What is Dementia manga?

Stories that have mind-destroying plots. The goal of dementia stories is to mess with the audience's mind through the characters progress into insanity.

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Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners

(The Borderline of Emptiness)

8.09

Description:

A teenage girl, who possesses the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception", a supernatural ability that allows the user to see the "death" of everything in existence and kill the object by destroying its "origin". She recently recovered from a two-year coma caused by a traffic accident. Prior to the traffic accident, she originally had two personalities, a male personality named Shiki (織), and the original female personality Shiki (式). Children born into the Ryougi family are generally male and are raised with two personalities, so the male personality is customarily called the "yang" personality, while the female is called the "yin" personality. It is easy to tell which Shiki is speaking at a given time because they both have a distinct style of speaking, most notably that the female Shiki refers to herself with the pronoun watashi (私), while male Shiki refers to himself as ore (俺). After waking from her coma, Shiki discovers that she can no longer feel the male Shiki's presence and assumes that he died because of the accident. She also feels a detachment from her memories before the accident, and while she knows she is Shiki, she does not feel that she is. In the hopes of regaining herself and the "dead" Shiki, she puts on a cold facade that somewhat resembles the male Shiki's and tries to act as the female Shiki did. Touko understands the sense of detachment Shiki feels, but considers the current Shiki a third, new personality. The series is regarded as being set in the same world as another TYPE-MOON series, Tsukihime, with Aoko Aozaki's sister Touko Aozaki being featured in this series and the protagonist of the series, Shiki Ryougi, possessing the same abilities as Tsukihime's protagonist, Shiki Tohno. (Source: Wikipedia)
Type

novel

Volumes

3

Chapters

7

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

1998-10-01

Uzumaki

(Uzumaki Spiral into Horror)

7.91

Description:

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return... (Source: Viz Media) Chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) as one of the Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2009. (Vol. 1)
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

19

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

1998-08-29

Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners

()

7.58

Description:

A teenaged girl, who possesses the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception", a supernatural ability that allows the user to see the "death" of everything in existence and kill the object by destroying its "origin". She recently recovered from a two-year coma caused by a traffic accident. Prior to the traffic accident, she originally had two personalities, a male personality named Shiki (織), and the original female personality Shiki (式). Children born into the Ryōgi family are generally male and are raised with two personalities, so the male personality is customarily called the "yang" personality, while the female is called the "yin" personality. It is easy to tell which Shiki is speaking at a given time because they both have a distinct style of speaking, most notably that the female Shiki refers to herself with the pronoun watashi (私), while male Shiki refers to himself as ore (オレ). After waking from her coma, Shiki discovers that she can no longer feel the male Shiki's presence and assumes that he died because of the accident. She also feels a detachment from her memories before the accident, and while she knows she is Shiki, she does not feel that she is. In the hopes of regaining herself and the "dead" Shiki, she puts on a cold façade that somewhat resembles the male Shiki's and tries to act as the female Shiki did. Tōko understands the sense of detachment Shiki feels, but considers the current Shiki a third, new personality. (Source: Wikipedia)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Rating

Horror

Status

current

Started

2010-11-01

Hokenshitsu no Shinigami

7.47

Description:

Hadesu Sensei is no ordinary middle school nurse. In fact, many students believe he is a shinigami. His excessive friendliness and eagerness to win his students' affection does little to offset his terrifying appearance. But, fortunately for this middle school, Hadesu Sensei is an expert at extracting "byouma", demons of disease, from possessed students!
Type

manga

Volumes

10

Chapters

87

Status

finished

Started

2009-09-01

Heads

7.43

Description:

This manga is a story based on a thriller by Keigo Higashino. The main protagonist, the shy Jun Naruse, is a rather average guy who works for a electronic company and loves to draw. He falls in love with Megumi whom he met at a shop selling drawing materials and an intimate relationship develops. A few days later the office gets attacked and when the criminal tries to shot a little girl he saves her by jumping in front of her. A month pasts until he wakes up again and is told that half his brain got destroyed and he only survived because someone donated half a brain. Everything seems to be fine, he quickly recovers and is happy, however he begins to change...is the donated brain the reason for that? Or is it just a side effect of the medicine? (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

36

Status

finished

Started

2002-07-18

Orochi

(Orochi: Blood)

7.26

Description:

Ultracreepy horror comic from Japan's supreme master of the genre. Each volume is a short story on to its own. Blood Set at first inside a gigantic, weird mansion, this tale is a story about two sisters. The older one, Kazusa, is the perfect sister, but the younger one, Lisa, is always scorned as inferior in comparison. One night after fighting with her husband, Lisa goes on a drunk-driving spree and crashes into another car. Fortunately, a mysterious girl named Orochi is there to divert the car enough, so that Lisa's injuries aren't fatal. As a result though, Orochi falls asleep for several decades. Eventually, Orochi wakes to find that she's being taken into the mansion where the two sisters now live together as older women where the truth gradually emerges where we find out the true nature of these sisters.
Type

manga

Volumes

5

Chapters

7

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

1969-05-21

Battle Royale: Tenshi-tachi no Kokkyou

(Battle Royale: Angels' Border)

7.11

Description:

The Program is a brutal military experiment that pits junior high students against each other every year in a brutal battle to the death. Most of the students from Shiroiwa Junior High scatter as soon as they reach the remote island where they must participate in the latest round of the Program. But Yukie Utsumi and five of her friends lock themselves in the lighthouse, clinging to a desperate hope of survival. They all trust each other, but they also know that only one can survive the Battle Royale... (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

9

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2011-01-01

Lunatic Lover's

7.07

Description:

A collection of various stories by Suehiro Maruo.
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

8

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

1997-02-25

Otoko wa Ookami na no yo?

(Men Are Wolves?)

7.05

Description:

Shiino Tazumura is a bit of an odd girl. One day in a park, beside what is rumoured to be a haunted house, she discovers a beautiful dog injured behind the bushes whose wounds she tends to. The next day, a beautiful boy resembling the dog shows up on her doorstep... (Source: MangaUpdates)
Type

oneshot

Volumes

0

Chapters

1

Status

tba

Mashima-en

7

Description:

A collection of one-shots by Mashima Hiro Vol 1: Magician Fairy Tale Cocona Plue's Adventures Pt. II Vol 2: Bad Boys Song Magic Party Christmas Hearts Fighting Group Mixture
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

8

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

1999-01-01

Super-Conductive Brains

6.98

Description:

This manga presents different stories settled in a future world in which biomechanoids of any kind are created for every purpose. All the stories, through different angles and in a somewhat bizzare fashion, explore the same theme:are they mere machines or do they dream of electric sheeps? (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

6

Status

finished

Started

2001-01-01

Garden

6.95

Description:

"Garden" is a collection of Furuya Usamaru's “indie” shorts that were published in Comic Cue, Manga Erotics and GARO respectively. The title is obviously a reference to Hieronymus Bosch’s famous triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, with the first story being a homage to said painting. The other stories range from absurd comedies to fantasy to horror. It’s a very eclectic mixture, but make no mistake: artistically, Garden might just be Furuya’s most accomplished work after The Music of Marie. (Source: Kotonoha)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

7

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

1996-12-01

Me wo Mite Hanase

(Look Me in the Eyes When You Talk)

6.87

Description:

After a brutal beating at the hands of a group of thugs, a man wakes up to discover that the people around him no longer have eyes. (Source: Kotonoha)
Type

oneshot

Volumes

0

Chapters

1

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2003-05-01

Sekaiichi Zankoku de Utsukushii Grimm Douwa

6.87

Description:

3 volumes which contain darker, more mature versions of the most famous Grimm fairytales, all one-shots authored by different mangaka. - Covered In Cinders/Hai Kaburi (by Aya Kotokawa) - Rapunzel (by Mimei Sakamoto) - The Frog Prince (by Noji Hashimoto) - Vampire Fantasy/Kyuuketsuki Gensou (by Rie Hanamura) Other authors: Hanako Matsuyama, Kumiko Takeuchi, Mio Kasuga, Naoko Fuse, Romuko Miike, Satsuki Fukuzato, Takayoshi Sagami.
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

1999-07-01

Inugami Hakase

6.83

Description:

What is Inugami?
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

7

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

1991-01-01

Drag-On Dragoon: Shi ni Itaru Aka

(Drakengard: Fatal Crimson)

6.83

Description:

One, a mysterious and quiet young girl who is known as "The Former Songstress", seems to hold deep resentments for a certain dragon.
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

21

Status

finished

Started

2013-01-03

Boku Mushi

6.84

Description:

A collection of sixteen early works by Nishioka Kyodai, including their three-part debut series. As always the stories range from the whimsical to the surreal, with tales of serial killers, bird women, and a man who one day wakes to find himself with a pouch like a kangaroo. (Source: MU) 1. Jump 2. Boku Mushi 3. Aru Kinzoku Bat Jisatsu 4. Mono no Okibasho 5. Torikago 6. Kaze no Fuiteiru Hi 7. Ame no Futteiru Hi 8. Nichiyoubi 9. Tanjoubi 10. Satsujinki-P no Noroi 11-12. Yoru 13. Harigane 14. Boku ga Koroshita Mono: Tobirabito 15. Boku ga Koroshita Mono: Kangaroo no Matsuei 16. Boku ga Koroshita Mono: Shinkei
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

16

Status

finished

Started

1989-10-19

Gunmania

6.82

Description:

Bando Eiji is a hitman (Though he hates to be called as such...) with more than a few screws loose. This 3 chapter mini-series from the creator of Hellsing follows the escapades of the demented Bando as he picks off one target after another whilst simultaneously confusing the hell out of onlookers with his unhinged mental disposition!
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

3

Status

finished

Started

1999-01-01

Choudouryoku Mouko Daishuurai

(The Ultra Power Mongol Invasion)

6.83

Description:

Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

11

Status

finished

Started

2013-10-04

The Black Cat

6.56

Description:

The story is based on the classic work of the same name by Edgar Allen Poe. This is an original rendition of the traditional story. It is NOT for the faint of heart! (Source: ShoujoMagic)
Type

oneshot

Volumes

0

Chapters

1

Rating

Horror

Status

tba

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