swap_horiz I Am a Hero Alternatives

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Phoenix (Hi no Tori)

Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix (Hi no Tori) is a sprawling epic manga series beginning in 1954. It centers around a group of ind...

Epic Manga Reincarnation Osamu Tezuka

9.3 Excellent

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Lone Wolf and Cub

Lone Wolf and Cub is a celebrated Japanese graphic novel series exploring themes of violence, family, and redemption wit...

Classic Manga Samurai Dark Horse

9.2 Excellent

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Swamp Thing (Alan Moore)

Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing is a landmark graphic novel series from DC Vertigo. It reimagines the monster as a sentient emb...

Horror Environment 1980S DC Vertigo

9.2 Excellent

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Buddha

Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha is a monumental manga series chronicling the life of Siddhartha Gautama, later known as the Buddha...

Epic Vertical Manga Religion

9.0 Excellent

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Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon)

Dungeon Meshi is a graphic novel series created by Ryoko Kui. It centers on a group of adventurers who prepare and consu...

Food Fantasy Manga Ryoko Kui

9.0 Excellent

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Ode to Kirihito

Osamu Tezuka’s *Ode to Kirihito* is a haunting manga exploring themes of medical ethics and human transformation. The st...

Vertical Horror Manga Medical

8.9 Great

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Adolf

Adolf is a graphic novel created by Osamu Tezuka that examines World War II through the narratives of three distinct ind...

Drama Manga World War Ii Osamu Tezuka

8.9 Great

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers

Ooku: The Inner Chambers is a graphic novel exploring an alternate historical Japan in the 17th century. A mysterious il...

Manga Alternate History Gender Viz Media

8.9 Great

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Ping Pong (Taiyo Matsumoto)

Ping Pong is a graphic novel by Taiyo Matsumoto exploring themes of competition, friendship, and identity through the in...

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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Black Hole

Black Hole is a haunting and atmospheric graphic novel set in suburban Seattle, where teenagers are afflicted with a sex...

Horror Comics And Graphic Novel Noir Cyberpunk

8.6 Great

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American Splendor

American Splendor is an autobiographical comic series created by Harvey Pekar in 1976, celebrated for its mundane yet pr...

Slice Of Life Memoir Working Class Dark Horse

8.6 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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Black Hammer

A superhero comic series created by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston in 2016, exploring a group of trapped heroes in a myste...

Literary Superhero Deconstruction Jeff Lemire

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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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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The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

Created by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, this Japanese horror manga follows Buddhist students who start a business tr...

Mystery Horror Manga Dark Horse

7.8 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

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MPD-Psycho

Created by Eiji Otsuka and Shou Tajima, this Japanese psychological horror manga follows a detective with multiple perso...

Horror Manga Crime Dark Horse

7.4 Good