After advising you on action-packed series or lighter and peptic series, we offer you this time to discover 5 horror manga or anime! Will you be able to read/watch them to the end? Series containing violence and blood, sensitive souls, abstain!
Purgatory Girl
"After years of being the pain sufferer of her classmates, Shion, a young high school student, meets Kirié, a mysterious classmate who has just arrived at the school. Following this, strange phenomena manifest themselves in Shion's entourage. It won't take long for Kirié's past to be discovered. Indeed, the latter comes from a college where there was a murder … one of the most sordid in Japanese history. Is Kirié at the origin of his strange phenomena?"
Whether by its pencil stroke or by a well-crafted scenario, Muroi Masane offers a series of quality that we will not advise you enough! Indeed, Purgatory Girl brilliantly mixes action, suspense and awkward atmosphere! All the elements are present for this series to be a good horror series! In addition, it has only 4 volumes, so you will not have to wait years before knowing the end of the story. What more could you ask for?!
Mieruko-chan – Slice of horror
Adapted last year into anime, Tomoki Izumi's manga explodes the codes of the slice-of-life high school to instill a particularly effective horror atmosphere!
"The heroine, Miko, had everything to be a perfectly ordinary teenager… until she starts to see filthy misshapen creatures evolving around her! Obviously, his classmates as well as adults do not seem to notice these monsters. However, Miko knows that she must not meet their eyes. She will then use all her self-control to act as if these nightmarish apparitions did not exist, even if it means provoking implausible misunderstandings."
If Mieruko-chan presents itself primarily as a comedy, Tomoki Izumi knows how to call us to order with chilling pages where the reader directly faces the monsters that Miko constantly sees. We follow this one in the manner of a slice-of-life but where the preparation of a date is replaced by the elaboration of stratagems in the face of occult manifestations. Perfect balance between humor and thrill, here is a manga to start (more or less) smoothly the exploration of horror made in Japan !
The Daughter of the Underworld
Here too, you will have the choice between a paper version and an animated version, both created by Miyuki Etô.
"Betrayed, abused, humiliated, many men and women turn to a strange and mysterious righter of wrongs. The Daughter of the Underworld, as she is called, will agree to do them justice, at only one price: that of their soul. Because once the vengeance is accomplished and the life of the sponsor comes to an end, he joins his victim in the heart of the Underworld, condemned to undergo eternal torments. To escape it, there is only one solution: sell your soul to the devil. How many will sign this contract and look into that of the Daughter of the Underworld?"
With a polished aesthetic and a hypnotic atmosphere, reminiscent of the Divine Comedy, La Fille des Enfers offers a worked and oppressive story where the boundaries between good and evil are erased and in which morality trembles.
Another
Attention, cult work! As much for its licked atmosphere as for its particularly bloody and shocking deaths (beware of umbrellas …), Another marked its generation and the horror stories that followed. The summary smacks of the paranormal.
"Twenty-six years ago, in a certain 4th grade class, a young girl concentrated the admiration of her classmates. Her name was Misaki. But this studious student was not immune to fate, and she tragically died without completing her schooling. His comrades, deeply touched, decided to erase this incident, and considered Misaki alive until they graduated. Several decades later, Koichi Sakakibara entered the same high school. The atmosphere in his classroom remains particularly strange, with students seemingly paralyzed by fear. And things don't get better when Koichi notices a lonely girl, to whom no one speaks. Her name is Misaki… "
Based on a story by Yukiko Ayatsuji, available in anime, manga and novel (available from Pika), Another represents the epitome of school horror. With an instantly recognizable soundtrack (the Kyumu Forten opening) and dazzling animation, this work deserves its rank as a cult saga. Beyond the absurd and bloody deaths, Another is also the story of resilience and impossible grief.
Blood is thicker than water
Like the elusive Inio Asano, Shûzô Oshimi alone represents a world apart. After a disturbing intimate drama (In the intimacy of Mary) and a gothic tale with impressionist accents (Happiness), the one who had revealed himself in Shino does not know how to say his name reverses all codes again. His latest work in progress captures the reader in the manner of an uppercut, leaving him breathless, amazed and stunned from the first chapters of Blood Ties.
If Seiichi's family ticks all the boxes of the perfect little Japanese family – salaryman father, housewife mother, well-integrated son – the varnish does not stand up to closer scrutiny. It must be said that Seiichi is very close to his mother. Really close. And if it doesn't seem to bother him, a certain event in the heat of summer could well lead him to reconsider his mother's affection for him…
Shûzô Oshimi proves here that he needs neither blood nor ghosts to terrorize us. Slowly, inexorably, he unfolds Seiichi's descent into hell, facing a terrifying mother, whose tenderness quickly takes on the trappings of perversity. By pencils just completed, close-ups on the looks, innocuous sentences but nevertheless heavy with threats, he manages to plunge us directly into the horror of a toxic relationship. Without transition, the reader finds himself in the shoes of Seiichi, a prisoner whose sudden realization only allows him to feel the web woven around him tighten. Sensitive souls abstain, because the psychological violence of this manga disconcerts, the most seasoned reader. Are you ready to discover series that will give you goosebumps? And you, which horror series do you recommend?
