your guitar and play a song before handing it back to you. After this encounter, you will walk away a legendary Blues player, with all it costing you is your immortal soul.
In 1929, a man named RJ has dreams of becoming a Blues star. However, as a simple farmer in the Mississippi Delta who can barely even play, those dreams are beyond him. Until he stakes a stroll at midnight with his guitar that changes his life forever.
Me & the Devil Blues is a re-imagining of the life of legendary Blues legend Robert Johnson, who was rumored to has sold his soul to the devil for his skill at playing Blues.
Phantom Tales of the Night
The Murakumo Inn is a bit different from other hotels. It not only accepts human guests, but non-humans as well. Furthermore, you can’t pay money to stay at this inn where even its location is unknown. Instead, the mysterious owner’s only price to stay is to tell him your most grotesque secret. If they have none, he will intervene and create a secret for them to hide.
Tokihito Sasaki considered himself a normal high school student until he met the owner of the Murakumo Inn and discovered that he had been long dead. The innkeeper gives him a shot at living among humanity once again, but at the cost of being a living corpse. Bitter about the result of his second chance making him a monster, Sasaki ends up teaming up with a sorcerer whose family has been trying to banish the mysterious inn and its owner for centuries.
More Manga Recommendations
There are literally thousands of more horror manga series out there that haven’t been animated yet. Do you have any more manga recommendations? Let horror manga fans know in the comments section below.
