Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin

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The Shogakukan Manga Award (小学館漫画賞, Shōgakukan Mangashō) is one of Japan's major manga awards, sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga since 1955 and features candidates from a number of publishers. Each winning work will be honored with a bronze statuette and a prize of 1 million yen (about US$9,000). Special awards are also occasionally given out for outstanding work, lifetime achievement, and so forth.

(Source: Wikipedia)

A list of manga with the most realistic artwork I can think of. Some titles have their own style added into the manga, this is totally fine - so cartoonish features and anatomically incorrect proportions are fine - so long as backgrounds or character art is high quality and reminiscent of realistic imagery/CGI then its eligible for this list.

- Weebookey

Psychological drama, occasionally known as dark drama or was related to psychodrama, is a sub-genre of drama that places emphasis on psychological elements. It often overlaps with other genres such as fantasy, black comedy, and science fiction, while the genre is closely related with the psychological horror and psychological thriller genres. Psychological dramas use these genres tropes to focus on the human condition and psychological effects, usually in a mature and serious tone.

Psychological drama explore thematic elements such as abandonment, coming-of-age problems, denialism, disability, distorted sequences, dysfunctional relationships, human sexuality, mental disorders, mood swings, odd behaviors, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychological abuse, psychedelic art, social issues, and other serious discussions that unlikely centers themes turn more focused on both issues of the character's life and reality.

The Masked Man is an American YouTuber who makes videos primarily about manga, but also anime, and very occasionally video games. He does in-depth analysis on the subjects he talks about. Here is his top 50 manga.

NOTE:-
"Fata Morgana no Yakata: Anata no Hitomi wo Tozasu Monogatari" is not manga, its a Visual Novel.(https://vndb.org/v12402)
Consider this list from Beserk to OPM to be the actual manga list.

For part 2
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/7241

Series with a prison setting/theme, either institutional jails or informal, DIY prisons.

thanks to tzippurah and alpacaqn for suggestions

This stack also includes manga that are not listed as "Psychological" in mal database but they still have psychological elements in them E.g. Shoujo Fujuubun.

Seinen manga is targeted to males, has action, philosophy, psychological elements, maybe some realistic romance.
That’s the common theme for this list. I will not include the popular shonen Naruto here, but will include Hunter x Hunter. That’s because HxH is dark and has deep philosophical themes. So that’s it!

manga that at some point i read that the art was great.

While it might look like you don't really need to know all of this, you never know when it will be useful: for instance with quizzes, random questions that you wouldn't know the answer to otherwise, fun facts to tell someone else, or if there's trouble or necessity of intervention in your vicinity.

When this stack gets full, I'll make #2 with the links in both descriptions, no manga in here will be swapped out (or in).
=> Stack (2/2): https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18672

(Also thanks to stelllan, need to add Baki and Akagi later)

These manga have a great way of telling a horror story.
Characters can be killed off very suddenly, creepiness is sometimes through the roof, blood and guts can be seen frequently.

Not all of them have the Horror genre, but all of them can be felt as if it were.
Brace yourself if you're reading these, you're in for a ride!

Manga with exceptionally good artwork, not something that's the same boring black and white generic faces/body types. But instead manga that takes its artwork seriously, the artist knows how to create a scene, give each character unique appearances.

Manga about protagonists that's lives changed for the better due to a change in how they see the world, themselves and those around them, though there are some that must go through hardships before they are able to change.

The change in these protagonists aren't instant and some of the included protagonists take a long time to change or just have a more natural gradual change that is more apparent once you have gotten further into the story.

-Manga that breaks people.
-Manga that will make you feel empty rather than making you cry.

Good luck reading them.

When possible, I'll add chapter numbers where I remember those scenes.

Note: this is not really meant to lure lewd otaku. It's a way to warn readers that they may stump unpreparedly (like I did in some of them) on steamy and/or explicit (un)censored sex scenes.

Keep in mind that it most of the times isn't spectacular of any kind, hence as to why they don't have it listed.

(Also thanks to Miralix)

When you're interested in the subject of course.
Mostly due to short chapters, cliffhangers, large variety of interesting characters, emotional investment and steady plot growth.

No real structure in arrangement other than alphabetically, I just wanted Rainbow, Berserk, Megumi no Daigo and Golden Kamuy to be the 4 manga on the top row.

Release that Witch or Fangkai Nage Nuwu and Yidai Ling Hou are the only manhua so far in here.

Stack (2/2):
==> https://myanimelist.net/stacks/41900

These are the manga with the best art I have seen.