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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Bell's Village
(Bell's Village)
0
Description:
A village, hidden in the forest, holds mysteries… But what happens when a foreign girl enters it? (Source: Coffee Scans) Type
manhwa
Chapters
28
Status
finished
Started
2017-02-16
BooTsLeG
(Bootsleg)
0
Description:
Suzuhito Yasuda's new dark fantasy manga. Type
manga
Rating
Status
current
Started
2019-04-26
Goblin Slayer Gaiden 2: Tsubanari no Daikatana
(Goblin Slayer Side Story II: Dai Katana)
0
Description:
Not so very long ago, the Death began stalking the continent. The King of Time issued a proclamation: "Find the source of this Death and seal it away." The source: the Dungeon of the Dead. A fortress city that arose at the mouth of the dungeon serves adventurers who seek companions, challenge the dungeon, battle, find loot... and sometimes die. You are an adventurer who has come to the fortress city in hopes of reaching the dungeon's lower- most depths-but can you and your party conquer the untold evils that lurk beneath the surface? (Source: Yen Press) Type
novel
Status
current
Started
2019-08-09
Manga Classics: The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
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Description:
The Tell Tale Heart (a murder's haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secretes). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of 'the Plague'), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover's decline into madness). Best read in a dimly-lit room with the curtains drawn, Poe's brilliant works come to life in darkly thrilling ways in this Manga Classic adaptation. (Source: Manga Updates) Type
oel
Volumes
1
Chapters
5
Rating
Status
finished
Started
2017-10-17
Kamui Jihen
0
Description:
Type
manga
Rating
Status
current
Started
2019-05-08
One Million Gold
(One Million Gold)
0
Description:
Evangeline, a half-elf merchant, tries to earn her way to one million gold so that she can enter the Final City, a place where only the rich and powerful are allowed. Type
oel
Status
current
Started
2019-08-26
"Omae Gotoki ga Maou ni Kateru to Omou na" to Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou Sareta node, Outo de Kimama ni Kurashitai
(ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword!)
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Description:
Flum Apricot was never meant to be a hero. Despite zero stats across the board and a power she can’t even use, she somehow finds herself included in a party of heroes. But Flum’s life hits rock bottom when the party’s renowned sage, Jean Inteige, decides that the useless girl is dead weight, and arranges to have her sold into slavery. Tossed to monsters to be feasted upon for her master’s entertainment, Flum makes the desperate choice to reach for a cursed weapon…and something new awakens within her. A grimdark tale about one woman’s blood-soaked quest to reclaim her life! (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment) Type
novel
Status
current
Started
2018-07-30
Sleepless Domain
(Sleepless Domain)
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Description:
In possibly the last city on earth, citizens live a relatively normal life by day. But from 10pm to 2am, deadly monsters roam the streets, and magical girls must fight to defend the citizens from grave danger. When a tragedy befalls her magical girl team, Undine is left to pick up the pieces while continuing to fight. But is this battle truly never-ending? (Source: Hiveworks) Type
oel
Rating
13 teens or older
Status
current
Started
2015-04-06
Manga Classics: Dracula
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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
Monstress
0
Description:
Steampunk meets Kaiju in this original fantasy epic for mature readers, as young Maika risks everything to control her psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, placing her in the center of a devastating war between human and otherworldly forces. Type
oel
Status
current
Started
2015-11-01
A Midnight Opera
0
Description:
Type
oel
Volumes
3
Rating
Status
finished
Started
2005-11-08
Dracula Everlasting
0
Description:
Nicholas Harker is an average teen who has just lost his parents in a tragic accident. But when he learns that he is the sole heir to a vast estate from a mysterious ancestor he never knew he had, his life will never be average again. Together with his new friend, Jill Hawthorne, who has relocated from London, Nicholas discovers that he is a direct descendant of Lord Dracula, and what is worse; Dracula's spirit is beginning to exert control over him. Under the spell of Dracula, Nicholas' first order of business is to rebuild Castle Dracula stone by stone in the outskirts of Boston. There are those from Dracula's past who will stop at nothing to destroy Nicholas, and those who come to his aid and urge him to embrace his destiny. Only one loves him; the rest want to use him - in a dark war where Nicholas' very soul is the battleground. (Source: Comixoligy) Type
oel
Volumes
3
Rating
Status
finished
Started
2011-09-27
Reishuu no Dark Elf
0
Description:
Type
doujin
Chapters
1
Rating
Hentai
Status
finished
Started
2016-12-31
Rune Teikoku Chuukouki: Heimin no Shounin ga Koutei ni Nari, Koutei wa Shogun ni, Shogun wa Shounin ni Irekawarite Tenka wo Mawasu
0
Description:
Type
novel
Rating
Ecchi
Status
current
Started
2021-12-14
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
Blade of the Phantom Master
0
Description:
Long ago, there were royal inspectors in a country called Jyushin. They disguised themselves as shabby travelers and passed through towns, big and small. The duty of these inspectors was to find corrupt officials and punish them. But Jyushin has fallen. The world is corrupt, and no one answers the cry for help from the suffering people anymore. However, one royal inspector remains, roaming the lands...[1] Type
manhwa
Chapters
285
Status
finished
Started
2017-11-19
Kuraki Kyuuden no Shisha no Ou
(The King of the Dead at the Dark Palace)
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Description:
THE BEGINNING OF END When a sickly boy succumbs to illness only to awaken as a lowly undead named End, his initial reaction is not horror but joy. No longer weak and bedridden, he is eager to experience the freedom of a properly functioning body. Sadly, his delight is cut short when he realizes the shackles of his previous life have simply been replaced by new ones—specifically, the powerful necromancer who revived him. To gain true freedom, he’ll need to overcome the many obstacles in his way...starting with his dark master! (Source: Yen Press) Type
novel
Rating
Teens 13 or older
Status
current
Started
2019-11-30
Dark Elf no Mori to Nare: Gendai Tensei Sensou
(Apocalypse Dark Elf Style: Magical Tribes Reincarnated in the Modern World)
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Description:
Asakura Rensuke is a Knight Candidate, who wore a honor student’s mask, that protects Japan from a natural threat called ‘Radiant Beasts’ using an Iron Steel Knight, which he pilots better than anyone else. One day, from the top of a tree, he was suddenly jumped upon by a dark elf named Sheena— a ‘gyaru’ high school student… who has been reincarnated from another world. She has a provocative attitude, lecherous speech, and a bright, sunny smile. Rensuke took Sheena as one of his family members and starts living with her in an apartment, soon getting caught up in a battle royale for survival among magical species that have been reincarnated from other worlds. This is the mythical apocalypse story of two people who have fallen out of the world. Type
novel
Rating
Ecchi
Status
current
Started
2020-08-10
Youjo Nobunaga no Isekai Touitsu
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Description:
Type
novel
Volumes
2
Rating
Teens 13 or older
Status
finished
Started
2020-12-28