What is Dark Fantasy manga?

Focus set on darker themes in a fantasy setting, sometimes leaning towards horror elements. Bleak and pessimistic tones often dominate. Dark supernatural beings like vampires may play a significant role.

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I Became a Dark Fantasy Villain

(I Became a Dark Fantasy Villain)

0

Description:

Not impossible, but rejected...? I didn’t even give myself time to think, I opened my eyes in the middle of a swamp. As a trash character, I leveled. A brutal and ominous world. Filled with those who worship chaos and abyss, rushing towards the brink of destruction in a dark age. This is the story of a survival journey in the dark fantasy, the survival of a trash character. (Source MU)
Type

manhwa

Status

current

Started

2024-02-29

Dungeon Defense

7.15

Description:

[Adapted from one of the top novels of all time!] When his total scumbags of parents die, he finds himself with a mysterious inheritance of 500 million yen. Deciding to do whatever he likes from then on, the boy enters the most challenging online game, “Dungeon Attack” , where he becomes the first to unlock the achievement of Defeating all the Demon Lords. However, when he answers a mysterious question that appears after completing the game, he suddenly finds himself sent into the game world. He had been Reincarnated as “Dantalian,” the Lowest and Weakest Demon Lord, Ranked 71st in the game world! With nothing but his memory of defeating the strongest Demon Lord and his eloquence to rely on, he fights to survive in this Brutal World – This is a Story of Comeback and Revenge!
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2024-01-01

TS Eiseihei-san no Senjou Nikki

(TS Medic's Battlefield Diary)

0

Description:

An ex-pro gamer of the FPS genre (♂) reincarnated in a fantasy world filled with magic... Only learn that what greeted him was not a scene from one's dreams but a muddy battlefield full of bullets flying to and fro! Moreover, he's now an orphan girl named Touri Noel?! After her aptitude for healing magic was discovered, she decided to volunteer in the army as a second-class medic, all to raise money for the orphanage where she was born and raised. However, without even getting magic training, she was attached to an assault squad, repeatedly fighting on the most cruel battlefields of the "Western Front." The mission given to her was to become the personal medic of the frontline's ace, Garback, and not let him die at any cost. But he turned out to be the worst commander, who will try to get results whatever the cost, even if it means the death of his subordinates! On the battlefield, mired in unreasonable orders and violence, Touri's fierce battle for survival continues...
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2023-09-01

TS Eiseihei-san no Senjou Nikki

(TS Medic's Battlefield Diary)

0

Description:

An ex-pro gamer of the FPS genre (♂) reincarnated in a fantasy world filled with magic... Only learn that what greeted him was not a scene from one's dreams but a muddy battlefield full of bullets flying to and fro! Moreover, he's now an orphan girl named Touri Noel?! After her aptitude for healing magic was discovered, she decided to volunteer in the army as a second-class medic, all to raise money for the orphanage where she was born and raised. However, without even getting magic training, she was attached to an assault squad, repeatedly fighting on the most cruel battlefields of the "Western Front." The mission given to her was to become the personal medic of the frontline's ace, Garback, and not let him die at any cost. But he turned out to be the worst commander, who will try to get results whatever the cost, even if it means the death of his subordinates! On the battlefield, mired in unreasonable orders and violence, Touri's fierce battle for survival continues...
Type

novel

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2023-07-28

Ibyangttal Yeoka-rol Jinachige Jalhaebeoryeotda

(The Unintentionally Ideal Adopted Daughter)

0

Description:

Transmigrating into the main character of your favorite book sounds like a dream come true, but knowing Viola Vellatoux grows to be disappointed in her ending, Arin Han sets out to rewrite the story. However, her adoptive family will not hesitate to assassinate one another in their fight for control. The new Viola needs to use her wits to convince everyone that she has what it takes while remaining true to her goal. Further complicating her schemes, the male lead looks eerily familiar and has a strange effect on her when she gets too close. (Source: Tapas)
Type

manhwa

Status

current

Started

2023-03-01

Boss-yeusseum

(I Was the Final Boss)

7.38

Description:

Baphomet is the ruthless, dispassionate lord of the Abyssal Tower, a mysterious, monster-filled dungeon plaguing the human world. Many Hunters seek to defeat him and bring the tower down to no avail. Despite his demonic power, Baphomet grows curious about humanity. One day, Baphomet is defeated by Raven, the strongest Hunter, and realizes that his true wish is to be just like the humans he previously looked down on. In death, he is granted his wish, as he awakens as a human – without his powers! (Source: WEBTOONS)
Type

manhwa

Status

current

Started

2022-11-23

Eclipse Era of the Beast

(Eclipse Era of the Beast)

0

Description:

In a land plagued by undying souls shattered into their mortal bodies, an unwilling hero must rise to meet their destined duty to restore the wavering energies of the universe. The Fallen, threatens life's very existence when the balance of all things shifts for the worse. When the Tendrils of Fate pass over, The Era of the Beast shall either end in restored harmony or collapse under chaotic frequencies that hold reality together.
Type

oel

Status

current

Started

2022-11-11

Seongseureoun Geudae Ireusigil

(The Sacred One Speaks)

0

Description:

The evil enemies of the Holy Empire of Cairon must be purged. With the superhuman Nox of Yipon already dealt with, the only ones left to destroy are the Witches of Tempey. After a long search, Cairon’s greatest protector, Sir Macklart, finally tracks down their leader, the infamous Grand Witch called Vienie. They say just one look into her bloodred eyes will immediately entrap you into her wicked spell. Though Sir Macklart brushes it off as nonsense, perhaps there is something mysterious behind Vienie’s crimson stare, as he certainly can’t seem to read the witch’s intentions when she suddenly offers to help him eradicate her own kind…
Type

manhwa

Rating

smut

Status

current

Started

2022-10-06

Togabito no Kokuin

0

Description:

"People say 'I love you' to each other all the time. But I wonder where that love really is." A boy named Mikage, as beautiful as a ceramic doll, appeared in front of Jinrui, a young man searching for something he cannot find. "If you want it, come to me. I will love you." This is a story of those who have committed sins, gone off the path of humanity, and have been imprinted with the "stigmata" on their bodies as a proof of their deviance. (Source: Comic Newtype, translated) Note: Chapter count includes 2 extra chapters.
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

20

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2022-07-26

Mahoutsukai to Aka no Pilgrim

(The Wizard and the Red Pilgrim)

0

Description:

Haukatul, a wizard who only talks, and Beni, an innocent girl.The two meet in a world overrun by wizards who kill for blood. Haukatul, who is always hungry, and Beni, who has nothing but her name, set out on a journey with no destination. But it is a world full of cruelty and love... (Source: Pixiv Comics, translated)
Type

manga

Chapters

10

Status

finished

Started

2022-03-30

Tsugihagi Darake no Saikyou Yuusha

0

Description:

Ougi Arikawa, 16 years old, suddenly found himself reincarnated as a zombie?! Embarking on a journey to subjugate the Demon Lord as a zombie hero, but the use of "power" requires a "price"...? A dark fantasy in another world. (Source: COMICSMART, translated)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2022-02-28

Oneesama to Watashi: Ojousama ga Isekai Tensei

(My Sister and Giant: A Young Lady is Reborn in Another World.)

0

Description:

Hinako, is one reincarnated from another world, she was called "the smallest giant" after she and the giant Eiris were united as sisters because they have the same goal; to find their family. Hinako searches for her sister, who could also have been reincarnated, and Eiris' siblings. However, in resolving a certain request, a gentleman from a church catches her eye, and is forced to take a risk. A story about a young girl and a giant, two people of different race and birth, searching for their "loved ones", begins in this otherworldly fantasy of reincarnation that unites them.
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2021-10-20

Boroboro no Elf-san wo Shiawase ni Suru Kusuriuri-san

(The Apothecary Will Make This Battered Elf Happy)

7.72

Description:

Story about an injured slave elf is saved by an apothecary.
Type

doujin

Chapters

64

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

2021-09-01

Tentacle Hole

0

Description:

On their way home from school, high school student Jin and his childhood friend Komachi are suddenly transported to another world. Immediately afterwards, Jin was attacked by an enormous creature and lost his life, but for some reason he has been reincarnated as a tentacle creature!? A lewd tentacle dark fantasy begins. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
Type

manga

Rating

Mature

Status

current

Started

2021-03-29

Youjo Nobunaga no Isekai Touitsu

0

Description:

Type

novel

Volumes

2

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2020-12-28

Manga Classics: Dracula

0

Description:

We begin our tale with Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, traveling to Castle Dracula in the Eastern European country of Transylvania. The reason for his journey is to finalize the details of a real estate transaction with a nobleman named Count Dracula. As Harker explores the beautiful countryside he begins to receive warnings from the locals about the man he about to meet. They give him odd charms and crucifixes to ward off evil spirits. They also utter a strange word that Harker later discover means "vampire". (Source: Manga Classics)
Type

oel

Volumes

1

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2020-10-10

Eko Eko Azaraku: Reborn

0

Description:

Remake of Eko Eko Azaraku. The original manga focuses on high school student Misa, a model student who is also secretly a witch who uses brutal dark magic to fight for justice. [Source: ANN]
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2020-03-19

Kuraki Kyuuden no Shisha no Ou

(The King of the Dead at the Dark Palace)

6.95

Description:

...I don't want to die. I want to be free. If a monster is what I have to become to be free, then that is what I will resign myself to. Striking the infected with incessant pain that runs throughout the body, a strange, debilitating, and deadly illness. The life of the boy who had suffered several years with this affliction had come to end with little time for him to despair as he died without an attendant by his side. When he awoke again, he had been made into the lowest ranked undead by an evil necromancer. Though the boy rejoiced at having obtained a body that could not feel pain, he immediately realized that he was still at the mercy of others. There was no large difference between his present situation and being confined in bed. However, the world could not leave the boy alone when he wished to be at peace. With freedom as his goal, what he needed was prudence and power. Occasionally running, fighting, fearful, and hesitant, this is the story of the cowardly King of Undead as he seeks to be free. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

13

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2020-01-24

Lord of the Mysteries

(Lord of the Mysteries)

0

Description:

Waking up to be faced with a string of mysteries, Zhou Mingrui finds himself reincarnated as Klein Moretti in an alternate Victorian era world where he sees a world filled with machinery, cannons, dreadnoughts, airships, difference machines, as well as Potions, Divination, Hexes, Tarot Cards, Sealed Artifacts… The Light continues to shine but mystery has never gone far. Follow Klein as he finds himself entangled with the Churches of the world—both orthodox and unorthodox—while he slowly develops newfound powers thanks to the Beyonder potions. (Source: Qidian)
Type

manhua

Chapters

65

Status

finished

Started

2020-01-21

Tang Yin Zai Yi Jie II: Zhi Feng Guo Jueqi

(Tomin in The Alien World II)

0

Description:

Tomin, an assassin who crossed over to a different world, sat on the throne of the Wind Kingdom by virtue of his decisiveness and steadfast heart. Mysterious people showed up one after another. Let's see how Tomin, amidst all the crises and obstacles, can make the Wind Kingdom rise and unify the world! (Source: Mangatoon)
Type

manhua

Status

current

Started

2020-01-01

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