Horror (273)

Creating—and maintaining—a sense of dread in the audience takes priority, eliciting shock, fear, or disgust through atmosphere and frightening scenarios. Mood must be of equal or greater importance than setting and characterization in horror stories. Almost always, the main cast will be under constant threat of danger. Many stories can incorporate elements of horror as a plot device to unnerve the audience, but the overarching narrative must be focused on evoking and maintaining apprehension to be Horror. Contrast with Suspense where the audience craves to know what will happen next rather than fearing it.

Hellsing

Hirano, Kouta 2024
The original hentai one-shot that later became prototype for Hellsing.
1996 | 1 chp | Publishing

Presents

Inuki, Kanako 2024
Kurumi should be an old lady, but she is still just a young girl. In all her years, she's never opened a present and believes that people must get older because age is included in those wrapped boxes. Now she travels around, bestowing gifts on "worthy" recipients. But these presents never turn out to be what they really wanted. There's always a dark side and a high price to pay—so if Kurumi offers you a present, run!

(Source: ANN)
1993 to 1998 | 30 chp | Publishing

Maou: Juvenile RemixMaoh: Juvenile Remix

2024
Andou is a high-schooler who possesses the ability to force others to vocalize his thoughts—an ability similar to ventriloquism. Inukai is young man shrouded in mystery who commands the vigilante group, Grass Hopper, which appeared in a city shaken by the downtown restoration program. This is a tale of courage, resolution… and confrontation; this is a depiction of the two boys' encounter.

(Source: Aku Tenshi)
Jun 6, 2007 to Jun 24, 2009 | 97 chp | Publishing

Raiders

Park, Jin-Jun 2024
Irel Clark is a professor's assistant whose latest find is the "Holy Grail" for member of his profession—literally! But when it turns out that some decidedly unholy individuals are also after the blood of Christ, Irel must drink from the chrism bottle he's recovered to save his own life. Immortality leaves something to be desired, though, when undead cannibals walk the earth in constant need of human flesh, and Irel's newly immortal body is nothing short of an all-you-can-eat buffet!

(Source: Yen Press)
2006 to 2011 | 36 chp | Publishing

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Minagoroshi-hen

Ryukishi07 2024
In her young life, Rika Furude has witnessed unspeakable tragedy in her hometown of Hinamizawa; she has repeated the month of June in 1983 over and over again, each time ending in disaster. But in each world, the variables leading to tragedy are always different. As the summer resets again, Rika finds herself back in June of 1983 with even less time than usual to set things right.
Minagoroshi-hen follows Rika's journey into yet another world, as she tries to fight against her own impending doom as well as that of her friends. However, as she and her friends solve one problem, another pops up in its place, as they inch ever closer towards the true identity of the mastermind behind the countless tragedies in Hinamizawa.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Jun 18, 2008 to Jun 18, 2010 | 25 chp | Publishing

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Matsuribayashi-hen

Suzuragi, KarinRyukishi07 2024
Miyoko Tanashi lived a charmed life with her parents, but after losing both of them in a devastating train accident, the life she knew was suddenly ripped away. Sent to a secluded orphanage in the mountains, she is subjected to inhumane abuse at the hands of her caretakers; escape is not an option since runaways are met with a fate far worse than death. But eventually, Miyoko manages to flee and receive aid from her father's mentor—a researcher named Dr. Hifumi Takano.

Adopted by Hifumi and finally free from her hell, Miyoko takes on a different identity to go along with her new life. When Hifumi's research on a mysterious disease in a mountain village is ridiculed, Miyoko makes it her life's work to prove that the disease truly exists. However, her mission soon turns into a deadly obsession once she arrives in the village, as she is more than willing to prove the doctor's findings by any means necessary...

In the conclusion to the Higurashi story, warring fates and indomitable wills clash in this final confrontation in June of 1983.

[Written MAL Rewrite]
Jun 22, 2008 to Apr 22, 2011 | 35 chp | Publishing

Ultra Gash Inferno

Maruo, Suehiro 2024
Collection of surreal erotic grotesque stories from Suehiro Maruo which he released from 1981 to 1993.

The stories are:

1. Putrid Night
2. Sewer Boy
3. A Season In Hell
4. Shit Soup
5. The Great Masturbator
6. Putrid Night: Raven Of Oedipus
7. Sewer Boy: Paradise
8. Voyeur In The Attic
9. Non-resistance City
1981 to 1993 | 9 chp | Publishing

Chairudo

Ogino, Makoto 2024
Chairudo are childlike people (even when they have become adults) with each an exceptional supernatural gift, a power. Some are "firestarters" for example. The main character, Hinagata Heiji, looks like a loser, but looks are deceptive. He has the uncanny ability to bring to life every inanimate object by bringing the object in touch with his blood. He wanders around, enlisting himself in a school from time to time (after all, he looks like a child). But every "chairudo" has got its own territory and conflicts between them, especially about the females, are numerous.
(Source: Manga Volume)
1997 to 2000 | chp | Publishing

Blood: the Last Vampire: Kemonotachi no YoruBlood: the Last...

Oshii, MamoruTerada, Katsuya 2024
This novel is set in Japan in the late 1960s, where the youth are organizing a violent uprising against the government. Part of this revolt is the politically active student, Rei, whose fate is one day, coincidentally, bound to a mysterious girl, Saya. An exciting criminal case, and a voyage into the discovery of vampirism, takes its course.
Nov 1, 2000 | 6 chp | Publishing

Blood: The Last Vampire - Yami wo Izanau Chi

Fujisaku, Junichi 2024
Jan 30, 2001 | 7 chp | Publishing

Blood: The Last Vampire: Shanhai AibyoThe Last Vampire: Ephe...

Fujisaku, Junichi 2024
Jul 1, 2001 | 4 chp | Publishing

Baccano! 1931 The Grand Punk Railroad

Narita, RyohgoGinyuu, Shijin 2024
In 1711, a group of alchemists seeking eternal life gathered on a boat to summon the "demon" that held the secret. The demon agreed to give them what they wanted—an elixir of life, the method to create more, and the secret to ending their new-found existence. The following night, alchemists began disappearing, "eaten" by one of their own. Realizing the threat being close together posed, they decided to scatter across the world. Centuries later, in Prohibition-era America, the immortals have come together once again, and the "stupid commotion" (baccano) starts.
Dec 27, 2006 to Feb 27, 2008 | 15 chp | Publishing

Ergo Proxy: Centzon Hitchers and Undertaker

Harao, Yumiko 2024
A side story that takes place within the Ergo Proxy universe about an autoreiv that travels on the Centzon.
Aug 18, 2006 to Feb 19, 2007 | 10 chp | Publishing

Emerging

Hokazono, Masaya 2024
Japan is a brilliant Asian model of success and obligatorily. But how would this country manage to manage a large-scale sanitary crisis? What would it happen if, to Shinjuku, one of the biggest districts of Tokyo, a man came to empty of his blood in the street at broad daylight? How would the political and sanitary authorities manage the drama? Think, please, about the question as long as you still have the possibility of it because for the professors Onodera and Sekiguchi it is already too late! An emergent virus begins to insinuate itself slowly into the arteries of the Japanese capital?
Jul 8, 2004 to Dec 9, 2004 | 22 chp | Publishing

Shinrei Tantei Yakumo: Akai Hitomi wa Shitteiru

Miyako, RitsuKaminaga, Manabu 2024
Based on the novel by Kaminaga Manabu. Shinrei Tantei Yakumo (Psychic Detective Yakumo) tells a story about a college student, Saitou Yakumo, who was born with different eye colors. His red left eye gave him the special ability to see ghosts and spirits. He believes ghosts and spirits are bound to earth because of a certain 'cause' and simply by eliminating that 'cause', those spirits will rest in peace. Being asked for help by Ozawa Haruka, together they began the investigation.

(Source: Fateful Encounters)
Included one-shot:
Volume 1: Mail x Tomodachi
Mar 26, 2007 to Jan 26, 2008 | 10 chp | Publishing

Hetare Venus

Usami, Maki 2024
1. Hetare Venus
2. 1 day, 1 kiss
3. Tsuki ni Todoku Tou
4. Yami e Hakobu Elevator
Jul 13, 2004 to Oct 13, 2005 | 4 chp | Publishing

Tokyo Zombie

Hanakuma, Yusaku 2024
A horror-comedy manga about two blue-collar factory workers and jiu-jitsu experts who deal with a zombie uprising in Tokyo. When the story begins, Fujio and Mitsuo dream of training in martial arts overseas and becoming famous. When they accidentally kill their overbearing boss, they bury him at a man-made garbage mountain known as Dark Fuji, where tons of rotting garbage have been contaminated with industrial waste which, naturally, transforms the bodies of the dead into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies.

Fujio and Mitsuo try their best to survive in this horrific new landscape, but the hapless pair become separated after an idiotic mistake involving potato chips and a stray dog. A few years later, post-apocalyptic Tokyo has become a feudalistic society, in which the rich have enslaved the lower classes, and created gladiator death matches, pitting zombies against slaves, and Fujio and Mitsuo meet again.

(Source: Last Gasp)
Feb 25, 1998 to Jun 25, 1999 | 9 chp | Publishing

Ingyaku Kanzokutou

Uziga, Waita 2024
A collection of short stories including:
Mr Sarubato's Rowdy Classroom
Mr Sarubato is a very strict teacher to say the least. When students are called up to the board and asked a question, if they do not know the answer, he cuts off one of their limbs!
Icecream
In a prison that's not like other prisons a female prisoner arrives one day who is not like other prisoners.
Ice is going to have a hard life from now on.

The Flower That Blooms in the Heart of the World

Time Virgin
2007 | 10 chp | Publishing

Dokumushi KozouBug Boy

Hino, Hideshi 2024
Sanpei is bullied at school and mistreated at home. His only real friends are his pets. But when he gets stung by a strange insect, Sanpei's life changes forever! Transformed into a huge poisonous bug, he escapes to discover the world outside. There he finds only more hatred, and eventually he returns to exact a terrifying revenge.
(Source: MU)
Jul 19, 1975 | 13 chp | Publishing

Mushi to Medama Series

Akira 2024
Sakaki Guryuu is a multi-talented genius who, despite being gifted and wealthy, decides to teach in the countryside to be together with his lover, Usagawa Rinne, who also happens to be his student. Their peaceful lives are shattered one day when Rinne is killed, in front of Sakaki's eyes, by a girl named "Gankyuu Eguriko," who gouged her eyes out with a spoon. Things take an even stranger turn when Rinne suddenly wakes up as if nothing had happened, and something called an "Eden's Apple" is thrown into the mix.

(Source: Baka-Tsuki)
Jun 24, 2005 to Dec 24, 2006 | 42 chp | Publishing

Aphorism

Kujo, Karuna 2024
Naraka High School lies above the clouds on a floating island over the bustling streets of the Saitama district. Graduating from this prestigious academy can improve one's social status, and anyone who is able to see the school after applying has been accepted as a student. Such is the case for Momiji Rokudou, who views this as his big chance for a fresh start and a new purpose.

Upon arrival, students are asked to write down a word of their choice that they will use later on. On his right arm, Momiji writes the kanji for "change." Unfortunately, the change he awaits becomes a nightmare when the school is flooded with monsters, killing those unfortunate enough to get in their way. Momiji and his fellow classmates must now survive the neverending hordes of beasts in order to graduate from this hellish institution; who said high school was going to be easy?

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
May 18, 2010 to Jan 28, 2016 | 84 chp | Publishing

Mnemosyne: Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi 2008

Oonogi, Hiroshi 2024
Rin Asogi is an immortal private detective with a thirst for vodka and a talent for attracting things that go bump in the night. In a series of nightmarish vignettes spanning sixty-five years, Rin's lush body is sadistically pierced, blown up, and mulched to a bloody pulp. The fiend behind her tortured existence is Apos, an eternal being obsessed with sacrificing Rin to Yggdrasil, the tree of all life. While Rin struggles to unravel the secrets of her endless agony, Apos lurks in the shadows, eager to tear into her ripe body and devour the memories of her countless lives. Rin's no stranger to the realm of the dead, but her next visit could last forever.

(Source: FUNimation)
Nov 30, 2007 to Jul 30, 2008 | 5 chp | Publishing

Kuro Bara AliceBlack Rose Alice

Mizushiro, Setona 2024
Dimitri Lewandowski is a celebrated tenor in early 1900s Vienna. When he is killed in an accident, his corpse is colonized by the seeds of a vampire master. At first, Dimitri denies that anything has changed, but as the people around him start dying, he is forced to accept the ghastly truth.

Flash forward to 2008. In Tokyo, Azusa Kikukawa's troubled love life comes to an end with a fatal accident. Dimitri appears in her dying dreams with a diabolic proposal—he will save her lover if she agrees to become the breeding ground for the next generation of vampire seeds…

(Source: VIZ Media)
Mar 6, 2008 to Aug 6, 2011 | 27 chp | Publishing

Bokkesan

Nishi, Yoshiyuki 2024
Hinomiya is a quiet student who never says anything, but has a supernatural power. He saved Shijiro Sayu a number of years ago when she was falling, and since then she has considered him a friend. One day, an unnatural murder occurs, and a little girl escaping the killers runs into Hinomiya and Shijiro, with the supernatural villains not far behind.
(Source: MU)
Dec 15, 2008 to Apr 27, 2009 | 18 chp | Publishing