swap_horiz 2001 Nights Alternatives

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The Incal

The Incal is a seminal French sci-fi graphic novel by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, following John DiFool in a surre...

Sci Fi French Jodorowsky Surreal

9.3 Excellent

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Phoenix (Hi no Tori)

Phoenix is a monumental, unfinished science fiction manga by Osamu Tezuka, started in 1954, exploring themes of reincarn...

Epic Manga Reincarnation Osamu Tezuka

9.3 Excellent

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Lone Wolf and Cub

Lone Wolf and Cub is a landmark samurai manga created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima in 1970, following an assassin an...

Classic Manga Samurai Dark Horse

9.2 Excellent

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Arzach

Arzach is a groundbreaking French comic by artist Moebius featuring a silent warrior riding a pterodactyl, renowned for...

Sci Fi Classic French Wordless

8.9 Great

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Ode to Kirihito

A dramatic medical thriller manga by Osamu Tezuka, serialized in 1970, following a brilliant doctor infected by a diseas...

Vertical Horror Manga Medical

8.9 Great

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Adolf

A critically acclaimed historical drama manga by Osamu Tezuka, published in the 1980s, exploring the intertwined lives o...

Drama Manga World War Ii Osamu Tezuka

8.9 Great

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers

Created by Fumi Yoshinaga in 2005, this Japanese alternate history manga explores a feudal era where a male-killing plag...

Manga Alternate History Gender Viz Media

8.9 Great

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Ping Pong (Taiyo Matsumoto)

A sports manga by Taiyo Matsumoto about two table tennis prodigies, acclaimed for its distinctive art style and award-wi...

Manga Coming Of Age Sports Viz Media

8.9 Great

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Uzumaki

Uzumaki is a 1998 horror manga by Junji Ito that tells the terrifying story of a small Japanese town driven to madness b...

Horror Manga Junji Ito Viz Media

8.7 Great

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Uzumaki (Junji Ito)

Created by Japanese author Junji Ito in 1998, this acclaimed horror manga depicts a coastal town that becomes horrifying...

Horror Manga Junji Ito Viz Media

8.7 Great

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We3

We3 is a poignant 2004 graphic novel by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely about three kidnapped pets weaponized as cyborg...

Sci Fi Emotional Animals Grant Morrison

8.6 Great

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East of West

Created by Jonathan Hickman, this sci-fi Western comic portrays an alternate-history United States where the Four Horsem...

Sci Fi Epic Alternate History Image Comics

8.5 Great

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Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction

Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction is a sci-fi manga by Inio Asano that began in 2014, depicting ordinary teenage li...

Sci Fi Manga Teen Viz Media

8.5 Great

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MW (Osamu Tezuka)

A psychological thriller manga by Osamu Tezuka about a priest and a sociopathic killer linked by a cover-up involving ch...

Vertical Psychological Manga Crime

8.5 Great

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Solanin

Solanin is a 2005 coming-of-age manga by Inio Asano that portrays the aimlessness and struggles of recent college gradua...

Music Manga Slice Of Life Viz Media

8.4 Great

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Tomie

Tomie is a 1987 Japanese horror manga series by Junji Ito featuring a beautiful, immortal high school girl whose presenc...

Supernatural Horror Manga Junji Ito

8.1 Great

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Valerian and Laureline

Valerian and Laureline is a highly influential French space opera comic by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières that...

Sci Fi French Space Mezieres

8.0 Great

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What a Wonderful World!

A collection of interconnected slice-of-life manga short stories by Inio Asano, exploring the everyday struggles of youn...

Manga Slice Of Life Anthology Viz Media

8.0 Great

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Biomega

A cyberpunk horror manga by Tsutomu Nihei published in 2004, featuring intense action as a lone agent fights a virus tha...

Sci Fi Manga Dystopian Viz Media

7.7 Good

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Gyo

A horror manga by Junji Ito, published in 2002, where bizarre, mechanical-legged fish emerge from the ocean to terrorize...

Horror Manga Fish Junji Ito

7.5 Good