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A selection of titles from the gekiga scene, a short-lived yet influential artistic movement that flourished during the 1960s to the 1970s and maintains a prominent underground presence today. While mostly known as a pioneer of cinematic paneling and close attention to realism, it would be more accurate to consider gekiga as a counterculture. Surrealistic, autobiographical, and experimental works emerged as an alternative to the Tezuka school of aesthetics and paved the way for other artists to different modes of expression.

This is in NO WAY a comprehensive list and should be treated more as a starting point for diving into this movement. There are so many more important artists and titles in the scene that MAL unfortunately does not have entries for, and probably never will. Since I can't speak Japanese, there may also be some titles that I am unfamiliar with. The 50-title limit doesn't help either, but I hope this gets you started in this often-unexplored side of manga.

Note: Not all of these titles are available in English.
11/04/2022 Updated to include more underground artists.

If you enjoyed this interest stack and want to learn more about gekiga, feel free to check these other outlets:
The MAL Gekiga Club
Taniguchi Scanlations
Habanero Scans
Illuminati-Manga
Hox Scanlations
Stinky Scans
Ryan Holmberg's translations
Star Fruit Books
Glacier Bay Books
Koenji Shawn Reviews
The Comics Journal
Breakdown Press
Drawn and Quarterly
New York Review Comics
AX Volume 1: A Collection of Alternative Manga

Many stories, many art styles, many genres and demographics.

A list made for and from a manga lover, delve into the diverse and extensive world of manga

this list is growing as my readings, patience 🕴️

These lists don't just focus on whether or not a job is good, they focus on whether a job has value and is worth reading.

so there will be some that for a general public are very rare and others that can be very bad for you but I hope you can understand the value of each one 🕴️

obviously there is a standard, the idea is not to frustrate the reader or put worthless and boring stories

Finally, these lists are just a part of the vast and wonderful world that the Manga.

Just manga that are creepy af. Good writing is optional. DECENT writing is optional. The spook is all that matters.

Can be creepy in terms of visuals, atmosphere/tension, or content matter (e.g. dystopian, psychological horror, etc)

all of them are under 16 chapters, and most are 1 volume long.

some contain guro, so check the description if you don't want to see that.

not all manga here are necessarily disturbing (or at least not as much as others), but are still dark/twisted. at the same time, some are disturbing/twisted, yet not necessarily (that) dark (take Kanojo wa Sore wo Gaman Dekinai, for example).

Manga that aren't on MAL:
- Bibliomania, by Obaru & Macchiro
- Goths Cage, by Yasushi Suzuki
- Yuugatou, by Arima Tomasu (one shot)

Come one, come all- under the manga big top! Happy trapeze artists to martial artist acrobats to dark freak shows, it is all in here.

Manga featuring intersex characters. Some are not human. Some are headcanons- those are indicated by question marks.


Not on MAL (yet):

Ore ga Ryousei Nante Mitomenai!
Kiri (intersex boy) (main)
Kiri's mom (intersex woman) (supporting)

Me wo Tojite Daite
Hanafusa (intersex woman) (main)

Ryouseika Majiwaru Unmei no Tsugai
Aritoki Ujou (intersex man) (main)

Merry Tuesday
Hwayo (intersex woman?) (protagonist)

Mangosteen no Koibito
? (intersex) (main?)

Gentle Forest
Seowon Jung (intersex boy)

"Seibetsu ga, Nai!" Hito-tachi no Hoken Taiiku
Anokoro Ore wa Joshikousei
Asia o Futari de Aruite Mita - Chuusei Oji-san to Otokonoko no Ryokouki
Chuusei Furo e Youkoso!
Ore no Mawari no "Seibetsu ga, Nai!" Hitotachi - Arai Shou no Sekumai Kouyuuroku
Saikin sa Otona to Wakamono ga sa... Suggoi Chigaku ne!?
Seibetsu ga, Nai!
Seibetsu R!
Seibetsu x Renai Hakusho
Shou Arai (intersex man) (protagonist)

A manga stack compiling tiers 7-8 of Grief's Disturbing Manga iceberg series.

Missing:
Tier 7:
- Continue To Be Killed Summer/Eien Ni Korosare Tsuzukeru Natsu
Tier 8:
- Shojo Kaitai/Dissecting Girl

Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ezrozAJQvk

Manga version of https://myanimelist.net/stacks/19098

LGBTQ+ characters in horror manga. Some are headcanons- those are indicated by question marks.
Not all are great representations. A couple are not listed as horror on MAL but I thought they were horror-adjacent.


Queer Horror Anime List: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31015

brief, underrated works that stand out to me visually or thematically
key themes: gore, boy's love, youth, despair
most of these contain on-page sexual assault and other extremities
still a work in progress!

A collection of short and/or bingeable horror manga to knock off for October/MALoween! I've kept each entry on the shorter side so they can be read in a single sitting or over the day. I've tried my best to give a variety of horror subgenre ranging from BL, Monsters, Youkai, Ghosts, all the way to Murder or Body Horror.

• Some of these Manga contain an array of sensitive topics and vary in graphic content, so please read these series with care.
• extras have been added if not everything interests you.

Please let me know if you enjoyed them and completed my stack!

- Weebookey <3

All of the entries in this stack are in order
not on mal
-Yaijin
-continue to be killed summer
-shoujo kaitai -akai hon
-fukushuu no. 31 -Bibliomania
-Yin Yang road -remake no touko
-chainsaw -bizarre crime division
-comedy station massacre
Hentai
-Mai chans daily life -applicant for death
(part 1 https://myanimelist.net/stacks/37639)
(his youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oigP5s7kiM&t=6s)

List of manga that encompurate pictures from real life somewhere in their panels.

abyss \ ə-ˈbis \ noun

A bottomless gulf; any deep, immeasurable space; anything profound and unfathomable, whether literally or figuratively; specifically, hell; the bottomless pit.

Manga that embrace this concept.

More titles in: The Abyss Will Gaze Back Into You II [https://myanimelist.net/stacks/49554]



⚠️ There are controversial themes on some of them like: incest, child abuse, rape, extreme violence, cannibalism, scatology, zoophilia, and others.

Complete list of the book 501 mangas to read in Spanish

I couldn't find the manga (Gekiga Mō Takutō-den) It is a manga about the life of Mao Zedong by Fujiko Fujio A.

I couldn't find the manga for (Samurai-tachi no México) which is about the first Japanese immigrants who went to Mexico. Hisashi Ueno, Konohana Sakuya, I'm not sure what part of the manga each did.

I couldn't find the manga either (Mibu - elBulli)

Media related to the chaotic world of girlhood. A representation of the evolving states of this horrendous monster called FEMALE.

⭒ENJOY⭒