What is Psychological manga?

Psychological media delve into mental or emotional states of a character in the midst of a difficult situation, letting you observe them change as tension increases. Internal monologues are a key feature, allowing narration to delve into a character's mind, revealing their innermost ideas and motivations - even as they may be driven to the brink of sanity.

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Tomodachi Game

()

8.24

Description:

Katagiri Yuichi believes that friends are more important than money, but he also knows the hardships of not having enough funds. He works hard to save up in order to go on the high school trip, because he has promised his four best friends that they will all go together. However, after the class's money is all collected, it is stolen! Suspicion falls on two of Yuichi's friends, Sawaragi Shiho and Shibe Makoto. Soon afterward, the five of them are kidnapped, and wake up in a strange room with a character from a short-lived anime. Apparently, one of them has entered them into a "friendship game" in order to take care of their massive debt. But who was it, and why did they have such a debt? Could they have stolen the money from class to pay for entry into the game? Katagiri and his best friends will have to succeed in psychological games that will test or destroy their faith in one another. (Source: MangaHelpers)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Status

current

Started

2013-12-09

Cheese in the Trap

8.15

Description:

Having returned to college after a year long break, Hong Sul, a hard-working over-achiever, inadvertently got on the wrong side of a suspiciously perfect senior named Yoo Jung. From then on her life took a turn for the worse and Sul was almost certain it was all Yoo Jung's doing. So why is he suddenly acting so friendly a year later? (Source: Baka-Updates)
Type

manhwa

Volumes

0

Chapters

46

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2010-07-07

Juujika no Rokunin

7.11

Description:

”Is it okay to kill people?"A treacherous revenge suspense by Shiryu Nakatake, a newcomer to Bessatsu Shonen Magazine."Shun, if someone is converted, let him go and do nothing. He should be given a chance to be reborn.""Grandpa, I hope he doesn't reincarnate himself."In order to defeat several non-human monsters, the boy also became something non-human.Shin Uruma, a sixth-grade student, was named "Experimental body: A" by five of his classmates and was severely bullied and lived in hell. His only peace was with his brother, who loved him, and his parents, who protected him.... . until the five monsters killed his family.When he finally loses everything and faces true hell, a dark "wish" is born inside Shun. He was reborn under the training of his grandfather, who served in a secret unit during WWII. Now, four years later, he appears in front of his fated enemy."I won't let ANYONE get in the way of my revenge."(Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2020-03-09

Bloody Monday

7.5

Description:

A virus deal clinched in Russia on the Christmas eve. Purpose: unknown. Two clues: a mysterious lady "Maya", one of the gangsters, and "Bloody Monday", the keyword for the project. Then an incident happened in far-distant city of Tokyo. Fujimaru Takagi, a second grade student at Mishiro Gakuin high school, is commissioned to find out the truth by Public Security Investigation Bureau for his great ability as a super hacker. Now, Maya, approaching to Fujimaru, as his high school teacher... (Source: Gievmoar)
Type

manga

Volumes

11

Chapters

96

Rating

Ecchi and Violence

Status

finished

Started

2007-08-17

Real Account

()

7.1

Description:

In a world driven by fictionalized friendship, courtesy of the program named "Real Account," the table suddenly turns, and the cybernetic world turns real! How will they survive? (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

24

Chapters

182

Status

finished

Started

2014-01-09

Iris Zero

(Iris Zero)

7.73

Description:

In a world where every boy and girl has a special power called Iris, Toru who, as a result of not having any kind of special power, was bullied from a young age, lives by his motto ("low exposure") to live without standing out. But his peaceful school life changes when he receives a certain confession from the school's most popular girl, Koyuki. His motto begins to shake!! The school fantasy story that shakes the heart begins with their meeting. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Rating

Status

current

Started

2009-04-27

DICE: The Cube that Changes Everything

(DICE: The Cube that Changes Everything)

7.28

Description:

What if you can restart your life with a different setting just like a game? DONG TAE always get bullied by his classmates, but TAE BIN, sits right next to him, is handsome and popular at school; and now, TAE BIN suggests DONG TAE to play a little game. (Source: Webtoon)
Type

manhwa

Chapters

388

Status

finished

Started

2013-05-18

Hideout

6.93

Description:

On an idyllic vacation island in the southern seas, a young couple is trying to overcome the death of their only son. But for Seiichi Kirishima, the husband, the trip has a different purpose altogether. He plans to kill his wife and dispose of her body deep inside the forest. However, when his plan goes awry and his wife manages to escape, Seiichi follows her into a dark cave, only to find himself trapped inside and soon hunted by a savage creature with an insatiable hunger for human flesh… (Source: Kotonoha)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

9

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2010-06-14

Judge

(Judge)

7

Description:

"What is your crime?" From the author of Doubt, it's time for a new terrible game, Judge. Hiro's brother Atsuya is dating Hiro's childhood friend and secret crush Hikari. Hiro's affection for Hikari will lead him to commit an un-punishable crime against his older brother. At least, he thinks it is un-punishable, until he is kidnapped and imprisoned by a group of people wearing animal masks. The judging is about to start! (Source: MangaHelpers)
Type

manga

Volumes

6

Chapters

32

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2010-01-12

Franken Fran

(Franken Fran)

7.77

Description:

Fran can make anyone into anything, raise the dead, switch heads and bodies and give you those eyes that you've always wanted. But do you actually want them? Is it a good thing to raise the dead? Do the ends justify the means? And does Fran care? (Source: SnoopyCool)
Type

manga

Volumes

8

Chapters

61

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2006-09-19

Ningen Shikkaku

(No Longer Human)

7.83

Description:

Yozo Oba is a troubled soul incapable of revealing his true self to others. A weak constitution and the lingering trauma from some abuse administered by a relative forces him to uphold a facade of hollow jocularity since high school. Adaptation of the original work of Dazai Osamu. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

12

Status

finished

Started

2009-02-06

Bokurano

(Ours)

7.94

Description:

During a summer camp, 15 children, 8 males and 7 females, find a grotto by the sea. Deep within they discover working computers and some electronic equipment, and later the owner, a man called Kokopelli. Kokopelli claimed to be a programmer working on a brand new game, in which a large robot has to defend the Earth against fifteen alien invasions. He persuades the children to test the game and sign a contract. All but one of them signs, barely a moment later they mysteriously awaken on the shore believing what happened was just a dream. (Source: ANN) An extra story called Bokurano ~Mō Hitotsu no Bokurano~ (Yet Another Bokurano) will run in Ikki the issue after the end of the main story.
Type

manga

Volumes

11

Chapters

66

Status

finished

Started

2003-11-25

The Villainess Reverses the Hourglass

8.17

Description:

With the marriage of her prostitute mother to the Count, Aria’s status in society skyrocketed immediately. After leading a life of luxury, Aria unfairly meets death because of her sister Mielle’s schemes. And right before she dies, she sees an hourglass fall as if it were a fantasy. And just like that, she was miraculously brought back to the past. “I want to become a very elegant person, just like my sister, Mielle.” In order to face the villainess, she must become an even more wicked villainess. This was the new path Aria chose to take revenge on Mielle who murdered both her and her mother. (Source: MU)
Type

manhwa

Chapters

125

Status

finished

Started

2020-03-01

Mahou Shoujo Site

(Magical Girl Site)

6.91

Description:

Asagiri Aya, a girl bullied at school and at home. One day, an eerie website, Mahou Shoujo Site, flashes on her computer screen and welcomes her to the Mahou Shoujo World. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

16

Chapters

141

Rating

R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Status

finished

Started

2013-07-11

Pumpkin Night

6.69

Description:

A deformed female human go out with a pumpkin on her head to kill all who bullied her in the past. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

17+ (violence & profanity)

Status

current

Started

2016-10-20

Sidonia no Kishi

(Knights of Sidonia)

7.73

Description:

Outer space, the far future. A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity’s home world continue to pose an existential threat. Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel’s bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders. Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship’s coolheaded female captain. Meticulously drawn, peppered with clipped humor, but also unusually attentive to plot and structure for the international cult favorite, Knights of Sidonia may be Tsutomu Nihei’s most accessible work to date even as it hits notes of tragic grandeur as a hopeless struggle for survival unfolds. (Source: Vertical)
Type

manga

Volumes

15

Chapters

78

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2009-04-25

The Ghost in the Shell

(The Ghost in the Shell)

7.71

Description:

In the near future, technology has firmly taken root into society at large. Cybernetic implants are nothing uncommon and robots roam as plentiful as humans, all connected through their ''ghosts'' to the electronic datastreams of the net. Major Motoko Kusanagi and the Public Security Section 9 find themselves in a constant battle with the newly created wave of technological terrorists and cyber-hackers. But things take a turn once Motoko gets involved in a certain case involving an extremely dangerous ''ghost'' hacker nicknamed the Puppeteer, as she dives deeper and deeper into the limitless reality of the net, to reach her own startling conclusions. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

11

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1989-05-01

Choujin X

(Choujin X)

7.34

Description:

The latest from Sui Ishida! Sometimes to fight a monster, you must become one!
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2021-05-10

Youjo Senki

(The Saga of Tanya the Evil)

8.19

Description:

On the front line of the war, there's a little girl. Blond hair, blue eyes and porcelain white skin, she commands the army with lisping voice. Her name is Tanya Degurechaff. But in reality, she is one of Japan's most elite salarymen, reborn as a little girl after angering a mysterious being X who calls himself "God." And this little girl, who prioritize over anything else efficiency and her own career, will become the most dangerous being amongst the sorcerers of the imperial army...
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2016-04-26

Seishun Buta Yarou Series

8.24

Description:

"Hey, shall we kiss?" She who was teasing me with these seductive words temporarily disappeared before my eyes. There could not be a bunny girl inhabiting a library. Azusagawa Sakuta faced a scene that toppled common sense—he encountered a bunny girl, and she is nowhere a normal bunny girl. She is Sakurajima Mai-senpai, a student studying at the same school as Sakuta and a retired yet renowned actress. It was said that starting from a few days ago, those around her could no longer see her anymore, and she came to the library just to confirm this. Is this related to the hit topic on the internet, the unimaginable phenomenon known as "the puberty syndrome"? Sakuta, wanting to know the reasons behind and get closer to Mai, decided to solve the puzzle. However, the situation then developed in an unexpected way—? In the city surrounded by the skies and the seas, the romance story of I and she began. The brand new romantic comedy presented by the Sakurasou combo. (Source: LightKingdom)
Type

novel

Volumes

0

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2014-04-10

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